Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyA steadfast figure in modern straight-ahead jazz and one of the genre’s most respected drummers, Joe Farnsworth has built his name playing with legends like Wynton Marsalis, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Benny Golson, and Cedar Walton, among many others. In recent years, Farnsworth has stepped beyond the traditionalist’s lane, working …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Happy Birthday Kenny Burrell! Craig celebrates Kenny Burrell’s 94th birthday with an exciting overview of this all-time great guitarist’s career, from the years 1951 up to his latest. Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays at 6:00pm Trio Grismore at Jazz Under …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyFour-time Grammy-winning, NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and Grammy-nominated vocalist Christie Dashiell present “We Insist 2025!,” a bold reimagining of the seminal 1961 album “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite.” Originally created by Roach in collaboration with Abbey Lincoln and lyricist Oscar Brown, Jr., the disc commemorated the …
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Johnny Hodges, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca, Junior Cook, Steve Lacy and Mario Rivera, pianists Sonny Clark, Billy Taylor and James Weidman, singers Helen Merrill, Annie Ross and Janis Siegel, bassists Keter Betts and Charles Ables and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyPianist, vocalist and composer Dawn Clement has proven to be a joyful and formidable force in modern creative music through her work with Jane Ira Bloom, Matt Wilson, Ron Miles, Julian Priester and many others over the last two decades. As Mr. Priester describes her, “In all this world of …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Guitarist Gabor Szabo Craig takes the first of several listens to the underrated Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo’s work between 1958 thru 1982. We’ll hear Szabo in the company of Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, Chico Hamilton, Gary McFarland, Richard Davis, and many others. …
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Dorothy Fields, guitarist Mary Osborne, singers Little Jimmy Scott, Ruben Blades and Angelique Kidjo, drummers Philly Joe Jones, Alan Dawson and Joe Morello, pianist Larry Fuller, vibist Cal Tjader and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy” (1954), …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) (June 30) Mondays at 6:00pm Impulse! Records, Show 2 (Live) On a special live Monday evening presentation, Craig digs up some more choice material from Impulse! Records. We’ll hear interesting recordings from Sonny Rollins, Shirley Scott, Max Roach, Michael White, Gil Evans, and many others. …
