Music
Jon Batiste Leads A Private Street Parade Atop A Fort
NPR | Nov. 07, 2014 7:25 a.m.
O'er the ramparts of 190-year-old Fort Adams, the bandleader urged our cameras to "Believe In Love."
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Notations from Harold Mabern
KMHD | Sept. 08, 2014 2:55 p.m.
Pianist Harold Mabern has played with such notables as Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis; but it's his own music that continues to garner acclaim.
NW Life | Music | Arts
David Weiss of the Cookers
KMHD | Sept. 29, 2014 10:48 a.m.
The Cookers plays Portland on Wednesday and trumpeter/founder, David Weiss, spoke with KMHD and shared his stories. Listen to the story here.
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Fresh Air Pays Tribute To James Brown, 'Godfather Of Funk'
NPR | Aug. 19, 2014 7:58 a.m.
James Brown is featured in the new biopic Get On Up. In '80s and '90s, Terry Gross talked with his biographer and two musicians who played in his band. And in 2005, she talked with Brown himself.
Music | Arts
Albums We Love: Helen Merrill & Piero Umiliani's "Parole e Musica"
KMHD | Sept. 30, 2014 1:12 p.m.
All that the great jazz singer, Helen Merrill, needed to do was open her mouth once and she was a star. This recently re-released rare Italian recording is nothing short of sublime: a noir-ish jazz singer combined with Piero Umiliani, an arranger and composer of Italian exploitation and spaghetti western film scores.
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Albums We Love: Get the Blessing's "Lope and Antilope"
KMHD | Sept. 03, 2014 12:57 p.m.
Portishead meets jazz? Not really a surprise, if you were a fan of the British 90’s trip-hop icons who knew the ins and outs of cool jazz.
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