#RIP #GordonLightfoot 😥💔🎵

Canadian #FolkMusic singer Gordon Lightfoot passed away today at the age of 84.

#DiedToday #Obituary #Song #Music #AlbertaMusic #AlbertaCanada #Alberta

Some of his songs still evoke moods and memories for me, including this one.

"Alberta Bound"

Playlist, Apr 23, 2023
1 pm AB time, bigeradio.com

1 - Triosence - Little Big Steps
2 - Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Jordu
3 - Steve Lacy Quartet - Day Dream
4 - Kinva - Ivanku, Ivanku
5 - Robin McKelle - Do You Believe
6 - Joan Osborne - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
7 - Eva Cassidy - Wayfaring Stranger
8 - Jeremy Taylor & Friends - All Blues
9 - Ezra Collective - Ego Killah
10 - Cory Wong - Olympia
12 - Prime Time Big Band - Sing Sing Sing
13 - McCoy Tyner - Passion Dance
14 - Wynton Marsalis - Much Later
15 - Sergey Kuryokhin - The Number Of The Beast
16 - The Cooltrane Quartet - Moves like Jagger
17 - 48th St Collective - Breakfast in America
18 - Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
#jazz #yeg #yyc #albertamusic

Join me today at 11 am Alberta time (1 pm Eastern; 8 pm Ukraine) for a 90-min hour of #jazz on Fuse 'n Flow, bigeradio.com

I'm spinning some jazzified covers of classic rock songs, unique voices, #reggae - infused jazz, beautiful Bop, and a return to Ukraine's Kinva.

Big E Radio is all volunteer, no ads or revenues; it's a labour of musical love
#albertamusic #yeg #yyc #music #onlineradio

Playlist - Apr 16 2023
Fuse 'n Flow; 1 pm Alberta; bigeradio.com

1 - Kenny Wheeler - Smatter
2 - Bheki Mseleku - Closer to the Source
3 - Daniel Karlsson Trio - Cousin Cuisine
4 - Sarah Vaughan ft Miles Davis - It Might As Well Be Spring
5 - Mary Lou Williams - It Ain’t Necessarily So
6 - Cory Weeds - The Shining Sea
7 - Redline Trio - Galactic Diamonds
8 - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Dat Dere
9 - Leroy Hutson - Cool Out
10 - Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective - Soul Vibrations
11 - Stringspace Jazz Band - Agua De Beber
12 – Stan Getz - Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
13 - Antonio Carlos Jobim – Wave
14 - Broadway Cast - Some Like It Hot
15 - Rosa Brunello - Habibi Baby
16 - Oscar Jerome - Fkn Happy Days ‘N’ That
17 - Roy Hargrove Quintet - I'm Not So Sure
#jazz #albertamusic #yyc #canadianjazz #onlineradio #bebop

Fuse 'n Flow; 11 am Alberta time
bigeradio.com

Today's episode contains straight-up, accessible, and damn enjoyable jazz, with releases spanning 1950 through last March, with a nice Bossa Nova set that's perfect for mimosas and meme scrolling.
Featured artists include the Daniel Karlsson Trio, Cory Weeds, Rosa Brunello, Sarah Vaughan, Bheki Mseleku, YYC's Redline Trio & more

#jazz #yeg #yyc #yegjazz #albertamusic #yegradio

11 am Alberta Time; jazz & blues on bigeradio.com

It’s an eclectic Fuse ‘n Flow this morning with some pure #blues, #jazz with a soulful #hiphop beat, some beautiful voices and, of course, #bebop. Plus two requests for Mastodonians - for @stujames & @jrosen707

Featured artists include Professor Longhair, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Paula Perro, Harpdog Brown, Andreya Trianna, John Coltrane and more

#yeg #yyc #albertamusic

Midnight jazz, with Nathan Samuelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlO403jN3IE
#jazz #yeg #albertamusic #canadianjazz

Join me for some grand Sunday #jazz @ 11 am Alberta Time on bigeradio.com

Today's Fuse 'n Flow pays tribute to the late, great Wayne Shorter, in addition to playing some jazzy 2023 Juno nominees. Featured artists include Caity Gyorgy, David Restivo, Diana Panton, Reg Schwager, Coleman Hawkins, and many more.... full playlist in the comments

#yeg #albertamusic #yyc #canadianjazz #jazz

11 am Alberta time on bigeradio.com

SURPRISE! I'm playing JAZZ on today's Fuse 'n Flow! And a few tracks existing in the nether realms between jazz, funk and electronica. The in-between spaces are filled with beauty. Featured artists include Tigran Hamasyan, Khruangbin, Miles Davis & The Modern Jazz Giants, DOMi & JD Beck, The Headhunters and many more....

#bigeradio #jazz #yeg #yegjazz #yegcommunityradio #albertamusic

Several hundred schoolkids came through the Yardbird Suite the past three days for Jazzworks music workshops, directed by Fred Mack and featuring instruction from Aretha Tillotson & Joel Gray

Seeing youth with a diversity of personal styles, backgrounds and identities come together over a shared love of making music was truly inspiring, particularly in a day in which we are seeing cowardly bullies 'n hypocrites encourage hostility towards "different" kids

It's the Different kids who make history and create change. I'm proud to be part of an organization that supports youth choosing their identities, and actively provides them with the support and safety they need while they are becoming tomorrow's professional musicians

BTW - Bowie attended the Yardbird Suite as a patron after his Glass Spider tour stop here. I'll tell you the story if you buy me a scotch

#lgbtq2 #transrightsarehumanrights #yeg #yegjazz #albertamusic #yardbirdsuiteyeg #oldstrathcona

I remembered this NPR article on jazz players who happen to be women from 2021. A decent read.

There are some interesting stats & graphs within, and a few eye-openers. Also, when a media headline is in the form of a question, the answer is most always No.

"..... the majority of band leaders, both male and female, fail to hire women for their recording projects, though women hire other women musicians at a higher rate than men do (24% vs. 18% in 2017; 28% vs. 17% in 2018; and 42% vs. 24% in 2019)."

#jazz #music #yeg #npr #internationalwomensday #albertamusic

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/953964352/equal-at-last-women-in-jazz-by-the-numbers

11am MST - Fuse n Flow on bigeradio.com

From Edmonton, to London, to Tunisia & BC, I'm spinning some diverse jazzy offerings featuring Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, Jodi Proznick, YEG players Kent Sangster, Jim Head, Jacob Do, Sean Croal, and many more

Playlist Mar 5 2023
1 - Kent Sangster – ReAwakened
2 - Ostara Project - Delta Sky
3 - Jodi Proznick with Bill Coon & Ron Peters – Footprints
4 - Camille Thurman - September In The Rain
5 - Eva Cassidy – Fever
6 - Ella Fitzgerald - Someone To Watch Over Me
7 - Paula West – Caravan/Night in Tunisia
8 - Charles Mingus - Open Letter To Duke
9 - Arkadia Jazz All-Stars - The Kicker
10 - Jackson Mathod - Brazil Nut
11 - Kokoroko - Soul Searching
12 - Snarky Puppy - Pineapple (Live 2022)
13 - Sean Croal Trio - East Village Views (Live 2019 at the Yardbird Suite)
14 - Jacob Do – Fortune
15 - Jim Head – Prismatic

#jazz #yeg #yegjazz #albertamusic #canadianjazz #bigeradio #yegcommunityradio

For decades, Roger Levesque shone a spotlight on culture in our fair city, and wrote extensively about the Yardbird Suite and many of the artists who took our stage. He was an original Influencer long before social media airheads co-opted that term.

Whether in the Edmonton Journal, or on air at CKUA, or CJSR, or CBC, Roger shared his excitement for quality music and culture, but particularly jazz. Through his journalism he proved to be a vital cultural educator for a few generations of Albertans. He was important for my personal education in the arts, and I will remember him with the greatest love and respect.

Tom wrote a great article on Roger, published today
#jazz #yeg #yegjazz #albertamusic #edmontonjournal
https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/local-arts/life-and-times-dedicated-journal-arts-writer-roger-levesque-made-a-lasting-mark

This type of stuff is infuriating. I bet there was no contract, and no agent representing the band.

God herself made agents so musicians can concentrate on creating and performance, and not get sullied into negotiations.

The #yardbirdsuiteyeg doesn't take a dime of an artist's merch sales, though we are in a minority of clubs in that regard. Touring jazz artists in particular face enough challenges without having a venue pinch them further. We want to see acts develop and be able to travel, and every cent counts

#yeg #yegjazz #jazz #albertamusic #music

Hey #jazz cats!
11am Alberta Time - Fuse 'n Flow on bigeradio.com

Jazz fans are an exacting bunch, so today's Fuse 'n Flow is 25% YYC jazz, 31.25% distinctive voices,12.5% Bop, 18.75% piano masters, and 12.5% 'mystery jazz'. Not necessarily in that order.

Featured artists include YYC players Mark DeJong, Tim Tamashiro, Hutchinson Andrew Trio, and Al Muirhead, along with Nat King Cole, Polly Gibbons, Brad Mehldau and more - full playlist in the comments

#yeg #yegjazz #yyc #yycjazz #albertamusic #sundayjazz #fusenflow #bigeradio #bebop #vocaljazz

Edmonton jazz guitar virtuoso Jim Head had an album release party about a month ago at #yeg's Yardbird Suite. Here's the title track from Prismatic.... I'm finding the album to be a fitting soundtrack to a cool but sunny day off
#jazz #yegjazz #albertajazz #albertamusic #canadianjazz #guitar #jazzguitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AOlc24ANg&list=OLAK5uy_mSn4RNsAQlgt8k4nU2hfBBzRPOyXZ7RjU&index=6

Fuse 'n Flow; 11 am MST; bigeradio.com
Today I spin some classics and contemporary jazz with a strong Canadian contingent, featuring YEG's Mboya Nicholson, Andrew Glover & Mallory Chipman, a couple of Arts (Blakey & Farmer), Virginia Macdonald, YYC's Johanna Sillanpaa, Keith O' Rourke (with Kodi Hutchinson & Sanah Kadoura, and Chet Baker, Monk & more

Big E Radio is all volunteer, no revenues or ads, just a labour of music love

#yeg #yegjazz #jazz #canadianjazz #albertamusic #yyc #yycjazz #music

Cory Schachtel from YEG magazine #Edify published a nice article on The Yardbird Suite this morn. If you're in #edmonton and jazz-curious, please try us out. I'll buy you a beer if you tell me you're on Mastodon
#alberta #jazz #albertamusic #yeg #oldstrathcona #whyteave

https://edifyedmonton.com/culture/performing-arts/have-a-jazzy-jam/

Join me for some #jazz at 11 am #alberta time on bigeradio.com

Today's Fuse 'n Flow offers an eclectic mix of classics, crooners & contemporary jazz, with featured artists including Charlie Parker, Laila Biali, Cyrille Aimee, Jill Barber, Toots Thielemans, YEG's Stephanie Urquhart, Big Miller & Tommy Banks, and many more
#yeg #albertamusic #jazzmasters #crooners

Vancouver's Cory Weeds is playing #yeg 's Yardbird Suite on Feb 17. No word if he's playing this tasty little tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire

#jazz #bcmusic #bcjazz #canadianjazz #albertamusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlrPST6WrQ&list=PLAmjzLDrvNYyneB869yUlAp1aSKVmYdZg&index=10