Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify In his prolific career, Benjie Porecki has played keyboards in wide variety of genres. A professional since the age of 15, the keyboardist has worked with such notables as Tom Scott, Kirk Whalum, Nnenna Freelon, Buddy Guy, and Carlos Santana among many others. He’s also led his own …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Listening to “Lucky” Craig spins fabulous material from legendary saxophonist Eli “Lucky” Thompson’s lengthy career that spanned the early 1940s well into the 1970s. We’ll hear superb work from Thompson, on both soprano sax and tenor sax. Wednesday Night Special …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of arranger/composer Michel Legrand, saxmen Dexter Gordon, Tommy Newsom, Dave Pell, David “Fathead” Newman and Richie Cole, singers Dinah Shore and Roseanna Vitro, baritone saxophonist Claire Daly and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Jimmy Smith’s “The Sermon!/House …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt’s latest project, “Woven,” is a fascinating album that fuses more traditional aspects of 21st-century jazz with the myriad possibilities of electronic synthesized sound. The full range of contemporary jazz can be found here, from neo-bop, hard-driving rhythms to touching intimate ballad utterances. But Pelt’s trumpet …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Mose Allison, Part Two Craig continues his four-part chronological series of presentations of this unparalleled, legendary singer, pianist, and composer. In this week’s show, we’ll get into his famous Atlantic Records releases. Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm Betsy Hickok …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of hornmen Charlie Spivak, Lew Soloff and Warren Vache, singers Nina Simone, Irma Thomas, Randy Crawford and Nancy Wilson, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, reedman Bobby Jaspar and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Wynton Kelly’s “Kelly Blue” (1959), Gene …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Dan Moretti is an acclaimed saxophonist, composer and educator with a career spanning over four decades. The new album with his band Brazilia, “Celebrating Wayne Shorter: Live at the Pump House Music Works,” captures a vibrant performance dedicated to the legendary composer and saxophonist, blending the genius of …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Sunnyside Records, Part One Craig begins a series that surveys Sunnyside Records. This wonderful jazz label was founded initially by Francois Zalacain in 1982 in order to record pianist Harold Danko. Since then, the label has grown to well over 600 top-notch titles. …
