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 …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Ahmad Jamal’s story and journey through music from his birthplace of Pittsburgh is nothing if not astonishing. He was inspired early on after meeting virtuoso pianist Art Tatum and became a professional musician at age 17, forming quartets and then trios. His 1958 disc, “At the Pershing,” spent 108 …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Clubs – The Jazz Bakery The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present continues with another well-known and current West Coast jazz club, The Jazz Bakery, …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Clubs – Manne-Hole (L.A.) The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past …
