Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Jazz Clubs Live (new Series) The Short List series begins programs on the more famous jazz clubs, both past and present. The first segments are about Birdland in New York City. The neon sign said …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. “Live in Cuba” captures nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis and the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s dazzling first—and only—performances in Cuba, where they explored the profound connections between American jazz and Afro-Cuban music, from bebop to bolero and beyond. Recorded in front of …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Jazz and the Spoken Word: “Jazz Canto” / Rick Fay / Chip White “Jazz and the Spoken Word” Short List series is about a small group of writers and musicians who have worked to blend the rhythm …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade have been three quarters of the extraordinary Wayne Shorter Quartet for more than a decade. They’ve also continued their individual careers as leaders of their own projects and groups. Now, on “Children of the Light,” they step forward as …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Jazz and the Spoken Word: Robert Pinsky w Laurence Hobgood / David Gonzalez / “Jazz Canto” “Jazz and the Spoken Word” Short List series is about a small group of writers and musicians who have worked to blend …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Pianist Kenny Werner has played with greats across a wide spectrum of styles, including Charles Mingus, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, and harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans. He’s been leading a trio with drummer Ari Hoenig and bassist Johannes Weidenmuller since 1999, an ensemble that has played the …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It is fitting that four-time Grammy Award winning bassist Christian McBride would eventually record at the Village Vanguard, the most hallowed and historical nightclub in jazz: an underground Mt. Olympus where the gods of the music—from John Coltrane to Bill Evans—have cast their syncopated spells. “You …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Jazz and the Spoken Word: UpSurge! “Jazz and the Spoken Word” Short List series is about a small group …
