Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of lyricist Ira Gershwin, trumpeter/singer Louis Prima, pianist Dave Brubeck, organist Jimmy Smith, singer/songwriter Tom Waits, bassist/singer Jay Leonhart and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Duke Ellington’s “Ellington Uptown” (1951), Art Farmer Quartet feat. Jim Hall “Live …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Jimmy Giuffre, Part 1 Craig plays early selections from master musician Jimmy Giuffre. We’ll hear arrangements and compositions that Jimmy did for Woody Herman, as well as some great work with “West Coast jazz” mainstays Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Howard Rumsey, Teddy Charles, and …
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 …
