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Robert Jospe

The Series Finale - All Jazz is Local (2011 - 2018)

by Russell Perry
July 28, 2020

So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz. We have heard the creative work of hundreds of players, composers, arrangers, and bandleaders, famous and obscure. Each of the contributors to this rich history had colleagues and bandmates with whom they played as they grew ...

Yardbird - The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker (1945 - 1948)

by Russell Perry
April 23, 2019

Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra in Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Parker found sympathetic players in New York, especially Dizzy Gillespie. In November of 1945, Bird, as he was universally known, began to record with his own quintets and sextets in a ...

Count Basie - Dueling Tenors and the Great American Rhythm Section (1937 - 1940)

by Russell Perry
February 5, 2019

In the eleventh hour of Jazz at 100, we followed Count Basie through the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City and heard his first recordings as a leader. In 1937, after Benny Moten's death, he took the nation by storm with his driving band lead by the “All American Rhythm Section" and the dual tenor saxophones ...

Tom Artwick: Jazz Scenes: Music from the Movies

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2013

A pleasant album of themes from various movies, seamlessly performed for an appreciative audience by five able musicians whose earnest labors affirm that there is an abundance of talented artists in this country whose endeavors pass largely unnoticed unless concerts such as this one are recorded and released so that a wider audience is able to ...