Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyLegendary alto saxophonist Charles McPherson makes his Smoke Sessions Records debut with an inspired new album, “Reverence.” It’s dedicated to Mr. McPherson’s longtime mentor and teacher Barry Harris, captured in front of alive audience at Smoke Jazz Club, and featuring his quintet of Terell Stafford, Jeb Patton, David Wong, …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Maxine Sullivan and Betty Carter, pianists Red Garland and Ellis Larkins, record producer Creed Taylor, trumpeter Al Porcino, Drummer Billy Cobham, pianists/composers Gil Evans and Mike Conrad and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Curtis Counce’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyThe title “Moving On “perfectly sums up the new aspirations of Jacky Terrasson. After being the muse of major labels, it is a new adventure as an artist-producer and a new path that Jacky has decided to begin by creating his own record label, Earth-Sounds. It is also, after thirty …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Prestige Jam Sessions Craig gives us a listen to the famous “Jam Session Recordings” from Prestige. We’ll hear extended top-notch sides featuring Gene Ammons, John Coltrane, Mal Waldron, Teddy Charles, Jackie McLean, and many others. The Wednesday …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Red Nichol, pianists Mary Lou Williams, Keith Jarrett and Billy Childs, singer Teresa Brewer, drummer Dennis Chambers, guitarist Jimmy Ponder and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis’ “Miles Ahead” (1956), Dexter Gordon’s “Doin’ Alright” …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Acoustic Jazz Piano Jamboree, Part 5 Craig presents a variety of selections from the lengthy career of the incomparable Chick Corea. We’ll hear Chick as a leader and composer, dating back to the early 1960’s right up to 2020. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer/bandleader Duke Ellington, lyricist Lorenz Hart, pianist John Lewis, organist Richard “Groove” Holmes, singer Shirley Horn, flutist Dave Valentin and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Miles Davis All Stars’ “Walkin’” (1954), Gene Ammons’ “Blue Gene” (1958), …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyNicole Glover has been getting some well-deserved exposure recently in the context of groups like the Artemis sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But this tenor saxophonist is best appreciated on her own albums, where she fronts a saxophone-bass-drums trio. While not a common jazz format, …
