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Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show

Welcome to Straight No Chaser, the Award-winning Podcast hosted by Jeffrey Siegel

Jul 28, 2021

If there is a jazz version of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it might well be Beneath Missouri Skies: Pat Metheny in Kansas City 1964-1972 by Carolyn Glenn Brewer. Ms. Brewer, a jazz musician, writer and former educator has a lifelong connection with the Greater Kansas City area. This makes...


Jul 25, 2021

Like many New Yorkers, when COVID-19 shut down much of their the world, saxophonist Jon Irabagon and his family decided it would be best  if they left their city home for a quieter, more secure environment.  Unlike almost all New Yorkers, for Jon it meant moving to western South Dakota, the home of his in-laws. Two...


Jul 20, 2021

Pianist/composer Arturo O'Farrill was as locked down as any of us during the pandemic that shut the door on live performances over the last 18 months. However, he and his compatriots at the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance used new technology and a whole lot of hard work to create  "ALJA Digital Village,"...


Jul 15, 2021

The second Record Store Day of 2021 came and went this past weekend, and left in its wake some exciting archival releases from our old friend Zev Feldman and his cohorts at Resonance Records. Two of the albums that dropped on July 17 are of particular note.

The first is In Harmony, a rare duet recording of trumpeter Roy...


Jul 5, 2021

Vince Mendoza has been at the forefront of the Jazz and contemporary music scene as a composer, conductor and recording artist for the last 30 years. He has written scores of compositions and arrangements for big band, extended compositions for chamber and symphonic settings while his jazz composing credits read like a...