Paradigms

Marla Leigh is a composer, musician, and global thinker. She is classically trained and has taken that training into her own music.

Marla’s new CD Rhythms of Tof Miriam is a celebration of life through music. Marla is accompanied by renowned musicians, including oud master Yair Dalal, Meira Segal (ney), Ori Werner (kamancheh), Shahar Kaufman (mandol), Leat Sabbah (cello), Oren Tsor (violin & viola) and Gavriel Fiske (frame drum).

This is music that will nourish you, especially if you give it your full attention.

Marla and Baruch discuss the music, the global tradition of women as frame drummers, lessons we can learn from Covid 19, and more.

Music by: Marla Leigh

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Rowan Piggott and Rosie Hodgson both grew up steeped in the traditional music of Britain. They both play instruments, write, sing, and make records! Along with bandmate Phillippe Barnes they have a new record coming out in July 2020 The Wilderness Yet.

We’ll be talking with Rosie and Rowan about their lives, their new baby Wilfred, music, the new record, and getting through the pandemic.

We’ll be listening to music from the new CD as well as previous records.

Music by: Rosie Hodgson, Rowan Piggott, and The Wilderness Yet

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Mean Mary isn’t mean at all! She’s a friendly, talented, smart, caring person. Her new record is Cold… and it’s a tribute to the cold. Mary explains, in the interview, the elemental thread that runs through her music.

Mary James grew up in a homemade house with a family that went on adventures. She knows how to survive without modern conveniences, which allows for a sense of possibility and capability.

We’ll be talking about growing up making music, inspiration, quarantine, and creative process. We’ll also be listening to a variety of music from Mean Mary

Music by: Mean Mary

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Elsa Nilsson is a Composer and Flautist playing Jazz. The music is energetic and colorful and many-textured. Elsa and her band convey emotions and speak, through the music, to the human condition.

Elsa is a person who puts her heart and soul into her craft, her music. She takes seriously the responsibility of the artist to hold the soul of humanity up for us all to behold and recognize that we are each part of the whole.

Baruch and Elsa discuss the new record Hindsight and how it can help people handle the isolation of quarantine.

Music by: John Coltrane, Elsa Nilsson Quartet

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Jenny Davis is a Composer, Bandleader, and Jazz Vocalist from Seattle. She’s been making music for many years and has recorded 4 records, the latest Rearranged came out in 2020.

Jenny is a person of conscience whose activism on behalf of Trans Youth is passionate and substantial. Her music is complex and layered and emotional, and very accessible for folks who might find Jazz challenging.

Tune in for stimulating conversation and inspiring music!

Music by: Jenny Davis

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“Cuñao is a Los Angeles-based, Latin Folk group. They use their multi-ethnic background & influences to create evocative, poetic songs that transcend time and leave listeners with lush images. Cuñao puts a global twist on their Latin sound by exploring African rhythms, Eastern European melodies and American Rock aesthetics.

Cuñao speaks in a voice that feels the duality of cultures as the norm not the exception and that learns the way of the new but yearns to belong to the old.” – cunaomusic.com

Julio Montero of Cuñao talks with Baruch about the music and the power in sharing culture. We’ll be listening to music from Cuñao’s new record “Rayuela” as well as some older music.

Music by: Cuñao

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Galeet Dardashti of the singing group Divahn talks about their new record Shalhevet, and (Galeet is an Antropologist) about some of the history of the “Middle East” (North Africa) and shared culture that may be new information to many; a history of co-operation and community with people of different religions.

Bob Lord of Parma Recordings returns to Paradigms to talk about what Parma Recordings is doing during the Covid 19 crisis, and to share music with us.

Music by: Divahn, Elizarde Ortega Silveira, and Thomas Mesa playing a composition by Lydia Jane Pugh

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New York bassist Massimo Biolcati embodies 21st century global jazz. His new CD Incontre is a collection of pieces that is diverse, mostly original compositions and a couple of surprisingly wonderful covers.

Baruch and Massimo discuss the music, creativity, and what’s happening in the world. Tune in for inspiration and wonderful music to lift your spirits!

• This interview was recorded March 16, 2020. Since then a lot has changed. Please get the most current information on Covid-19 from the World Health Organization.

Music by: Massimo Bialcati

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Survival Instinct: the Evilution of the Pack is an album designed to highlight a specific but basic human instinct that causes us to be violent toward each other while highlighting ways to conquer these tendencies and bring us together.” – Justin Varnes

Justin Varnes is a jazz drummer, composer, and person of conscience. His new CD is 10 tracks of music that take the listener through their own ins and outs coming around to a resolution of wholeness. The music was all recorded in one-take live performances, no overdubs. It’s like being in a really great club hearing a super tight band of musicians who love playing together.

Music by: Justin Varnes

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Giuseppe Paradiso is a jazz drummer and composer who beautifully exemplifies the mission of altruists, alchemists, and performers the world over; to explore the mystery that is life through creating and sharing music that is multidimensional, personal, and universal.

The new recording Metropolitan Sketches is a collection of musical poems; think more e.e. cummings than Shakespeare, although Giuseppe’s classical chops shine through.

Giuseppe and Baruch discuss, among other things, the metaphysics of jazz, and how we can constructively deal with challenges facing humanity this moment, and how music and the arts can be a meaningful part.

Music by: Giuseppe Paradiso Meridian 71

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