Live at the Bop Stop's Best of 2024
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All music used with permission from the artists. Artist Title OHM Trio Eh Ari Hoenig Fatti Mi Me Amsterdam After Dark Dan Wilson Theron Brown Trio Who Shot John? Big Sky Grant Heineman Not in My Hollow Sam Blakeslee Alex Hamburger Ladybug Concurrence I-40 Was a Razor Hilario Duran Segundo Encuentro Orrin Evans Phoebe's Stroll Kiego Hirakawa Far Above Ricardo Morales Introspectivo Jamey Haddad River Man Tommy Lehman Soul Serach, Part 1 Stephen Phillip Harvey Octet JT 2024 was definitely a year. And yet, we’re still here at the end of it. Whether...
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Jonah Ferguson
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One of Northeast Ohio’s most promising guitarists – Jonah Ferguson splits his time as a session performer among numerous projects when he’s not busy serving as the guitar instructor at the Tri-C Jazzfest Academy. This trio performance features up and coming drummer Gabe Jones and veteran bassist Jordan McBride – and together they kicked off the Bop Stop’s 2024 season with a special performance – the first set of which we have for you here today. From January 6th, 2024 – it’s the Jonah Ferguson Trio – Live at the Bop Stop.
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Russ Nolan Quintet, Set 2
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All Music Used by Permission from Russ Nolan New York City based saxophonist Russ Nolan makes his first Bop Stop appearance in five years in this appearance from May 26th, 2023. Russ operates in the worlds of Modern Jazz and Salsa with ease and aplomb and it’s evident in both sets of this performance, the second of which we feature on this program. Featuring Joey Skoch on piano, Ahmed McLemore on Bass, Aaron Yanda on Drums and Russ Nolan on sax, it’s the Russ Nolan Quartet – Live at the Bop Stop.
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Theron Brown Trio
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All Music Used by Permission From Theron Brown You could argue at this point that Theron Brown is the glue that holds the Akron, Ohio jazz scene together. Between his work as the founder and director of the annual Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival, the artistic director of the I Promise School, the artist coordinator for the Curated Storefront and his heavy involvement with the Jazz Education program at the University of Akron, he’s arguably the hardest working man in show business. So we were lucky to manage to snag his trio for this performance, which features a guest appearance from...
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Concurrence
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All Music Used With Permission From Concurrence (Horton/Bryant) What Could Have Been Still Can Be Now is Still the Time I-40 Was a Razor Grooving at the Del Morroco Pianist Paul Horton and Bassist Greg Bryant work together as the driving forces behind beat driven improvisational Nashville based collective Concurrence. This performance celebrates the release of their 2024 album Indivisible - which examines the impact and after effects of the harm caused by the development of the interstate system within communities in the United States but with a particular focus on Nashville's...
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Fuoco/Folger/Castaldi
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All music used with permission from Fuoco/Folger/Castaldi IO (Folger) Contemplation (Castaldi) Light Gaps (Fuoco) Lavendula Angustifolia (Folger) All in All (Castaldi) First Voice (Fuoco) There is Another Sky (Fuoco) Lattice (Folger) Piroutte (Fuoco) Mais l'Aube Approche (Folger) Soleil (Folger Anthony Fuoco’s compositions feature prominently in multiple groups including the Pulse Quartet, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Wedmedyk/Fuoco Duo. He’s also a classically trained pianist who performs frequently with his spouse Christine. For this performance, Anthony teams up with...
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The Best of the Orrin Evans Trio
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All Music Used With Permission from Orrin Evans For more than two decades pianist Orrin Evans has made an art form of the unexpected. With more than 25 albums to his credit, Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who’s made a habit of rattling the jazz world’s confining cages. That determination has paid off in accolades like topping the “Rising Star Pianist” category in the 2018 DownBeat Critics Poll and two Grammy nominations. As a daring pianist, Evans combines raw-edged vigor and left-field nuance into a sound wholly his own. This week, on the program, Orrin...
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OHM! Trio
Live at the Bop Stop
All Music used with permission from OHM! Trio. A Single Thread (Bruce) Peachy (Douds) Reprieve Reprise (Bruce) Eh? (Bruce) Some Towns (Bruce) Blackbird (Lennon-McCartney) Wayne -Ish (Douds) Ohm! is the latest project from Cleveland based guitarist Dan Bruce. Featuring original compositions from all three of the group’s members, the trio brings high energy original compositions set to forceful and distinctive grooves. Everyone comes out of a performance with a different favorite song, and I’m always hesitant to put a thumb on the scale, but I’d encourage you to pay attention to a...
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Ari Hoenig Trio Set 2
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All music used with permission by Ari Hoenig. The Fat Tea Me May - Hoenig Conception - Shearing Tea For Two - Youmans Sophisticated Lady - Ellington Golden Schatze - Hoenig Home - Hoenig Song 7 - Hoenig Song 8 - Hoenig Ari Hoenig is a jazz drummer, composer and educator known for his unusual and intense approach to drumming emphasizing complex rhythms in direct harmony with other group members. Ari is widely noted particularly for his drumming not being relegated to just keeping tempo, or being a side issue to the music he plays in, but rather for elevating drumming...
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Hilario Duran Set 2
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All music used with permission by Hilario Duran. Segundo Encuentro - Duran Song 2 - Duran Song 3 - Standard Spain in My Mind - Duran Song 5 - Duran Descarga en la EGREM - Duran Cuban born Hilario Durán grew up in Havana in a musical family surrounded by a variety of diverse musical influences on a daily basis. He began working as a professional musician in Cuba’s Los Papa Cun¬-Cun Ensemble and in a variety of musical formats. Later on, in the 70’s, Durán was Chucho Valdés’ chosen successor in Cuba’s most modern big band, Orquesta Cubana de...
info_outlineAll music used with permission by Third Law with Sam Blakeslee.
Thriving jazz communities offer performers at all skill levels not only stages to play on but places to compose and perform original works.
Northeast Ohio is no different, and the Third Law Collective is the music settlement’s initiative with this goal in mind. Periodically musicians from throughout the area meet up and share original works with each other and audiences. This week, we feature one of those performances. Led by bop stop director Bryan Kinnard on flute with a guest appearance from New York based Trombonist Sam Blakeslee and from a June 29th, 2023 performance – it’s the Third Law Collective – Live at the Bop Stop.
Live at the Bop Stop is made possible by The Music Settlement – serving Northeast Ohio by offering music instruction, music therapy, and early childhood education since 1912. The Music Settlement's mission is to welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, inspire, and heal.
This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio, and the studios of WBWC FM on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Additional production at the Bop Stop is provided by Graham Rosen. Technical editing for the program is provided by Dr. Pete Naegele, Shawn Gilbert, and Darren Thompson through Gilazar Media.
The executive producer and writer is Daniel Peck, with additional consulting production on behalf of The Music Settlement by Bryan Kennard.
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