Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Women In Jazz: Fuller, Jensen, & Younger Our Women in Jazz series continues with the music of three relative newcomers – saxophonist Tia Fuller, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, and harpist Brandee Younger. All three are commanding presences …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. At just 25 years old, Veronica Swift has built a resume that even many late-career jazz singers would envy: tours as featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; a guest collaboration with Michael Feinstein; engagements at A-list clubs like …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Jeri Southern, Abbey Lincoln, Jimmy Witherspoon, Patti Austin and Cyrille Aimee, reedmen Benny Carter, Eric Alexander, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Arnett Cobb and Sonny Simmons, bassists Chuck Israels and Charlie Haden, trombonists George Bohannon and Urbie Green and more!!! …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Women In Jazz: Toshiko Akiyoshi In her long and prolific career, pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi has received 14 Grammy nominations. She was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. The reversal of the flow of the Chicago River is one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, and greatly improved the city of Chicago’s sanitation and public health while also having less positive consequences on the natural environment and cultural landscape for other parts of the …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Women In Jazz: Shirley Scott Shirley Scott built a solid career as a master of the Hammond B3 Organ. Her distinct brand of soul jazz garnered her the hit “In The Kitchen” alongside Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Women In Jazz: Barbara Donald Trumpeter and band leader Barbara Donald began playing at age eight. She built a solid reputation in the California jazz scene, and played with such notables as John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Internationally acclaimed composer, singer and pianist Patricia Barber is back with her first new recording in six years. Barber, who has won a Guggenheim fellowship in composition, once again brings thrilling original material into the jazz orbit on “Higher.” Featured is an art song cycle that can be …
