Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the holidays and the birthdays of songwriter Harry Warren, singer/bandleader Cab Calloway, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker, composer/pianist Steve Allen, pianist Ray Bryant, multi-instrumentalist Bill Crow, guitarist John Scofield and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Art Blakey & James Moody’s (James …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Lenny White III at 75 Craig celebrates the 75th birthday of underrated drummer Leonard “Lenny” White III. We’ll hear some hot examples of Lenny’s great work as a leader, as well as a variety of sideman projects with the likes of Chick Corea, Jaco Pastorius, Miles …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Tomorrowsville” is the latest collection of high energy modern jazz compositions by pianist Randy Hoexter, who is on the faculty at Georgia State University where he teaches jazz composition and arranging. His keyboard talents have been sought out by artists as diverse as Jimmy Herring, Shane Theriot, Sonny …
Hey, jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedmen Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson and Harold Land, organist Johnny “Hammond” Smith, bassists Walter Booker and John Ore, guitarists Barry Galbraith, Cornell Dupree and John Abercrombie and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Buck Clayton’s “Jam Sessions from …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm John Abercrombie’s Birthday Salute On the occasion of guitarist John Abercrombie’s birth date anniversary, Craig spins the cream of the crop from more than 160 recordings. We’ll hear Abercrombie as both a leader and as a sideman between the years 1969 to 2017. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify What if you were to create a big band—the same richness of orchestration, bravado, and emotion—but with only three players? “The Role of the Rhythm Section Volume II” continues a prolific stretch for Grammy Award-winner Steven Feifke, marking his seventh album in the past three and a half …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Bob Dorough, trumpeter Donald Byrd, composer/arrangers Don Sebesky and Toshiko Akiyoshi, accordionist Richard Galliano and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Zoot Sims’ “Zoot” (1956), Donald Byrd’s “Freeform” (1961), Dexter Gordon’s …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm A Tribute to Benny Golson Craig salutes the recently departed jazz giant, composer, arranger, and tenor man Benny Golson with a dazzling program of great recordings featuring Benny. We’ll also hear some of his greatest compositions, like “Whisper Not,” “Along Came Betty,” “I Remember Clifford,” “Killer …
