Posted by Bob Rogers
on September 20, 2011 @ 11:48 pm | Post a comment
Red June, an excellent Asheville-based band (violin, mandolin, guitar, close harmony singing), will be featured in concert at Raleigh’s Marsh Woodwinds at 8pm on Friday, September 23rd. Red June will feature music from their 2010 cd, Remember Me Well, as well as traditional Appalachian folk music and selections from their next cd(s). We heard this band at the Marsh showcase several months ago and vowed that taintradio would be there to record the next concert so we can prepare a podcast of these great musicians for our listeners. If you live in the greater taint town metropolitan area, we hope to see you there.
Posted by Bob Rogers
on August 28, 2011 @ 3:01 pm | Post a comment
The Kate McGarry-Keith Ganz live concert at Marsh Woodwinds last night in Raleigh was a great success. Stunningly great music, a packed house and a live stream on taintradio. Another of those win-win situations we’re always seeking. We will post a podcast of last night’s magic very soon.
We’re also pleased to announce the next taintradio-Marsh Woodwind concert: Red June on Friday, September 23 (fall Equinox) at 8pm (Eastern). We had the pleasure of hearing this great Asheville-based band several months ago at Marsh and decided then and there that the next time they played at Marsh, taintradio would be there.
As we enter our 4th year of operation, we’re looking forward to extending taintradio’s new tradition of presenting amazing music in a great (and packed) listening room. We are able to do this solely because of our growing levels of listener support. Through your financial support, we’ve been able to make a modest contribution to a Kickstarter music project we thought you’d appreciate (Mike DiRubbo & Larry Willis duo recording, Four Hands, One Heart), pay our music licensing fees, and create a series of live music presentations. Thanks for stopping by the tip jar. Its working!
Posted by Dave Tilley
on August 24, 2011 @ 12:54 am | Post a comment
Kate McGarry Keith Ganz Duo
Marsh Woodwinds August 27th, 8pm
The six years of collaboration between Palmetto Records Artist Kate McGarry and husband/guitarist Keith Ganz have produced four critically acclaimed recordings, a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and live performances that crackle with spontaneity and joy. Join the “dynamic duo” for their performance at Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh. You’ll hear a wide range of composers from Irving berlin to The Cars, with musical selections ranging from Celtic to Jazz, from Blues to Bossa Nova.. Taintradio.org will record the concert for possible future broadcast.
“This duo has figured out how to create jazz arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills and Ric Ocasek without compromising either the jazz or the rock’n'roll. The substitute chords, elasticized rhythms and deconstructionist solos make this satisfying jazz, while the lyrics are delivered with such forceful urgency that it’s still satisfying rock’n'roll. The songs are transformed but never obscured.” ~ Geoffrey Himes, Best CDs of 2008
With 4 critically acclaimed CDs and a 2009 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal to her credit, Kate McGarry is recognized as a jazz artist who brings authenticity and vitality to an extraordinarily wide range of material. The Wall St Journal calls her music “Austere and elegant”, New York Times pronounced her ” Astute and sensitive”. Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family in Hyannis, Massachusetts, Kate and her nine siblings were surrounded by diverse musical influences: Celtic folk songs, Mills Brothers, the Beatles, 70s funk and pop. From singing in family talent shows to hearing her first recordings of Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and later Keith Jarrett, Kate’s ear for song opened to a wide universe of music. After studying African American music and Jazz with Dr. Horace Boyer and Archie Shepp at the University of Massachusetts, she honed her craft in Los Angeles for 8 years before ultimately relocating to New York.
Her music collaborations include projects with Jazz luminaries including Fred Hersch, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, and John Hollenbeck. She currently performs in many of venerated jazz clubs and festivals throughout the US and abroad, and as an educator has served on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music. Kate has represented the U.S. State Department and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a jazz ambassador for 3 years running in the American Music Abroad program and will travel with her band to South Africa for the month of December. McGarry has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Marion McPartland’s Piano Jazz, and Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is currently recording her 5th CD, Girl Talk, for Palmetto Records which will be released in early 2012.
Keith Ganz is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer. In addition to his Grammy-nominated collaborations with Kate McGarry, he has been the guitarist of choice for Harry Connick Jr., Kurt Elling, Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge and many more acclaimed vocalists. He has also performed and/or recorded with a host of jazz legends including Christian McBride, Fred Hersch, Victor Lewis, Chris Potter, Andy Bey, Billy Drummond, Jay Anderson, and many others. He has performed on Late Night with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, The View and Australian Idol, and toured in four continents.
Posted by Bob Rogers
on August 23, 2011 @ 10:52 pm | Post a comment
Welcome to Ken Irwin, Jazz Music Director of WMUA/University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Jubilation, Ken’s weekly 3-hour program, airs Mondays noon-3 (eastern) and Tuesday night (Wednesday morning) midnight-3.
Posted by Bob Rogers
on August 2, 2011 @ 9:39 pm | Post a comment
Four Hands, One Heart, a new cd from saxophonist Mike DiRubbo & pianist Larry Willis has just been released on Ksani Records. As mentioned in an earlier post, this cd was fan-funded through the funding platform, Kickstarter and is the first such project in which the taintradio listener support fund participated. The music is great and we’re proud to have made a modest financial contribution in your name toward its creation. Our contribution to this project was made possible only because of the generosity of our listeners, without whose support taintradio itself is impossible. So thanks - we needed that! Enjoy the music.
Posted by Bob Rogers
on June 29, 2011 @ 11:28 pm | Post a comment
taintradio.org is proud to present producer David Kunian’s excellent documentary, Jonathan Freilich’s Double-O Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo, an hour long radio documentary about guitarist, composer, and band leader Jonathan Freilich. Freilich founded The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, the jazz bands Naked on the Floor and avant garde big band the Naked Orchestra, the rock-steady ska band 007, and the rhythm and blues band Poor Man’s Speedball. Freilich has been the essence of the working and creative musician in New Orleans. The program explores what this is like and how he accomplishes his goals and ideas, and includes interviews with Freilich, selections from his music, and recollections and interviews from the people who know him and work with him including musicians Stanton Moore, Joe Cabral, Alex McMurray, Ben Ellman, Glen Hartmann, Kevin O’Day, Tim Green, James Singleton, Jeff Albert, Drs. James Walsh and Janna Saslaw, filmmaker Henry Griffin, and producers Mark Bingham and Benjamin Lyons.
Jonathan Freilich’s Double-O Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo will begin at 11pm (Eastern) on Saturday, July 2nd and at 11am on Tuesday, July 5th.
Posted by Bob Rogers
on June 22, 2011 @ 1:20 am | Post a comment
Rochester, NY, June 16, 2011 - JazzWeek readers have voted taintradio “Internet station of the year.” JazzWeek readership consists mostly of radio programmers, musicians and their support teams, music writers/critics, and record label/music promotion people. So we see it as a vote of confidence from peers, for which we are most grateful.
taintradio is a collaboration of about 25 independent music and music-related program producers and is made possible only by financial support from a growing number of taintradio listeners. As we start our 4th year we can say, so far so good.
Thanks, y’all, for keeping it up. Sweet!
Posted by Dave Tilley
on June 9, 2011 @ 5:14 pm | Post a comment
Bruce Mack tells us, Yeah… it’s back… and we’re doin’ it in Brooklyn this time…
Hope to see you… Just be sure to bring a towel…
Posted by Bob Rogers
on June 6, 2011 @ 11:03 pm | Post a comment
taintradio operates on a shoestring budget built around an all-volunteer staff. Our expenses are music licensing, performance rights and broadband costs. We are supported by our listeners, period (see tip jar). Listener support is now going well enough that we are investing a modest portion of your listener support money in fan-funded artist recording projects that we think you’ll enjoy being a part of. More often than not these projects will be through such funding platforms as Kickstarter (kickstarter.com) and ArtistShare (ArtistShare.com).
The first music funding project taintradio has participated in is for a duo recording from saxophonist Mike DiRubbo (MikeDiRubbo.com) & pianist Larry Willis. We were advised today by Mike that the funding goal has been met and the project will proceed as planned. taintradio’s contribution was quite small but it is only thanks to your support of taintradio that we could contribute anything at all. As our listener support grows, so will our participation in fan-funded music platforms and other music-related projects. Community doesn’t depend on where you live but how.
Thanks.
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Bob Rogers
taintradio.org, a venue for independent producers
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Posted by Bob Rogers
on April 25, 2011 @ 1:49 am | Post a comment
“Some guys who aren’t very good are very good at telling you how good they are. He wasn’t one of those.”
Big Nick Nicholas, in Francis Davis’s Jazz and its Discontents: a Francis Davis Reader, Da Capo Press, NY (2004)