Mondo Jazz
This is a jazz world! …all the international jazz you always wanted to hear and nobody ever played for you! Mondo Jazz is dedicated to the proposition that jazz is a language that originated in the US but is now spoken all over the world in various, at times very strong, accents and dialects, which make it a rich resource for rewarding sonic explorations. Needless to say there will be plenty of US jazz on my program, in an attempt to show the continuity that exists between the US and the international jazz scenes.
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Betty Davis' and Charles Mingus' Roaring '70s [...
A series of recent re-releases gives us the opportunity to focus on the phenomenal 1970s music of two iconic musicians like Betty Davis and Charles Mingus. Music so ahead of its time that it sounds as if it has just been recorded today.
87 min
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Elina Duni, Veronica Swift, Maria Pia de Vito, ...
Too often we focus our attention on instrumental jazz… in this hour we will try to remedy that with special attention to jazz singers who excel at surprising and challenging expectations.
63 min
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Elio Villafranca, Azmari, Wolfgang Muthspiel, G...
Seven days have flown by, and seven days were barely enough to go through another big pile of wonderful new and upcoming albums which we are featuring this week focusing on some captivating and forward looking projects, and several new albums that bring together jazz and the musical traditions of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
62 min
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Rachel Eckroth, Céline Bonacina, Csaba Palotai,...
The transatlantic partnership between Céline Bonacina, John Hadfield and Rachel Eckroth opens an edition of Mondo Jazz which also focuses on drummer-driven projects and piano trios.
48 min
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Jeremy Dutton, Laurent Cugny, Peter Epstein, Ak...
The Fender Rhodes is back (actually, it never left)! And so is Peter Epstein almost a decade after his acclaimed album "Polarities", and with a new sextet!
68 min
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Joni Mitchell, Daniel Villareal, Anthony Wilson...
Unexpected returns, B-sides that sound as good as the A-sides, tributes to rock and folk heroes, Impulse! signing another key band of today's scene, Colorfield Records establishing itself even more as the label to follow... this and more on this week's edition of Mondo Jazz!
53 min
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Chris Potter, Kait Dunton, Funkwrench Blues, An...
This week we focus on the reissue of a seminal project bridging acid jazz and trip-hop, the soundtrack to a film without pictures, a trip east bound and down fusion lane, a great crop of guitarists deserving wider recognition, and saxophonists of well-deserved recognition.
68 min
83
Simona Premazzi, Will Bernard, Beth Custer, Tan...
A revelation of an album, "Sky" by Will Bernard, Beth Custer open a playlist which explores three piano jazz formats, solo, duo and trio, through a number of impressive recent releases.
54 min
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A Hip-Hop Jazz Thing @50 - Part 2 [Mondo Jazz 2...
This week take a look back at decades of productive and progressive relationship between jazz and hip-hop, with a focus on international projects and collaborations between jazz and hip-hop artists. Our way to celebrate half a century of hip-hop.
87 min
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A Hip-Hop Jazz Thing @50 - Part 1 [Mondo Jazz 2...
Somehow a birthday has been identified for Hip-Hop, 11 August 1973, so in a couple of days you'll run into tons of initiatives marking the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hip-Hop. Should you catch yourself wondering, as a jazz fan, about how jazz and hip hop influenced each other… you may find a few clues with us here today...
79 min
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Lucy Woodward, Cautious Clay, Collettivo Immagi...
Lucy Woodward returns with a powerful single paving the way for a full-length album not to be missed, and for a playlist under the sign of electro-acoustic creativity, Brazilian influences and fearless imagination.
69 min
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Todd Sickafoose, Stewart Copeland, Amaury Faye,...
The much awaited return of Tood Sickafoose graces our playlist together with other gem ranging from the gorgeous to the adventurous, with a couple of surprising contributions from musicians whose relationship with jazz has been notoriously... ambivalent, Frank Zappa and Stewart Copeland.
75 min
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Jane Birkin, Tony Bennett + Gonzalo Rubalcaba, ...
67 min
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Donny McCaslin, Kira Linn, Meshell Ndegeocello,...
62 min
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Eleonora Strino, Yussef Dayes, Erik Truffaz, He...
After a couple of weeks focusing on some of our favorite tunes from the first half of the year here we are back on our night road to some of the most exciting new and upcoming releases, many of them with a cinematic and nocturnal vibe.
68 min
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A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) ...
Africana to Americana and beyond in the final installment of our retrospective of some of the most memorable tunes we got to hear during the first half of the year.
55 min
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A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) ...
Last week we focused our playlist on some of our favorite tracks from the first six months of the year. Evidently two hours were not enough and we could not play them all… so here we are going through the rest of the best.
67 min
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A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) ...
A retrospective of some of the most compelling tunes we heard in the first half of 2023, distilled for your enjoyment.
62 min
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A Few of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things (so far) ...
The first half of the year has brought us plenty of great new albums. Let's look back at some of the tunes and compositions which have left a mark during these six months.
65 min
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Wynton Marsalis, Yilian Cañizares, Peggy Lee, D...
Ambition does not have to be an expression of self-centeredness. It may be, and should be, the pursuit of high achievements, and the realization of broad and innovative visions. This playlist is bursting at the seams with music driven by the good kind of ambition...
65 min
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Kaisa Mäensivu, Jacob Young, Debora Petrina, Mo...
This week we focus on a bunch of projects that put in a blender lots of seemingly disparate elements and come up with their own signature sounds, from the edgy to the smooth.
71 min
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Purple Jazz - A Tribute to Prince, Part 2 [Mond...
This week we looking into both the jazz side of Prince, including the unexpressed potentials of his collaboration with Miles Davis, as well as covers of his music by notable jazz players from Nina Simone to Joshua Redman.
81 min
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Purple Jazz - A Tribute to Prince, Part 1 [Mond...
Prince who would have turned 65 this year. He may have left us over 7 years ago, but the influence of his music continues unequalled, including on the world of jazz, with which he's often flirted. Here a selection of some of the most interesting examples of "purple jazz", including some extended jamming by Prince himself.
61 min
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Magos Herrera, Karl Berger, Asher Gamedze, Gret...
A remembrance of Karl Berger, the stunning new album by Magos Herrera [pictured], and a whole bunch of projects you can find along the Johannesburg-New York-Chicago expressway.
67 min
100
Tina Turner + Selma Savolainen, Ben Van Gelder,...
A tribute to Tina Turner opens a show featuring music characterized by a deliberate desire to blur the lines between jazz and other genres, be it pop, R&B, world music or church music, and to do so with the most wonderful arrangements.
57 min