Strictly Jazz Sounds presents a premier broadcast of the pandemic-inspired live-streamed concert of the Johannes Wallmann New Quintet, originally recorded on October 23, 2020 at UW Memorial Union Shannon Hall. This broadcast features the JW quintet including Sharel Cassity (alto/soprano saxophone), Mitch Shiner (vibraphone), Nick Moran (bass) and Devin Drobka (drums). Strictly Jazz Sounds host […]
A Live Recording of Pianist Johannes Wallmann on Strictly Jazz Sounds
The Thursday, October 22 edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds features an exclusive live recording of Johannes Wallmann and Other People’s Dreams, in concert at Café Coda on December 18, 2018. This performance showcases three original compositions by Wallmann, who is the Program director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison. Also on the show are new releases […]
Johannes Wallmann on celebration and struggle
Johannes Wallmann’s latest album, Love Wins, draws on a couple of pivotal moments in the jazz pianist’s personal, political, and creative life. Wallmann and his husband Keith Borden were among the people who sued the state of Wisconsin to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. That lawsuit of course succeeded, with a federal court ruling […]
Strictly Jazz Sounds Hosts UW Artist in Residence Linda Oh
Born in Malaysia to Chinese parents and raised in Perth, Australia, Linda May Han Oh trained first on bassoon. Linda May Han Oh will be in Madison, WI during the week of April 24 as an artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the leadership of jazz pianist and Endowed Jazz Studies Director […]
