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Ray Obiedo
Ray Obiedo - Slight Accent (2026) "With a twist of Latin and contemporary jazz flavors, Ray Obiedo puts his signature spin on the guitar. The Oakland-based artist’s latest album, “Slight Accent” on Rhythmus Records, marks his 12th release. Obiedo brings together his talent for composing originals with his flair for reimagining classics like Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints and Bill Withers’ classic “Ain’t No Sunshine,” which features vocalist Chloé Jean. Obiedo’s star-studded musical journey shines bright on this latest project, enlisting renowned harmonica master Toots Thielemans, Yellowjackets’ Bob Mintzer, and up-and-coming phenom Skylar Tang on trumpet." ”

Links: Website, Last FM, Facebook, Youtube, Discography, Wikipedia and DC Bebop page.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: ONECD

Melissa Aldana
Melissa Aldana - Filin (2026)  "Many of the great jazz tenor saxophonists have a ballads album that highlights their catalog. That’s true from Coleman Hawkins through John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and even the late Michael Brecker, among several others. Now, on her third Blue Note release, Filin, Chilean-born tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana joins this legacy. Yet her approach is very different from the aforementioned in that she does not gravitate to The Great American Songbook, but instead to a still-unheralded tradition of Cuban romantic song that thrived between the late ‘40s and early ‘60s. The word ‘Filin” derives from feeling. So, we have to make two major adjustments to Aldana’s sound. Here, she is not performing with guitarist Lage Lund, who graced her first two albums and created remarkable harmonies with Aldana. Secondly, many of us are hearing this form of Cuban music for the first time, except those who were fans of Buena Vista Social Club’s outstanding vocalist, Omara Portuondo. "

Links:   Website, Wikipedia, and Discography.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: DOUBLECD

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin
Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin - Brasil (2024) "Jazz veterans and long-time friends and collaborators Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin return to the music of Brazil, half a century after it first inspired them. Recorded in São Paulo, Ritenour and Grusin are accompanied by some of Brazil’s finest young musicians. Swiss-born harmonica player Grégoire Maret also performs on the album, adding a tinge of melancholy to the gently swinging rhythms and harmonies. In addition, vocalist and composer Ivan Lins, who worked with Ritenour and Grusin on their 1986 Grammy-winning album Harlequin, also joins the list of colleagues involved."   ~ jazzjournal.co.uk

Links: Lee Ritenour... Website , Amazon Music .

Links: Dave Grusin... Wikipedia , Amazon Music , 

Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin - Harlequin (1985)Harlequin is a collaborative studio album by American pianist Dave Grusin and American guitarist Lee Ritenour, released in 1985 through GRP Records. The album reached No. 2 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart, and earned a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement on an Instrumental for "Early A.M. Attitude". Harlequin also earned Grammy nominations for Best Engineered Recording, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals, and Best Pop Instrumental Performance."    




Together and apart, as solo stars and sidemen, Lee Ritenour and Dave Grusin have amassed awards, acclaim, and audiences across generations and genres. Their latest collaboration has them returning not just to the music of Brazil, but to the country itself. In some ways, BRASIL is the long-awaited follow-up. LeeRitenour.com

Music Arts session - Concert, Station, PBS, NPR and other live mini concert sessions and interviews.

NORD LIVE: Joshua Domfeh - City Lights
Joshua Domfeh - City Lights [EP] (2023) Amazon Music

Composition: City Lights by Joshua Domfeh, Keys: Joshua Domfeh, Guitar: Morgan Green,Bass: Immanuel Simelane, Drums: Elijah Godson

Website, Discography

BOOK RACK: FEATURED BOOK

Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice (2009), "From there, Doc keeps getting hired by increasingly unlikely people: a man named Tariq Khalil looking for one of Wolfmann’s associates, a woman named Hope Harlingen who thinks her dead husband might not be so dead. It’s never clear if these cases are connected or if they just share the same cosmic Wi-Fi. Everyone seems to be orbiting the same weird gravitational field : corruption, paranoia, and the fading dream of 1960s California."   deadendfollies.com and Kobo Books

BOOK RACK: FEATURED SERIES

Michael Connelly - Bosch series "Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly. Bosch debuted as the lead character in the 1992 novel The Black Echo, the first in a best-selling police procedural series now numbering 24 novels. The novels are more or less coincident in timeframe with the year in which they were published. Harry, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department" ~ Wikipedia. Books: 26 novels  KOBO Books

MOVIES: FEATURED MOVIE

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

"No one would ever accuse Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” of being plausible, but it is framed so distinctively in the Hitchcock style that it plays firmly and never breaks out of the story... One of Hitchcock’s favorite subjects was The Innocent Man Wrongly Accused. In “Shadow of a Doubt,” there’s no possibility of innocence. It’s clear from the outset that Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is the notorious “Merry Widow Killer,” and more than once Hitchcock cuts to nightmarish fantasies of (presumably) merry widows waltzing. We first see Charlie lying on top of his bed, smoking a cigar, when told by his landlady two men had been asking for him. He sees them standing on the corner downstairs, packs a bag with cash, leaves the house and boldly walks right past them." ~ RogerEbert.com  

Link: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Buy/Rent Watch online

CUISINE: FEATURED RESTAURANT

Carmine’s - In the DC area, located at 425 7th Street NW Washington D.C. 20004, but also located Times Square, NYC, Upper West Side, NYC Atlantic City, NJ, Las Vegas, NV, and Atlantis, Bahamas. Carmine’s is a family style restaurant offering Southern Italian cuisine. "Platters of homestyle antipasto, pasta, decadent seafood or meat entrees, and of course homemade desserts are all staples at Carmine’s, meant for sharing amongst friends and family.

When great food and wine are supported by friendly and knowledgeable service, the results are magic - we want every day to feel like a Sunday afternoon at Grandma’s!"   Excerpting parts from   Website: Carmine's.

*The most recent featured musicians and play lists from the five Music listings on DC Bebop.   A musician listed on a DC Bebop page with an intro, is featured for 10 days with one of their songs.  Included in the play list are songs by nine other musicians in a table on DC Bebop. The songs are linked to a page (MySpace, Reverbnation, YouTube or where ever the song can be heard). The play list is not a top 10 list. It features songs I liked and think perhaps others might appreciate the music as well.

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