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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Gaia Mattiuzzi, Wojtek Mazolewski, Flat Earth S...
This week a catchy and eclectic playlist, which straddles across many stylistic lines and influences, opens in the spirit of Zappa and ends with Zappa himself and yet another gem recently uneearthed from his bottomless vault.
70 min
152
John Patitucci, Michael Blake, Wayne Shorter, T...
In this set we focus on Hammond jazz, brass-heavy projects, North-European bands and a series of albums that have John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Wayne Shorter and Terri Lyne Carrington as common threads.
75 min
153
Sirintip, Oliphantre, Louis Cole, José James & ...
We start here with a batch of genre-defying projects focusing in particular on adventurous vocalists that blend acoustic and electronic music, or that bring different music cultures together. We end with two invigorating projects that bring together improvisation and hard hitting experimentation.
77 min
154
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Eve Risser, Shoko Igarashi,...
Inspired by Leo Sidran's latest single, "There Was a Fire", this week we look into various threads of memory--making (or memory--keeping) that can be found in projects that bring together various cultulal traditions (West-African or Cuban, Mitteleuropean or Japanese), bring new light to old repertoires, pay tribute to earlier composers or music-genres.
63 min
155
Beth Orton, Robin Holcomb, New Mastersounds, Ha...
Unbridled fun, the long tail of Hal Willner's work, an all-star band that celebrates 40 years of the Jazz sous les pommiers Festival, and jazz inspired by Maurice Ravel, soul, funk, gospel blues and folk are at the heart of this week's edition of Mondo Jazz.
57 min
156
Resetting the Standard - Part 2 [Mondo Jazz 215-2]
This is the second part of an edition of Mondo Jazz which explores the repertoire built over the years by countless women composers, which are in part included in "New Standards", the collection of 101 compositions by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington for Berklee Press, and in part we hope they will be included in a near future. For our selection we focus on instrumental tunes by musicians that are alive, and possibly still very young.
68 min
157
Resetting the Standard - Part 1 [Mondo Jazz 215-1]
In the wake of the recent publication of "New Standards", the collection of 101 compositions by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington for Berklee Press, this week we feature some of the compositions featured in the new book, and a few more that we hope may appear in a future expanded edition.
79 min
158
Cheick Tidiane Seck, Patricia Brennan, Eric Vlo...
A playlist that focuses on fascinating new releases and a preview of great upcoming concerts in New York.
55 min
159
Anat Cohen, Mal Waldron, Roberto Ottaviano, Tre...
Music by, or inspired by, Brazil, Charles Mingus, Mal Waldron, Humanity... and the Convulsionaries...
72 min
160
September Songs - Part 2 [Mondo Jazz 213-2]
September offers an opportunity to refocus on our inner energies and start a new cycle with renewed awareness and intentions – basically back to school and beyond… This segment of the show features more songs inspired by this month, with a special focus on five masterpieces that were recorded during a magical couple of weeks in September 1962.
60 min
161
September Songs - Part 1 [Mondo Jazz 213-1]
September is a rather auspicious month musically, as you will hear through a playlist of songs inspired by September... or by things associated with the month of September... or featuring musicians born in September.
58 min
162
Kristin Berardi, Tom Harrell, John Escreet, Cle...
61 min
163
Theo Croker, Tigran Hamasyan, Camille Bertault,...
Tributes to Miles and Mingus, Camille Bertault, Theo Croker, and the German label ACT Music are some of the threads of this playlist, which also features one of the most surprising albums of the year... but you have to listen to find out what that is...
65 min
164
Leyla McCalla, Peter Erskine, Elvin Bironien, A...
One of the traits that we love most in jazz is its ability to promote encounters and mixtures… and mixtures is what this set is all about.
60 min
165
Jeremy Rose, Flash Pig, Radka Toneff, CKRAFT & ...
Here we go again, finding a path of beauty through countless new and upcoming albums, and sharing the most memorable moments of this journey with you. As usual, we like the path less travelled, and so we hope that you’ll enjoy the surprises that we find along the way...
63 min
166
Jessica Pavone, Maher Beauroy, Wil Blades, Ndud...
Another set dedicated to new and upcoming releases, with a special focus on recent Hammond Organ Trios and Quartets; jazz from, or inspired by, Africa and the Antilles; a tribute to 40 years of the French festival Jazz à Vienne; plus the savory “free-range sonic stew" served by Jessica Pavone, Lukas Koenig, Matt Mottel.
81 min
167
Jon Irabagon, Laura Jurd, Seamus Blake, Quentin...
Going through hundreds of new jazz albums is a trying job. But somebody’s got do it. And we do it so you don’t have to. So please sit back, relax and enjoy some the most delicious bites of the gargantuan meal that artists and labels have been cooking out...
66 min
168
André Minvielle, Jimetta Rose, Simone Prattico,...
The life affirming power of the human voice, from the modern spirituality of Jimetta Rose & Voices of Creation to the irreverence crazy eclecticism of André Minvielle [pictured], or the haunting elegance of Piers Faccini with Simone Prattico, opens a wide ranging set
64 min
169
Chelsea Carmichael, Takuya Kuroda, James Taylor...
We are back with another set-list chockful of exciting new and upcoming albums
62 min
170
Julia Hülsmann, Black Jesus Experience, Snarky ...
A few of the many accents through which today’s Lingua Franca, jazz, is spoken around the world.
57 min
171
Bobby Previte, Angles, Roxana Amed, The Comet I...
This week we feature some great examples of how tradition continues to fuel modern jazz projects, and the many ways in which jazz incorporates elements from other musical traditions (from Korea to Spain) and genres (from the blues to rave music)
73 min
172
Sisters from Another Jazz Mother? Part 2 [Mondo...
69 min
173
Sisters from Another Jazz Mother? Part 1 [Mondo...
Here's a playlist featuring pairs of songs, usually a jazz and pop or rock song, which seem to have short and random similarities… at least to my ears!
58 min
174
Meditations on Crime, Miles Okazaki, Kurt Ellin...
A mystery project bearing the DNA of the late Hal Willner and Sun Ra, a project inspired by the poetry of that same Herman Poole Blount, tributes to Carla Bley and Lars Gullin, saxophonists on the rise, and a teenage sensation.
57 min
175
Elsa Nilsson, Too Many Zooz, Gard Nilssen, Clai...
It’s been another hot sweaty week… and so we decided to open today’s edition with some hot sweaty genre-defying music courtesy of Moon Hooch, Too Many Zooz and Meute, then we keep the simmer pretty steady, deep and beautiful.
66 min