Six Count

Keenan McKenzie is a musician (saxophone and clarinet), composer, and educator based in Durham.

On this episode, Keenan shares about an upcoming recording project for his band, The Riffers, to produce…

For Six Count’s first recording with a live audience, Laura Windley of the Mint Julep Jazz Band spoke with Xara Wilde about her latest album, Watch the Birdie, released in fall 2022. 

Laura shares abo…

Beginning this spring, the Six Count podcast will stream on taintradio.org, a noncommercial venue for independent producers. The online jazz radio station based in North Carolina presents music and m…

Taha Arif spoke with host Xara Wilde outside the Hayti Collective Kitchen and Cocktails in Durham to share about the restaurant’s jazz jam on Wednesday evenings. The jam takes place from 8:30 p.m. to…

Brad Linde is a tenor and soprano saxophonist based in Washington, D.C., where he’s known as “the capital city’s contemporary cool king” (Giovanni Russonello, Capitalbop).

The North Carolina native re…

Mark Wells is a pianist and vocalist for Peter Lamb & the Wolves, among other bands in the Triangle. You can find the Wolves next on Sunday, March 5, at SideBar in downtown Cary from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m…

Christian Tamburr is a vibraphonist, pianist, composer, and arranger based in the Triangle. The musician joined Six Count to share about the Trio Legacy of Jazz Series at the Fuquay-Varina Arts Cente…

Al Strong shares with Six Count about the winter live music series he’s been curating on behalf of Beyu Caffe in Downtown Durham. The shows, at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, will conti…

Vocalist Frankie Alexander grew up listening to her sister’s jazz records, but never thought she’d become a musician herself until her late twenties. A North Carolina native from Concord, Frankie was…

Jazz flutist Rebecca Kleinmann moved to the Triangle in February 2022 after more than 20 years in California, and a dozen in the Bay Area alone. 

The internationally renowned musician joined Six Count…

Ittai Korman (upright and electric bass), Theous Jones (drums and percussion), and Joe MacPhail (piano and keyboards) of DreamRoot joined Six Count in Durham. The trio released Leaf, the group’s seco…

Pianist Michael Pelz-Sherman and multi-instrumentalist Hal Goodtree joined Six Count at Chatham Street Records, an indie record label in Cary, North Carolina. The label supports local artists through…

North Carolina native Ellis Dyson (of the band Ellis Dyson & The Shambles) joined Six Count just before a performance at The Cave in Chapel Hill. 

The show was the first gig on The Shambles’s short to…

Thrio is, you guessed it, a trio (“. . . because there’s three of them!”) featuring Andrew Berinson on piano, Donovan Cheatham on drums, and Paul Creel on bass. They released the group’s first album,…

For a special episode of Six Count, the women of Jazz Voices reunite. Peg Delaney, a pianist, composer and arranger, is responsible for the vocal group with Jody Shayne, Colleen Pratt and Teresa Broa…

Rod Ferrone is a tap dancer and vaudevillian based in Upstate NY.

After dropping out of college, Ferrone went on to lead a long-standing dance career in NYC. He eventually partnered up with Joe Orrach…

William Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist based in Averill Park, N.Y.

As a reporter for Albany's Times Union, Kennedy interviewed Louis Armstrong at the Kenmore Hotel. He sha…

Six Count caught up with pianist Wayne Hawkins at the Halfmoon Diner in Clifton Park, N.Y. 

Originally from Kansas City, Hawkins now plays in a variety of jazz styles around the Capital Region as well…

A Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. A public concert by opera singer Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. The World’s Fair in New York. All three events took place in 1939 and are…

Hudson Valley-based musician Rich Syracuse spoke with host Xara Wilde following a gig with the Chuck Lamb Trio at Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Syracuse, who plays the string and electric bass,…