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Tony Bennett (1926-2023)

July 26, 2023

By Fritz ByersTony Bennett, who died last Friday at 96, sang for us for more than 70 years. We didn’t always listen as closely as we should have. As happens when the crowd is surfing the zeitgeist, the culture took its eyes and ears from Tony for a while –he endured a long dry period as folk, rock ‘n’ roll, and their variants pushed him and his favored music to one side. He even lacked a record contract in the 70s, and he resorted to forming his own recording company. Read More

This Week on Jazz Spectrum - 7/22

July 21, 2023

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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

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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

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