Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Noam Lemish’s new album, “There’s Beauty Enough in Being Here,” offers a gently ravishing program inspired by a Fernando Pessoa poem about experiencing the numinous nature of even the most everyday occurrences. It’s the latest project from the Juno Award-nominated pianist/composer, who’s created an enthralling body of work exploring …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Prestige & Its Subsidiaries Craig presents another listen to treasures from Prestige Records, including a look at their subsidiary labels, Swingville, Moodville, and Bluesville. We’ll hear from Coleman Hawkins, Ken McIntyre, Red Garland, Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red, and many others!! Wednesday Night Special …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singer/composer Johnny Mercer, saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Vincent Herring and Don Braden, guitarists Skeeter Best and Sal Salvador, singers June Christy and Sheila Jordan and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Lester Young/Flip Phillips/Roy Eldridge/Hank Jones/Ray Brown/Max Roach …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Best known for his work with the Jazz Passengers and Groove Collective, Bill Ware has been an asset in collaborations across multiple genres, featuring in the work of well-known musicians and bands like Steely Dan and Elvin Costello. Ware has maintained his own ensembles for just as long. The …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Trane, Miles, Monk & Mose – Prestige in the 1950s Craig continues the Prestige story with a deeper look at more of the dazzling gems of modern jazz. We’ll hear from Jackie McLean, Art Farmer, Modern Jazz Quartet, Mose Allison, Annie Ross, “Moondog” (Louis Thomas Hardin Jr.), …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Muggsy Spanier, saxophonist Houston Person, singers Ernestine Anderson and Samara Joy, trumpeter Buck Clayton, pianists Bennie Moten and Ellis Marsallis, drummer Gus Johnson, guitarist Kevin Eubanks and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Stan Getz “At …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger and bandleader who has traveled over four continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. He founded a big band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil’s Jazz Club for three years. He was named a jazz ambassador …
Prestige Records – the Early Years Craig spins selections from the very earliest Prestige recordings of 1949, and ventures into the early 1950s. We’ll hear groundbreaking examples of modern jazz from greats like J.J. Johnson, Terry Gibbs, Stan Getz, Wardell Gray, Don Lanphere, Gene Ammons, Teddy Charles, Sonny Stitt, Al Haig, Sonny Rollins, and many …
