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Presented on March 1, 2021
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Featuring the music of Kari Kirkland
Duration: 4:10
Presented on February 24, 2021
Never With You
Featuring the music of Matthew Alec
Duration: 6:25
Presented on February 12, 2021
Nilopolitano
Featuring the music of Camila Ronza
Duration: 4:17
Presented on February 11, 2021
Standards, Vol. 1 Promo
Featuring the music of Christopher Burnett
Duration: 2:20
Such was the goal of alto saxophonist Christopher Burnett on The Standards, Vol. 1. Yet the decision to record a full album of standards was made after much reflection. Every player faces the challenge of making a standard his or her own, rather than relying on past interpretations, and this was a concern. There’s also the risk of standards, in Burnett’s words, becoming caricatures: “In this era of information overload,” he says, “[playing standards] can become ego vehicles to play loads of memorized melodic permutations and other intellectually derived constructs over the changes.”
With The Standards, Vol. 1, Burnett sought to capture a straightforward and honest encounter with the songbook tradition and the modern jazz canon. In this, he had solid support from a working band with pianist Roger Wilder, bassist Bill McKemy and drummer Clarence Smith, expanded to include guitarist Charles Gatschet on four tracks, as well as Stanton Kessler on flugelhorn for Herbie Hancock’s enduring “Dolphin Dance.” (Wilder and Smith were both featured on Burnett’s 2014 ARC release Firebird.) Kessler, on two additional tracks, appears in a larger ensemble with two flutes (Terri Anderson Burnett, Freda Proctor), clarinet (Samantha Batchelor) and baritone saxophone (Aryana Nemati), Gatschet on guitar as well, as Burnett wields the arranger’s pen and summons some truly colorful reed-plus-rhythm section sonorities. Top engineer Bill Crain captures it all beautifully in Studio A of his BRC Audio Productions.
Presented on February 8, 2021
Times Square Ballet (from 'On the Town')
Featuring the music of Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
Duration: 7:24
Presented on February 5, 2021
Rio Crystal
Featuring the music of Paul Colombo
Duration: 5:58
Presented on January 26, 2021
jazz re:freshed weekly presents... Sultan Stevenson
Featuring the music of Sultan Stevenson
Duration: 50:32