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On this two-part episode we’ll hear excerpts from trumpeter Sean Jones and his quartet, along with a segment of a performance by fiddle player and composer Jeremy Kittel’s ensemble Kittel & Co., all recorded live at the 2022 Savannah Music Festival. Common ground between these two bandleaders and ensembles is a commitment to music education, and the next generation of musicians and music lovers. S...

On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE, we’ll listen to the esteemed Takacs Quartet perform Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 4, followed by excerpts from a 2010 performance given by Hungarian fiddler Roby Lakatos and his ensemble.

On this episode we hear segments of performances by the great jazz pianist Kenny Barron along with more from the 2016 Cecile Mclorin Salvant concert.

Listen back to festival sets given by two jazz luminaries, singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant and guitarist Julian Lage.

On this episode, we go back in time to our 2013 festival for a two-part show. In the first half, we’ll hear seven string guitarist Charlie Hunter and drummer Scott Amendola from a concert they gave that season. And after the break, we listen to excerpts from a set given by the great alto saxophone player Charles McPherson.

On this episode we listen to excerpts from two concerts given at our 2022 festival: one from the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber music series, followed by two songs from Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart. We begin with a performance of Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor, Opus 34, which is universally celebrated as one of the finest chamber works of the 19th century.

In a prior episode, we listened to highlights from the first half of a concert entitled Celebrating Ray Brown, which featured a trio consisting of Christian McBride on bass, Eric Reed on piano and Jeff Hamilton on drums. Today we’ll hear selections from the second half of that concert, which included solo pieces played by each member of the trio. And on the second half, we’ll hear the trio joined...

In this episode, we begin with highlights from a show celebrating the inimitable bassist, composer and bandleader Ray Brown. The trio consisted of Eric Reed on piano, Christian McBride on bass, and Jeff Hamilton on drums. In the second half of the program, we hear festival favorites David Finckel and Wu Han playing Johannes Brahms’ Sonata in E minor for cello and piano, Opus 38, No. 1.

In this episode, we listen to portions of two wonderful solo piano performances given at the 2018 Savannah Music Festival. We start with a selection of works played by New Orleans native Sullivan Fortner, followed by a handful of tunes by Willie the Lion Smith performed by North Carolinian Chris Pattishall.

The use of the organ in jazz was shuffled to the side of the stage beginning in the late 1960s when lightweight electric keyboards and synthesizers became standard operating equipment. In this episode we listen to Savannah performances given by two titans of the Hammond B-3 organ, Joey DeFrancesco and the late Dr. Lonnie Smith.

In this episode we listen to the old school soul of Lee Fields & the Expressions and Stax Records pioneer William Bell, recorded live in Savannah in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

In this episode, we go back in the archives to hear segments of two powerful performances: The Hallelujah Train feat. Pastor Brady Blade, Sr. and Shreveport's Zion Baptist Mass Choir under the direction of Sereca Henderson with a band including drummers Brian and Brady Blade, Jr., guitarists Buddy Miller and Daniel Lanois, Greg LIesz on pedal steel, John Cowherd on piano, and Chris Thomas on bass...

In this episode, we’ll get a window into the worlds of two very different artists: jazz pianist Vijay Iyer and Mississippi hill country bluesman Cedric Burnside. Iyer brought his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Jeremy Dutton to present a program of new work including selections from the award-winning album Uneasy, and Cedric Burnside performed on a co-bill at the 2022 closing n...

In this episode, we listen to Robert Schumann’s great Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Opus 44, performed during the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber music series. It will be followed by the lesser known sonatinas for mandolin, composed by Beethoven and performed here by mandolinist Caterina Lichtenberg with Adam Jaffe on fortepiano. To cap off the program, we’ll hear a composition by LIchtenberg for...

This and future episodes of Savannah Music Festival LIVE will attempt to recreate the festival experience through its multi-hued lens, with the idea that we each have something to discover through every new interaction with music. This episode begins with a set of music from banjoist and composer Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart, an extraordinary project that took home a Grammy Award just days afte...

In October of 2021, the Escher String Quartet appeared in four concerts over three nights in Savannah, performing Mozart viola quintets with Savannah Music Festival Associate Artistic Director Philip Dukes, and on a program featuring musicians from the Savannah Philharmonic under maestro Keitaro Harada. On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE we hear the acclaimed Escher String Quartet pla...

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