PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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She calls herself the Duchess of the Blues, and she’s been at it a long time. Dee Miller took time to talk to Phil Nusbaum about her inspirations, ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Michael Clayton, Kevin Fortuna, Ian Blume talk origins, the presence of the past, and surrendering to the storm.
- Added: Mar 30, 2017
- Length: 18:54
While pop music styles come and go, the pop of the big band era has a timeless quality. Andrew Walesch is a young man carrying on where singers lik...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 09:53
The Kronick Quintett plays frequently at the Public Kitchen and Bar, which faces the north side of Mears Park in Saint Paul. The group’s next perf...
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 05:00
His main musical means of expression is improvising, but he also composes. As it turns out it’s not as crazy a combination as it might seem. Davu S...
- Added: Mar 08, 2017
- Length: 08:09
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
When you listen to Jon Pemberton, the feeling that he has much to offer grows and grows. He is best known as a piano player, and you’ll see him as ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 08:20
Jon Pemberton loves solo piano shows because it allows him to explore a lot of interesting music. He says, too, that Vieux Carré, where he plays on...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 05:00
The Nightingale Trio presents Eastern European folksongs. In the process, the group gives American audiences glimpses into the ways of life in East...
- Added: Feb 19, 2017
- Length: 07:34
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 05:00
By mid- February in the North Star state, folks need a concert held in warm air. And that’s what they get at Edinborough Park in Edina on Feb 12, a...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Although Dameun Strange has been focused on composing music for practically his entire life, the way in which he composes has been a grand evolutio...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 10:28
The Mississippi Hot Club has a slightly different strategy depending of it if plays for dancing, listening, or a mixture of both. Group members Jos...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 07:50
Great dance bands are often great concert bands. But you approach the different types of venues with slightly different strategies. Members of the ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:00
When you see the New Primitives, you’re seeing a band that is a master at creating and maintaining a great vibe. Stanley Kipper helped start the ba...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 08:29
We live in an era where most people have multiple music styles available to them. On top of that, there is so much travel, that players representin...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 04:59
The Cedar Cultural Center hosts Blackout, a concert featuring local artists. The intents are to entertain, but also to serve to get people together...
- Added: Dec 29, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Cedric Fuller and Global Sound. It’s a group from the Twin Cities that picks up from the combinations of soul, rhythm and blues,l funk and jazz th...
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 06:02
Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz talk huddling down, keeping the dream, and making things magical.
- Added: Dec 15, 2016
- Length: 14:08
Sonny Knight. He’s Mississippi born, but has lived in Minnesota since childhood. He talked with Phil Nusbaum about music in general, and about his ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Dakota Dave Hull has been recording and performing for decades. But as time has moved forward, the output has increased. And it all seems original,...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 06:49
Dakota Dave Hull plays many musical forms, all with understanding and sensitivity. Plus, his commentaries on music contain a lot of the fun factor....
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Bob Bovee is a committed singer of old folk songs, playing concert halls, living rooms and everything in between. He does it with good humor and ha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 07:13
Rick Carlson. All by himself he puts on quite a show playing American songbook classics. But if you ask him, his peak moments might just be in his ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 09:29
When you think of any kind of Celtic traditional music, you do not think of horn arrangements. But that’s just what Laura MacKenzie has added to tr...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 04:59
