Hey, Jazz fans. Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of reedman Pee Wee Russell, vibist Red Norvo, bassist Ike Issacs, and guitarists Remo Palmier and Grant Green and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “The Hawk Flies High” (1957), Chick Corea’s “Now He Sings, Now …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify For years, the Brazilian bossa nova queen Rosa Passos has had a devoted global following, including fans who proclaim she is Brazil’s answer to Ella Fitzgerald or the female Joao Gilberto. She began playing piano at age 13, but after listening to Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi, she abandoned …
Think of the songwriters whose work comprises the cannon of jazz standards, and names like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter immediately come to mind. On his new album, “Black, Brown, and Blue,” pianist Eric Reed argues for a revision of that canon to focus on Black and Brown composers, songwriters whose work originates …
Hey Jazz fans. Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Vera Lynn, Dave Frishberg and King Pleasure, pianists Marian McPartland, Harold Mabern and Sir Charles Thompson, guitarists George Benson and Melvin Sparks multi-instrumentalist Paul McCandless and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Sonny Rollins Plus 4” (1956); Miles Davis’ …
Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Keyboard Wizard Joe Zawinul, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler presents the next period of Joe Zawinul’s career with a look at his later work with Miles Davis from 1969 through 1970, plus a few of Joe’s early 70’s Weather Report projects. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Think of the songwriters whose work comprises the cannon of jazz standards, and names like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter immediately come to mind. On his new album, “Black, Brown, and Blue,” pianist Eric Reed argues for a revision of that canon to focus on Black and …
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Blue Mitchell, trumpeter/composer/arranger Quincy Jones, organist Shirley Scott, pianist Tommy Flanagan, singer/pianist Nat King Cole and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’ “The Hawk Flies High” (1957), Chick Corea’s “Now He Sings, Now He …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Vince Mendoza, who has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated 36 times, reunited with his longtime collaborator Metropole Orkest to record “Olympians,” a select collection of the composer/conductor’s works written for the orchestra over their 28-year collaboration. Born out of the ashes of World War II, the …
