Thursday 6 December 2018

Track Listings for the Radio shows 15th November and 17th November 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 15th November. A link to the show can be found here: 


The Boogie Wonderland Show - 15/11/2018 Playlist
Skyy   Show Me the Way (Shep Pettibone 12_ Mix 2017)
The Whispers    Headlights
Loose Change   Straight From The Heart (Joey Negro Straight To The Groove Mix)
Lewis Ashley   Horizon
R Lyle & Elsa Hewitt   Crusht
Beatbaby    I Want You
Broadstrokes   Underwater
Jessica Childress   Never
Ratomagoson Summer_Wish
Lina Nikol Ft  Frank McComb   All I Need
Al Castellana   You Are
Loretta   Look Around You
1 Dangerous Cucumber MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 1
2 The Nook MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 2
3  Fresco MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 3
4 Two Dollar Breakfast Special MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 4
6 Dear Old Stockholm MASTER

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 17th November 2018. A link to the show can be found here:


The Crazeology Radio Show - 17/11/2018
In Common  ACE
Kyle Nasser    The Ascent of Henry Monmouth
Liran Donins 1000 Boats   The Story Of Annette And Maurice
jazzdropb
Randy Waldman   The Adventures of Superman (TV Theme)
Myriad3   Pluie Lyonnaise
jazzdropc
Light Blue Movers   Thepostonpage6
Charly N Black    Le Fond
5 Seasons    Touch
Koichi Matsukaze   Images In Alone
1 Dangerous Cucumber MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 1
2 The Nook MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 2
3 Fresco MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 3
4 Two Dollar Breakfast Special MASTER
Vince Tampio Interview   Part 4
6  Dear Old Stockholm MASTER

Monday 26 November 2018

Bright Dog Red All You Need To Know



Bright Dog Red (BDR), an improvising collective from Albany, New York, fuses free improvisation, electronica, jazz, hip hop, psychedelia, and noise music.

BDR debuted in September 2015. In short time, the band’s regular performances have generated comparisons to “Mahavishnu Orchestra meets Digable Planets” (Paul Schulman), “electronic Ahmad Jamal,” (Don Lucoff), and to other psychedelic, jazz fusion, and hip hop luminaries.




In October 2018, BDR released “Means to the Ends,” the group’s debut album on the influential Ropeadope Records label.


In addition to leader Joe Pignato, drums and concepts, BDR features MC Cully, Electronic musician Cody Davies, Trumpeter Jarritt Sheel, Saxophonist Mike LaBombard, and Bassist Anthony Berman.



Website: https://brightdogred.com/

Thursday 15 November 2018

Todd Marcus All You Need To Know


Baltimore bass clarinetist, composer, and arranger Todd Marcus is one of the few jazz artists worldwide to focus exclusively on use of the bass clarinet as a solo instrument. While most uses of bass clarinet in jazz typically lean towards avant-garde and free-music styles, Marcus’ playing presents the instrument with a modern straight-ahead jazz approach. His music swings hard with both fiery and introspective intensity but also maintains a strong lyrical sensibility. Marcus has presented music for 15 years and along the way received accolades including a Jazz Hero Award from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2017, Maryland’s $25,000 Baker prize in 2014, selections as a rising star by national jazz magazine Downbeat annually in its annual critics poll since 2013, and an NPR pick for one of the top 10 jazz albums of 2012, and a JazzTimes pick for one of the top 40 albums of 2015.

Born and raised in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City, the half-Egyptian Marcus began music at age six with early piano lessons. He picked up clarinet at age 10 first playing band then classical music repertoire. While in high school, an English teacher who also played New Orleans style jazz piano would introduce Marcus to jazz. But upon trying to join the school’s jazz band, Marcus was told saxophones, not clarinets, were the reed instruments allowed in the band and he was turned away. 



In 1994 Marcus moved to Baltimore, MD to study political science at Loyola University and again attempted to join the school’s big band. This time Marcus was allowed to play and embraced the opportunity. With this first exposure to modern jazz along with a friend’s borrowed jazz records of artists like Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, Marcus began to further explore the music by learning improvisation from records and teaching himself theory and harmony. “I started exploring and realized I would have to figure out how to understand theory and harmony. So I’d just mentally drill myself by thinking - Ok, what is the minor 7th of an E dominant chord? – just exercises like that. And then of course, I learned a lot by just sitting at the piano and plucking away till I could play chord progressions.”

While at Loyola, Marcus also began volunteering at a local chapter of Habitat for Humanity in west Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester community. He soon began to build relationships with community members including a life-long resident and pastor, Rev. C.W. Harris, who mentored him about the African-American community’s rich legacy of the arts and jazz, segregation challenges, and battles to overcome decades of poverty resulting from destruction by 1960’s riots, flight by black professionals, and an influx of drugs. Harris’ mentoring nurtured Marcus’ interest in Civil Rights era history, its deep connection with the jazz music of that time, and Marcus’ feelings of the need for greater racial reconciliation in America. With a resulting belief in a need to be engaged in community based revitalization, Marcus left college and in 1997 moved into the neighborhood doing community work by day and pursuing his ongoing study of jazz at night.


1997 also marked an important move for Marcus musically as he made the switch from clarinet to bass clarinet shortly after hearing the work of jazz legend Eric Dolphy on the instrument. “I felt it offered a lot more options than regular clarinet,” Marcus explains. “It hasn’t been easy because of challenges the bass clarinet presents on a sonic and mechanical level but I’ve worked to present the horn as an equal to saxophones in a straight-ahead playing context. With so few examples of people playing bass clarinet in modern jazz though, I think it’s ended up being an opportunity for me to chart some new territory for the instrument.”


 In late 1998 Marcus returned to New Jersey to complete his college degree in urban studies with two semesters at Rutgers University. While there however, he spent a majority of his time at the school’s jazz department. Though not a music major, he was accepted by audition into the department’s jazz combos getting his first experience of performing in quartets, trios, and composing.


 By mid 1999 Marcus was back in Baltimore working again with Rev. Harris where together they have worked since to run Intersection of Change (intersectionofchange.org), a nonprofit addressing poverty related issues in the community. These efforts have resulted in the establishment in 2000 of Martha’s Place, the organization’s recovery program for women overcoming substance abuse and homelessness, Jubilee Arts, a program established in 2008 to offer arts classes, entrepreneurship, and community beautification for children and adults, and Strength to Love II in 2016 which operates an urban to address the community’s food desert crisis and need for employment opportunities. Work to date has resulted in significant neighborhood community revitalization through the full renovation of six previously vacant and dilapidated buildings, transformation of 18 vacant lots into community green spaces and meditative gardens, creation of a dozen neighborhood murals, and conversion of 96,000 sq./ft. of vacant lots into an urban farm.

 Marcus’ music career has also grown during these years as he has charted new ground on the bass clarinet and developed as a composer and arranger with his Todd Marcus Quintet, Quartet, Trio, and Duo as well as his nonet, The Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra. In 2006 he released his debut album In Pursuit of the 9th Man with his Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra as well as his Todd Marcus Quartet’s 2012 release Inheritance. He again featured his jazz orchestra with 2015’s Blues for Tahrir and a 2018 quintet album On These Streets.

Though self taught in jazz theory and composition, Marcus’ compositions draw largely on intricate but lyrical straight-ahead jazz, classical influences, and over recent years have also increasingly explored the Middle-Eastern sounds from his Egyptian-American heritage. His work includes international performances, clinics, and radio play and he has worked with other jazz artists such as Gary Bartz, Bennie Maupin, Don Byron, Larry Willis, Odean Pope, Gary Thomas, Joel Frahm, Tim Warfield, Ralph Peterson, Warren Wolf, Sean Jones, Xavier Davis, George Colligan, and Orrin Evans.

Marcus’s work includes regular performances in Baltimore, Washington DC, New York, and Philadelphia as well international performances, clinics, and radio play. He was a featured artist in 2017 Jazz Tales Festival in Egypt, 2015 Cairo Jazz Festival in Egypt, and in 2005 at the 1st World Bass Clarinet Convention in Rotterdam, Holland.

“My adult life has really been about being a part of and serving my community by day and cultivating my music by night,” Marcus shares. “I think I’ve always felt upset by the injustice of inequities in the world and so being a part of my community has allowed me to specifically deal with ongoing issues that stem from systemic racism and poverty. And at the same time, my music has allowed me to try to create some beauty that hopefully unites people across all races through the power of music.”


Track Listings for the Radio shows 25th October and 27th October 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 25th October. A link to the show can be found here: 



The Boogie Wonderland Show - 25/10/2018 Playlist
Planetself   High Tide feat  Yarah Bravo, John Robinson & Zion
Pugs Atomz   Check Me Out feat  Greg Blackman & Big D
Skinny Pelembe, Chloe Beth Smith, Field Notes Choir   Laxmi Flying
Thabang Tabne    Richard
Nashe xx   Badmind
Anthony Joseph   Milligan (The ocean)
THE SUFFERS   What You Said Boogie Back M (1)
Whitfield Batson   IT MUST BE LOVE
Jamez Rogers   Addict
Alex Poet   Brighter Days
Lucky Brown   Saints & Beggars
Mali Hyes    AreYou
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 1
2  An Intersection Of Change Intro
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 2
3  An Intersection Of Change
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 3
4  Ground Zero At Penn North Intro
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 4
5  Ground Zero At Penn North

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 27th October 2018. A link to the show can be found here:

The Crazeology Radio Show - 27/10/2018
Big Heart Machine    Dipsea Steps
Bill Stewart   Band Menu
Chip Wickham   Barrio
Christian Sands   Rebel Music
Robbi Svard   Alquimia
Sampology    Mt Glorious
Stuff    strata
The Adam Price Group   Storyville
The BBB featuring Bernie Dresel   Bern Bern Bern
1  On The Corner
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 1
2  An Intersection Of Change Intro
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 2
3  An Intersection Of Change
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 3
4  Ground Zero At Penn North Intro
Todd Marcus Interview   Part 4

Thursday 8 November 2018

DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC All You Need To Know



DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC is a New Orleans based, award-winning jazz pianist and composer who has been hailed as “a strong jazz player with an impressive vocabulary and a powerful modern improviser who shows promise that he will be a new voice in modern jazz” (Tony Germain – Berklee College of Music). His music, “iridescent and captivating, a cascade of weaving twists and turns” (All About Jazz), represents an innovative combination of the gentle flavor of European jazz with intricate musical landscapes full of exotic rhythms and sophisticated harmony.

Vasiljević got his Bachelor Degrees both from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, his Master’s degree from NYU Steinhardt in New York City and his doctorate (DMA) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before he accepted the position of a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans in 2017, he taught jazz piano at both NYU Steinhardt in NYC and UIUC in Urbana, IL.



Vasiljević has performed concerts at such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall (NYC), United Nations Headquarters (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Krannert Center (Urbana, IL). He performs extensively throughout the United States and Europe, both as a solo pianist and with his own jazz trio/quartet/quintet. In 2008 he won third jury prize and the audience prize at the world renowned Montreux Solo Jazz Piano Competition in Switzerland, and in 2014, Tesla Science Foundation in New York City, awarded him with a Recognition of Achievement for his contribution in promoting the life and legacy of Nikola Tesla through Music. In 2015, Vasiljević was a finalist of both Luminarts Jazz Competition in Chicago and the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship competition. During his time at Berklee, he received the Jazz Performance Award and the Piano Department Achievement Award, and while working on his doctorate at UIUC, he received Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship. He has performed with renowned jazz artists such as Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Charles “Chip” McNeill, Tito Carrillo, Victor Garcia, Marko Djordjevic, Klemens Marktl and Brad Shepik, among others.


In addition to his composing/performing and teaching careers, Vasiljević also scores music for films (There Has to Be More Than This; Tierra Utopia), and is one of the founding members of Music Defying Boundaries, American nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging individuals with experimental and improvised music through education, performance, and documentation. For 5 years, he was also on the faculty of Blue Mountain Chamber Music Festival summer camps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Vasiljević is a Ropeadope Records artist and a member of Jazz Education Network (JEN).



Website: http://www.dimitrijevasiljevic.com/

Track Listings for the radio shows 18th October and 20th October 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 18th October. A link to the show can be found here: 

The Boogie Wonderland Show - 18/10/2018 Playlist
Clive Newlands feat Mather I Love It 2
Dave Mascall ft Georgie B   Clap you hands 
Atmosfear  Free Tonight
Reel People    Don't Stop The Music (feat Angie Stone)
Jeffrey Osborne   Just Can't Stand It (Wakefield Remix)
Jessica Childress   Never
Lina Nikol Ft  Frank McComb   All I Need
Loretta   Look Around You
Al Castellana   You Are
Candi Staton   The Prize Is Not Worth The Pain
Carol Williams   Dance The Night Away
4  Just Fly
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 1
5  Hidden Virtues
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 2
6  Duplipensar
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 3
2  Balkana Urbana

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 20th October 2018. A link to the show can be found here:

The Crazeology Radio Show - 20/10/2018
Donny McCaslin   What About the Body
Freckle Legend and The Long Walk Home    Forensic Pathology
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra    We Came Through the Storm
Juan Bayon   Cumbia de Gambartes
Marcos Valle   Freio Aerodynamico
Peter Nelson   State of Fear (That Lonely Nightmare)
Phil France   The First Thing That You Say
RenegaDE Brass Band    Junktion
Rich Halley   Little Willie Leaps
4  Just Fly
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 1
5  Hidden Virtues
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 2
6  Duplipensar
DIMITRIJE VASILJEVIC Interview   Part 3
2  Balkana Urbana

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Danny Green All You Need To Know



Over the past decade, jazz pianist and Origin Records recording artist Danny Green has earned recognition as a bandleader and as a composer with a gift for spinning supple, absorbing narratives. Green’s growing portfolio of vibrant sounds – an enchanting mix of jazz, classical, and Brazilian rhythms – has captured the attention of critics around the world, including DownBeat Magazine, Jazziz, San Diego Union Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Public Radio International. It’s no small wonder that Green has earned two San Diego Music awards for Best Jazz Album and an additional award for Best Jazz Artist. His long-time trio includes bassist Justin Grinnell and drummer Julien Cantelm, noteworthy musicians in their own right, and together they have developed a nearly psychic connection as they perform Green’s original compositions and jazz standards. Green takes listeners on a journey that is equal parts introspective and exuberant, and always compelling.

Green’s talents have taken him from the Blue Note in New York City to the Blue Whale in Los Angeles, and his work has been featured in DownBeat Magazine, Jazziz, the San Diego Union Tribune, The Boston Globe, NPR, and JazzEd. According to JazzReview.com, “Danny Green is what evolution in jazz is all about, expressing the traits of those that came before him, with a style and panache that is all his own…an individual who expresses what is inside of him.”


Green revealed his unique talents on his 2009 debut recording With You In Mind. The album received extensive airplay around the globe, rose to #18 on the Jazz Week Charts, and won “Best Jazz Album” at the 2009 San Diego Music Awards. In 2012, Green teamed up with Tapestry Records to release A Thousand Ways Home, featuring Justin Grinnell on bass, Julien Cantelm on drums, and Tripp Sprague on sax, as well as a talented cast of guest artists inducing guitarists Chico Pinheiro, Peter Sprague, and Dusty Brough, Brazilian vocalist Claudia Villela, and mandolinist Eva Scow. A Thousand Ways Home received numerous rave reviews nationwide, rose to #17 on the Jazz Week Charts, was voted into KSDS Jazz 88.3’s “Top Ten Jazz Releases of 2012,” and was nominated “Best Jazz Album” at the 2013 San Diego Music Awards.


In 2014, the Danny Green Trio, comprised of Green, Grinnell, and Cantelm, released the highly-acclaimed album After The Calm on Origin/OA2 Records. Featuring ten of Green’s compositions, the album received much praise from the press and nationwide radio play, and won “Best Jazz Album” at the 2015 San Diego Music Awards and was nominated for “Album of the Year.”


The trio recorded their 2016 release, Altered Narratives, at New York City’s famed Sear Sound recording studio with award-winning producer Matt Pierson. Released on Origin/OA2 Records, the album consists of eleven original compositions by Green. The three tunes at the center of the album feature the trio with a string quartet led by violinist Antoine Silverman, a widely admired New York classical and studio player. All About Jazz critic Dan McClenaghan commented, “There’s nothing that adds a touch of elegance to a jazz set more than an adeptly-done string arrangement, and these are superb; violins, viola and cello in a sinuous, sometimes whispering embrace with a vibrant, top-notch piano trio, delving into Danny Green’s distinguished compositions.” The album remained on the Jazz Week Top 50 chart for fourteen weeks and earned high praise from critics worldwide.

The Danny Green Trio Plus Strings released its first full length album, One Day It Will, in 2018. The album features San Diego Symphony violinists Kate Hatmaker and Igor Pandurski, violist Travis Maril, and cellist Erica Erenyi. One Day It Will was featured in DownBeat Magazine, Jazz Weekly (selected as “Ringer of the Week”), CD Hotlist (selected as “Pick of the Month”), The New York City Jazz Record, Mercury News, and Long Islander News, among many other press outlets. Jazz da Gama called the album, “one to die for.” The album remained on the Jazz Week Top 50 charts for five weeks and was featured multiple times on Public Radio International’s nationally syndicated Jazz After Hours. 



Green has brought his Trio Plus Strings to venues throughout the United States. The group debuted in 2016 at New York City’s Shapeshifter Lab, and since then has maintained a steady performance schedule, including shows at Huntington Summer Arts Festival (NY), TEDxSan Diego at Copley Symphony Hall, KSDS Jazz 88.3’s Jazz Live (San Diego), Portola Vineyards Summer Jazz Series (Los Altos, CA), The Blue Whale (Los Angeles), An Die Musik Live! (Baltimore), and Rockwood Music Hall (NYC). The Danny Green Trio Plus Strings was selected to perform at the prestigious Western Arts Alliance Juried Showcase in 2017.

Green is highly devoted to music education. Green and his trio have given clinics and masterclasses throughout the United States. In addition to his work as a private piano instructor, Green is a faculty member of the annual Jazz 88.3 Summer Jazz Workshop, adjunct faculty at Grossmont Community College, and he presents a jazz appreciation workshop at elementary schools as part of the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s outreach program. Green directed the jazz ensemble at Coronado School of the Arts from 2014-2017, and was an artist in residence at Canyon Crest Academy and at CSU Summer Arts Monterey.



Track Listings for the radio shows 11th October and 13th October 2018


Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland Show dated 11th October. A link to the show can be found here: 




The Boogie Wonderland Show - 11/10/2018 Playlist
Auntie Flo   Cape Town Jam
Fred Frith Trio   Bones To Pick With Graveyards
Phronesis    Matrix for DA
Phronesis    One For Us
Phronesis    The Edge
Stefan Aeby Trio    Shi (16 Bit)
Aaron Parks    Kid
Christine Hitt    Wade in the Water
Danny Green Trio   As The Parrot Flies
Danny Green Interview   Part 1
Danny Green Trio   View From The Sky
Danny Green Interview   Part 2
Danny Green Trio    Time Lapse To Fall
Danny Green Interview   Part 3
Danny Green Trio   One Day It Will
Danny Green Interview   Part 4
Danny Green Trio   Lemon Avenue

Below is the track listing for the Crazeology Radio Show dated 13th October 2018. A link to the show can be found here:




The Crazeology Radio Show - 13/10/2018 Playlist
Auntie Flo   Cape Town Jam
Fred Frith Trio   Bones To Pick With Graveyards
Phronesis    Matrix for DA
Phronesis    One For Us
Phronesis    The Edge
Stefan Aeby Trio    Shi (16 Bit)
Aaron Parks    Kid
Christine Hitt    Wade in the Water
Danny Green Trio   As The Parrot Flies
Danny Green Interview   Part 1
Danny Green Trio   View From The Sky
Danny Green Interview   Part 2
Danny Green Trio    Time Lapse To Fall
Danny Green Interview   Part 3
Danny Green Trio   One Day It Will
Danny Green Interview   Part 4
Danny Green Trio   Lemon Avenue