Higher Ground Podcasts
Higher Ground podcasts interviews and music from the World Music Spotlight.
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Special Programming
Listen to the 29th Annual Tribute And Ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in words and music, held in the Capitol
Rotunda in Madison, Wisconsin on January 19th, 2009.
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And don't miss Wisconsin's 30th Annual Tribute to Dr. King starting at Noon on Monday, January 18th, 2010 in
the State Capitol Rotunda in Madison. The celebration is free and open to all and will feature words and music
in memory of Dr. King's life and legacy.
Miguel Ivery (Podcast #810)
Jonathan talks again to Miguel Ivery aka 'DJ Seduce',
who is the founder and owner of Afro:Baile Records. Ivery talks about his new
compilation album called "Brasil:Sambossica 2" which continues his plan to introduce the world to the new fusion
between Bossa Nova, Samba and Afro-Brazilian and other world music forms. Ivery talks about his plans to tour in 2010 in order to introduce
Brazil's new sound to the world.
Lars Edegran (Podcast #807)
Jonathan talks to arranger, bandleader, talent scout, record producer, and performer
Lars Edegran. He came to New Orleans from Sweden at the
age of 20 and talks about his early experiences there. In 1967 he founded the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra which has
toured the world and performed at many festivals including the renowned Newport Jazz Festival. He's been nominated for an
Academy Award for the soundtrack for Louis Malle's film "Pretty Baby", and for a Grammy for his orchestrations for the
off-Broadway smash hit "One Mo' Time". In 2007 he was honored as New Orleans Music Ambassador
at the 19th Annual Big Easy music awards
Heather Rigdon (Podcast #802)
Jonathan interviews jazz vocalist Heather Rigdon.
She was raised in Texas where her father was an ordained Pentecostal preacher. She talks about how her strict religious
upbringing effected her vocals. Rigdon performs frequently at the Bluebird Café in Nashville and released her debut album
entitled Young & Naive in 2007.
Chantal Chamberland (Podcast #801)
Jonathan interviews Canadian jazz vocalist Chantal Chamberland
about the attention she's beginning to receive for her work, including her latest CD release entitled "Other Woman".
She's appeared several times at the Montreal International Jazz Festival and has recently been nominated as Female Vocalist
of the Year by the Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards. MySpace Page
Jorge Gomez with Tiempo Libre (Podcast #800)
Jonathan interviews pianist Jorge Gomez who is the musical director of the Latin band
Tiempo Libre. They talk about the history of Afro-Cubano music and
how the band was formed. All the band's members were classically trained at La ENA, Cuba's premiere music conservatory.
They've been nominated for Grammy awards twice. On Thursday, November 5th, they're performing in Madison at the
Wisconsin Union Theater.
Miguel Ivery (Podcast #797)
Jonathan interviews Miguel Ivery aka 'DJ Seduce'
founder and owner of Afro:Baile Records. He talks about his compilation called
"I love Bossa Nova" which was released in September 2009.
The album has 12 tracks - all performed by women. Ivery believes that the new sound of Bossa Nova, with African and
Jazz influences, could make a comeback.
Taj Weekes (Podcast #794)
Jonathan talks to internationally known Reggae artist Taj Weekes who was born
and raised on the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. The youngest of ten children, his family was always listening to local music
on the radio. By age 13, he had his own music program on Radio St. Lucia. At 18, he left home for Toronto and later moved to
New York where he formed his band Adowa. In 2005, they released their first album "Hope & Doubt" and in 2008
their latest album called "Deidem" which won the award for "Best Reggae Album" at the indie music industry's "Just Plain Folks"
Awards Ceremony in Nashville. View YouTube Video
Robert Figueroa (Podcast #792)
Jonathan interviews Robert Figueroa, a well-known composer and
perfomer in the salsa brava movement. Figueroa has honed his skills on stages from Puerto Rico to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he
lives. He has pursued the integration of traditional Afro-Caribbean rhythms and techniques to popular music genres such as
Jazz and R & B and even Hip Hop. He is the lead vocalist and composer for the original salsa project
Nabori.
View YouTube Video
Stephen Kent (Podcast #789)
Jonathan interviews composer and instrumentalist Stephen Kent, one of
the premier Didgeridoo virtuosos in the contemporary world. Born in the England and raised in East Africa, Kent has
pioneered the use of the ancient Australian Aboriginal instruments. He has produced six solo CDs and collaborated on
14 others. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area and hosts a weekly "Music of the World" show on
Pacifica radio's KPFA.
Freddy Clarke (Podcast #782)
Jonathan talks to guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Freddy Clarke. He is the
leader of the fusion band Wobbly World based in Menlo Park with musicians and singers from Pakistan, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Morocco,
Lebanon and the United States. He's been playing a unique style of flamenco/classical guitar for over 40 years. He talks about how
his band started in a restaurant and never rehearses in order to remain "fresh".
View Freddy Clarke's Video of "Ear Responsible"
Juan Medrano Cotito (Podcast #781)
Jonathan interviews Juan Medrano Cotito,
an artist of international prestige. His fine skills performing his instrument,
the Peruvian Cajón, have allowed him to obtain recognition as a world class musician in genres such as Traditional,
Word Music, Fusion and Electronic Music.
Since 1985 Cotito has developed an important musical work as part of the band of singer Susana Baca by rescuing ancestral
rhythms and harmonies of the Afro-Peruvian music that provided the historical configuration of the Peruvian Música Criollla
(Creole Music) and blending Spaniard, Flamenco, Portuguese, Arab, Andean and Congo elements. This musical contribution allowed
Baca to obtain the "Latin Grammy".
"Cotito" has participated in more than 40 international tours throughout the world and 30 cities in the United States.
He has offered percussion clinics and workshops in Europe and United States. He currently teaches at the Peruvian National
Folklore Institute and the Peruvian Pontifical Catholic University. He's made extensive recordings with Susana Baca, Richie Zellon,
Novalima, Pilar de la Hoz, Chichi Glass, Sophia Koutsovitis, and Eric Kurisnski among others. He is currently touring as the Musical
Director of the ensemble "The Voice of the Cajón" which in spanish is the name of his first CD "La Voz del Cajón".
Dr. Carl MaultsBy (Podcast #773)
Jonathan interviews Dr. Carl MaultsBy,
who is a composer, arranger, organist, author, and has scored sacred and secular music for concert, musical theatre, film,
and television. MaultsBy has also authored books, articles, and theatre pieces on the interrelation of music, culture, and
religion. He received a Doctor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts degree from Lake Forest
College and a Masters of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music.
DJ Seduce (Podcast #772)
Jonathan interviews DJ Seduce aka Miguel Ivery, founder of
Afro:Baile Records, a world music record label specializing in the nu-age sounds of
global music. Since 2007 this Arizona native has taken his love for world beats, and created his own unique sound & style drawing
on heavy influences of Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica & Western Europe.
Stefano Zenni (Podcast #759)
Jonathan talks again to Stefano Zenni,
a renowned Italian musicologist, about the relationship between the composers and musicians
of Europe and African-American music. He says there's a direct link between rhythms in Europe and those found in African-American
music. Zenni is President of the Italian Society of African-American Musicology and editor of the Jazz section of the monthly
"Il Giornale della Musica". His new book I segreti del jazz (2008) has been awarded in Italy the Best Book on International
Music 2007-2008 at the First Music Book Fair in Sanremo.
Marissa Moorman (Podcast #756)
Marissa Moorman is an assistant professor of African History at Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research explores the
dynamic relationship between politics and cultural practices (like music and dance) in late colonial and independent Angola.
Increasingly, her work focuses on the technologies and imaginations that propel music and dance practices across and around
the Atlantic. She is the author of "Intonations: a Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, 1945-Recent Times."
(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008)
Greg Barz (Podcast #755)
Greg Barz is an associate professor of ethnomusicology
in the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University, with appointments
in Anthropology and the Divinity school. He is the producer of the 2007 Grammy-nominated album, Singing for Life: Songs of Hope,
Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, released by Smithsonian Folkways that draws on his field recordings in East Africa of the music
of HIV+ women's groups. His research in Uganda was supported by a senior research fellowship with in Fulbright African AIDS Research
Program. Barz's most recent research involves documenting the role of music on the radio broadcasts that led to the Rwandan genocide
in the 1990s. He is author or editor of eight books including "Singing for Life: Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda" (NY: Routledge) and
"Music of East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture" (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Navan's Sheila Shigley (Podcast #753)
Jonathan talks with Sheila Shigley, a member of the traditional Celtic Singing Group Navan
featuring Amy Curl, Paul Gorman, Sheila Shigley & Elizabeth Simcock. Navan is a visionary Celtic quartet performing
exclusively in the native Celtic tongues. Shigley, raised in Hong Kong, acquired an early love of Celtic music from
the Royal Hong Kong Police Force Pipe Band and her parents' record collection, discusses the history, development, and the
traditions associated with performing Celtic music.
Stefano Zenni (Podcast #752)
Stefano Zenni is the most
renowned musicologist in Italy on jazz and African-American music. He is President of the Italian Society of
African-American Musicology. He's also the editor of the Jazz section of the monthly Il Giornale della Musica, one of the most
important music magazines in Italy. He has published books on Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus
(2004, the first book ever written on the analysis his music). His new book I segreti del jazz (2008)
has been awarded in Italy the Best Book on International Music 2007-2008 at the First Music Book Fair in Sanremo.
Kia Karlan from Yid Vicious (Podcast #751)
Jonathan talks to Kia Karlen about the origins of Yid Vicious. Karlen is a member
of the seven-piece band which was formed in 1995 in Madison, WI in order to "ameliorate the woeful dearth of klezmer in America's otherwise
pleasant heartland." Klezmer is Yiddish folk music, music for dancing and celebrating.
The revival of Klezmer started in the 70s and is now played at weddings, at Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, luxurious ballrooms and festival
stages and often drive crowds into flurries of "freylekh-fueled dancing fury." Their repertoire is drawn mainly from traditional
secular Yiddish music.
There are seven members of Yid Vicious, playing clarinets, saxophones, fiddle, horn, vocals, guitar, accordion, tuba, drums
and sometimes theremin. This interview includes several pieces from their new CD "Dollars to Doinas".
Wendy Hymes (Podcast #750)
Jonathan interviews flutist Wendy Hymes who is known to exert definitive
interpretations of standard repertoire from the Baroque era to 20th-century composers. She also sets the pace in intercultural
music, performing at festivals in Ghana, Nigeria and England. Her new CD, "African Art Music for Flute," features music by
composers from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. She has served on the music faculties at Louisiana State University,
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and Jefferson College and performed with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra,
Union Avenue Opera and with many chamber ensembles. CD: African Art Music For Flute. African Music Publishers, 2008
Ruth M. Stone (Podcast #743)
Jonathan interviews Ruth M. Stone, Professor and Chair of the Department of folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana
University. She has conducted research in West Africa as well as in the Middle East, emphasizing issue of time and rhythm in her work.
Dr. Stone is the author of several books including: Music In West Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, published
by Oxford University Press, 2005.
Gwendoline Y. Fortune (Podcast #742)
Listen to Jonathan interview Gwendoline Y. Fortune, a social scientist-historian, classical soprano and author.
Her novels include Family Lines. Her third publication will appear in 2009.
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between Bossa Nova, Samba and Afro-Brazilian and other world music forms. Ivery talks about his plans to tour in 2010 in order to introduce
Brazil's new sound to the world.
The album has 12 tracks - all performed by women. Ivery believes that the new sound of Bossa Nova, with African and
Jazz influences, could make a comeback.
