We’ll play back the entire Top 88 jazz releases of 2018 all day and night New Year’s Day. Click here for the 2018 Top Tens from our Show Hosts. Click here to listen to the Top 88 Spotify Playlist Karrin Allyson “Some of That Sunshine” (Kas) Julian Lage “Modern Lore” (Mack Avenue) Erroll Garner “Nightconcert” (Mack Avenue) …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. German-born, Canada-raised Johannes Wallman spent his twenties and early thirties making his living on the New York jazz scene, teaching at NYU and the New School. He moved to Oakland in 2007 and, since 2012, Wallman’s been based in Madison, where he serves as Director …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List 16: Fay Victor The new Vocal Short List begins with Fay Victor. Born in Brooklyn, she worked mostly overseas. She has only recently returned New York City as a leading avant-garde vocalist. Dubbed …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. John Shifflett (1953-2017) was a beloved bassist, well-known as THE sideman in many of the San Francisco Bay Area’s foremost ensembles and for traveling jazz dignitaries. Born and raised in Dubuque, John got his start teaching at the University of Iowa, his alma mater. He played on …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz duo recordings can provide an exceedingly wide range of musical expression including, but not limited to, profundity, humor, tenderness, introspection and exuberance. This type of mercurial interplay is on full display on “Montreal Memories,” a previously unreleased live set from saxophonist Frank Morgan and pianist George …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. While it was captured over the course of a single night, there’s a rich lifetime’s worth of music packed into “The Iron Man—Live at Smoke.” If it’s a slight overstatement to say that the album represents an autobiography in song, that’s only because 82-year-old Harold Mabern tells …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Jazz Bata 2” marks a new peak for composer, pianist and bandleader Chucho Valdes, even as it revisits the small-group concept of his 1972 Cuban album “Jazz Bata.” The new disc is both rhythmic and lyrical at once. The six-hand complexity of the bata repertoire—the deep classical music …
November marks a double anniversary for Gentle Jazz, the longest-running jazz show in all of Iowa. Bob Naujoks has been hosting a soft jazz show on Eastern Iowa radio since 1978. The original Gentle Jazz began on 96.5 WMT-FM in that year, the height of the disco era. A jazz fan on the WMT staff …
