Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Grant Green as a Sideman, Part 2 The Blue Note anniversary celebration continues with this second show featuring guitarist Grant Green as a Blue Note sideman. We’ll hear more classic jazz records with Green and Horace Parlan, Harold Vick, Lee Morgan, Larry Young, John Patton, …
Jazz Corner of the World Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Wayne Shorter as a Sideman Host Craig Kessler continues his celebration of 85 Years Of Blue Note Records with a look at some classic “Blue Notes” featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter as a sideman. We’ll hear Shorter’s sessions with Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Donald …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify By now the international jazz community knows the story that Maqueque came out of a jam session at the Cohiba Hotel in Havana that introduced renowned jazz musician Jane Bunnett with young women musicians and composers who had recently graduated from the Cuban conservatory. Over ten years …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify “Makram” is the latest album from vibraphonist Joe Locke. Featuring a selection of new compositions and a return to his celebrated quartet (pianist Jim Ridl, bassist Lorin Cohen and drummer Samvel Sarkisyan), the disc is the latest addition to Locke’s extensive leader discography, an album the incorporates …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Artistry of Jimmy Giuffre, Part 3 Host Craig Kessler invites you to join him for his final special look at the genius of Jimmy Giuffre, whose legacy continues to draw attention. Craig spins Jimmy’s recordings from Columbia, Candid, Owl, Soul Note, Verve, and …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleaders Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey, singers Dinah Shore and Roseanna Vitro, saxmen Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Richie Cole, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Pierre Michelot, guitarists Ralph Towner and Larry Coryell and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
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 …
