Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Valerie Capers) Scott Yanow wrote of Valerie Capers: “Capers is much to obscure and under-recorded to be a legend, and is not old enough to be a pioneer. Yet, in …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. With an assured maturity and vocal confidence far beyond her years, the young singer Jazzmeia Horn arrives with her debut recording, “A Social Call.” The Texas-born singer, who won the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition and took top honors at the Thelonious Monk Institute …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Mimi Fox) West Coast guitarist Mimi Fox is little known in the Midwest, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. It’s been 30 years since bassist extraordinaire Charnett Moffett burst onto the scene with his recording debut. Barely 20 years old but already drawing attention for his virtuosic, soulful contributions to seminal recordings by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Jordon, Moffett immediately staked out his position as …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (International Sweethearts of Rhythm) Even though they never quite got the respect they deserved, the all-female big band International Sweethearts of Rhythm continued to delighted …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. A hundred years after her birth, the ever-eloquent Ella Fitzgerald continues to teach us lessons. Regina Carter has chosen this moment to celebrate the First Lady of Song’s infectious and inclusive artistry with unabashed joy. On “Ella: Accentuate the Positive,” the virtuoso violinist reveals the many …
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Vi Redd) This week The Short List presents an overlooked and under-recorded jazz …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify. Steve Nelson made a big splash as a newcomer in the jazz polls at the end of the ‘80s just as the vibraphone began to reemerge as one of jazz’s favorite instruments. The cool, drifty, slight detached sound of the vibes will forever be associated …
