Results for "Radio"

That Motown Swing

May 11, 2011

The great Motown sound not only influenced music in the pop arena but it also left its indelible mark on jazz. A few years ago I produced a podcast series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Motown and I included a number of jazz stars to round out the story. One of the first guys to participate ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 2, 2011

May 10, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 15 — Gretchen Parlato The Lost And Found (Obliqsound) 262 122 +140 1 59 1 2 2 2 4 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 187 202 -15 0 52 2 7 3 1 3 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 180 205 -25 1 54 1 ...

The Jazz Session #265: Billy Harper

May 10, 2011

Saxophonist Billy Harper appears on Cast The First Stone, the latest CD from The Cookers. In this interview, part of The Jazz Sessions Cookers Mondays series, Harper talks about his involvement with the band; recounts the story of his first night in NYC in the late 1960s; and tells about how persistence paid off when it ...

Joe Lovano Us Five - Taking Bird to New Heights

May 8, 2011

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 ...

The Jazz Session #264: Chris Washburne

May 7, 2011

Brilliant Sketches: Nicholas Payton

May 7, 2011

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 ...

Alice Day sings on WLRN's Evenin' Jazz on May 6

May 6, 2011

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 ...

Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

May 5, 2011

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 ...

The Jazz Session #263: Sean Smith

May 5, 2011

JazzWeek Radio Chart: April 25, 2011

May 3, 2011

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 3 Eric Reed The Dancing Monk (Savant) 205 209 -4 0 53 1 7 2 4 2 Monty Alexander Uplift (JLP) 202 208 -6 0 58 2 6 3 1 1 Kurt Elling The Gate (Concord Jazz) 185 238 -53 0 57 1 11 4 6 ...