Today’s guest deejay is Kyle Eagle, the host of The Major Scale, a news magazine that meets a mixtape on the subject of jazz, past, present, future, and everything in between. Kyle Eagle has been...
Today’s guest deejay is trumpeter, singer, and composer Sarah Wilson . I listened to Sarah a lot while brainstorming ideas for Genius and Soul. One of her tracks from her Kaleidoscope album popped up on...
John Morrison
- February 19, 2022
- Tagged as: contemporary jazz, free improvisation, free jazz, funk, hard bop, hip hop, jazz, modal, soul, swing
Today’s guest deejay is John Morrison. John Morrison is a writer, DJ, and sample-flipper from Philadelphia. John has written for NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, Jazz Tokyo, Grammy.com, and more. John is also the host of...
Amina Claudine Myers
- February 5, 2022
- Tagged as: blues, bop, delta blues, free improvisation, free jazz, jazz, soul-jazz
Today’s guest deejay is Amina Claudine Myers. Amina is a pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. Amina will tell us about her childhood and how she became a professional musician on today’s show. She has...
Phil Freeman
- January 29, 2022
- Tagged as: adventurous music, afrobeat, arabic, art rock, avantgarde, blues, brooklyn, cello, chicago, contemporary jazz, dub, electronic, experimental, experimental jazz, folk, free jazz, fusion, hiphop, improvisation, indonesia, instrumental, jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, london, london jazz scene, modern music, new york, no wave, nu-jazz, philadelphia, poetry, psychedelic, psychedelic arabic jazz, punk, red hook, soul, space disco, spoken word, uk, uk jazz, washington, washington dc, world
Phil is a journalist, author, digital marketer, and social media professional.
Phil has written for The Wire, DownBeat, Village Voice, and other fine publications. Phil has written three books. His fourth book is Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century, which will be released Tuesday, February 1st.
Muriel is an Austrian alto, soprano, tenor saxophonist, and composer. Muriel has released 13 albums, all on her Dreamlandrecords music label.
Brian Jackson
- January 1, 2022
- Tagged as: avant-garde jazz, blues rock, free jazz, funk, fusion, jazz, modal, post bop, psychedelic rock, rock, soul, soul-jazz
Brian is an American keyboardist, flautist, singer, composer, and producer. Brian has recorded and performed with everyone from Gil Scott-Heron to Stevie Wonder, and recently released an album with Jazz Is Dead’s Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad.