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Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 1

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This time we felt like exploring the interplay of basketball and jazz, focusing in particular on a great jazz advocate like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, on the soundtrack of the HBO series The Winning Time, on an oneiric game played with a basketball fish, and on Stanley Clarke's tribute to this sport, to which he devoted as many hours as he did to the study of the bass, while growing up in Philadelphia.

Happy listening!

Playlist

  • Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00
  • Nicholas Britell, Robert Glasper "Training Camp (Palm Springs)" The Winning Time Sessions: Season One (HBO® Original Series Soundtrack) (Lake George Music Group) 0:16
  • Host talks 2:21
  • Jeff Beal, Robert Glasper "Money Ball" The Winning Time Sessions: Season 2 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack) (WaterTower Music) 3:31
  • Host talks 5:43
  • Poncho Sanchez feat. Tito Puente "Chile con Soul" Chile con Soul (Concord Picante) 8:00
  • Steve Lacy, Don Cherry "Evidence" Evidence (Prestige) 13:05
  • Host talks 18:33
  • Freddie Hubbard "Theme from Kareem" Super Blue (Columbia/Legacy) 20:44
  • Kris Allen "Sunlight" June (Trrcollective) 26:46
  • Host talks 32:34
  • The Jazz Passengers "Basketball Fish" Deranged & Decomposed (Les Disques Du Crepuscule) 34:31
  • Stanley Clarke "Basketball" Hideaway (Epic) 39:46

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