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A chance to host The Musicians' Show on Columbia University's WKCR made Ingram decide to explore jazz's use as a protest music. The music that he leaned toward was not overtly or loudly political, it...

Ingram,Randy Sky / Lift CD

2017 release. Pianist-composer Randy Ingram has put himself in a position to reveal more about his musical identity by scaling down to record The Wandering, a sophisticated, personal and enlightening...

Inspiration: 22 Harmonica Performances / Various Inspiration: 22 Harmonica Performances / Various CD1. Gymnopidie No. 1 - Toots Thielemans 2. Lost John - Sonny Terry 3. Tour de Taille - Mark Graham...

The effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although...

Iyer,Vijay Tragicomic CD1. Weight of Things 2. MacAca Please 3. Aftermath 4. Comin' Up 5. Without Lions 6. Mehndi 7. Age of Everything 8. Window Text 9. I'm All Smiles 10. Machine Days 11. Threnody...

Jackson,Ali Amalgamations CD1. Ali Got Rhythm 2. Cachita 3. Done Tol' You Fo' Five Times 4. Praise 5. Cherokee 6. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 7. I Love You 8. Thelonius 9. Kentucky Girl 10. Fee Fi...

This is a project about the pandemic. But it does not mention the matter at all. Rather, it focuses on a magical, hypnothizing bi-product of these special times. // Back at the beginning of the...

Jacob,Irene & Jacob,Francis Je Sais Nager CD1. Jihad Et Cruzada 2. Au Fond de Toi 3. Je Sais Nager 4. Communion 5. Henri 6. Les Corps Les Plus Simples 7. Sumatra 8. Ouvre Les Yeux 9. Mon Essence a...

In a 2019 article, Forbes Magazine decreed that the two characteristics women need most to thrive in the business world are "grit and grace." Bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton has exemplified those...

2018 release. Sabbagh and Tuohey have put a band together. Joe Martin, one of today's great bassists and an alumnus of Sabbagh's quartet, was an obvious choice. Drummer Kush Abadey impressed when he...

Randy and I played together for the first time in 2015 while teaching at a jazz camp in the Catskills. The musical connection was immediate and natural, and one we have continued to explore...