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This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 7/22

By Fritz ByersThis week on Jazz Spectrum, selections from a cascade of new releases reflecting the vitality of current jazz.  Among them:

*   The Venezuelan-born pianist Edward Simon, abetted by his stalwart bandmates, the drummer Adam Cruz and the bassist Reuben Rogers, programs his new release, Femininas, as an homage to female Latin American  songwriters. Read More

This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 8/30-9/1

Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday    Dear Aly, For a lengthy but indeterminate stretch of time following 1973, when I departed Kansas for college, I was asked by virtually everyone I met when I was far from my home state if I had a dog named “Toto.”  (I would routinely say, “No, but I have one called ‘Terry,’ which usually took the air right out of the conversation – Terry, of course, was the Cairn Terrier who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz. Read More