Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Women In Jazz: Jane Ira Bloom We begin our summer-long series of Women in Jazz with Jane Ira Bloom. Hailed as one of the premier reed artists of the day, Bloom has recorded 20 critically-acclaimed albums. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. For his landmark 25th album as a leader, iconic pianist, composer and bandleader Michel Camilo wanted to do something truly special. So the Dominican-born Grammy and Emmy Award winner reconvened his all-star big band for the first time in a quarter-century to explore the full scope and breadth …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell finally releases a long-awaited album of her own material, dedicated to a special cohort. “My dear friend Lew Soloff and I talked about recording my arrangements many times over the years,” she remembers. “Then he died suddenly …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When it comes to Art Blakey, there is no living drummer more suited to honoring his legacy than the incomparable Ralph Peterson. As the last drummer chosen by Blakey to play by his side in the Jazz Messengers Two Drummer Big Band, Peterson is tasked with the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Trumpeter Al Naylor has been a fixture on the Eastern Iowa music scene for over five decades now, both as a player and as an educator. From leading the I-380 Express Big Band to his work in Orquesta Alto Maiz and the Blue Band, imparting his wisdom …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “It’s taken me thirty years of analyzing my own identity as an artistic black man to finally fit all of this into my interpretation of Black American Music,” explains Theo Croker of his newest album, “Star People.” As the grandson of the late trumpeter Doc Cheatham, former …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Justly famous for his gorgeous compositions and arrangements for a long list of singers including Natalie Cole, Diana Krall and Paul McCartney, Alan Broadbent is also a pianist’s pianist: possessed of fierce technique; exquisitely emotional, when the moment calls for it; and as hard-swinging as they come. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The Guardian has called Joshua Redman “one of the 21st century’s finest jazz improvisers,” and the New York Times says, “Mr. Redman’s place is secure as one of the most effusive and engaging tenor saxophonists in straight-ahead jazz.” The new release for the Joshua Redman Quartet, “Come What …
