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Joe Lovano Us Five - Taking Bird to New Heights
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Groove Notes
CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO Live sessions in the KPLU Performance Studio are always fun. However, when saxophonist, Joe Lovano, stopped by with his group, Us Five, it was more than fun. It was also an honor. New York Times jazz critic, Ben Ratliff, put it very succinctly: “It's fair to say that (Lovano's) one of the greatest musicians in jazz history." Usually in our studio sessions we begin with a song from the visiting artist, chat for a moment, hear ...
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Brilliant Sketches: Nicholas Payton
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
The brilliant Miles Davis recording Sketches of Spain turned 50 in 2009 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, who reissued a special collector's edition CD that same year, I produced a podcast series celebrating this masterpiece. For this series it was important to find artists who could speak with authority, not only about the impact of Miles' playing at that time but also about Gil Evans, the recording itself and the album's huge influence on the music. Our cast of ...
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Alice Day sings on WLRN's Evenin' Jazz on May 6
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The Real Tracy Fields
Miami's First Lady of Jazz, Alice Day, will perform on WLRN's nightly jazz program on Friday, May 6. Showtime is 9:32 p.m. eastern. Ms. Day, a native Miamian, spends most of each year abroad, bringing America's Music to people in Europe and Asia. But she always comes home for Mother's Day, and this year she'll spend some of her precious time stateside with the listeners of Evenin' Jazz. “This is a homecoming in more ways than one," said The Real ...
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Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, former Bob Crosby Orchestra members, trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart, are heard in rare live performance tracks of Crosby repertoire recorded with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a 1989 visit to The Landing. The hour-long public radio program is distrubuted in the USA by Public Radio International and Sirius/XM sattelite radio, and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. The Bob Crosby Orchestra holds a unique place among bands of ...
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