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Lettuce Founder Eric Krasno Steps To The Mic

Eric Krasno performs live at WXPN's Free At Noon concert. Tiana Timmerberg/WXPN hide caption

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Lettuce Founder Eric Krasno Steps To The Mic

WXPN

April 18, 2017 • Somewhere in your music-listening life, you've probably heard something the Grammy-winning guitarist and producer has touched. Now, he's singing his own songs for the first time.

Eric Krasno On World Cafe

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Jazz Now: Your First Five Modern Jazz Albums

Take Five: A Jazz Sampler

Jazz Now: Your First Five Modern Jazz Albums

September 28, 2009 • How would you introduce someone to the jazz of today? We asked young jazz fans — none older than 24 — who run promising jazz Web sites to write about their five-album introductions to modern jazz. Here are highlights from our guest contributors.

Concerts

Soulive, Recorded Live In Concert

WXPN

June 5, 2009 • Long admired for its rollicking jazz-funk grooves and sweaty solos, Soulive originated in late-'90s New England — first as a jam-band rhythm section and then as an unlikely hip-hop act. But in recent years, Soulive has settled smartly into more traditional organ-driven jazz. Hear the group perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia.

Soulive, Recorded Live In Concert

Concerts

Newport Jazz 2008: Soulive With Fred Wesley

WBGO

August 26, 2008 • The popular funk band teams up with James Brown's arranger and trombonist in a collaboration between two different generations of groove musicians. Hear them perform a set of originals and classics.

Newport Jazz 2008: Soulive With Fred Wesley

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Music Interviews

Soulive: Mixing It Up with Jazz and Funk

January 5, 2006 • Soulive takes jazz back to the dance floor, mixing it with soul, funk and hip-hop. A new CD adds a sizzling horn section and guest vocalists. Trio members Alan Evans, Neal Evans and Eric Krasno tell Michele Norris about Break Out.

Soulive: Mixing It Up with Jazz and Funk

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World Cafe

Soulive and Friends, Mixing Jazz and Hip-Hop

WXPN

November 2, 2005 • The band Soulive brings a mix of funk, hip-hop and jazz to its exciting live shows. As a result, brothers Alan and Neil Evans, with their friend Eric Krasno, have built a large international following. Their latest efforts can be heard on Break Out.

Soulive and Friends, Mixing Jazz and Hip-Hop

Music Interviews

Soulive, Live

August 13, 2003 • Soulive has a sound that's both familiar and all its own. The drums/guitar/keyboards trio continues to re-define the jazz genre with a heady blend of old-school soul, funk, rock and traditional jazz. Hear a sample from the band's latest live recording, and from earlier CDs.

Soulive, Live

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