Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Jazz Drummer Jim Lower & Saxophonist Mike Herrera .. We had a full bodied discussion about Kansas City and jazz.. And their weekly Sunday Night gig from 7-10 at the Black Dolphin featuring the Jim Lower Jazz Orchestra .. The band features Kansas City’s finest musicians and is always swinging .. Music ranges from classic Thad Jones to Modern McNeely with plenty of action for all to dig .. So, get to know them and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with the Head of the Jazz Studies Department at the New England Conservatory of Music Ken Schaphorst .. Since 2001, he has been in charge of the New England Conservatory (NEC)’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies Department, as it now celebrates its 50th anniversary showcasing the department’s vibrant legacy and its place as one of the top jazz education programs in the world. A year-long celebration of Jazz50 will include concerts and events in Boston, NYC and LA featuring many of the school’s distinguished jazz alumni, faculty, students and special guests. Ken talked about this, along with so much more related to his career, the state of jazz and NEC .. So, get to know him and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Jazz Bassist Jeff Harshbarger of the Purna Loka Ensemble on their 2020 CD Metaraga .. So, from the minds of an Indian classical violinist and mathematician that are a part the multi-Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet – along with Jeff - they have created a new musical syntax based on a geometric framework that integrates Indian classical music and Western music, encompassing elements from classical, blues and jazz. The result is a sound that is quite intriguing and refreshing … So, get to know him and dig this interview my friends .. Click here to listen.
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Brooklyn-based Jazz Bassist, Violinist, Composer & Educator Gabe Terracciano... His latest 2020 CD In Flight is a great album and has already been featured on the show .. He is a native of Portland, Maine and has been playing the violin since the age of three. After eight years of strictly classical training, he discovered the jazz violin playing of Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith - this changed his musical life forever .. Over time he has developed into a versatile multi-instrumentalist and a well educated musician that is a part of the two time Grammy-award winning Turtle Island String Quartet, The Avalon Jazz Band, Cait and the Critters, The Hot Toddies, Wet Electric, just to name a few .. he is also an educator and composer. So, get to know him and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Toronto-based Drummer, Composer and Bandleader Ernesto Cervini ... He opened up about yet another inventive jazz venture he has embarked upon .. This one is the 2020 CD Tetrahedron .. He has been hailed by the Vancouver Sun as “one of Canada’s premier drummer-composer-bandleaders,” And whether with his Quartet, his innovative Turboprop sextet, his co-led trios MEM3, Myriad 3 or Tunetown, he’s always inventive ..
With Tetrahedron takes on his first project with an electric bassist (the great Rich Brown) and an electric guitarist (the acclaimed Nir Felder). Together with them and the marvelous Cuban-born, Toronto-based alto saxophonist Luis Deniz, he churns musical imagination. ..So, get to know this project and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Montreal Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Samuel Blais .. He talked about his history since 2012 with the Montreal Jazz Orchestra… We also talked about his time at the Montreal Conservatory of Music, McGill University and on to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York .. Over the years, he spent some quality time with worldwide renown musicians like Greg Osby, David Liebman, Jim Black, Donny McCaslin, Terri Lyne Carrington and performing around the USA and Canada, France, Belgium, Mexico and Hong Kong. This cat is always going places .. So, get to know him and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Hammond B3 Organist and Member of Guitar Elation Ken Lovern .. The new Double Live at Green Lady Lounge CD is out and the reviews are glowing .. This very grooving and hard hitting funky jazz band has a number of hallmarks .. but, the namesake revolves around two stellar guitarists .. This new album features compositions from three band members, with Danny Embrey’s tunes making up the majority of the selections. The group has been playing Thursday nights at Green Lady Lounge in Kansas City for several years now, and this recording is from one of those epic nights where the band plays every Thursday night .. And along with Danny and Ken, it features Brian Baggett on the other guitar and
Todd Strait on the drums .. He opened up about all things with this CD and the band .. So, get to them and dig this interview my friends ..
Neon Jazz is a radio program airing since 2011. Hosted by Joe Dimino and Engineered by John Christopher in Kansas City, Missouri giving listeners a journey into one of America's finest inventions. Take a listen on KCXL (102.9 FM / 1140 AM) out of Liberty, MO. Listen to KCXL on Tunein Radio at http://tunein.com/radio/Neon-Jazz-With-Joe-Dimino-p381685/. You can now catch Neon Jazz on KOJH 104.7 FM out of the Mutual Musicians Foundation from Noon - 1 p.m. CST Monday-Friday at https://www.kojhfm.org/. Check us out at All About Jazz @ https://kansascity.jazznearyou.com/neon-jazz.php. For all things Neon Jazz, visit http://theneonjazz.blogspot.com/
