The Jazz Hole

The Jazz Hole

By Linus Wyrsch, BTRtodayMusic
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The Jazz Hole episodes

  • Week of 05/14/17
    Listen to an interview with the highly sought-after Toronto-based trumpeter, composer and bandleader Rebecca Hennessy on today’s episode of The Jazz Hole with Linus. Rebecca Hennessy’s FOG Brass Band just came out with a new album named Two Calls. Additional music today includes tracks by Jason Yeager and Jason Anick, Alexia Gardner, The Reunion Project and the Rhythm Future Quartet.
    Jason Yeager & Jason Anick - Achi
    Album: United
    Jason Yeager (p, comp), Jason Anick (violin, mandolin), Greg Loughman (b) and Mike Connors (d)
    Alexia Gardner - “Jump In” (composed by Beat Baumli/Alexia Gardner) & “A Little Closer” (composed by Pieter “Pieps” Vos/Alexia Gardner)
    Album: A Little Closer: Live At The Birds Eye Jazz Club
    Alexia Gardner (voc), Beat Baumli (g) and Lorenz Beyeler (b)
    The Reunion Project - Varanda
    Album: Varanda
    Felipe Salles (cl), Chico Pinheiro (g), Tiago Costa (p), Bruno Migotto (b) and Edu Ribeiro (d)
    Rebecca Hennessy’s FOG Brass Band - “Snag”, “Kings County Sherriff” & “Lagoon”
    Album: Rebecca Hennessy’s FOG Brass Band - Two Calls
    Rebecca Hennessy (tp), Tom Richards (tb), Jay Burr (tuba), Don Scott (g), Tania Gill (p), Nico Dann (d, triangle) and Jean Martin (producer, engineer)
    Rhythm Future Quartet - “For Paulus” & “Bushwick Stomp”
    Album: Travels
    Jason Anick (violin), Olli Soikkeli (g, comp), Max O'Rourke (g) and Greg Loughman (b)
    00:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    02:08 - Achi - Jason Yeager, Jason Anick
    05:42 - Jump In - Alexia Gardner
    09:03 - A Little Closer - Alexia Gardner
    14:29 - Varanda - The Reunion Project
    17:42 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    21:17 - Snag - Rebecca Hennessy, FOG Brass Band
    25:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus - Interview with Rebecca Hennessy, Part I
    32:13 - Kings County Sheriff - Rebecca Hennessy, FOG Brass Band
    36:59 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus - Interview with Rebecca Hennessy, Part II
    42:07 - Lagoon - Rebecca Hennessy, FOG Brass Band
    49:26 - For Paulus - Rhythm Future Quartet
    54:21 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    55:38 - Bushwick Stomp - Rhythm Future Quartet
    60:00 - Finish
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  • Week of 05/07/17
    The Jazz Hole with Linus, today with a track by multi-instrumentalist Morgan Guerin, another composition from trombonist Nick Finzer’s new album Hear & Now, tunes from Hiromi Suda new album Nagi, more from MEM3’s new album Circles, some tracks from the award-winning pianist Tamir Hendelman, music by bassist Fernando Huergo, Italian vocalist Chiara Izzi and Swiss vocalist Beat Kaestli.
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    Morgan Guerin - Madeira
    Album: The Saga
    Morgan Guerin (p, fender rhodes, d, perc, ts), Patrick Arthur (e-g) and Brandon Boone (b)
    Nick Finzer - Race To The Bottom
    Album: Hear & Now
    Nick Finzer (tb), Lucas Pino (as, b-cl), Alex Wintz (g), Glenn Zaleski (p), Dave Baron (b) and Jimmy Macbride (d)
    Hiromi Suda - “Nagi” & “Hikari to Kage”
    Album: Nagi
    Hiromi Suda (voc), Romero Lubambo (g), Julian Shore (p, fender rhodes), Anne Drummond (fl), Haggai Cohen-Milo (b) and Keita Ogawa (d, perc)
    MEM3 - Olympic
    Album: Circles
    Michael Cabe (p, comp), Mark Lau (b) and Ernesto Cervini (d)
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    Tamir Hendelman - “Israeli Waltz” & “Babushka”
    Album: Destinations
    Tamir Hendelman (p), Marco Panascia (b) and Lewis Nash (d)
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    Fernando Huergo - Hashtag
    Album: Hashtag
    Fernando Huergo (e-b), Yulia Musayelyan (fl), Rick DiMuzio (ts), Leo Genovese (p, fender rhodes electric piano) and Franco Pinna (d)
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    Chiara Izzi - Another Day
    Album: Motifs
    Chiara Izzi (voc), Andrea Rea (p), Nicola Corso (b) and Gino del Prete (d)
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    Beat Kaestli - The Choice You Make - Choix De Vie
    Album: Live In Europe
    Beat Kaestli (voc), Walter Fischbacher (p), Petr Dvorsky (b) and Andreas Winter (d)
    00:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    01:29 - Madeira - Morgan Guerin
    04:56 - Race To The Bottom - Nick Finzer
    11:26 - Nagi - Hiromi Suda
    14:13 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    16:44 - Hikari to Kage - Hiromi Suda
    21:48 - Olympic - MEM3
    31:06 - Israeli Waltz - Tamir Hendelman
    37:54 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    40:23 - Babushka - Tamir Hendelman
    45:47 - Hashtag - Fernando Huergo
    53:06 - Another Day - Chiara Izzi
    58:12 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    61:36 - The Choice You Make Choix De Vie - Beat Kaestli
    67:48 - Finish
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  • Week of 04/30/17
    Check out this week’s episode of The Jazz Hole with Linus featuring tracks from pianist and composer Alessandro d’Episcopo’s brand new album That’s all, another track by the Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra (KMJO) from their new album Common Ground, plus music from Michael Dease, Arooj Aftab, Tim Mayer and Sofia Rei.
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    Michael Dease - “Solid Gold” & “All Heath”
    Album: Solid Gold
    Michael Dease (tb), Steve Wilson (as), Renee Rosnes (p), Christian McBride (b) and Ulysses Owens, Jr. (d)
    Arooj Aftab - aey na balam
    Album: Bird Under Water
    Arooj Aftab (voc, comp), Magda Giannikou (acc), Rakae Jamil (sitar), Bhrigu Sahni (g, e-g, comp), Mario Carrillo (b) and Jörn Bielfeldt (d, perc)
    Alessandro d’ Episcopo - “Lunita”, “A Japanese Tree” & “Seconds”
    Album: That’s all
    Alessandro d’Episcopo (p)
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    Who Knew? - Tim Mayer
    Album: Resilience
    Tim Mayer (ts), George Cables (p), Dezron Douglas (b), Willie Jones III (d) and Mark Whitfield (g) Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra,
    KMJO - Common Ground
    Album: Common Ground
    Kirk MacDonald (ts, director, ts solo), P.J. Perry (as, fl), Luis Deniz (as), Pat LaBarbera (ts, ss, fl, a-fl), Perry White (bs, b-cl), Jason Logue, Brian O'Kane, Kevin Turcotte, Joe Sullivan (tp, flh), Rob Smith (tp, flh, tp solo), Alastair Kay, Terry Promane, Kelsley Grant (tb), Peter Hysen (btb tuba), Lorne Lofsky (g), Nancy Walker (p), Neil Swainson (b) and Barry Romberg (d)
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    Sofia Rei - La Gallera
    Album: De Tierra y Oro
    Sofia Rei (lead voc, bck voc, loops), Eric Kurimski (g), Jean-Christoph Maillard (e-g), Jorge Roeder (b), Samuel Torres (congas, alegre drum & guache), Morris Cañate (tambora) and Nestor Gomez (maracas)
    00:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    01:49 - Solid Gold - Michael Dease
    06:57 - aey na balam - Arooj Aftab
    12:35 - Lunita - Alessandro d’Episcopo
    18:51 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    21:18 - A Japanese Tree - Alessandro d’Episcopo
    27:08 - Seconds - Alessandro d’Episcopo
    30:09 - Who Knew? - Tim Mayer
    33:57 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    35:11 - Labyrinth, Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra, KMJO
    47:07 - La Gallera - Sofia Rei
    51:12 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    52:18 - All Heath - Michael Dease
    58:48 - Finish
    59 min
  • Week of 04/23/17
    Today’s episode of The Jazz Hole with Linus includes brand new tracks from trombonist Nick Finzer, the Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra (KMJO), the New York Standards Quartet (NYSQ) and more from Bert Seager’s Tetraptych. Other music on today’s show comes from Sofia Rei Joe Benjamin & A Mighty Handful and SPACEPILOT.
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    Sofia Rei - De Tierra Y Oro
    Album: De Tierra Y Oro
    Sofia Rei Koutsovitis (lead, bck voc, loops), Eric Kurimski (g), Jean-Christoph Maillard (e-g, spanish g), Jorge Roeder (b), Yayo Serka (d, per, cajon, claps), Malika Zarra (bck voc) and Josh Deutsch (flh)
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    Sofia Rei - Mundo Piedra
    Album: De Tierra Y Oro
    Sofia Rei Koutsovitis (lead, bck voc, loops), Eric Kurimski (g), Jorge Roeder (e-b) and Yayo Serka (d, per, per loops)
    Nick Finzer -“We The People” & “Love Wins”
    Album: Hear & Now
    Nick Finzer (tb), Lucas Pino (as, b-cl), Alex Wintz (g), Glenn Zaleski (p), Dave Baron (b) and Jimmy Macbride (d)
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    Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra, KMJO - Common Ground
    Album: Common Ground
    Kirk MacDonald (ts, director), P.J. Perry (as, fl, as solo), Luis Deniz (as), Pat LaBarbera (ts, ss, fl, a-fl, ts solo), Perry White (bs, b-cl), Jason Logue, Brian O'Kane, Rob Smith, Kevin Turcotte, Joe Sullivan (tp, flh), Alastair Kay, Terry Promane, Kelsley Grant (tb), Peter Hysen (btb tuba), Lorne Lofsky (g), Nancy Walker (p), Neil Swainson (b) and Barry Romberg (d)
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    Joe Benjamin & A Mighty Handful - Three Days No Sex
    Album: Swing Migration
    Joe Benjamin (voc), Paul Tafoya, Cody Rowlands (tp), Nathanael Ranson (tb), Daniel Jordan (b-tb), Dan Glaude, Gabriel Richards, David Engelhard (saxes), Michael O'Neal (bs), Andrew Freedman (kbds), Ray Cetta (b), Mike Gordon (d), Ansel Cohen (cello), Laura Huey (viola), Kiho Yutaka and Monica Behler (violin)
    New York Standards Quartet, NYSQ - Sleight of Hand
    Album: Sleight of Hand
    David Berkman (p, comp), Tim Armacost (ts), Daiki Yasukagawa (b) and Gene Jackson (d)
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    SPACEPILOT - “Cygnus” & “Amalthea”
    Album: EXOPHONIA Live at Nublu
    Elias Meister (g), Leo Genovese (syn, rhodes) and Joe Hertenstein (d, perc)
    Tetraptych - “Star Wise” & “Blues You Can Use”
    Album: Tetraptych
    Bert Seager (p, comp), Hery Paz (ts), Max Ridley (b) and Dor Herskovits (d)
    00:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    01:25 - De Tierra Y Oro - Sofia Rei
    05:18 - Mundo Piedra - Sofia Rei
    08:46 - We The People - Nick Finzer
    13:35 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    15:54 - Love Wins - Nick Finzer
    21:09 - Common Ground - Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra, KMJO
    31:14 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    34:34 - Three Days No Sex - Joe Benjamin & A Mighty Handful
    38:36 - Sleight of Hand - New York Standards Quartet, NYSQ
    46:27 - Cygnus - SPACEPILOT, Elias Meister
    53:10 - Amalthea - SPACEPILOT, Elias Meister
    55:38 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    57:22 - Distances - Tetraptych, Bert Seager
    63:18 - Finish
    1 hr 4 min
  • Week of 04/16/17
    The Jazz Hole with Linus - today with music by Shirantha Beddage, Sofia Ribeiro, Steven Kirby, Sullivan Fortner, Rob Garcia (featuring Joe Lovano and Kate McGarry) and introducing the brilliant sounds of Tetraptych. Their self-titled album Tetraptych just came out on Red Piano Records and it is the brain child of pianist and composer Bert Seager, a leading player on the jazz scene in Boston since 1981. Grounded in the lineage of the modern jazz saxophone quartet, his group features Hery Paz on saxophone, Max Ridley on bass and Dor Herskovits on drums.
     
    Shirantha Beddage - Gravity
    Album: Momentum
    Shirantha Beddage (bs, fender rhodes), David Restivo (p), Rich Brown (b) and William Kennedy (d)
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    Sofia Ribeiro - Última dança
    Album: Mar sonoro
    Sofia Ribeiro (voc), Juan Andrés Ospina (p, arr), Petros Klampanis (b) and Marcelo Woloski (perc)
    Tetraptych -“Star Wise” & “Blues You Can Use”
    Album: Tetraptych
    Bert Seager (p, comp), Hery Paz (ts), Max Ridley (b) and Dor Herskovits (d)
    Steven Kirby - Illuminations
    Album: Illuminations
    Steven Kirby (g, e-g), Aubrey Johnson (voc), Bill Vint (fl), John Funkhouser (p, kbds), Steve Hunt (kbds), Greg Loughman (b) and Mike Connors (d, perc)
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    Sullivan Fortner - Aria 
    Album: Aria
    Sullivan Fortner (p), Tivon Pennicott (ss), Aidan Caroll (b) and Joe Dyson (d)
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    Rob Garcia (featuring Joe Lovano & Kate McGarry) - The Journey Is The Destination
    Album: Finding Love In An Oligarchy On A Dying Planet
    Rob Garcia (d, comp, arr), Joe Lovano (ts), Gary Versace (p), Masa Kamaguchi (b) and Kate McGarry (voc)
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    Shirantha Beddage - Momentum (for Bernard Hermann)
    Album: Momentum
    Shirantha Beddage (bs, b-cl), David Restivo (p), Rich Brown (b) and William Kennedy (d)
    00:00 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    02:09 - Gravity - Shirantha Beddage
    07:16 - Última dança - Sofia Ribeiro
    12:21 - Star Wise - Tetraptych, Bert Seager
    20:40 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    23:05 - Blues You Can Use - Tetraptych, Bert Seager
    31:32 - Illuminations - Steven Kirby
    39:14 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    41:03 - Aria - Sullivan Fortner
    47:33 - The Journey Is The Destination - Rob Garcia, Joe Lovano, Kate McGarry
    51:46 - The Jazz Hole with DJ Linus
    53:07 - Momentum (for Bernard Hermann) - Shirantha Beddage
    60:45 - Finish
    1 hr 1 min

About The Jazz Hole

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In 2009 Linus Wyrsch joined the team of DJs at BTR and took over the bi-weekly jazz show,The Jazz Hole. Being a sought-after clarinetist and saxophonist, himself, in the Big Apple, Linus embraces a unique relationship with the jazz genre and its musicians, consequently providing the listeners with a backstage pass to the New York jazz scene. The hour-long show features the music of new talents from inside and outside of the New York circuit, and every once in a while, Linus is able to sneak in a major jazz artist, sometimes accompanied with a short interview.