Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Grant Green On Blue Note Host Craig Kessler gives us a listen to Grant Green on Blue Note Records. We’ll hear some sweet stuff from this all-time guitar great’s 1960s work, both as a leader and as a sideman. Tune in for absolute classic …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composers Tadd Dameron and Michel LeGrand, saxmen Buddy Tate, David “Fathead” Newman and Wayne Escoffery, drummers Frank Issola, Harvey Mason, Sr. and Joe Labarbera, singer Nina Simone, trumpeter Joe Wilder and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The entire city of New Orleans becomes one big party during Mardi Gras, but Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra know that there’s no place to be quite like “Uptown on a Mardi Gras Day.” With their latest album, the UJO provides the ultimate soundtrack for Carnival …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Keyboard Wizard Joe Zawinul Host Craig Kessler takes a loving listen to the career of Joe Zawinul. A tasteful (and tasty) variety of Joe’s earlier works is set to play in this first of three episodes. Zawinul made legendary recordings with Cannonball and Nat …
This week we celebrate the birthdays of composers Alec Wilder and Harold Arlen, trumpeter Charlie Spivak, saxophonist Charlie Fowlkes, percussionist/bandleader Machito, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “Rainbow Mist” (1944), “Chet Baker Sings” (1954), Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd’s “Jazz Samba” (1962), Sarah Vaughan and the Count Basie Orchestra’s …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Pianist/composer Fred Hersch and vocalist/bassist Esperanza Spalding can both be counted among the most acclaimed and inventive artists in modern jazz. The Village Vanguard is the music’s most revered venue, having played host to countless legendary musicians and beloved live recordings. The duo and the club …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Walter Page and Rufus Reid, reedmen Pony Poindexter and Joe Maini, drummers Joe Dodge and Walter “Baby Sweets” Perkins, pianists Sir Roland Hannna and Antonio Adolfo and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Horace Silver and …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Far Far Away” brings us ever so close to the genius of Jim Snidero. For this, his 25th recording as a leader, the renowned altoist joins forces with inimitable guitar hero Kurt Rosenwinkel, whose searing, innovative playing is on full display. Snidero himself demonstrates a broadsword of a …
