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Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Les Elgart & Jonah Jones
by Joe Dimino
For our final broadcast of 2025, we crack open the vinyl vault and let the turntable speak. Episode 940 of Neon Jazz kicks off in style with The Jonah Jones Quartet, spinning a gem from the 1958 classic Swinging at the Cinema. From there, we take a deep, joyful stroll through jazz history--drawing from the timeless ...
The Giants Of Jazz
Label: uMe
Released: 2025
Track listing: It Might As Well Be Swing
1. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
2. I Wish You Love
3. I Believe In You
4. More (Theme From Mondo Cane)
5. I Can’T Stop Loving You
6. Hello, Dolly! (From Hello, Dolly!)
7. I Wanna Be Around
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. The Good Life
10. Wives And Lovers
Francis A. & Edward K.:
1. Follow Me
2. Sunny
3. All I Need Is The Girl
4. Indian Summer
5. I Like The Sunrise
6. Yellow Days
7. Poor Butterfly
8. Come Back To Me
Herb Alpert, Songbook Ink/Jazz at the Ballroom, Wycliffe Gordon and Staci Griesbach Celebrate the Holidays
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes more new holiday releases from Herb Alpert, Songbook Ink/Jazz at the Ballroom (featuring Vanessa Perea, Rob Edwards and others), Wycliffe Gordon and Staci Griesbach, plus birthday shoutouts to Honorable Men Sammy Davis Jr. (100!), Frank Sinatra, Joe Williams and Diane Schuur, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them ...
Have A Holly, Jazzy Christmas
by Kurt Ellenberger
In my music history classes, particularly in November and December, students have often asked me about the relationship between jazz and Christmas: “Why are so many popular Christmas songs so jazzy?" It is a good question--indeed, many of the most popular secular Christmas music does have a jazz flavor, while a few are actually jazz. There ...
Sacha Boutros: Sacha: Paris After Dark
by Pierre Giroux
With Sacha: Paris After Dark, vocalist Sacha Boutros, delivers an elegant and lovingly crafted tribute to a century of French and American song, drawing on the enduring traditions of both genres with the care of someone deeply familiar with their roots. Recorded with a seasoned Franco-American ensemble including trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo, pianist Franck Amsallem, guitarist Hugo ...
Various Artists: Swinging In The Holidays
by Jim Trageser
With a warm, wood-paneled vintage glow, a new Christmas collection inhabits the space formerly reserved for top-flight crooners like Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett: blending pop and jazz into comfort food for your ears. While few of the “next-gen" (as the album's publicity tag puts it) performers here will be known ...
Grant Stewart: Next Spring
by Pierre Giroux
Grant Stewart's Next Spring reaffirms his position as a leading figure in the current mainstream jazz scene. With his strong tone and deeply swinging phrasing, Stewart again channels the legacies of Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, and Joe Henderson, yet his voice remains distinctly his own. Recorded at the iconic Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ...
Brandon Suarez: Introducing
by Pierre Giroux
Tenor saxophonist Brandon Suarez's Introducing showcases his vision of blending timeless elegance with youthful vitality. Inspired by jazz legends such as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, Suarez approaches the Great American Songbook as both a guardian and a creative interpreter. His aim was to craft a classic vocal ...
Tatum Langley: Tatum's Swingin' Session
by Jack Bowers
Change the face (and figure) on the cover of Tatum's Swingin' Session!!!, the Chicago-based Shout Section Big Band's fifth recording, and what is left is an almost exact replica of an album cover released by Capitol Records in 1961, depicting a swingin' session led by another rather well-known interpreter of popular song surnamed Sinatra...down to and ...
Kandace Springs’ ‘Lady in Satin’ out now on SRP Records
Lady in Satin is the fifth album by Kandace Springs, an esteemed jazz vocalist hailing from Music City: Nashville, Tennessee. A luminous tribute to Billie Holiday, the 12-song collection is reverent, luxurious, tasteful reimagining of Lady Day’s classic 1958 album of the same name. Therein, the singer is backed by the 60-piece Portuguese ensemble Orquestra Clássica ...
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