#3603: Jazz & Blues Melting Pot

This New Sounds is another musical melting pot program, but tonight, we’re coming at it from a jazz and blues angle. Listen to the Swedish guitarist Torbjörn Ömalm bringing western jazz, Swedish folk and the Finnish kantele together on his record, “Tih.”  The word "Tih" means "stop and listen" in meänkieli, one of the minority languages of Lapland and the Tornevalley.  Next, hear the gifted vocalist/composer Kavita Shah, who on her latest, “Visions,” (co-produced by the renowned Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke) combines a jazz quintet with Indian tablas and the West African kora.

Hear the Norwegian blues guitarist Stein Ornheim offering “Beijing Blues,” which looks east as the title suggests. Also, from Benjamim Taubkin, listen to a Brazilian Moroccan musical collision called “Hijaz,” involving gimbri, accordion, oud, and percussion. Then, listen to the band Hijaz, an Arabic-Mediterranean collaboration based on an oud-piano dialogue.   Plus, a Japanese ballad from a New York “downtown” guitarist, and more.

PROGRAM #3603  Jazz & Blues Melting Pot (First aired on 5/28/2014)