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Boogaloo Joe Jones

New Releases, Birthday Celebrations For Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Miles Davis & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 5, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Walter Bishop Jr., Ellie Martin, Edward Simon, The JM Jazz World Orchestra, plus birthday shoutouts to Peggy Lee, Yoko Miwa, Caity Gyorgy, Rosemary Clooney, Nadje Noordhuis and Miles Davis among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live ...

Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf: Bernard Purdie and David Axelrod

by C. Andrew Hovan
April 5, 2023

As part of Concord Music and Craft Recordings, the Jazz Dispensary line was developed in 2016 to mine some of the funkier and more soul-influenced music housed in the catalogs of Prestige, Milestone, and Fantasy. Their initial offerings were mix tape-style collections frequently tapping into the mystique of the '70s and often appearing on Record Store ...

Celebrating Jazz Geminis Valaida Snow and Memphis Minnie Among Others

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 14, 2021

The first hour celebrates the birthdays of Valaida Snow, known as “Little Louis" and “Queen of the Trumpet," a nickname given to her by W.C. Handy — a virtuoso jazz entertainer who became an internationally celebrated talent. Also in the spotlight is Memphis Minnie, a blues guitarist, and songwriter married to Joe McCoy and later Ernest ...

New Releases From Lisa Hilton, Foster Joseph and Francesca Remigi With Celebrations for Carole King, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 15, 2021

This broadcast begins the February fundraiser for the station and includes new releases from pianist Lisa Hilton, vocalist Foster Joseph and drummer Francesca Remigi with birthday shout outs to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp, Carole King (nominated a second time for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Bettye LaVette and Melody Gardot, among others.

Savoy Almost Gave Me a Migraine & More!

by Marc Cohn
June 19, 2020

I promised to play more from that fabulous 1968 Houston Person release this week--so yeh, that's here (Soul Dance, Prestige 7621) with Boogaloo Joe Jones). It's criminally out-of-print, as is our Carmen McRae centennial feature (the classic As Time Goes By on JVC, issued for 'a minute' as an LP on Catalyst in the US many ...

Jazz Goes to the Movies and Valentine's Day Singles

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 17, 2020

This week we feature new releases from The Coachella Valley Trio, trumpeter Rachel Therrien, pianists Lisa Hilton and Carol Albert, vocalists Robin McKelle, Kaylé Brecher, and Raquel Cepeda, plus Valentine's Day singles from Sue Maskaleris and Cynthia Scott, with birthday shout outs to Carole King, Michika Fukumori and Carmen Staaf, among others. There are also plenty ...

My Dear Acquaintance - A Happy New Year

by Mary Foster Conklin
January 17, 2020

My last broadcast of the decade included several women-penned songs for New Years Eve, with new releases by Boogaloo Joe Jones, Kris Davis and Cathy Segal-Garcia, plus birthday shout outs to Cab Calloway, Una Mae Carlisle, Chris McNulty, Katie Bull, Annie Lennox and Janice Friedman, among others. Also remembering those artists lost in 2019 with a ...

Legends of Acid Jazz Vol. Two

By Boogaloo Joe Jones

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1999

Boogaloo Joe Jones: Legends of Acid Jazz Vol. Two

by Douglas Payne
February 1, 1999

In the few years he recorded and performed (roughly from 1966 to 1978), guitarist Ivan “Boogaloo Joe" Jones (b. 1940) never really got his due as an exciting, rapid-fire R & B plecterist. His sound and style clearly derived from blues. But it was a solid understanding of rock that Jones brought to his ...