Jazz Ready: 15 Minutes (more or less) of Unexpected Pleasure.

Meditation

Mighty and many are those who want peace.

This is an extended legacy episode with a bonus track of Baomi Butts, who has toured with Dizzy Gillespie and Harry Belafonte, sharing about her life in music. Royal Hartigan on Percussion.

TapRoots will make you want to dance, be grateful and share the love! This premiere is special for Jazz Ready listeners!

Richard W. Horton lives in Springfield, MA.

Nejma Nefertiti brings on the fullness of her power, pure and raw truth. Be ready to feel and be inspired.

Award winning poet and scholar, Lloyd Schwartz, shares a reading of his original work. He is an Academy of American Poets, Poets Laureate Fellow.

Join us as we learn of a remarkable life!

Sit in a cozy chair, put on headphones (if you have them) and take the journey,

From the Bronx to Harlem and around the world - a poet who works to make the world better for us all.

La Sirena Magdalena just lets it flow. One take. One breath.

Maine Elder and Scholar in the House!

Episodio en español. No se lo pierdan y compartan el link! Hip-Hop de sonido muy original.

Some staycation beauty!

Jean visits us from Maine, where she lives with her family.

Dedicado a E y A y todos los abecedarios del mundo.

Genesis Fermin shares an intimate moment and a cut from their new album that will lift your heart!

A recent graduate of Clarke University, Rashaud helps us close out Mental Health Awareness Month, with some wise advice.

I dedicate this episode the the people of Palestine and all who walk in solidarity beside them.

Diana is also a Sound Designer; Filmmaker and Educator. 

You've seen Anja Lee on television and stage. Experience her creative spirit up close and personal.

Check out two cuts from their new album: SACRED PLACES. After you give a listen here, give a view to their videos!

Nina joins us once again - Jazz Ready listeners, we heard you!

Attack Bear Press in the House!

Duende y Machete! The Revolutionary A Team Here for Our Jazz Ready Global Community. Bilingüal Episode.

A first listen for our global Jazz Ready Community!

If you identify as a woman then you ARE a woman, so YES this is for you.

A great way to celebrate Spring and all new creations and re-creations. Reclaiming being alive! 

So much to learn when we choose to truly see.

Feel the joy and spirit of the music and the people!

Honoring those who have died at the brutal hand of revisionist history and hate crimes.

Poetry, Music and a Chance to Dance into a New Day and the Next 100 Episodes!

A Double Header! 

Some history just got made.

George is now one of our Jazz Ready regulars and we are always happy to have him return.

Beverly Naidus and Dr. Bob Spivey, have been practicing/imaginative/innovative artists and activists for decades and still going strong!

An intimate moment.

Constanza Reyes Bricio reads her original work.

"May we re-center our spirits and feed our souls to keep our joy of living." NHO

Nina Lydia Olff is the author of the poetry collection: Many Tribes, Many Nations. Sea Venture Press. Wellesley, MA.

Rashaud Colbert is from Chicago. Illinois and will be graduating from Clarke University on May 15th, 2021.

Award winning Hip-Hop artist SoSoon had been introduced to Jazz Ready by another JR artist, Galen Passen (Episode 68)

Noelle comes to us referred by Jazz Ready Angel, Dr. Luis Marentes.

Jazz Ready welcomes Citlalli Berruecos. Journalist. Storyteller. Professor. Spanish Language Episode.

16 year-old Bridget Loudon premieres a new song on Jazz Ready!  

We want to hear from you. To encourage comes from the French that means "to give another heart." Will you share your heart with us?  And no, we are not asking for money.

Taylor Ho Bynum, in my estimation, is a living jazz legend, as well as being a teacher and writer for such publications as the New Yorker, Point of Departure, and Sound American.

Featuring Yaya on vocals. John Corda on Keys.

Listen with closed eyes or gently blindfolded; don't just listen, enter the music, as together we step into 2021. We will make it through and we will thrive together.

Nina, is an artist in everything she does - from her paintings, photographs, hand painted shirts and so much more - and she is a formidable poet.