Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Betty Bryant is a Los Angeles treasure. The singer, pianist and composer has been a regular on the Southern California jazz scene since 1955 when she moved from her hometown of Kansas City, where she was mentored by the late, great Jay McShann. Her blues-based piano and vocal stylings …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Blue Mitchell as a Session Leader Craig spotlights a stack of records led by trumpeter and composer Richard Allen “Blue” Mitchell from his work at Blue Note, Riverside, and Mainstream Records. We’ll enjoy some fine discs led by one of the all-time greats! …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composers John Benson Brooks, Hall Overton and Michel Legrand, bassists Ralph Pena, Bob Magnusson and Steve Charlson, saxmen Flip Phillips, Tommy Newsom, Dextor Gordon, and David “Fathead” Newman, cellist Fred Katz, singers Mildred Bailey and Roseanna Vitro and more! …
Listen to this week’s playlist on YouTube and Spotify Mentorship, lineage, and community lie at the heart of “Buddy!,” the vibrant debut album from bassist and composer Stephen Parisi Jr. Rooted in his upbring in Buffalo and shaped by his evolution within Chicago’s thriving jazz community, Parisi’s music reflects a young artist deeply committed to understanding—and extending—the traditions …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Weather Report Live 1970-1986 Craig takes us around to many venues across the globe to experience the excitement of Weather Report live in concert. This wonderful group, led by Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, put on fabulous concerts for 16 years. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of composer Harold Arlen, trumpeters Taft Jordan and Charlie Spivak, baritone saxmen Charlie Fowlkes, Pete Christlieb and Jeff Clayton, clarinetist Buddy Defranco, singers Irma Thomas and Nancy Wilson and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Coleman Hawkins’s “Rainbow …
UNI celebrates 75 years of jazz at the university with an exciting lineup for the annual Tallcorn Jazz Festival. Festival committee member Eric Torneten has the details. It’s Thursday 2/19 & Friday 2/20 at the University of Northern Iowa. The Thursday night concert features UNI Jazz Bands One & Two with drummer Matt Wilson at …
Musician, author, and vocal empowerment guide, Mary Jane Knight, is in the studio ahead of the release of her new book of poetry, “The Light Between the Lines.” A book presentation and mini concert will be held at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City on Sun, Feb 15 at 3pm and a longer, intimate concert …
