Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Award-winning singer Roberta Donnay has been on the jazz and blues scene for over three decades. She’s performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in the music industry and toured throughout the U.S. and internationally, performing at clubs, theatres and jazz festivals. For her tenth …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Billy Strahorn, reedman/composer Gigi Gryce, trumpeter/singer Jack Sheldon, pianist Wynton Kelly, singer Lou Rawls, flugelhornist Chuck Mangione and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Lester Young w/ the Oscar Peterson Trio” (1952), Lee Morgan’s “The Rajah” …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm IAI Records, Part 2 Craig Kessler takes another listen to Paul Bley’s short-lived jazz label, IAI (Improvising Artists Incorporated), founded in 1974 to record improvised music and video art. We’ll hear some fascinating obscurities from Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Jaco Pastorious, and many others. …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify It’s the time of year when we seek out the best of the new jazz holiday releases to brighten the season. One of jazz music’s best loved voices, Jane Monheit, is back with “The Merriest,” a warm and …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers Scott Joplin, Hoagey Carmichael and Johnny Mandel, saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Paul Desmond, singers Etta Jones, Dr. John and Holly Cole, pianist Emil Viclicky, trombonists Tyree Glenn and Jimmy Knepper and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Two years after issuing his acclaimed trio album, “Valentine,” Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell returns with “Four,” a stunning meditation on loss, renewal, and those mysterious inventions of friendships. Frisell’s third album for Blue Note Records since signing with the label 2019 proffers new interpretations of …
Hey, Jazz fans, tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianists Art Hodes, Ellis Marsalis and George Cables, reedmen Jerome Richardson and Seldon Powell, singers Shirley Jordan and Diana Krall, singer/composer Johnny Mercer and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of The Red Garland Quintet’s “Soul Junction” (1957), Sonny Clark’s “Leapin’ …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Bossa Nova & Brazilian Jazz, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler opens another treasure chest of music exploring the history of Brazilian jazz – from its early roots to the present. We’ll hear Antonio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell, Astrud Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa, and others. …
