MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: July 12-18, 2010

This Monday, July 12th, we'll present another edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on the great bassist, composer, Grammy-winner and born and raised New Yorker, MARCUS MILLER. You'll hear of his career beginnings growing up in The Big Apple where his funky style helped establish him early on as a first call studio player. You'll hear how meeting and recording with Miles Davis changed the course of his life and career and of course you'll hear lots of his great music. Listen for MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS twice every Monday, at Noon Eastern/9 AM Pacific, with a replay Monday night at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific and since he just celebrated his 51st birthday on June 14th it's a good time to celebrate the great MARCUS MILLER!

Listen for JAMMIN' JAZZ...JAZZ FOR THE NEW GENERATION WITH MICHELLE SAMMARTINO four times each week, Tuesdays at 9 AM and again at 9 PM EST and twice on Sunday's at 9 AM & 9 PM EST for an hour of up, fun, funky, booty-moving stuff as only Michelle can serve up. On Jammin' Jazz Michelle plays jamband jazz, acid jazz, rock-influenced jazz, funk, fusion and a little sound of New Orleans too as well as her own insights that bring this great music to life! So if you can't get enough of the funky stuff come and get it on JAMMIN' JAZZ WITH MICHELLE four times each week on MOJA Radio! Here's what you'll hear on this week's show...

• New Orleans Nightcrawlers-Krewe Kut
• Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy-Orujo
• Allen Toussaint-Bright Mississippi
• Garage A Trois-Bear No Hair
• Medeski, Martin & Wood -Padrecito
• Broun Fellinis-Real Moments
• SMV-Thunder
• Ozy Noy-Schizophrenic
• The City Champs-Takin' State
• The City Champs-Poppin'

LIVE @ MOJALand happens four times each week here on MOJA Radio as we invite you to join us inside the world's only imaginary jazz club for rare, live performances by the biggest names in Modern Jazz. Listen Wednesday morning at 9 AM ET and again Wednesday night at 9 PM East/6 PM West, and twice again on Sunday at 11 AM & 11 PM ET, as part of the Sunday Specials. This week as we recap Russ Davis' recent visit to the Montreal Jazz Festival we'll revisit one of the festival's highest peaks with MILES DAVIS LIVE IN MONTREAL 1985. In the Summer of 1985 Miles Davis visited the festival in beautiful Montreal, Quebec and brought with him one of his last great electric bands that included John Scofield, Bobby Irving III, Bob Berg and Darryl Jones. Plus you'll hear John Scofield's comments as he gives us insight into what it was like playing with one of THE legends of jazz history. It's Miles, Sco and at world's greatest festival and we'll take you there if you'll join us for MILES DAVIS LIVE IN MONTREAL 1985 on this week's edition of LIVE @ MOJALand!

Join Russ Davis as he gives you an hour of nothing but the freshest MOJA on THE ALL NEW MUSIC REVUE every Thursday at 9 AM East/7 AM West with a replay at 9 PM East/7 PM West, and twice again on Sundays at 10 AM & 10 PM ET. This week we'll debut an hour of new music we just discovered on our recent trip to the Montreal Jazz Festival including some music unavailable in the USA as we give you John Scofield going big band with Vince Mendoza and Holland's Metropole Orkest on the album “54," Herbie Hancock and an all-star cast including Jeff Beck, Wayne Shorter, Derek Trucks and other on the album simply titled “The Imagine Project." We discovered a great drummer and vocalist from Ivory Coast named Namori and picked up his very cool world-jazz release “Question Mark." Plus, we heard a funky horn band from Canada called Gruv 'N Brass and picked up their new album “Fanfare Dynamite." Plus we heard Dave Douglas and his electric band Keystone and now it's time to debut his great new work titled “Spark Of Being," the companion music for the silent film based on Mary Shelly's “Frankenstein," and you'll hear some of Bobby McFerrin's astounding vocal release “VOCAbuLarieS." So, if you want to keep up with all the newest MOJA, just listen to THE ALL NEW MUSIC REVUE four times each week! Here's the new music you'll hear this week...

• BOBBY MCFERRIN...Say Ladeo...VOCAbuLarieS (Emarcy)
• GRUV 'N BRASS....En Dessous De Zero...Fanfare Dynamite (www.gruvnbrass.com)
• NAMORI....Soula Gahou...Question Mark (www.namori.com)
• JOHN SCOFIELD....Polo Towers...54 (Emarcy)
• JOHN SCOFIELD....Peculiar...54 (Emarcy)
• HERBIE HANCOCK....Imagine...The Imagine Project (Sony)
• HERBIE HANCOCK....Space Captain...The Imagine Project (Sony)
• DAVE DOUGLAS....Tree Ring Circus...Spark Of Being (Greenleaf)
• DAVE DOUGLAS....Split Personality...Spark Of Being (Greenleaf)

Every Friday beginning at 7 AM until midnight ET we'll begin each hour with a classic piece of Jazz Fusion history with our special feature we call IF IT'S FRIDAY, THIS MUST BE FUSION. Many people think that the fusion era brought on a hard-edged side of jazz with electric guitar, synthesizers and other electric instruments and a rock attitude, and that is indeed true, but there was a softer, albeit fine and funky side too, created by artists who played an acoustic instrument with an ancient history...the flute. We'll focus on that great instrument in fusion with a special feature we call “FOUR FANTASTIC FUSION FLUTISTS!" You'll hear two greats from Texas, Hubert Laws and Bobbi Humphrey, as well as the late, great Herbie Mann and one of the pioneers of world-jazz, Yusef Lateef. You'll hear them all if you join us for this week's edition of IF IT'S FRIDAY, THIS MUST BE FUSION. A day filled with music by “FOUR FANTASTIC FUSION FLUTISTS!"

This Saturday, July 17th, we return to what is possibly the greatest jazz festival on earth with our weekly feature WORDS & MUSIC on MOJA Radio, this one titled “MONTREAL 2010 REVISITED!" For the 7th year in a row Russ Davis returned to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal to see some of his favorites and discover new artists. In addition to enjoying all the music and the sights, sounds and general joys of one of the world's great cities, Russ caught up with some of the artists performing at the 31st edition of the FIJM and we'll give you those conversations with artists like Dave Douglas, Jack DeJohnette, George Benson, Richard Bona and Robert Glasper. Interview segments followed by music will begin each hour from Noon through Midnight Eastern time (9 AM-9 PM Pacific). So join us for “MONTREAL 2010 REVISITED," on this week's WORDS & MUSIC.

Twice every Sunday listen for three of our most popular special features on what we call THE SUNDAY SPECIALS here on MOJA Radio. At 9 AM & 9 PM Eastern time you'll hear an hour of fun and funky stuff on JAMMIN' JAZZ...JAZZ FOR THE NEW GENERATION WITH MICHELLE SAMMARTINO followed at 10 AM and 10 PM Eastern time by our weekly look at the hottest new MOJA coming out on THE ALL NEW MUSIC REVUE. Then we'll wrap it all up at 11 AM and 11 PM Eastern time with an hour inside the world's only imaginary jazz club for rare, live performances on LIVE @ MOJALAND. So listen for THE SUNDAY SPECIALS twice every Sunday from 9 AM to NOON, with a replay Sunday night from 9 PM to Midnight Eastern/6-9 PM Pacific on MOJA Radio!