May 2020

Features

• Aaron Diehl

  Melding Two Worlds

  By Dan Ouellette

  Building on previous releases—The Bespoke Man’s Narrative (2013) and Space Time Continuum (2015)—a new album broadens Diehl’s exploration of piano in the jazz-classical nexus.

• Marcus Printup

  ‘I Want My Sound To Sing’

  By Phillip Lutz

  Since he was a teenager in Conyers, Georgia, Printup has been digging into the roots of jazz—and coming up with the goods.

• Robert Cray

  Vintage Vibe

  By Josef Woodard

  Cray’s new album, That’s What I Heard (Nozzle/Thirty Tigers), sports a menu of vintage covers, rarities from the r&b and gospel archives, and old-school-style originals that fit snugly into the program.

Blindfold Test

Carmen Lundy was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test”:

• Dee Dee Bridgewater/New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: “It’s Raining” from The Music Of Allen Toussaint (Storyville)
• Angélique Kidjo: “Toro Mata” from Celia (Verve)
• Jazzmeia Horn: “Green Eyes” from Love And Liberation (Concord)
• Maria Pia De Vito: “A Costruzione (Construção)” from Core Curacao (Jando)
• Paul Simon: “Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy” from Blue Light (Sony)
• Terri Lyne Carrington & Social Science: “Purple Mountains” from Waiting Game (Motéma)
• Harold Mabern: “Don’t Misunderstand” from Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions)

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