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Take Me Downtown, It's a Hot Summer Night
by Mary Foster Conklin
The first broadcast of the Summer includes hot new releases from saxophonists Pureum Jin and Stan Getz, flutist Ragan Whiteside, pianist Yoko Miwa, vocalist Lauren Henderson, and the Ed Palermo Big Band, with birthday shout outs to Sammy Cahn, Manny Albam, Jaimie Branch, Cyndi Lauper, Sue Raney and Deborah Weisz, among others. Happy Solstice ! Playlist Kait Dunton “Summer Solstice" from trioKAIT (Real, Imagined Music) 00:00 Charles Ruggiero, Hilary Gardner “Come As You Were" from Play the Bird ...
read moreThe Metropole Orchestra: The Chesterfield Arrangements / Kodachrome
by Jack Bowers
Raymond Scott's is a name I'd never associated with Jazz. After hearing these recent recordings by the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra of Scott's music from the mid-'30s through the late '50s, it still isn't. Lovely music, though, light years ahead of much of what is being unloaded on the public these days. Disc 1, The Chesterfield Arrangements, consists of music written by Scott for his Quintette and played while he was appearing regularly in 1937-38 on bandleader Paul Whiteman's weekly radio ...
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The Metropole Orchestra
