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2024 Look Back
by David Brown
For this week's program, I want to pick up where we left off last week, revisiting albums released in 2024 that really made an impression on me. This is not a top ten list, but more of a mix-tape if you will of recordings I highly recommend from the past year. Artists include John Zorn's New ...
Bobby Timmons + 2024 Look Back
by David Brown
This week, we sample two albums recorded on this day, December 21, 2024 in history: Andrew Hill's Spiral(1974) featuring Lee Konitz and Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (1966). From there we'll remember Philadelphia pianist Bobby Timmons who was born 89 years ago this week. Tunes will include “Moanin"as performed with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, ...
Dizzy, Eri Yamamoto, Cecil Payne
by David Brown
This week, we'll check in with some late '60s, early '70s Dizzy Gillespie, then a set of new quartet and solo works from pianist Eri Yamamoto. Two new works from Blue Note records follow with an archival release pairing McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson live at Slugs Saloon 1966 followed new music by the all-star collective ...
Afro-Cuban Jazz Show
by David Brown
This week, we have been checking out some sounds from Cuba, Afro-Cuban Jazz and other Latin Jazz works from the 1950s to today.Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:30 Julio Gutierrez “Theme On Cha Cha Cha" from The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions (Panart Records) 03:15 Nino Rivera “Guanguanco--Comparsa" ...
Jazz Orchestras, Large Ensembles, Bigger Bands
by David Brown
This week we take a look at jazz orchestras, large ensembles and bigger bands.Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:30 Jihye Lee Orchestra “Karma" from Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) 03:00 John Hollenbeck & NDR Big Band “Marimba Hocket" from Coloring Hockets (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) 10:45 Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz ...
Lou Donaldson, Roy Haynes RIP + New Releases
by David Brown
This week, we are celebrating two legends of the music who both recently passed. The soulful, bluesy saxophonist Mr. Lou Donaldson left us on November 9th at the age of 98, and one of the most recorded drummers in jazz history, Mr. Roy Haynes who passed on November 12 at the age of 99. Both of ...
Carmen McRae, Quincy Jones, Black & White Sessions
by David Brown
This week, Duke Ellington works as interpreted by Franz Koglmann / Lee Konitz, Della Reese and then Etta Jones with the Cyril Haynes Quartet. The Jones tune comes from a Mosaic Box Set reissuing works recorded for the short-lived label Black & White Records. We'll hear two more tracks from that box, from Ivie Anderson and ...
Stylings of Silver, Nods to Nica, Quartet of Trios
by David Brown
This week, our featured artist is pianist/composer Horace Silver. We'll check out a number of his compositions as performed by Ran Blake, Shirley Scott , Tommy Flanagan, Gigi Gryce and Silver himself. From there we will check out works written in homage to the Baroness Panonnica de Koenigswarter--known as Nica--a patron, supporter and friend to many ...
Ganavya, Alice Coltrane, CTI Summer Jazz
by David Brown
This week, we jump to the summer of 1972 for selections from a live show at the Hollywood Bowl in California captured on a trio of LPs titled CTI Summer Jazz. The set features some of the greatest jazz funk players of the early 70s all on one stage. Then, our shows featured artist will be ...
Allen Lowe, Darius Jones, Louis Armstrong
by David Brown
This week on The Jazz Continuum we start things off with the Marvels, a collaboration between saxophonist Charles Lloyd and singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams; then we keep the twang going with James Brown's take on some Hank Williams. Dinah Washington's It's A Mean Old Man's World follows before Rahsaan Roland Kirk takes up some Marvin Gaye at ...
