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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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” …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Mood Records, 1977 to the 2000s Host Craig Kessler begins a short series looking at some of the truly great sounds from Mood Records. Formed in Germany in the 1970s, the label helped showcase the new sounds of jazz-rock, like jazz innovators Kenny Wheeler, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and SpotifyDrummer, activist and educator Terri Lyne Carrington has published a groundbreaking new lead sheet book of 101 jazz compositions written exclusively by women, from Mary Lou Williams and Alice Coltrane to Esperanza Spalding and Maria Schneider and beyond. A companion album, “New Standards Vol. 1,” is the …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers, Irene Reid, Les McCann and Ray Charles, saxophonists John Coltrane, Frank Foster and Damani Phillips, guitarist Eric Gale, bassist Red Mitchell and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Erroll Garner’s classic “Concert By The Sea” (1955), …
