Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. When Carl Sandburg died in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson hailed the famed poet as “more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.” Fifty years after Sandburg’s passing, drummer/composer Matt Wilson pays tribute to the “poet of …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Bradley’s This week’s Short List is the story of Bradley’s – a small, friendly jazz club in New York. Owned by Bradley Cunningham, a fair modern pianist himself, the club featured piano and bass …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A decorated veteran of the Betty Carter Trio, pianist Cyrus Chestnut came out of the experience relatively unscathed with a style and directive clearly his own It’s one steeped in the gospel church traditions of his native Baltimore, but also enlivened by an open ear aimed at a …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM “The Jazz Standard” The Short List this week features the Jazz Standard club. It’s a throwback to the clubs of the 1930s and 1940s in that it is located in a basement below a Southern cuisine restaurant. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Though he was only 43 years old when he passed away in 1975, Oliver Nelson left behind a body of work that is staggering in its breadth and depth. He’s revered for his work with Monk, Basie, Clark Terry and Jimmy Smith, his soundtrack work for television and …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Clubs – Chicago Jazz Clubs The Short List this week surveys Chicago jazz clubs, both old and new. The emergence of rock & roll often forced …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Two of John Pizzarelli’s greatest influences, Frank Sinatra and the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, joined forces in 1967 to present a softer, sultrier side of Sinatra. Sinatraphiles consider the disc, “Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,” one of Frank’s greatest, a meeting that found him in an …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Clubs – The Lighthouse The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present continues with another well-known West Coast jazz …
