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 …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. People familiar with the top tier of jazz sidemen in New York City will know of Tardo Hammer’s name. Tardo is a fixture in mainstream Manhattan jazz clubs and has performed in Europe and Japan with some of the world’s leading jazz artists. Perhaps because the demand for …
Dennis Green talked to KCCK’s Middle School Jazz Band Camp students recently about how jazz musicians are inspired by the popular music of the day to create jazz versions of songs and music they like. He played several examples of songs that have become jazz standards, whose origins come from Broadway and even Disney movies, …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Clubs – Blue Note NYC The Short List series on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present continues with the Blue Note club which is probably a familiar name even to those …
