HeyJaredJazz Roots & Branches
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Summertime, you gotta move, with nothing but love (opens the original)
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Jazz Roots & Branches is on transatlantic expatriate hiatus. Random notes may interrupt from time to time until we can return to production. Meanwhile, be well, don’t forget to write (you know who you are), stay out of trouble, don’t look back, and we’ll make you down a pallet on the other side.<di
Jazz Vibes (opens the original)
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Cal Tjader (1925–1982), son of a concert pianist and a vaudevillian, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and was a signal figure of Latin jazz as a vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer. Early work Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, and George Shearing informed his emergence as a bandleader whose collaborations with Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi, Mongo Santamaria, Armando Peraza, Eddie Palmieri, and Willie Bobo would catalyze the classic laid-back Latin soul sound.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewa
From Ukraine (opens the original)
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Mikhail “Misha” Alperin (1956–2018) was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR. He founded the Moscow Art Trio before moving to Oslo, where he was professor of music at the Norwegian Academy of Music.Ganna Gryniva is a Ukrainian singer, composer, and producer living in Berlin. Since 2013, she has researched and reinterpreted the folkloric traditions of her homeland.Vadim Neselovskyi is a Ukrainian pianist and composer based in New York; he is a professor of jazz piano at Berklee College of M
Have You Heard the Latest News from Neptune? (opens the original)
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Africa Is Not a Country (opens the original)
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Title | Artist | Album | Composer | Label | Episode NotesEssok’am | Francis Bebey | Dibiye | Francis Bebey | Peewee | 1998 CameroonToi-Toi | Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya | African River | Abdullah Ibrahim | Enja | 1989 South AfricaAll Blues | Kora Jazz Band | Kora Jazz Band | Miles Davis | Celluloid | 2011 SenegalOsali Mabe | Staff Benda Bilili | Bouger Le Monde | Staff Benda Bilili | Crammed Discs | 2012 Kinshasa DRCAlonye | Elikeh w/ Vieux Farka Touré | Between Two Worlds | Massama Dogo | Azale
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