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This Week In Jazz December 8 thru December 15
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Bob Dorough, trumpeter Donald Byrd, composer/arrangers Don Sebesky and Toshiko Akiyoshi, accordionist Richard Galliano and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Zoot Sims’ “Zoot” (1956), Donald Byrd’s “Freeform” (1961), Dexter Gordon’s …
This Week In Jazz December 1 thru December 7
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, producer Lester Koenig, pianists Dave Brubeck and Wynton Kelly, saxophonist Marshall Royal, bassist Art Davis, guitarist Jim Hall and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Gerry Mulligan’s “Reunion with Chet Baker” (1957), Art Farmer …
This Week In Jazz November 24 thru November 30
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Billy Strayhorn, saxophonists Paul Desmond, Gigi Gryce and Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson, brassmen Nat Adderley, Chuck Mangione and Terrell Stafford, singers Etta Jones and Holy Cole, pianists Jacky Terrasson and Jon Snell and and more. We’ll also mark the …
This Week In Jazz November 17 thru November 23
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, composer Johnny Mercer, singers June Christy and Sheila Jordan, trombonists Tommy Dorey and Jimmy Knepper, pianists Dr. John and Geoffrey Keezer and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain” (1959), …
This Week In Jazz November 10 thru November 16
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Benny Moten, Art Hodes, Hampton Hawes, George Cables and Ellis Marsalis, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Willie Cook, trombonist Helen Jones Woods, singers Jo Stafford, Ernestine Anderson and Mose Allison, bassists Sam Jones and Neil Swainsson and more. We’ll …
This Week in Jazz November 10th thru November 16th:
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Benny Moten, Art Hodes, Hampton Hawes, George Cables and Ellis Marsalis, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Willie Cook, trombonist Helen Jones Woods, singers Jo Stafford, Ernestine Anderson and Mose Allison, bassists Sam Jones and Neil Swainsson and more. We’ll …
Culture Crawl 988 “Come For The Dancing Cow”
In this second culture crawl installment of the Kirkwood fall production of “Into the Woods,” we chat with student actors Jacob Cacioppo (playing The Baker), Laci McHenry (playing The Baker’s Wife), and director Emma Kostiv. This funny, emotionally charged, mysterious, dark, and exciting show runs for two weekends with six showings, including two matinees. Nov …
This Week In Jazz October 27 thru November 2
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims, Ted Nash, Booker Ervin and Lou Donaldson, composer/arranger Neal Hefti, trumpeter Clifford Brown, singers Ethel Waters, Cleo Laine, Andy Bey and Carmen Lundy, bassist/singer Richard Bona and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …