NPR – Julien Labro

Labro featured on The Sound of Applause

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014
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Dee Perry chats with Emily Anthes author of Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech’s Brave New Beasts who speaks Friday night at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History for the Explorer Series. Plus we share the music of local country crooners Rachel & The Beatnik Playboys who play The Stocker Center in Elyria this weekend.

Dee also welcomes back accordion master Julien Labro to the Key Bank studio for a preview of his performance at Severance Hall for The Cleveland Orchestra’s Fridays@7 series.

Check the interview & performance here

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Labro featured on Grammy-award winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson’s Another…

June 25, 2012June 25, 2012
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Genre defying vocalist Cassandra Wilson’s latest album, Another Country, represents a strong departure from her previous material focusing largely on guitar-oriented sounds. To foster this new musical direction she again collaborated with jazz guitarist/producer Fabrizio Sotti, with whom she worked with on 2002’s Glamoured.

The two started from scratch in Wilson’s New Orleans home studio composing arrangements and an entire album’s worth of material by combining her lyrics with Sotti’s guitar-centric instrumentation. Sotti says “She is a total and complete musician/artist not just an outstanding voice/instrument.” Wilson and Sotti moved the sessions to Florence, Italy where they sought to keep the recordings spare by working with a minimalist band. The group includes Mino Cinelu on percussion, accordion master Julien Labro, Italian bass player Nicola Sorato and African master percussionist Lekan Babalola which rounded out the album’s sound.

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HCOD on Dee Dee Bridgewater’s JazzSet NPR

August 22, 2011
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Extract from our live performance @ the 2010 Detroit Jazz Fest.

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/18/131751957/hot-pepper-hot-club-of-detroit-on-jazzset

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Julien interviewed on “Live and Local” by Kevin Kelly…

April 12, 2011April 27, 2011
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On the Tuesday edition of “Live and Local,” I’ll be talking with the two soloists appearing on Tuesday night’s concert in Champaign by The Prairie Ensemble, guitarist Shawn Purcell and bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro. And we’ll have live performance highlights from past shows, featuring Shawn and Darden Purcell. [wpaudio url=”http://will.illinois.edu/media/mp3/45176–110412.mp3″ text=”Link to Audio” dl=”0″]