Jazz Corner of the World Encore with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Cedar Walton’s Extraordinary Piano Craig serves up a deep listen to the work of pianist extraordinaire, Cedar Walton. We’ll hear fine hard bop piano from Walton’s 50-plus records. The Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm Da’Bluesapalooza 2023 …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFor their seventh outing together as a close-knit, collaborative rhythm tandem, bassist Leon Lee Dorsey and drummer Mike Clark tapped pianist Michael Wolff as third man on “A Letter to Bill Evans.” Wolff, who previously appeared with Dorsey and Clark on 2020’s “Play Sgt. Pepper,” was indeed the perfect choice …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Baritone Sax Masters Craig surveys 75 years of the baritone sax in jazz. We’ll hear from giants like Gerry Mulligan, Harry Carney, Sahib Shihab, Ronnie Cuber, Pepper Adams, Bob Gordon, Gary Smulyan, and a host of others. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeters/composer/arrangers Mercer Ellington, Blue Mitchell, Quincy Jones and Terence Blanchard, singers Mark Murphy, Al Jarreau, Bobby McFerrin and Vanessa Rubin, organist Shirley Scott, drummer Roy Haynes and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Buck Clayton’s “Jam Sessions …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyIn 2014, after more than a decade in New York City, and traveling the world with Freddie Cole, Michael Buble and others, guitarist Randy Napoleon found himself in the middle of the thriving jazz center that Lansing, Michigan had become since bassist Rodney Whitaker’s arrival almost 25 years before. Along …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Bassist Ron Carter in the 1960’s Join host Craig Kessler as he explores the music of Ron Carter. We’ll hear Carter with Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Jaki Byard and Don Ellis and many others. The Wednesday Night …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of a BEVY of trumpeters including Howard McGhee, Palle Mikkelborg, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Shew, Ralph Alessi and Orbert Davis, saxophonists George Coleman and Ricky Ford, guitarist Wes Montgomery, singers Flora Purim and Carol Sloane, pianist Lou Levy and more. We’ll …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyIn recent years, pianist Lynne Arriale’s compositions and albums have reflected current social issues, highlighting the worldwide immigration crises and the life-changing events wrought by Covid-19. On “Being Human,” her 17th album as a leader, Ms. Arriale presents a suite of 10 original compositions celebrating the ways that our lives …
