Burning Ambulance Podcast
82 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Burning Ambulance Podcast features interviews with musicians from the worlds of jazz, metal, modern composition, noise, and whatever else piques host Phil Freeman's interest.
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Kenny Garrett
April 10, 2024 04:00 - 51 minutes - 48.8 MBKenny Garrett has been playing for more than 40 years. Originally from Detroit, he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the late 70s, when it was being run by Ellington’s son Mercer. He also played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and with Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw, and Freddie Hubbard. He was a member of a young lions group put together by Blue Note Records in the 80s called Out Of The Blue that also included the late drummer Ralph Peterson, and he was already recording as a leader ...
Arushi Jain
March 13, 2024 04:00 - 58 minutes - 57.5 MBI first learned about Arushi Jain three years ago, when most people who are aware of her work did. Her 2021 album Under The Lilac Sky was extremely beautiful, six tracks of droning, pulsing synth music with her vocals kind of floating in the middle like she was singing from the middle of an isolation tank. It was entirely created with a modular synth rig that she constructed and programmed, but the compositions were based on ragas from the Indian classical tradition, including the fact that ...
Rufus Reid
February 14, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes - 52.7 MBRufus Reid is an extremely important but under-recognized figure in modern jazz. He’s always been someone who’s had one foot in the mainstream and one in the avant-garde — he did a lot of work with soul jazz and jazz-funk saxophonist Eddie Harris in the early 1970s, before joining Dexter Gordon’s band when Gordon made his famous US comeback after years in Europe. He was also part of Andrew Hill’s band in the late ’80s, and has done a ton of straightahead records. But he was also a member of ...
Ethan Iverson
January 17, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBWelcome back to the Burning Ambulance Podcast! To find out about upcoming episodes, as well as all things Burning Ambulance, sign up for our free weekly newsletter. It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these. In fact, the last episode was released in December of 2022. I talked then to film critic Walter Chaw about his book on the work of director Walter Hill. Since then, a lot’s been going on. Most notably, I wrote a book of my own, In The Brewing Luminous: The Life And Music Of Cec...
Walter Chaw
December 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBThis is not a typical episode of this podcast. Normally, as you probably know, I talk to musicians. And in 2022, we’ve specifically been talking about fusion, which means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. And we’re going to get back to that subject in our next episode, when I have an interview with saxophonist Dave Liebman, who played with Miles Davis in the early '70s and also had his own band, Lookout Farm, which was a very interesting fusion act. But on this episode,...
Vernon Reid
August 23, 2022 14:16 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBI have said two things all season long. The first is that we’re going to be exploring a single topic for ten episodes, and that topic is fusion. But the second thing I’ve been saying is that what I’m talking about when I say the word fusion isn’t a style or a genre, but a state of mind. It’s not what you play, it’s how you approach music-making. In previous episodes, we’ve talked about what people typically think of as fusion, which drummer Lenny White, who appeared in episode two of this s...
Adam Rudolph
July 19, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBIn previous episodes, we’ve talked about what people commonly understand as fusion, which drummer Lenny White, who appeared in episode two of this series, prefers to call jazz-rock. That’s the version that starts with Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and Tony Williams’ Lifetime and quickly branches out with Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return To Forever and Weather Report and on and on. But as we’ve continued the discussion, we’ve expanded the scope of inquiry to include adventurous funk and R&B fusio...
Bob Stewart
June 21, 2022 04:05 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThe latest episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with tuba player Bob Stewart. I have said all season long that we’re going to be exploring a single subject for ten episodes, and that subject is fusion. But as I hope has become clear over the course of the five previous episodes, during which I interviewed techno pioneer Jeff Mills, drummer Lenny White, trumpeter Randy Brecker, pianist Cameron Graves, and guitarist Brandon Ross, most of whom come from different musi...
Brandon Ross
May 13, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 39 MBAs you know if you've been listening this season, we have a single subject we’re going to be exploring across ten episodes, and that subject is fusion. Fusion means much more, I think, than just the music that most people think of when they hear the word. I’m not talking exclusively about the big-name bands from the 1970s: the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report. Those groups, and the Miles Davis bands from 1969 to 1975, and many other less immediately recognizable ...
Cameron Graves
April 12, 2022 04:05 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBEpisode 73 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with pianist Cameron Graves. I have a single subject we’re going to be exploring through all ten episodes that I’m going to be presenting this season, and that subject is fusion. Fusion means much more, I think, than just the music that most people probably think of when they hear the word. Of course, it immediately brings to mind bands from the 1970s like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report: group...
Randy Brecker
March 13, 2022 05:05 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBThis season on the Burning Ambulance Podcast, we’re going to have a single subject we’re going to be exploring through all ten episodes, and that subject is fusion. Fusion, of course, is a term that means different things to different people. When most people hear it, they probably think of bands from the 1970s like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Report: groups that were formed by ex members of Miles Davis’s band that played extremely complex compositions that were...
Lenny White
February 12, 2022 17:27 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBThis is the sixth year of the Burning Ambulance Podcast. This is episode 71, and I decided at the beginning of this year that it was time to change things up a little. So for all ten episodes that I’m going to be presenting this season, we’re going to have a single subject, and that subject is fusion. Lenny White played on one of the most important albums in the history of fusion, Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew. In the clip that you’re gonna hear when I finish talking, right before the intervi...
Jeff Mills
January 13, 2022 05:05 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBThis is the Burning Ambulance podcast's sixth year, and our seventieth episode, so I decided it was time to change things up a little. This season, we’re going to have a single subject we’re going to be exploring through all ten episodes that I’m going to be presenting, and that theme is fusion. Fusion is a very charged term. When most people hear it, in reference to music, anyway, they probably think of bands from the 1970s like the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Weather Repo...
Billy Harper
September 16, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBBilly Harper has had a pretty incredible career. He was a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1968. He played with Max Roach. He was part of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band and the Gil Evans big band, and because of those connections he got to play on a Louis Armstrong album. He was on Lee Morgan’s final studio album, recorded in 1971. And he’s had a solo career since the early Seventies, making legendary albums like Capra Black for the Strata-East label and Black Saint for…well, for...
Andrew Cyrille
August 19, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBAndrew Cyrille is the last man standing from the first wave of free jazz drummers. He and Milford Graves, Sunny Murray, and Rashied Ali really revolutionized jazz rhythm in their playing with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and other musicians in the early to mid ’60s. Their influence was huge, and each of them brought a different perspective and instantly identifiable style to the music. What I hear when I listen to Andrew Cyrille, whether he’s playing with Cecil Taylor or Anthony...
Don Byron
July 15, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Don Byron is originally from the Bronx, and he was kind of a fixture on the Downtown music scene in the late '80s and early '90s. His first album as a leader, Tuskegee Experiments, came out almost 30 years ago, in 1992; it featured a variety of musicians, including guitarist Bill Frisell, two different bassists, Reggie Workman and Lonnie Plaxico, and two different drummers, Pheeroan AkLaff and Ralph Peterson. ...
Anthony Braxton
June 24, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 67 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter This is an episode I have been hoping to present since this podcast began. I’ve been requesting interviews with Braxton for years, but never gotten the okay until this month. And you know what? In retrospect, I’m glad it took as long as it did. You know the saying “When the student is ready, the master appears”? Bill Dixon said that to me when I interviewed him for The Wire, and I feel like it’s absolutely tru...
Wadada Leo Smith
May 21, 2021 02:30 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon • Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter I’ve been listening to Wadada Leo Smith for a long time; I own a lot of his albums, but his catalog is really large. I interviewed him for a cover story in The Wire in 2009, which he actually remembered — that surprised me a little. He was an early member of the AACM, collaborated extensively with Anthony Braxton in 1969 and 1970, made some beautiful records for ECM and Nessa in the 1970s (you should check out...
Pi Recordings
April 15, 2021 16:57 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBEpisode 63 of the Burning Ambulance Podcast features an interview with Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang of Pi Recordings. As you probably know by now, a typical episode is based around an interview with an artist. But Pi Recordings is such an important label when it comes to the kind of music covered on Burning Ambulance – I mean, Roscoe Mitchell, who’s released music on Pi both as a solo artist and with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, was the first ever guest on this show – that I thought it was im...
Joe Chambers
March 10, 2021 14:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Joe Chambers is a legend. He made his name in the early 1960s, playing on a string of some of the most adventurous Blue Note Records sessions of the time. He can be heard on albums like Bobby Hutcherson's Dialogue, Wayne Shorter's The All Seeing Eye, Andrew Hill's Compulsion, McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments, and many more. He also backed Archie Shepp on Fire Music, On This Night, New Thing At Newport and For Loser...
Muriel Grossmann
January 21, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Muriel Grossmann is a saxophonist originally from Vienna, Austria, but now she lives in Spain, and she puts out roughly an album a year entirely independently, though she licenses them to a label for the vinyl editions, which she talks about in this interview. She was very open about the business side of being an independent musician, in terms of self-funding and having the discipline and mental fortitude to ke...
Ivo Perelman
December 17, 2020 17:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter This episode features an interview with saxophonist Ivo Perelman, which is important because he's one of the artists on Polarity, a CD which I'll be putting out through my new label, Burning Ambulance Music, in February 2021. It's a duo album with trumpeter Nate Wooley, and it's intensely beautiful music unlike anything else you've ever heard, I promise. Pre-order your copy now. I’ve known about Ivo Perelman f...
Tim Berne
November 12, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter I first heard Tim Berne on a John Zorn album – Spy Vs. Spy, from 1989, where the two of them, plus Mark Dresser on bass and Joey Baron and Michael Vatcher on drums, play 17 Ornette Coleman tunes in 40 minutes. It’s one of the most intense records you’ll ever hear in your life. They play almost all the tunes at hardcore punk speed, and the two drummers are delivering blast beats like they’re auditioning for Napa...
Ambrose Akinmusire
October 15, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes - 55 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Ambrose Akinmusire is a really fascinating trumpet player. He’s made five studio albums and one live album, all but one of them for Blue Note. He’s also recorded with Walter Smith III, with Archie Shepp, with Mary Halvorson as part of her group Code Girl, with Tarbaby, with Roscoe Mitchell, and he’s on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. His latest album, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment, is one o...
Christian McBride
September 25, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Christian McBride is one of the most widely recorded bass players in jazz. He’s been on more than 300 albums as a sideman, and has won six Grammys. This year alone, he’s put out three major projects. In February, he released The Movement Revisited, a large-scale project that paints sonic portraits of Black political and cultural icons Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali and Barack Ob...
Kevin Richard Martin
September 03, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 57 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with producer Kevin Richard Martin. I’ve been a fan of Martin’s for almost 30 years. The first thing I heard by him was 1992's Possession, by his band God, which also featured Godflesh's Justin Broadrick on guitar; they were an extremely heavy sort of postpunk free jazz group with elements of doom metal and dub — they sounded like nothing else ou...
Alan Braufman
August 20, 2020 13:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 56 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist Alan Braufman. Braufman is about to release his first album under his own name in 45 years. He made his debut in 1975 with Valley of Search, recorded at his loft at 501 Canal Street in New York and released on India Navigation. It was reissued in 2018 by his nephew, Abil Nyers, on the Control Group/Valley of Search label, and it ...
Wayne Escoffery
July 16, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Episode 55 of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist Wayne Escoffery. Fair warning: there are some sound dropouts here and there on this episode, because I got a new iPhone and consequently had to try out a different method of recording. So this conversation was recorded through my laptop using a Skype phone call, and for the most part it worked, but there are a few moments where i...
Ryan Porter
June 11, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 54th episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with trombonist Ryan Porter. If you’ve seen Kamasi Washington live, you’ve seen Ryan Porter — he’s the trombonist standing directly to Kamasi’s left onstage. They’ve been friends since they were kids, growing up in L.A. together and playing on all kinds of projects, including Snoop Dogg’s touring band and the sessions for Kendrick Lamar’s T...
Dave Alvin
May 14, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 53rd episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin, and is sponsored by Harry's men's grooming products. If you’re listening to this, you can get a Harry’s trial set at harrys.com/burning. You’ll get a weighted ergonomic handle for a firm grip; a five blade razor with a lubricating strip and trimmer blade; rich lathering shave gel with aloe to...
James Brandon Lewis
April 16, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 52nd episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, and is sponsored by Harry's men's grooming products. If you’re listening to this, you can get a Harry’s trial set at harrys.com/burning. You’ll get a weighted ergonomic handle for a firm grip; a five blade razor with a lubricating strip and trimmer blade; rich lathering shave gel with aloe to keep your ...
Isabelle Faust
March 12, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 51st episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with violinist Isabelle Faust. Isabelle Faust is from Germany, and has been playing the violin since she was a child. If you've been listening for a while, you know that the overwhelming majority of the guests on this podcast come from a jazz background – the only person I’ve talked to who’s 100 percent from the classical music world was c...
Kassa Overall
February 13, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter The 50th episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast features an interview with drummer/beatmaker/producer Kassa Overall. Overall is a really exciting musician. He’s much more than just a drummer, although he’s a monster behind the kit; he was a member of pianist Geri Allen’s band for several years, he’s played with Vijay Iyer, Theo Croker, and he’s a member of drummer Terri Lynn Carrington’s band Social Science....
Peter Brötzmann
January 09, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter It's true: After a three-month hiatus, the Burning Ambulance podcast is back, with an interview with legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann! Brötzmann first emerged onto the global scene in the late '60s — he released his first album, For Adolphe Sax, named for the inventor of the saxophone, in 1967. A year later, he made Machine Gun, which is a landmark record not just in free jazz but in jazz history, period....
Nduduzo Makhathini
October 10, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Nduduzo Makhathini is one of the most important musicians in South African jazz. He's made eight albums as a leader so far, and is also a member of the group Shabaka and the Ancestors, led by Shabaka Hutchings, who was on this podcast way back in January 2018. Makhathini was in New York in September to perform with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which is when this interview was recorded. We were supposed...
Kris Davis
September 26, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Kris Davis is a really fascinating pianist who's been on the New York music scene for almost 20 years. She’s made a number of excellent albums as a leader and as a solo artist, and is also a member of groups like Paradoxical Frog with Ingrid Laubrock and Tyshawn Sorey, and Anti-House with Laubrock, Mary Halvorson, John Hébert and Tom Rainey. I saw that group perform at the Vision Festival at Roulette in Brookly...
Chris Lightcap
September 12, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Chris Lightcap is is a guy I’ve been aware of since the start of his career in the late 90s, when he was playing with Whit Dickey’s trio on the album Transonic. He was also a member of guitarist Joe Morris’s quartet with Mat Maneri on viola and Jerome Deupree on drums at first, and Gerald Cleaver later on. That group made three records in the late 90s and early 2000s, and then reunited for another record four o...
George Cables
August 29, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter George Cables is one of those musicians that serious jazz fans love, but who’s not that well known to the broader public. He’s never crossed over in any way, because he’s never really tried to. He’s jazz to the core of his bones, and he’s had an incredible career both as a leader and as a sideman. He started out at the very end of the Sixties and really made his mark in the Seventies, when he played with Joe He...
Bernard Fowler
August 15, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Singer Bernard Fowler has been around for close to 40 years. In addition to fronting his own bands Sirrius and Nicklebag, he's been the frontman for Tackhead and performed on an unbelievable number of records, many of them as a member of Bill Laswell's company of musicians. Since 1989, he's also been a backup singer for the Rolling Stones, which is where his new album comes from. Inside Out is a collection of S...
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
August 01, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma is a legend. He was barely out of high school when guitarist Reggie Lucas recommended him to Ornette Coleman, who hired him for what would become Prime Time. He stayed with Coleman for a dozen years, working with James "Blood" Ulmer and recording albums on his own at the same time. He's been part of some really amazing records that I love, including Derek Bailey's Mirakle, James Carte...
Allison Miller
July 18, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Drummer Allison Miller is a well-known figure on the New York jazz scene, but she's also had a second career backing big-name folk and rock artists like Natalie Merchant, Ani DiFranco, and Brandi Carlile. She released an album with her band Boom Tic Boom early this year, and has a new album, Parlour Game, with violinist Jenny Scheinman (who's also in Boom Tic Boom), pianist Carmen Staaf — with whom she made the...
Whit Dickey
July 04, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Drummer Whit Dickey is a well-known figure on the New York free jazz scene; he came to prominence as a member of the Matthew Shipp Trio and the David S. Ware Quartet in the 1990s, but has made multiple albums as a leader and collaborated with a lot of other musicians, including Joe Morris, Ivo Perelman, and Mat Maneri. His latest releases are a double CD, Tao Quartets, on AUM Fidelity — each CD features a diffe...
Saeunn Thorsteinsdóttir
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdóttir (pronounced "Sigh-oon") was born in Iceland, and came to the US as a child; she received a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook. She's currently a cello and chamber music teacher at the University of Washington, cellist for the Seattle-based chamber music group F...
Melissa Aldana
June 06, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Saxophonist Melissa Aldana was born in Santiago, Chile, and came to the US to study at Berklee; in 2013, after having already made two albums for Greg Osby's Inner Circle label, she was the first South American musician and the first female musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, which earned her a contract with Concord Records. Her latest release, her fifth album overall, ...
Herlin Riley
May 02, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Drummer Herlin Riley is from New Orleans, and is a major keeper of the flame when it comes to that city's jazz tradition. He played with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's band and with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for close to 20 years, and was with pianist Ahmad Jamal before and after that - in fact, he's currently a member of Jamal's group. He's recently released his fourth album as a leader, Perpetual Opti...
John Corbett
April 18, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 81.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter Writer John Corbett is from Chicago, and has been spreading the word about obscure and underground music for decades. He's a writer, a critic, a record collector, a presenter of live music, and a producer of both reissues and new albums in the areas of free and avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, noise, modern composition, and things that are simply impossible to pigeonhole or classify in any meaningful way. ...
Dwight Trible
March 28, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Vocalist Dwight Trible is originally from Cincinnati, but he's lived in Los Angeles since the early 1970s. He's recorded several albums on his own, but is probably best known right now for contributing to Kamasi Washington's The Epic and Heaven and Earth. Still, he's a hugely important figure on the L.A. scene, because he was a member of Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, and still works with that group now that Tapscott himself is deceased...
Jason Palmer
February 28, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Trumpeter Jason Palmer is based in Boston, where he teaches at Berklee and plays regularly at Wally's. He's recorded extensively as a leader, and has also worked with players as different from each other as Matana Roberts and Grace Kelly. He's just released a new double live CD, Rhyme and Reason, with the help of Giant Step Arts, a nonprofit formed by photographer Jimmy Katz and his wife Dena that provides jazz artists with funding for albums - Giant Ste...
Linda May Han Oh
February 07, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Bassist Linda May Han Oh grew up in Australia, and moved to the US a little over ten years ago. In that time, she’s risen to a position of real prominence on the current jazz scene. She’s very much in demand as a bandmember, playing on albums by Dave Douglas, Art Hirahara, E.J. Strickland, and George Colligan; she’s a member of Pat Metheny's new quartet; she's recorded four albums as a leader, with a fifth one on the way later this year; she teaches at t...
Branford Marsalis
January 24, 2019 17:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBSupport Burning Ambulance on Patreon Branford Marsalis, for those who don’t know, is a saxophonist, and the older brother of Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and leader of Jazz at Lincoln Center. They’re from New Orleans, and started out working together, first in Art Blakey’s band and then on each other’s albums. They were already on separate paths by the mid-'80s, though, when Wynton started becoming more and more of a traditionalist and Branford joined Sting’s band. He was also the bandlea...