Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Eddie Roberts of the jazz group The New Mastersdounds .. Eddie was running a club night in Leeds called “The Cooker.” Add that was the beginning of starting this legacy .. so, fast-forward 15 years and the recorded catalogue boasts 24 more 7” singles, 9 studio albums, 2 live albums, 1 remix album and 3 compilation albums, released variously in UK, USA and Japan, where they continue to tour extensivel – Their latest album .. a refreshing one in their catalog is 2018’s CD – Renewable Energy - As a band, and as individuals, they have collaborated or jammed with an impressive many musicians DJs and producers like Lou Donaldson -

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Jazz Drummer, Performer, Producer and Educator Brandon Draper .. He’s a restless sort of cat who a friend just aptly called him a chameleon .. He grew up in Lindsborg, Kansas and went to Bethany College there .. Then moved on to University of New Mexico – Over the years, he’s been a a lot of different outfits other than jazz .. Like with the Turkish-Jazz group Alaturka and toured the U.S. with the live-tronica pioneers Particle – He also play guitars with his father who is a a renowned Hammond B3 organist - in The Draper Family Band and he runs the acclaimed children's interactive music program Drum Safari with his wife of 14 years Teryn. These days he is on the music faculty at the University of Kansas and always has a plan moving in forward motion ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Jazz alto saxophonist, composer, arranger, author and educator Jim Snidero ..  He grew up in Camp Springs, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC  and is promoting his newest 2018 CD with Jeremy Pelt called JUBILATION! CELEBRATING CANNONBALL ADDERLEY – So, As a teenager, he studied with the great Phil Woods and attended world-renowned jazz program at the University of North Texas – He got to NYC in 1981 at age 23 and first appeared on the jazz radar when he joined Brother Jack McDuff’s band, recording 3 albums with a jazz giant – that led to stints in the Mingus Big Band, saxophone icon Frank Wess, the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Eddie Palmieri, and Frank Sinatra (Duets II, Capitol) – he’s got great tales to tell  ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist and Composer George Kahn .. He opened up about his latest 2018 CD – Straight Ahead – and talked about his childhood in  New Rochelle, New York, studying classical music from the age of nine. He began composing while in high school and that he did some gigs in Boston, toured the East Coast with a disco band and eventually moved to California in 1976. He has been major force in the Los Angeles jazz community since the late 1990s – He took some time off from music and came back stronger .. this is just one tale in the annals of many ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Veteran Jazz Musician Karl Berger .. He grew up in Heidelberg, Germany and started to play piano at 10 and worked in his teens at a club  .. He learned modern jazz from visiting American musicians like Don Ellis and Leo Wright. During the 1960s, he started playing vibraphone and received a doctoral degree in musicology and worked as a member of Don Cherry's band in Paris. He would end up in New York City and with Ornette Coleman created the Creative Music Studio .. He’s a six time winner of the Downbeat Critics Poll as a jazz soloist and quite a Professor ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Kansas City Jazz Drummer John Kizilarmut .. On the heels of a CD release party at the Record Bar for KC Saxophonist’s Stephen Martin’s album Vision, John opened up about his journey in music .. getting to KC, his projects, gigs, wisdom and so much more ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Talented Jazz Pianist and Vocalist Champian Fulton .. She spent some time talking about her 2018 CD The Stylings of Champian Fulton … Her celebratory 10th album – a two disc set featuring 85+ minutes of non-stop swinging Jazz. So, she was born in Oklahoma, and grew up with music in the home .. her father is jazz trumpeter and educator Stephen Fulton – and he is featured on this new disc .. She’s a mainstay on the vibrant New York Jazz scene and over the years she has performed with musical royalty like Lou Donaldson, Frank Wess, Eric Alexander, Buster Williams, and Louis Hayes – she has grand insights and stories ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Bassist & Composer Chris Lightcap .. He talked to us at length about his latest 2018 CD Superette on Royal Potato Family .. He was born and raised in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and played violin and piano before taking up the electric bass at fourteen. As a senior in high school he started to study the upright bass - Over the years he's worked with Regina Carter, Craig Taborn, Mark Turner, Jason Moran, and so many others .. learning a great deal of things .. Throughout his performing career he has has also been a prolific composer ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Veteran Jazz Pianist Kenny Werner .. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Oceanside, Long Island and started playing and performing at a young age – it was 11 that he first recorded on TV .. and he’s never stopped .. He talked about his latest 2018 CD The Space .. and it’s great story of creative fortitude .. He’s been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years with a prolific output of compositions, recordings and publications giving good energy to audiences around the world. He had plenty to say ..

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Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Pianist, Composer and Educator Cyrus Chestnut  .. His musical roots began with playing piano at the Mount Calvary Star Baptist Church at the age of five in his hometown of Baltimore, MD. From there, he would move on to Boston for the Berklee College of Music and would go on to dedicate his life to jazz .. honing his craft as a sideman with some of the legendary and leading musicians like Michael Carvin, Donald Harrison, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Betty Carter and Dizzy Gillespie .. He just released his newest CD – 2018’s Kaleidoscope ..

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