If your heart aches watching what is going on in Ukraine in real time, spend time today listening to Ukrainian jazz to understand what freedom and liberty means to the people of that country. And if you're reading this in Ukraine, please know that JazzWax readers worldwide are thinking of you [photo above, barley fields in Ukraine]...
Here's a 2018 tribute to Charlie Parker's Bird with Strings...
Here's pianist Igor Khoma...
Here's a 47-minute Ukrainian compilation. Just let this one play...
Here's an hour of Ukrainian jazz...
Here's False Script by the Kseniia Slobodian Group that just went up...
And here's Under the Skin from TOLO4NYI's Heart From the Edge album...
