All That's Jazz
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This is where you'll hear about everything that's Jazz. Topics we'll explore include it all…artist profiles, the next generation, educators, festivals, venues, producers, photographers, painters, broadcasters, writers, even food and recipes from some of your favorite musicians.
Episodes
- Season 7 Episode 4 Ben Rosenblum
Host interviews pianist Ben Rosenblum about his latest project, "The Longest Way Round." The album blends diverse musical influences including Dominican merengue, West African and Caribbean rhythms, Irish folk, neo-soul, J-pop, and hard bo…
- Season 7 Episode 3 Jazz Forum Arts
This episode of All That's Jazz features a conversation with Mark Morganelli and Ellen Prior of Jazz Forum Arts. They discuss the organization's 40-year history of artistic excellence in Westchester County, New York, including hosting nume…
- Season 7 Episode 2 Stevie Holland
Jazz vocalist and songwriter Stevie Holland talks about her new album, "Talk to Your Tomatoes." The album includes new takes on jazz standards and original songs by Holland and Gary William Friedman. The episode explores the story behind t…
- Season 7 Episode 1 John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli, son of Bucky Pizzarelli and a Grammy Award winner, released "Dear Mr. Bennett," a tribute album to Tony Bennett. Pizzarelli shares his connection to Bennett, stories behind the music, and performs from the album with Mike…
- Season 6 Episode 22 Prestige Records Visual Art
This episode discusses the visual art of Prestige Records album covers, focusing on their collectibility and significance from 1949-1960. It highlights how these designs reflected the music of artists like Miles Davis and John Coltrane, an…
- Season 6 Episode 21 Alyssa Allgood
Releasing EPs for musicians and artists often serve as a primary release strategy for both emerging and established artists. Usually featuring three to six tracks, EPs allow musicians to maintain consistent content, experiment with new sou…
- Season 6 Episode 20 Julie Benko
‘Euphonic Gumbo’ is not exactly a “Nawlin’s” menu item but instead a tasty musical delight that’s the title of of a new album on Club 44 Records from vocalist and Broadway star Julie Benko, featuring a dazzling seven-piece band directed by…
- Season 6 Episode 19 Wild Iris Brass Band
Since 1934, DOWNBEAT magazine has been considered by many to be the Oracle when it comes to coverage of what’s going on in the world of music, especially jazz. Every January, DOWNBEAT publishes their list of the best albums from the previo…
- Season 6 Episode 18 Deborah Silver Basie Rocks
What do you get when you combine re-imagined classic rock and roll with jazz music delivered by a Grammy award winning Big Band orchestra and Grammy nominated vocalist? In this case, you get a newly-minted Grammy nomination for ‘Best Large…
- Season 6 Episode 17 April Varner
April Varner is a rising jazz vocalist and the 2023 winner of the International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition. Her full-length Christmas album, featuring unique and reimagined holiday standards, is called ‘Winter Songs Vol. 2’ jus…
- Season 6 Episode 16 The Nutcracker Remix
The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra also known as CCJO is one of the Midwest’s most prominent jazz bands. Founded in 2013, CCJO is currently a 17-piece not-for-profit ensemble dedicated to performing, preserving and teaching jazz as…
- Season Six Episode 15 Rin Seo
There is a new jazz record of note on the scene created by Rin Seo, a Korea- born composer/conductor, titled ‘City Suite,’ released on the Cellar Music Group record label. Rin was raised in a rich musical environment encompassing Western c…
- Season 6 Episode 14 Brandon Sanders
Brandon Sanders, has always cut his own unique path. Born in Kansas City but spending his formative years in Compton, Brandon grew up in a musical household. He also honed his love of Jazz at the Kansas City jazz club, Casablanca, run by h…
- Season 6 Episode 13 Roger Glenn Part 2
Roger Glenn is truly one of the most interesting people in the world of music. He is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed, recorded and toured with a Who’s Who list of Jazz and Latin Jazz luminaries. As our conversation came to a clos…
- Season 6 Episode 12 Roger Glenn Pt 1
My guest is Roger Glenn, who would have been the perfect spokesperson for a series of commercials titled the “Most Interesting Man in the World” - in the world of music. Roger is a multi-instrumentalist who plays flute, vibes, marimba, sax…
- Season 6 Episode 11 Mandy Harvey
My conversation with vocalist and composer, Mandy Harvey, may be one of the most memorable we’ve done. Why? Because this incredibly talented woman with an exquisite voice has been profoundly deaf since the age of 18. We conducted the inter…
- Season 6 Episode 10 Sheila Jordan Tribute
Sheila Jordan has been one of the most revered and utterly unique voices in jazz for decades. Beginning with her debut album, 1963’s ‘Portrait of Sheila,’ she pioneered a bebop-inflected approach to singing. We talked about this, and much…
- Season 6 Episode 9 Jim Caruso
If Jim Caruso’s name sounds familiar, that’s not surprising. Jim is also host of the wildly popular “Cast Party” which has been a Manhattan mainstay for more than two decades at the iconic Birdland Jazz Club. In 2011, this irrepressible, a…
- Season 6 Episode 8 Andy James
Jazz Vocalist Andy James has just released her eighth studio album. It’s on Le Coq Records which is an independent label started by James and her husband Piero Pata, not only as a vehicle for releasing her music but also to work with accla…
- Season 6 Episode 7 Anais Reno
When vocalist ANAÏS RENO burst onto the scene in 2021 with her debut album, ‘Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno Sings Ellington & Strayhorn,’ I had the distinct pleasure of featuring this young and talented vocalist in Season 2-Episode 11. At the…
- Season 6 Episode 6 Eric Oberstein
Our mission at All That’s Jazz is to elevate the voices of the people who create, produce, present and write about all Jazz idioms by helping them tell their backstories about why they do what they do, and what got them to this moment. One…
- Season 6 Episode 5 Gene Krupa Book
This is the first definitive biography of the pioneering drummer and bandleader , Gene Krupa, who brought percussion from back to center stage, influencing generations of musicians from jazz to rock - and beyond. In this episode, I go behi…
- Season 6 Episode 4 Fulton & Lindquist
In this episode, I sit down with pianist/vocalist Champian Fulton and saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Klas Lindquist to discuss their latest release, “At Home,” the concept for which began with an event held in a home owned by Turtle Bay…
- Season 6 Episode 3 Tuning Rene Marie
This episode is about a story that needs to be heard. It’s the tale of an amazing individual and jazz artist named René Marie. Her story has been portrayed in an award - winning short documentary by Rachel Kessler, a Brooklyn-based directo…
- Season 6 Fado: Music of Portugal
Fado is a powerful and poignant musical expression of the Portuguese soul, often associated with the hardships of everyday life and characterized by melancholy, expressive vocal performances with a strong emphasis on emotional, poetic stor…
- Season 6 Episode 2 Caili O'Doherty
This is a is the story of how New York-based pianist, composer, arranger and educator, Caili O'Doherty, developed and recently released an album called ‘Bluer Than Blue’ which honors the overlooked genius of Lillian “Lil” Hardin Armstrong.…
- Season 6 Episode 1 Dan Pugach
Israeli born jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, Dan Pugach, grew up not far from Tel Aviv. His Jazz education and service as a drummer in the IDF Air Force Band and attending Israel's Rimon School of Music led him to The US to attend t…
- Season 5 Episode 21 Ryan Middagh
Ryan Middagh is not only a composer, arranger, baritone saxophonist and educator, as Chair of the Department of Jazz and Global Music at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, he has delivered all that, and more, in his latest rele…
- Season 5 Episode 20 MCG Jazz
Pittsburgh has a strong connection to the world of jazz; in fact, you might say it is sacred ground for this music genre. Many of the legends of jazz - like Billy Eckstine, Billy Taylor, Ray Brown, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Mary L…
- Season 5 Episode 19 Tatiana Eva Marie
Jazz Manouche is a style of music that mixes jazz with traditional French dance music and Romani, also known as Gypsy music. Django Reinhardt is considered to be the pioneer of jazz manouche in the 1930s. Django is, in fact, one of the mos…
- Season 5 Episode 18 Band of Other Brothers
Band of Other Brothers is a stellar, multi genre supergroup whose members boast incredible associations with a Who’s Who of A-listers. There's pianist Jeff Babko (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Sheryl Crow), saxophonist and woodwind wizard Jeff Coffin…
- Season 5 Episode 17 Kings Return Reprise
Now that Thanksgiving has passed, we turn our attention to that holiday time of the year which is filled with the music that we all know and love. And I can’t think of a better way to kick off the season than with a reprise of an episode w…
- Season 5 Episode 16 Aubrey Logan
Trombone-playing singer-songwriter Aubrey Logan hails from the Seattle area. Raised by her two music-educator parents, she began her artistic endeavors as a child singing in theatre and in church. She credits her singing mother and trumpet…
- Season 5 Episode 15 Int. Songwriting Competition
Jim Morgan is a dynamic music industry professional with over two decades of experience spanning performance, event management, and competition oversight. He began as a drummer in Australia at age 16, later transitioning to the U.S. music…
- Season 5 Episode 14 Javon Jackson
More than 25 years ago, I met tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson who was raised in Denver Colorado and that meeting made a wonderful memory and a deep impact that still resonates with me today. It impressed me that he took the time out of his…
- Season 5 Episode 13 Delfeayo Marsalis
New Orleans is a place where virtuosity is always deployed with a celebratory spirit, and Crescent City Jewels is like a Gratitude Journal in song, a rollicking collection that expresses NEA Jazz Master, Grammy-winning producer, trombonist…
- Season 5 Episode 12 Shelly Berg
There are times when you get a sense that you’re talking with an old friend that you’ve actually never met. There are shared times and memories that travelled on parallel lines but somehow never managed to intersect. That’s the best way th…
- Season 5 Episode 11 Alexis Cole
From an early age, acclaimed and accomplished vocalist, Alexis Cole, not only knew what she wanted to do in life, but also how she was going to do it - her way. Both Alexis’ father and maternal grandmother were pianists and singers, and he…
- Season 5 Episode 10 Ben Wolfe
The style of the undeniably talented bassist and composer, Ben Wolfe, is truly unique. His approach to music and performance has led to a path of development and success that can be attributed to collaborations with the likes of Harry Conn…
- Season 5 Episode 9 Yvonnick Prene
The music of professional harmonica jazz musician, bandleader, composer, and educator, Yvonnick Prené , is both unique and innovative. A transplant from France, Yvonnick is now based in the greater New York City area. He made his professio…
- Season 5 Episode 8 Amina Figarova
As a part of our “Catching Up With” series, I recently re-connected with Azerbaijani-born, New York-based pianist/composer Amina Figarova, and her musical collaborator partner and husband, the exceptional flutist Bart Platteau. This dynami…
- Season 5 Episode 7 Jacqui Naylor
Jacqui Naylor is not an easy artist to categorize. Naylor is known for a technique she coined, “acoustic smashing,” There are times when she performs straight-ahead vocal jazz, but at other times she favors more of an alternative and diver…
- Season 5 Episode 6 Ben & Leo Sidran
The best description of Ben Sidran comes from his son, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and fellow podcaster, Leo Sidran: “In a career spanning over fifty years and thirty five records, Ben Sidran has established himself as a philosopher p…
- Season 5 Episode 5 Mamiko Watanabe
Being Guided By The Light is the fifth album by pianist/ composer Mamiko Watanabe, featuring heralded bassist Santi Debriano and legendary drummer Billy Hart. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Watanabe began playing the piano at the age of four unde…
- Season 5 Episode 4 Chris Digirolamo: Two for the Show Media
Chris DiGirolamo could be called “The Accidental Publicist.” A lifelong drummer from age 5, Chris was hooked. His mother took him to Jazz from a young age, but he truly fell in love with the genre at 14, when a friend’s uncle introduced hi…
- Season 5 episode 3 A Letter to Bill Evans
For their seventh outing together as a close-knit, collaborative rhythm tandem, bassist Leon Lee Dorsey and drummer Mike Clark tapped pianist Michael Wolff as third man in their ongoing trio adventures. Wolff, who had previously appeared w…
- Season 5 Episode 2 Jay Bordeleau
Jay Bordeleau, the owner, creator, and mastermind behind one of the top Jazz venues in San Francisco, Mr. Tipple’s, has always loved the arts and is constantly driven by his “it’s-so-crazy-it-just-might-work” ambition. He was able to combi…
- Season 5 Episode 1 Grace Kelly
A singer-saxophonist-songwriter-composer and band leader, this American-born unequivocal musical prodigy of Korean descent, with the memorable name Grace Kelly, has rocked the jazz world. With sold-out concerts, 14 acclaimed albums and a r…
- Season 4 Episode 24 Nicole Zuraitis
Singer-songwriter, pianist, arranger, New York-based bandleader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal, Nicole Zuraitis, had been there once before. But when the presenters at the 2024 Grammy®️…
- Season 4 Episode 23 Jun Iida
Trumpeter, flugelhorn player, composer, educator, and recording artist Jun Iida (Joon Ee-da) has quickly established himself as a highly sought after musician. A recording and performing artist, Iida has appeared extensively throughout the…