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Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is best known for her Worldwide hit “Midnight At The Oasis,” though she has toured the globe extensively for over four decades, and has released 41 albums covering all stripes of American Roots Music, including Gospel, R&B, Jazz and Big Band, as well as several award-winning children’s albums.

Often joining forces with other fine artists, she has recorded and produced on-average, an album per year, several of which have been nominated for Grammy and Blues Foundation awards. These last few years have seen the 50th Anniversary Kweskin Jug Band Reunion concerts, gospel collaborations with the Campbell Brothers, performances with former Stone Bill Wyman and The Rhythm Kings, and notable reissues of her early recordings with Jim Kweskin, and a new album released in late 2018—"Don't You Feel My Leg ~ The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker" which garnered a 2019 Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album.

She remains a revered and preeminent interpreter of American Roots music.

Awards

Grammy Nomination 2019 Best Traditional Blues Album ~ "Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker" Grammy Nomination 2010 Best Traditional Folk Album ~ "Maria Muldaur and Her Garden of Joy." Grammy Nomination 2005 Best Traditional Blues Album ~ "Sweet Lovin' Ol Soul" Grammy Nomination 2001 Best Traditional Blues Album ~ "Richland Woman Blues" Grammy Nomination 1974 Record of the Year ~ "Midnight At The Oasis" ~ Single Blues Music Awards Nomination 2013 ~ Koko Taylor Award Blues Music Awards Nomination 2012 ~ Koko Taylor Award Blues Music Awards Nomination 2010 ~ Best Acoustic Album,"Maria Muldaur and Her Garden of Joy." Blues Music Awards Nomination 2009 ~ Traditional Blues Female Artist Blues Music Awards Nomination 2006 ~ Traditional Blues Female Artist Blues Music Awards Nomination 2006 ~ Best Acoustic Album, "Sweet Lovin' Ol Soul" Blues Music Awards Nomination 2005 ~ Traditional Blues Female Artist Blues Music Awards Nomination 2004 ~ Traditional Blues Female Artist W.C. Handy Awards Nomination 2002 ~ Contemporary Blues Female Artist W.C. Handy Awards Nomination 2002 ~ Best Acoustic Album, "RIchland Woman Blues" W.C. Handy Awards Nomination 1994 ~ Best Crossover Artist


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New Releases - Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Joni Mitchell & More

Read "New Releases - Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Joni Mitchell & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


Today's broadcast includes new releases from ((Laila Biali}}, Jocelyn Gould, Tina Raymond, Michelle Lordi, Chien Chien Lu, Hiromi, Arina Fujiwara plus a fun single from Nicole Zuraitis, with birthday shoutouts to Maria Muldaur, Abelita Mateus, Roxana Amed, Emily Takahashi, Hyuna Park and Tania Grubbs, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.Playlist Chick Corea & ...

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Live At Sweetwater / Live At Sweetwater Two / Live In Japan

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Hot Tuna's Live at Sweetwater/Live at Sweetwater 2/Live in Japan (Mercury Studios, 2004) reaffirms the fluidity of personnel that's marked the veteran ensemble throughout its over fifty-year career. Comprised of titles originally issued on the Relix Records label in the mid-to-late Nineties, then re-released in modified form in 2004, this Mercury Studios compendium may represent the definitive versions of those titles (though the lack of notes providing historical perspective, as appeared on previous editions, leaves that a moot point).

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Taj Mahal: Savoy

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Folk/blues practitioner Taj Mahal's Savoy is to be savored. As one of the custodians of the blues, Mahal has long been a legend in his own time. This collection traverses a cultural-musical continuum in an indispensable residency in the annals of Black American music. The namesake of this album--the Savoy on Lenox Avenue in Harlem--was known as The World's Finest Ballroom and Home Of Happy Feet. In the pre-Civil Rights era, the North claimed formal equality, but segregation ...

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Taj Mahal: Savoy

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Savoy, from Taj Mahal, is the latest entrant in the crowded field of pop music artists trying their hand at the fertile songbook of old big-band, swing-era standards. Unlike most, Mahal's roots show he's well suited to the task. He was born in Harlem in 1942. He grew up in a musical family, and his parents were both involved in the arts. His father was a jazz pianist and arranger, working with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson among ...

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I Like You Best Of All - A Look Back To Notable 2021 Recordings, Part One

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Happy New Year! This first broadcast of 2022 presents a final holiday recording from drummer Jeff Hamilton with new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Vijay Iyer, Adonis Rose & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimee plus a look back at some of the notable 2021 albums made despite the disruption of the pandemic and all of its difficulties. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic ...

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Drinking Again and Them There Eyes - Happy Birthday Doris Tauber

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This week we feature new releases from Fahir Atakoglu with Luciana Souza and other guest vocalists who contribute lyrics to his latest project of love songs, Carol Albert, Ran Blake with vocalist Christine Correa, plus birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (composer of “Them There Eyes" and “Drinking Again"), vocalists Maria Muldaur, Tom Wopat, Nancy Harms, Mel Torme, Lorraine Feather, pianists Ariel Pocock, Champian Fulton, Michael Feinstein and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing ...

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Take Five with Maria Muldaur

Read "Take Five with Maria Muldaur" reviewed by Maria Muldaur


About Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur is best known for “Midnight At The Oasis," though she has toured extensively worldwide for over four decades, and has released 41 albums covering all stripes of American Roots Music, including Gospel, R&B, Jazz and Big Band, as well as several award-winning children's albums. Often joining forces with other fine artists, she has recorded and produced on-average, an album per year. These last few years have seen the 50th Anniversary Kweskin Jug Band ...

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Maria Muldaur Readies 41st Album: "Don't You Feel My Leg - The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker" Out September 28th

Maria Muldaur Readies 41st Album: "Don't You Feel My Leg - The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lu Barker" Out September 28th

Source: The Last Music Company

When a 24-year-old Blue Lu Barker stepped up to the microphone at Decca Records studio in Manhattan in 1938 to record Don’t You Feel My Leg, she had no way of knowing that that initial recording would turn out to be such an enduring piece of blues artistry. An immediate hit, the song instantly established Barker as a leading female blues vocalist, fueling a recording career that continued unabated throughout dozens of blues and jazz releases on Decca, Apollo, and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Muldaur

Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Muldaur

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All About Jazz is celebrating Maria Muldaur's birthday today!

Maria for over 40 years as a performer, she\'s literally lived the life of someone steeped in the American roots music songbook, whether it\'s blues, jazz, gospel, folk, country or rhythm & blues. She\'s the real deal, a true natural resource without any artificial affectations or jive. For Maria Muldaur, the inspiration to sing and perform literally arrived in her own backyard...Maria for over 40 years as a performer, she\'s literally ...

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Miri Jazz Festival to be known as Borneo Jazz

Miri Jazz Festival to be known as Borneo Jazz

Source: All About Jazz

Miri International Jazz Festival (MIJF) is now renamed Borneo Jazz. The event will be held at the Parkcity Everly Hotel, Miri, Sarawak in the island of Borneo from May 13-14, 2011. The rationale behind this change is to bring the event at par with other international festivals. This renaming is also to capitalize on the destination Borneo, a name which conjurs images of a magical destination. With this change, comes a reimaging to reflect the vibrancy of this festival and ...

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Muldaur

Jazz Musician of the Day: Maria Muldaur

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Maria Muldaur Leads the Jug Band Revival

Maria Muldaur Leads the Jug Band Revival

Source: Just Roots PR

Maria Muldaur is coming full circle and returning to her roots with a new jug band album, Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy. The CD will be released by Stony Plain in Canada on September 29, and on October 6 in the U.S. and foreign territories. The release will be followed by a six-week tour throughout the U.S. and Canada.

The new album is a reunion between the Grammy-nominated singer and alumni of the legendary Even Dozen Jug Band, ...

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Maria Muldaur is Naughty, Bawdy & Blue on New CD out May 15

Maria Muldaur is Naughty, Bawdy & Blue on New CD out May 15

Source: All About Jazz

MARIA MULDAUR IS NAUGHTY, BAWDY & BLUE ON NEW CD OUT MAY 15 COMPLETES CLASSIC BLUES WOMEN TRILOGY ON STONY PLAIN INCLUDES SPECIAL DUET WITH MARIA AND BONNIE RAITT EDMONTON, AB - Stony Plain Records has announced a May 15 release date for Maria Muldaur's new CD, Naughty, Bawdy & Blue, which completes the trilogy of albums the acclaimed singer has released as a tribute to classic women blues singers from the 1920s through the 1940s. Both of Maria's previous ...

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Maria Muldaur - Peggy Lee Tribute: "A Woman Alone with the Blues"

Maria Muldaur - Peggy Lee Tribute: "A Woman Alone with the Blues"

Source: All About Jazz

Maria Muldaur pays respect to the great Peggy Lee, with an album devoted to 12 of her great songs, most of which were written by Lee herself. For the last forty years, Maria has been performing Peggy Lee's classic, “Fever" and with her fourth solo album on Telarc, A Woman Alone with the Blues, Maria delves into Ms. Lee's catalogue with A Woman Alone With The Blues.

TOUR DATES 3/15 - One World Theater, Austin TX ...

"...she's never sounded sexier or more committed....Grade A." ~ Robert Christgau, VICE, album review of "Don't You Feel My Leg."

"Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker pays tribute to a great New Orleans blues singer and testifies to the vitality and mastery of Maria Muldaur as she continues to mine rich veins of American roots music. " ~ Robert Cataliotti, Living Blues Magazine

"Anyone who could survive half-a-decade or so as a female member of the Jim Kweskin Jug band deserves a half-century career. ...another interesting and ultimately enjoyable album of music.  "Don’t You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues Of Blue Lou Barker" is music for the mind and bordello. Rating: Four Stars. ~ David Bowling, Cashbox Magazine

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Savoy

Stony Plain Records
2023

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Live At Sweetwater /...

Mercury Studios
2023

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Don't You Feel My Leg...

Last Music Company
2018

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Steady Love

Stony Plain Music
2011

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Love Wants To Dance

Telarc Records
2006

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