Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Roy Eldridge, trombonists Benny Morton and Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton, saxmen Sonny Stitt, Stan Getz, and Sadao Watanabe, singers Jeanne Lee and Melody Gardot and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Afro-Cuban (1955)”, Horace …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyRecorded at the famed jazz club at Lincoln Center, jazz veteran Gerald Cannon’s “Live at Dizzy’s Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy” honors two musical giants: McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, with whom the heralded bassist proudly played alongside for 14 years, and nine years respectively. Invoking the true …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Blue Note 85th Anniversary Collection, Part 2 Craig spins more selections from the unusual and obscure side of the label. This again will include bonus material from a 4-part course Craig is teaching on Blue Note Records for the University of Iowa Senior …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Wellman Braud, Curtis Counce and Eberhard Weber, guitarist Django Reinhardt, instrumentalist/composers Juan Tizol and Antonio Carlos Jobim, arranger Marty Paich, saxman/composer Benny Golson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s first Carnegie Hall Concert …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify“LifeSongs” is the masterful new album by renowned trombonist-composer-arranger Marshall Gilkes and the heralded WDR Big Band. It represents something of a musical homecoming for Gilkes. He spent four memorable years in Cologne, making his mark within the ranks of the brass section of the band until his exit in …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Blue Note 85th Anniversary Collection, Part 1 Craig spins more from the unusual and obscure side of the label, and includes bonus material from his curriculum for his University of Iowa Senior College class on Blue Note Records. The Wednesday …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Gene Krupa and Sid Catlett, singers Irene Kral, Eartha Kitt and Cheryl Bentyne, lyricist Irving Mills, pianists Cedar Walton, Horace Parlan, Cyrus Chestnut and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Concert (1938), …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm A Salute to Les McCann Craig tips his hat to the 68-plus year career of this master of “soul jazz” by spinning a variety of fine releases dating back to 1960. We’ll hear great music from Pacific Jazz, Atlantic, Limelight, and other fine jazz …
