Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM More Bitches Brew Descendants It’s always fun to see important releases inspire great new art! Host Craig Kessler plays “new” music made possible by Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew. This landmark set inspired not only the jazz fusion and progressive rock sound of the 70s, …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Trumpeter, composer and author Jeremy Pelt has certainly never shied away from themed albums, so one might expect something cinematic from the enigmatically-titled “Soundtrack.” However, as Pelt himself explains, “I’ve certainly done plenty of conceptual albums, but in this case there’s nothing I’m on a soapbox about. It’s …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Mingus Centennial, Part 2 Host Craig Kessler continues his celebration of Mingus at 100! Again, we’ll hear more classic Mingus material – this time from the later years of his career. Tune in for some amazing material from 1962 thru 1977 from Atlantic, Impulse, Columbia and other …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Regarded as one of Africa’s first international superstars, Zenzile Miriam Makeba elevated the spirit of a continent, including her native South Africa. Her courage, however, was met with three decades of political exile from her homeland followed by blacklisting in the U.S. after her marriage to …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Mingus Centennial Show, Part 1 Host Craig Kessler celebrates the life and legacy of Charles Mingus. In this episode we’ll hear very important American music from early in his career, beginning with his early west coast days in the 1940s. We’ll also take a listen …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify There are a mere handful of guitarists that have changed the way we think about the guitar over the past five or six decades. Pat Martino is perhaps one of the greatest and best-known of those icons. His life story was the very definition of the term “genius.” …
2022 has been a big year for the Liberty High School music program, with a trip to the national Jazz Educators Network conference and the school’s first trip to Iowa Jazz Championships. Tyson, Killian, and Christian from Liberty High School tell tales and play a very tasty hour of music on Iowa’s Jazz Station. View …
Jazz Corner of the World Encore Mondays at 6:00 PM Third Stream Jazz Host Craig Kessler gives us a deep listen into what composer Gunther Schuller termed “third stream jazz.” This music sub-genre melds attributes of both classical and jazz. Craig spins prime examples of truly ear-opening music from Charles Mingus, Jimmy …
