Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Akira Tana has been an elite drummer since the mid-1970s, working with jazz masters like Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Golson and others. He’s also been immersed in Brazil’s surging rhythms and sensuous melodies his entire career. His new album, “JAZZaNOVA,” was designed to showcase a superlative cast of …
“Talking Pictures” host Denny Lynch was on Channel 9 this week, making his Oscars predictions, and showing off some of his collection of movie memorabilia. Click on the photo to hear his picks.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Ian Shaw The Vocal Short List this week features Welsh jazz singer Ian Shaw. He’s been a fixture on the European jazz scene for three decades and his reputation is growing …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Originally from the Minneapolis area, flugelhornist John Raymond moved to New York City after spending some time studying music in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was able to establish himself on the New York scene playing alongside well-known musicians like Billy Hart, Orrin Evans and Kurt Rosenwinkel. But …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Dolly Dawn The Vocal Short List this week features Dolly Dawn, an immensely popular singer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Her real name is Theresa Stabile and she was the cousin …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Before embarking on a career in jazz, Leslie Pintchik was a teaching assistant in English literature at Columbia University, where she also received her Master of Philosophy degree in seventeenth-century English literature. She first surfaced on the Manhattan jazz scene in a trio with legendary bassist Red …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Greta Matassa The Vocal Short List this week features Greta Matassa, a little known singer from Seattle. She has appeared on a previous Short List program with guitarist Mimi Fox, but this time …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. America has always been fascinated by the popular music exported back to us by our neighbors from across the pond. The British Invasion of the 1960s profoundly influenced music in every decade to the present. For the trio of Hart, Scone and Albin, the invaders are the …
