Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Dr. Billy Taylor) Dr. Billy Taylor is hard to relegate to being just a jazz pianist — he became so much more. Taylor got his doctorate in music education in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. There’s an old saying that a great jazz musician never plays a song the same way once. That could certainly be said of Jerry Bergonzi. He is an intellectual artist of uncompromising integrity and a bold, original composer. On his new disc, “Spotlight on Standards,” …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Jimmy Rowles) Jimmy Rowles who had a long career as a supreme accompanist and sideman. He accepted the complement that he was a “musician’s musician.” To some that is faint …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Jazz is often portrayed as an art form defined by blazing young artists. It’s true that many jazz masters reach a mid-career plateau marked by small variations on a mature style. But there’s also a vanguard of players and composers who continue to refine and expand …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Hampton Hawes) West Coast pianist Hampton Hawes was called “one of the finest jazz pianists of the 1950s” by writer and critic Scott Yanow. Hampton Hawes came out of the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “By no means is jazz dead—that’s essentially why Louis Hayes and I formed this band.” So wrote Woody Shaw in 1976 in response to the much-heralded death of jazz. It was people like Shaw, Hays and others who proved that it was only outdated preconceptions …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Cats On The Keys 3 (Eddie Heywood) Our summer Shortlist “Cats on the Keys” series 3 continues with Eddie Heywood. Heywood had several big pop hits in the 1950s, but also led a late 1940s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With the release of “One for Marian,” New York-based pianist, composer and bandleader Roberta Piket shines a warm, loving light on an extraordinary but underappreciated aspect of the career of the beloved pianist and public radio host Marian McPartland–her vast body of work as a …
