CiTR -- The Jazz Show

Broadcast on 14-Sep-2015

15 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Leonard Bernstein was one of the great institutions of American music. He was a pianist, conductor, composer and communicator. He was truly a "man for...

Broadcast on 07-Sep-2015

08 Sep 2015

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Today is is the 85th Birthday of Sonny Rollins, who was born in New York City on September 7,1930. Sonny of course is one of the major figures in the ...

Broadcast on 31-Aug-2015

01 Sep 2015

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Kenny Dorham was as Art Blakey once said "the uncrowned king" of Modern Jazz trumpet. This delightful album was a pet project of Kenny's as he loved t...

Broadcast on 24-Aug-2015

25 Aug 2015

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This was a band that recorded this wonderful album in March of 1964 and yet it was never released until 3 years after Stan Getz' death in 1994. The ti...

Broadcast on 17-Aug-2015

18 Aug 2015

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Modern Jazz pioneer Dizzy Gillespie thrived in front of a big band and he had several over his long career. This was what became known as "The State D...

Broadcast on 03-Aug-2015

04 Aug 2015

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Lou Donaldson is one of the true living masters of the alto saxophone and one of the last living disciples of Charlie Parker. Lou built his unique sty...

Broadcast on 27-Jul-2015

28 Jul 2015

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This is the debut album by this incredibly talented and still quite young man (he's now 51)recorded in 1988. Marcus was discovered and mentored by Wyn...

Broadcast on 20-Jul-2015

21 Jul 2015

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This underrated master of the trombone is still with us at age 80 and for this we are grateful! This date done in 1960 was Julian Priester's first und...

Broadcast on 13-Jul-2015

14 Jul 2015

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This is a fine straight forward set from the mid-50s that is led by one of the most original guitarists to come up in that era from the late 40s to th...

Broadcast on 06-Jul-2015

07 Jul 2015

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This is one of Bill Evans' last formal recording dates and was done in 1979. Evans died in 1980. Evans recorded often with horns but either in an all-...

Broadcast on 29-Jun-2015

30 Jun 2015

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This Jazz Feature stems from a series of dates in New York that marked the official inception of this magnificent trio of geniuses. They are not refer...

Broadcast on 22-Jun-2015

23 Jun 2015

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This fine little band existed in from 1960 to 1963 and was an important working group of this period. It was co-led by trumpeter Art Farmer and tenor ...

Broadcast on 15-Jun-2015

16 Jun 2015

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Two great musicians here that were frequent musical partners on what was their last recorded appearance. It is also a fine way to celebrate the Birthd...

Broadcast on 08-Jun-2015

09 Jun 2015

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This is an important edition of The Jazz Show as it celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Gavin is here as usu...

Broadcast on 01-Jun-2015

02 Jun 2015

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Tonight's Jazz Feature are two of Charlie Parker's last great studio recordings.They were done in 1953 when Bird's creative energy was burning. His la...

Broadcast on 25-May-2015

26 May 2015

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This was the debut of a brand new band formed by drummer/pianist/composer Jack DeJohnette and it reflected his multi-direction approach to the music. ...

Broadcast on 18-May-2015

19 May 2015

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Trumpeter Kenny Dorham had to live with the term "underrated" for most of his life but he was anything but. Now considered one of the leading lights o...

Broadcast on 11-May-2015

12 May 2015

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The music of Abdullah Ibrahim is always intriguing and impressive and this band of his called "Ekaya" (South African for "home") reflects his composit...

Broadcast on 04-May-2015

05 May 2015

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This fine album marked the beginning of John Coltrane's recording career as a headliner. This was his first date under his name and it was originally ...

Broadcast on 27-Apr-2015

28 Apr 2015

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Tonight's Jazz feature is a long one but worth the listening effort as it is a very rare live performance by what this author considers to be Charles ...

Broadcast on 20-Apr-2015

21 Apr 2015

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Tonight's Jazz feature is a meeting of true giants. Lionel Hampton, whose Birthday it is today (April 20), Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on bass ...

Broadcast on 13-Apr-2015

14 Apr 2015

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Tonight The Jazz Show celebrates the birthday of Theodore Charles Cohen better known as Teddy Charles. Teddy began his career as a drummer but became ...

Broadcast on 06-Apr-2015

07 Apr 2015

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Drummer, Arthur Taylor was a ubiquitous figure on dozens of Jazz recordings in the 50s and 60s. It seemed that Mr. Taylor was on every second recordin...

Broadcast on 30-Mar-2015

31 Mar 2015

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This superb album was recorded in Vancouver at Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club on December 7 & 8, 2013. The club has now unfortumately closed it's doors ...

Broadcast on 23-Mar-2015

24 Mar 2015

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This is a fun jam session-type recording done in the optimum conditions of a large recording studio with an invited audience. Chairs and refreshment w...

Broadcast on 16-Mar-2015

17 Mar 2015

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Today is the Birthday of Tommy Flanagan and The Jazz Show is pleased to present his first Trio recording. It was done in Sweden in August 1957 while h...

Broadcast on 09-Mar-2015

10 Mar 2015

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This unique trio was together for a few years and represents an important period in Ornette Coleman's musical life. It is pure unadulterated Ornette! ...

Broadcast on 02-Mar-2015

03 Mar 2015

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Miles Davis needs no introduction here as his music is as varied as his personality. He reflected the changes and the growth in his life by his music....

Broadcast on 23-Feb-2015

24 Feb 2015

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Don Thompson, one of Canada's most prominent Jazz musicians leads an all- Canadian quartet on 8 intriguing Thompson originals. The album is called "Fo...

Broadcast on 16-Feb-2015

17 Feb 2015

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The Jazz Feature tonight is Dave Brubeck's first Columbia recording and it's called "Jazz Goes To College". It was recorded in early 1954 during a tou...

Broadcast on 09-Feb-2015

10 Feb 2015

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Louis Smith briefly burst on the New York Jazz scene in the late 1950s. He recorded two magnificent albums for Blue Note(the second is the Jazz Featur...

Broadcast on 02-Feb-2015

03 Feb 2015

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Sonny Stitt was in many ways a misunderstood Jazz giant and he, at least as far as his alto saxophone work is concerned, had to live with being referr...

Broadcast on 26-Jan-2015

27 Jan 2015

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This is an award winning album that not only features Jimmy Heath's distinctive tenor saxophone and on one tune, his soprano saxophone but his composi...

Broadcast on 19-Jan-2015

20 Jan 2015

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John Coltrane's "Classic Quartet" with McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and the incredible Elvin Jones on drums had reached a pinnacle of ...

Broadcast on 12-Jan-2015

13 Jan 2015

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This historic concert which Miles Davis and his Quintet performed at the brand new Lincoln Center on February 12,1964 (Lincoln's Birthday)was a benefi...

Broadcast on 05-Jan-2015

06 Jan 2015

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This is one of the finest bands that tenor saxophone master Stan Getz ever led and yet it has not been very well documented on reissues. It began it's...

Broadcast on 29-Dec-2014

30 Dec 2014

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Sun Ra is one of the most charismatic and fascinating figures in Jazz music. He is a mystic, philosopher, writer,community leader,composer,arranger,ba...

Broadcast on 22-Dec-2014

23 Dec 2014

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One of the most important records in Jazz History is our regular Christmas Jazz Feature and it's the Christmas Eve recording session in 1954 of The Mi...

Broadcast on 15-Dec-2014

16 Dec 2014

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This is an incredible debut album by a great trumpeter who was very briefly on the Jazz scene in the late 1950s. He left the Jazz world to teach at th...

Broadcast on 08-Dec-2014

09 Dec 2014

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Composer Wayne Horvitz put together this amazing band of young men and women from Seattle's junior colleges and high schools and picked the cream of t...

Broadcast on 24-Nov-2014

25 Nov 2014

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This is one of the most overlooked albums in the Mingus legacy. It is from a relatively stable period musically and personally in Mingus' volatile lif...

Broadcast on 17-Nov-2014

18 Nov 2014

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This great band played only in the Los Angeles area yet it gained international fame because vibist/leader Terry Gibbs was astute enough to record the...

Broadcast on 10-Nov-2014

11 Nov 2014

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This album is one of the most iconic Blue Note releases in that it represents four young men who are advancing the Jazz Tradition by not abandoning th...

Broadcast on 03-Nov-2014

04 Nov 2014

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Richard Williams (1931-1985) was an incredible trumpeter and a powerful voice in his chosen horn. Richard recorded with John Handy, Booker Ervin, Yuse...

Broadcast on 27-Oct-2014

28 Oct 2014

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William "Sonny" Criss had a career that seemed to go in fits and starts. Sonny emerged early on the 1940's L.A. Jazz scene with his full-bodied sound ...

Broadcast on 20-Oct-2014

21 Oct 2014

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This five movement creation by composer extraordinaire George Russell is his tribute to New York City. It was written and recorded in late 1958 and 19...

Broadcast on 13-Oct-2014

14 Oct 2014

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This is an historic record date with Thelonious Monk joining Art Blakey's 1957 edition of The Jazz Messengers. Monk had one important request when he ...

Broadcast on 06-Oct-2014

07 Oct 2014

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Elvin Jones was one of the most compelling and inventive drummers in the history of Jazz. In 1965 he left the John Coltrane "Classic Quartet" and stru...

Broadcast on 29-Sep-2014

30 Sep 2014

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Phillip Wells Woods is still to this day one of the foremost exponents of the alto saxophone and a Jazz Master. Woods was born in Springfield Mass. on...

Broadcast on 22-Sep-2014

23 Sep 2014

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William "Red" Garland was one of the finest and most distinctive pianists of his generation. He rose to fame with Miles Davis from 1955 through 1958 ...

Broadcast on 15-Sep-2014

16 Sep 2014

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Leonard Bernstein was a musician, composer, conductor and a world ambassador for quality music and understood Jazz music. He understood it's inner wor...

Broadcast on 08-Sep-2014

09 Sep 2014

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This capsule history of Jazz with recorded examples is narrated by the erudite and lucid alto saxophone master Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. It was re...

Broadcast on 01-Sep-2014

02 Sep 2014

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Master tenor saxophonist Stan Getz in one of his great artistic and innovative triumphs. Seven compositions for strings were written by the great Eddi...

Broadcast on 25-Aug-2014

26 Aug 2014

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This is a rather rare Prestige album recorded in January of 1966. Bobby Timmons was a very distinctive pianist who had many sides, one being that he c...

Broadcast on 18-Aug-2014

19 Aug 2014

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This was the first album under his name of composer/arranger/tenor saxophonist Bill Holman. He first got recognition as a saxophonist and arranger/com...

Broadcast on 11-Aug-2014

12 Aug 2014

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This album was the first domestically released album by Miles Davis' "Second Great Quintet" which included tenor saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter, p...

Broadcast on 04-Aug-2014

05 Aug 2014

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This marvelous album is tonight's Jazz Feature and as it is the first night of The Jazz Show's new policy, The Jazz Feature will be heard right after ...

Broadcast on 28-Jul-2014

29 Jul 2014

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This album which is one of Lee Morgan's finest ironically was recorded in 1964 and never released until 1981 when the Blue Note vaults were researched...

Broadcast on 21-Jul-2014

22 Jul 2014

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This album is a creative step-up for pianist McCoy Tyner who had signed with Blue Note Records after his tenure with John Coltrane. McCoy chose an all...

Broadcast on 14-Jul-2014

15 Jul 2014

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Stan Kenton's Orchestra over the years covered just about every style of music imaginable. From simple dance music to the most complex semi-classical ...

Broadcast on 07-Jul-2014

08 Jul 2014

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This date was recorded live at a small club in Watts called the Black Orchid on August 15,1961. It is a recording of a one-night stand by the great vo...

Broadcast on 30-Jun-2014

01 Jul 2014

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This legendary date by a legendary pianist/composer is considered by many to be his masterpiece. Elmo Hope was a friend and contemporary of Bud Powell...

Broadcast on 23-Jun-2014

24 Jun 2014

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Dexter Gordon was a pioneer of Modern Jazz and influenced a whole school of saxophone players including John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. This live set...

Broadcast on 16-Jun-2014

17 Jun 2014

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A most unique ensemble...a real "living room band". The Jimmy Giuffre 3. Mr Giuffre on clarinet and tenor and baritone saxophones, Bob Brookmeyer on v...

Broadcast on 09-Jun-2014

10 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

One of the finest recordings by one of the most popular and critically overlooked tenor saxophonists in Jazz: Illinois Jacquet. Often dismissed as a s...

Broadcast on 02-Jun-2014

03 Jun 2014

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The whole show tonight is dedicated to the 2014 edition of the T.D. Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Guest host and one of the founding fathers ...

Broadcast on 26-May-2014

27 May 2014

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Andrew Hill was a unique and wonderful composer/pianist. Andrew attracted the ear of Blue Note head honcho, Alfred Lion when Hill moved to New York in...

Broadcast on 19-May-2014

20 May 2014

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Guitarist Grant Green seemed to suddenly appear on the national Jazz scene from out of nowhere appearing on Blue Note Records as a leader and as a sid...

Broadcast on 12-May-2014

13 May 2014

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Miles Davis and his band which he called "Directions" was at this time playing music alongside some of the great rock stars of the day. Davis' music h...

Broadcast on 05-May-2014

06 May 2014

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Bob Belden wrote this music for a 69 piece orchestra to portray the life of Elizabeth Short aka "The Black Dahlia". Her full story is on the web but t...

Broadcast on 28-Apr-2014

29 Apr 2014

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This album recorded in August of 1957 is an important milestone in the recorded legacy of John Coltrane. By the time of this recording he had broken h...

Broadcast on 21-Apr-2014

22 Apr 2014

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Today (April 21) is the 82nd Birthday of one of the world's great Jazz trombonists and an incredible composer/arranger Lockesly Wellington Hampton.......

Broadcast on 14-Apr-2014

15 Apr 2014

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This Jazz Feature is a short concert performed in Sweden at the Ahus Jazz Festival in July of 1973 with the great tenor saxophonist playing with pick-...

Broadcast on 07-Apr-2014

08 Apr 2014

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The recordings are considered some of the finest of Billie Holiday's long career. They are three recording dates done for a small independent label ca...

Broadcast on 31-Mar-2014

01 Apr 2014

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This wonderful recording that seems to be overlooked was Monk's penultimate recording for Columbia Records and the final official documentation of his...

Broadcast on 24-Mar-2014

25 Mar 2014

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This rather informal jam-type date was done just before Miles Davis formed his "first great quintet" and it features a newly healthy and strong Miles ...

Broadcast on 17-Mar-2014

18 Mar 2014

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There are really few words to describe the musical genius of Phineas Newborn Jr. He was born in Memphis on December 14, 1931 and died at age 57 in 198...

Broadcast on 10-Mar-2014

11 Mar 2014

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"Screamin' The Blues" is really a classic album that doesn't enjoy the same fame as Mr. Nelson's "The Blues And The Abstract Truth". It was recorded b...

Broadcast on 03-Mar-2014

04 Mar 2014

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The great producer Norman Granz was responsible for bringing the jam session which he felt was the core of Jazz music, to the stage. He also recorded ...

Broadcast on 24-Feb-2014

25 Feb 2014

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This feature has a large orchestra playing music composed and arranged by Oliver Nelson who not only conducts the orchestra but is heard with others o...

Broadcast on 17-Feb-2014

18 Feb 2014

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This album was Herbie Hancock's last for Blue Note Records. He was a rising star as he had been part of Miles Davis' ground breaking "second great qui...

Broadcast on 10-Feb-2014

11 Feb 2014

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This album is not as overt a protest or as political as last week's Jazz feature by Max Roach but has political overtones, a reflection the time it wa...

Broadcast on 03-Feb-2014

04 Feb 2014

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By 1960 drummer Max Roach had been for years a keen student of politics and civil rights and as a black American he realized that his mission was to c...

Broadcast on 27-Jan-2014

28 Jan 2014

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Lee Konitz is one of the foremost voices of the alto saxophone. He was one of the first to emerge in the late 1940s and NOT play like Charlie Parker. ...

Broadcast on 20-Jan-2014

21 Jan 2014

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Bob Florence was born and raised in Los Angeles on May 20 1932 and passed away on May 15,2008 at age 75. He began his career as a concert pianist but ...

Broadcast on 13-Jan-2014

14 Jan 2014

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Billed at "The Last Concert" and performed by the longest permanent group in Jazz music the Modern Jazz Quartet was going to disband. John Lewis, pian...

Broadcast on 06-Jan-2014

07 Jan 2014

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"Mingus Dynasty" was bassist/composer Charles Mingus' second album for Columbia Records. His first "Mingus Ah Um" was his best selling album and it el...

Broadcast on 30-Dec-2013

31 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

This is an often overlooked album recorded over two days on Nov.24 and Dec. 2,1959. It was done after his milestone recording "Giant Steps" and his gr...

Broadcast on 23-Dec-2013

24 Dec 2013

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This famous (sometimes infamous) recording date that took place on Christmas Eve of 1954 has gone down in Jazz History as a milestone session which in...

Broadcast on 16-Dec-2013

17 Dec 2013

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This was Mal Waldron's second trio date for Prestige/New Jazz Records. it was done in March of 1959 after a tour of Europe with Billie Holiday. Mal wa...

Broadcast on 09-Dec-2013

10 Dec 2013

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Gerry Mulligan was one of the most distinctive of all the exponents of the modern baritone saxophone but that wasn't all there was to Mulligan. He was...

Broadcast on 25-Nov-2013

26 Nov 2013

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Roland Kirk was a musical phenomena and someone that we may never see the like of again. Mr. Kirk who later adopted the name "Rahsaan" Roland Kirk dis...

Broadcast on 18-Nov-2013

19 Nov 2013

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Wynton Kelly was one of the finest piano players on the planet during his short life (he died at age 39). His highest prominence was when he was a mem...

Broadcast on 11-Nov-2013

12 Nov 2013

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Recorded at the end of 1976 at New York's Village Vanguard. Dexter Gordon, who had been absent for many years from the American Jazz scene returns at ...

Broadcast on 04-Nov-2013

05 Nov 2013

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This date which took place in New York in September of 1953 was really a Jazz summit meeting. The quartet had never played together before and these f...

Broadcast on 28-Oct-2013

29 Oct 2013

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Grachan Moncur 111 is one of the lesser known but important figures on the New York Jazz scene in the mid-60's when new ideas and concepts were emergi...

Broadcast on 21-Oct-2013

22 Oct 2013

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Tonight we celebrate what would have been the 96th Birthday of one of the great innovators of 20th Century music....John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. This...

Broadcast on 14-Oct-2013

15 Oct 2013

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Organ master James Oscar Smith must be considered one of the pioneers of Jazz music as he almost single-handedly brought the Hammond organ into Jazz m...

Broadcast on 07-Oct-2013

08 Oct 2013

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Even though he had been first and foremost as one of the world's finest Jazz drummers since 1934, Jo Jones didn't make his first recording under his o...

Broadcast on 30-Sep-2013

01 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

We go from one of the most famous saxophonists featured last week....John Coltrane to one of the least known greats....his name Rudolph Johnson. Littl...