#4195: A Jazzy Suggestion
Hear music that joins multiple streams: a suggestion of jazz, hip hop delivery or production, the upbeat groove of Afrobeat, or a bit of funk, groove, and world music by drummer/producer Kassa Overall, trumpeter Steph Richards, clarinetist Anat Cohen, and the London-based group Ezra Collective.
Hear music from the New York-based jazz drummer and producer-MC Kassa Overall from his debut album, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, which augments its already sick drum beats with tasty hip hop production, and the crucial spoken word sample. Then, listen to music from trumpeter Steph Richards and her deconstructed trumpet, prepared piano, bass and drums. Hear a work, "Brooklyn Machine" named from Allen Ginsberg's poem "My Sad Self", which “takes sounds of city life and explores a spontaneous prose of ugly beauty” (stephrichards.com).
Listen to music from jazz multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner of Danish electronic dream pop group Blue Foundation, Wu-Tang Clan bassist Djibril Toure and drummer Federico Ughi. Their record, New York United, is a blend of electronic beats and floating sax lines. There’s also new music from the Grammy-winning band Snarky Puppy, the jazz-funk-world-groove band led by Michael League, from their forthcoming record, Immigrance.
Hear an in-studio performance from the group Ezra Collective, led by drummer Femi Koleoso, who marry hip hop, Afrobeat, and electronic music into their unmistakably London sound. There’s also song-oriented jazz from the Louisville, KY-based octet called Liberation Prophecy, led by saxophonist/composer Jacob Duncan, whose inspirations include Carla Bley,Tin Pan Alley songsmiths and even the Rolling Stones. Then, hear clarinet-led music in a Malian song, “Kenedougou Foly” arranged for the Anat Cohen Tentet, and more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4195: A Jazzy Suggestion (First aired 1/18/2019)
ARTIST: Kassa Overall
WORK: Mark Sampson [1:00]
RECORDING: Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz
SOURCE: linktr.ee/kassaoverall
INFO: kassaoverall.com
ARTIST: Daniel Carter, Tobias Wilner, Djibril Toure, Federico Ughi
WORK: Canal Street [7:46]
RECORDING: New York United
SOURCE/INFO: danielcartertobiaswilnerdjibriltourefedericoughi.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Kassa Overall
WORK: Mark Sampson [2:07]
RECORDING: Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz
SOURCE: linktr.ee/kassaoverall
INFO: kassaoverall.com
ARTIST: Steph Richards
WORK: Brooklyn Machine [4:40]
RECORDING: Take The Neon Lights
SOURCE/INFO: stephrichards.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Ben Neill
WORK: Entre Deux [5:30]
RECORDING: Horizonal
SOURCE: Audiokult Recordings
INFO: audiokult.at/ben-neill-horizonal
ARTIST: Ezra Collective
WORK: Chapter 7 [4:57]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 1/10/2019
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The tune appears on this EP: ezracollective.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Snarky Puppy
WORK: Xavi [9:28]
RECORDING: Immigrance
SOURCE/INFO: http://radi.al/Immigrance
ARTIST: Anat Cohen Tentet
WORK: Kenedougou Foly [5:40]
RECORDING: Happy Song
SOURCE: Anzic Records
INFO: anzicstore.com
ARTIST: Liberation Prophecy
WORK: Consolations, exerpt [2:09]
RECORDING: Invisible House
SOURCE/INFO: liberationprophecy.bandcamp.com
