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This Week In Jazz October 9 thru October 15
Hey, Jazz fans, be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of pianist/composer Thelonious Monk, trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, pianist Art Tatum, drummers Art Blakey and Billy Higgins, singers Oscar Brown, Jr. and Roy Kral, bassist Buddy Montgomery and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Benny Golson’s New York …
This Week’s Shows for October 10 thru October 16
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Art & Compositions of Mike Gibbs Craig Kessler salutes master composer Michael Gibbs. He is probably best known for his collaborations with Gary Burton, Graham Collier, Kenny Wheeler, the NDR Big Band, and many others. We’ll hear samples his work through the years. …
New Music Monday for October 10, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify The incredible journey of Alex Acuna has seen the renowned percussionist travel from his small rural hometown in Peru to being a first-call session drummer in the country’s capital of Lima, then touring the U.S. with mambo king Perez Prado, gigging in Las Vegas with Elvis Presley …
This Week In Jazz October 2 thru October 8
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Jimmy Blanton, Steve Swallow and Eddie Gomez, drummer Jo Jones, pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., guitarist Duke Robillard, trombonist Clifton Anderson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries Louis Armstrong “Live At The 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival”, Horace …
This Week’s Shows for October 3 thru October 9
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Miles Davis with George Coleman This week, Craig Kessler offers up some work with yet another of Miles Davis’s transitional tenors, George Coleman, who played with Miles in 1963 and early 1964. Don’t miss classic studio recordings, as well as some rather obscure live …
New Music Monday for October 3, 2022
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Steve Turre was passed the jazz torch early in his career by some of the music’s greatest masters—Art Blakey, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Shaw and Ray Charles, among others. In recent years he’s kindled the same flame in a younger crop of musicians. On his new album, …
This Week In Jazz September 25 thru October 1
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer/pianists George Gershwin and Bud Powell, singers Julie London and Patrice Rushen, drummer Buddy Rich, hornman Red Rodney and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “The Clifford Brown Sextet In Paris” (1953), Jackie McLean’s “Tippin’ The Scales” …