LA musician Cliff Beach interviews top musicians of various genres on their legendary career treks, similar to Inside the Actors Studio, but for Musicians and Engineers, taking a deep dive into the process of creating long-lasting musical impressions.
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Welcome to the Stumble On with Cliff Beach podcast, where we share music discovered on Spotify weekly.
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Tomoka Christian Church Tuesday – Ormond Beach, Florida, USA
TCC - “Making it hard to go to hell from our generation”
Tomoka Christian Church provides dynamic and inspiring messages that are relevant and Bible-based. Messages are live from Tomoka Christian, located in Ormond Beach, Florida, USA, where Joe Putting is pastor.
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Where you and I discover jazz together!
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There’s a fascinating variety to a life in music; this series features wonderful musicians worldwide with in-depth conversations and great music. Many episodes feature guests playing music spontaneously as part of the episode or sharing performances and albums. The inspiration and connection found in a meaningful creative life, the challenges faced, and the stories from such a diversity of people will draw you into this weekly series, with many topics that will resonate with all listeners. A ...
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Uninterrupted micro recordings of sea-soundscapes. Every beach, cove, sea cave, marsh and estuary have a different sound created by their unique relationship with the sea. This podcast tries to capture the unique sounds made by these different environments, highlighting our delicate relationship with the sea and coastal habitats. Drift away listening to the soothing natural sounds of the sea. Perfect for relaxation, commuting, meditation, work and sleep. No Music. No voices... just a small p ...
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Fascinating, immersive stories of people and places from the Deep South of England, where the land meets the sea and anything can happen. Walk and talk with us, hear the waves and sounds and stories of the coast by Beachy Head, Birling Gap, the Seven Sisters, the South Downs National Park, Eastbourne, Brighton, Sussex and beyond. Hosted by award-winning broadcasters Emily Jeffrey (Jerusalem Awards) and Cole Moreton (Radio Academy gold for Audio Moment of the Year, World's Best Radio Awards g ...
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Bondi Badlands, a podcast from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, investigates a series of murders and mysterious disappearances of gay men that happened on the southern headland at Sydney's Bondi Beach in the late 1980s and early 1990s. When a high profile TV newsreader and weatherman disappeared on the Bondi cliff tops on a frigid winter's night in July 1989, it received nationwide news coverage but such a shoddy police investigation that links would not be drawn to a series of other m ...
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like alucard, "i'm interested in this," i say as i open a new tab, injecting the poison straight into my veins. what a terrible life to have a curse. the fire illuminates my face. the ocean lost its third dimension. it's flat, melted into the sand. i'm too high for the beach. "the horror of it all," i plead with him, "i can't stand it." he looks at me confused and asks what. what horror. i walk to the edge of the cliff and scream until i wake up in the back of a car
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Weekly interviews with winemakers, chefs, event coordinators... the people who help make up the world's fastest growing, most exciting, and diverse wine region; the Central Coast of California - Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara County (Sideways country). Listen live every Saturday from Noon to 1PM with the STREAM button on our website. Locally, we're on News Talk 920AM KVEC in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Paul: Nuggets From Philippians - Cliff Smith
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Saxophone legend Charlie Parker's last recording session was an album of Cole Porter tunes. I start this episode with two tracks from that great album. Other great players playing Cole Porter tunes include Dizzy Gillespie, Matthew Shipp, Toronto guitarist Jocelyn Gould, and trumpeter Tom Harrell. Harrell plays with singer Mark Murphy and their dram…
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Some of my favourite songs, whether played by jazz or non-jazz musicians, turn out to be Cole Porter compositions. What makes those songs so great, and so amenable to jazz improvisation and reharmonization? I talk a bit about Cole Porter's life. Did you know that he wrote a complete operetta--words and music---at age 10? And for this episode I play…
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On this episode I play and talk about: -Joe Locke (vibraphone solo)-Hagood Hardy, playing vibes on a Herbie Mann classic)-Montreal's Jean Vanesse and Miroslav Vitous (spectacular!)-Two tracks from The Red Norvo Trio with Charles Mingus and Tal Farlow-26 year old Sasha Berliner-Marjorie Hyams with Mary Lou Williams-Toronto's Michael Davidson playing…
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Hillary Simms is a virtuosic Canadian trombone player with the esteemed American Brass Quintet and is on faculty at the Julliard School. Hillary’s warmth and love of music comes through in this candid interview, from her childhood in Newfoundland to playing on the world’s biggest stages, and also the unusual situation she found herself in when her …
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I talk about Charles Waring's list of the 25 best vibraphonists, play music by a few of them, and add some others. They range in eras from Lionel Hampton to Chris Dingman. And lots inbetween.
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Concert pianist Rebeca Omordia, has just released her second African Pianism album, volume 2, which was just named Editor’s Choice in the Gramophone Magazine, and it is a fascinating and beautiful kaleidoscope of piano works from West Africa, North Africa, South Africa and East Africa. Rebeca spoke to me about her extensive research about these com…
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This is the last of my New Aquisitions series----lp's and cd's I recently found. It include three artists from my hometown, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are:-Saxophonist PJ Perry playing with the #1 jazz pianist according to Downbeat critics' polls---Kenny Barron.-The Edmonton Jazz Ensemble from 1989, led by Sean McNally, performing a fascinatin…
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Sarah Jeffery is a wonderful and versatile recorder player based in the Netherlands, known worldwide for her outreach with her YouTube project Team Recorder, which at the time of this podcast release has well over 205,000 very engaged followers. She is the Recorder Professor specializing in Contemporary music at the Royal College in London, and we …
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The hilight for me on this week's podcast is a brand new cd (their first) by Moneka Arabic Jazz---led by Toronto's (via Iraq) Ahmed Moneka. I play two tracks from that album. I also play some more typical jazz recordings---with outstanding playing! Three of them are on the Pablo lable recorded in the mid 1970's. They include: -a track from the Quad…
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Lisa Pegher is a brilliant American percussion soloist and drummer. She is also a composer, improvisor and software engineer. She is known for pioneering percussion as a solo instrument within the orchestral realm and beyond, making it her life’s work to present percussion to larger audiences by commissioning, collaborating, and creating new works …
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There were over five weeks where my podcast was out of commission due to the host having disappeared. Now I have a new host and I've been posting some new Discovering Jazz programs. During that no-activity period I was still buying cd's and records---waiting the time I could play some of them on my show. Well folks! That time has come! Most of thes…
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Cliff Beach is an award-winning singer, songwriter, author of “Side Hustle and Flow”, podcast host, record label owner and also works fulltime as VP of digital and operations in the beauty industry. This episode focuses on his recent album and tribute to Ella Fitzgerald “You Showed Me the Way”, we also got into his funk hit “Confident” and the last…
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I like to 'prepare' to go to Jazz Festival concerts (even if I don't actually go to many of them) as an excuse to 'discover' new jazz artists. And there are some great ones playing at this year's Edmonton Jazz Fest going on this week (June 25-30). And many of them are also on tour playing elsewhere in Western and Eastern Canada and the U.S., as wel…
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Jessica Cottis is an acclaimed orchestral conductor, and in this wide-ranging interview you’ll gain insights into the special world of orchestral conductors and also some of Jessica’s interests in the natural world and the arts. She spoke to me about her musical path, from how she made her first trumpet, to life on a sheep farm, to her transition f…
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More great recent recordings utilizing bebop, hardbop, and swing as selected by soul/jazz singer and pianist, Cliff Beach. We start again with a great Duke Ellington composition from Cliff's latest album, You Showed Me The Way. And follow it with Ella Fitzgerald singing that same Duke Ellington song with what Cliff describes as a "James Brown sound…
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177 but daddy i love him like a step brother
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Vahn Black: Celebrating Gladys Bentley
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Vahn Black is a vocalist based in Atlanta, and in this episode we focused on her project celebrating Gladys Bentley, including Vahn’s fantastic album Petrichor. Born and raised in Detroit, Vahn grew up in a melting pot of music and this aided her in cultivating her soul-charged, jazz infused sound, marrying her reverence for vocalists like Sarah Va…
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Ella Fitzgerald representing jazz fusion? You have to be kidding! Well, just give a listen to the opening track of this episode where Los Angeles jazz/soul singer Cliff Beach introduces to a later 'funky' Ella! Somone said that if Ella Fitzgerald and Stevie Wonder had a love child, it would be Cliff! You can hear this influence on his latest album …
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Martha Mooke: Electro-Acoustic Violist, Producer, Composer and Educator
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Martha Mooke is a pioneer in the field of the electric five string viola and transcends boundaries as a performer and composer. This episode features insights, stories and music, including from the beautiful album by Carla Patullo So She Howls which just won the GRAMMY® Award for “Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album.” as well as from several of M…
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Cliff Beach's latest album is called You Showed Me The Way. He credits Ella Fitzgerald with showing him the way through traditional sgin and bebop and through the path of modern jazz. On this episode we play some Ella, as well as an outstanding track from Cliff's latest album. Then Cliff talks about how the more traditional swing, bebop, and blues …
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176 so long london it's time that we begun to laugh and pray for me war on satan
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i used to think i was some kind of gypsy boy before i let you take me home
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This week’s featured guest is James McGowan, a solo and collaborative pianist at home in jazz, classical and improvised musics. The 14-member James McGowan Ensemble has just released its jazz-classical fusion album Reaching Out, the companion to the previous album Reaching In, and this episode features some of the music from this beautiful project …
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The podcasts are back! Thanks to the assistance of Maxime at FeedPress. After posting three new episodes on what makes a great jazz solo (Episodes 269-271), I thought I'd go into the archives and also include the original ones I put together a few year ago. These were inspired by a Jazz Times article where a number of famous jazz musicians and writ…
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175 down bad badly hurt in tha dirt when god smiting me with lightning (preview)
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dont take my word for it https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/backcountry_lightning.pdf https://www.patreon.com/noranygard
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Rachel Mercer, Cellist: re-release with added music!
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This is a special re-release with cellist Rachel Mercer, with added music from some of her recordings. This was orginally recorded and released in Season 2 of this podcast in 2022, and now in Season 4 2024, Rachel and I are including some tracks from some of her albums in the podcast version of this episode. See more below for some of the many topi…
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174 my boy only breaks his favorite toys if i toss him my favorite vegetable
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leftöver crack vs man 2 man male stripper (Retrospective 1983-1990) 9/11 wtc album cover dm me your vote
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Linsey Pollak: Maker and Adventurer (re-release)
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This week, I’m featuring a wonderful episode from the archive, with Linsey Pollak, which was recorded and released in Season 2 of this podcast, 2022. Linsey Pollak is an Australian musician who is known worldwide as a passionate and creative advocate for community music. His life has been full of unusual opportunities to explore different styles of…
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173 the tortured poets department where i used to lay my face
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This week’s episode is with the brilliant cello-piano ensemble, Cheng² Duo, with siblings Bryan and Silvie Cheng. They have performed to great acclaim worldwide and have released to date four fantastic albums, the most recent Portrait which was nominated for a JUNO award. Portrait features music by composers from diverse Asian heritages, and in thi…
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Ariel Bart: Harmonica Player and Composer
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This podcast strives to inspire you through the personal stories of a diversity of musicians worldwide, with in-depth conversations and great music, that reveal the depth and breadth to a life in music. This week’s episode is with the wonderful harmonica player and composer Ariel Bart. I first started listening to her music with her debut album, “I…
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Gail Archer: GRAMMY-nominated trailblazing organist
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Dr. Gail Archer is a GRAMMY-nominated internationally touring concert organist and trail-blazer for women organists. She has fantastic advice on not only approaching a career in music, but in living life to it’s fullest. We talked about learning languages, some fascinating history, the magic of choirs and much more. This episode features music from…
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Gerry Bryant: a Unique and Inspiring Life in Music
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Gerry Bryant is a brilliant classically-trained pianist, composer, and arranger. He came from a poor inner-city Cleveland neighbourhood, and was givin an opportunity to attend the prestigious Phillips Academy, then Harvard university. He went on to get an MBA and a law degree, all the while continuing the expansion of his knowledge of different sty…
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I explore the controversies related to Tommy Flanagan's solo on Coltrane's Giant steps, plus Cannonball Adderley's solo in Milestones. One jazz writer stated "With Giant steps Coltrane supplanted Cherokee as the litmus test for aspiring improvisers, packing so many harmonic substitutions into one progression that at first blush, consummate pianist …
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Pat Irwin: Bands, Cartoons and Friendships
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This week’s episode is a Catch-Up episode with the renowned film and televison composer and multi-instrumentalist Pat Irwin, and we are featuring lots of Pat’s music for you today in different styles from many of his projects. In my previous episode with him from 2023, Season 3 of this podcast, we talked about his days with the B52s and composing t…
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After Peter Rolfe's former partner and close friend, Stephen Dempsey, was murdered by the so-called "crossbow killer", Richard Leonard, in 1994, Rolfe not only had to deal with the loss of a loved one in gruesome circumstances, but a harrowing trial in which Leonard smirked at him and smiled insolently at Dempsey's distraught mother in the courtroo…
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You just finished listening to Part 4, 5, and 6 of The Jazz Solo. Now as I take a bit of a break, let's go back five years and hear Parts 1, 2, and 3. In part 1 you'll learn why we don't all say 'so what' to Miles Davis's most highly renowned jazz solo. Or to the other great solos in that piece of work as well. Then there's Louis Armstrong's and Jo…
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