CiTR -- The Jazz Show

Broadcast on 23-Sep-2013

24 Sep 2013

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This feature is to honour the 87th Birthday of one of the most exciting, creative and influential musicians of the 20th Century namely John William Co...

Broadcast on 16-Sep-2013

17 Sep 2013

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The great maestro Leonard Bernstein narrates with many musical examples played by greats like Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith,Louis Armstrong, Buster Bai...

Broadcast on 09 Sep-2013

10 Sep 2013

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The title says it all Mr. Adderley is the lucid narrator and with a series of recorded examples he takes you from the very beginnings of this great Am...

Broadcast on 02-Sep-2013

03 Sep 2013

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Tonight marks the 86th Birthday of one of the great movers and shakers of post-war Jazz, pianist/composer Horace Silver. Silver was brought to the nat...

Broadcast on 26-Aug-2013

27 Aug 2013

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A series of great unreleased recordings from Pepper's final tour of Japan in November 1981 with Pepper on alto saxophone,George Cables on piano, David...

Broadcast on 26-Aug-2013

27 Aug 2013

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These are some previously unreleased performances by the great Art Pepper on his last tour of Japan in November 1981 about 6 months before his death i...

Broadcast on 19-Aug-2013

20 Aug 2013

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This was Lee Morgan's final recording date under his name and it was done in September of 1971. Lee was shot and killed by his estranged wife at age 3...

Broadcast on 12-Aug-2013

13 Aug 2013

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Yusef Lateef had been around the Jazz scene for quite a while playing and recording under his own name since 1957. He moved to New York with his famil...

Broadcast on 05-Aug-2013

06 Aug 2013

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This is a recording which combines the incredible talents of J.J.Johnson, trombone master and his composing and arranging abilities. Mr. Johnson said ...

Broadcast on 29-Jul-2013

30 Jul 2013

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Booker Telleferro Ervin was one of the most distinctive and easily identifiable voices of the tenor saxophone to emerge in the 1960's. After years of ...

Broadcast on 22-Jul-2013

23 Jul 2013

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The Jazz Feature tonight is by a unique individual. A very accomplished human being by the name of Dr. Denny Zeitlin. Zeitlin is a practicing psychiat...

Broadcast on 15-Jul-2013

16 Jul 2013

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Tonight(July 15, 2013)would have been the 90th birthday of one of the greatest drummers in Modern Jazz. Joseph Rudolph Jones aka "Philly Joe" Jones, w...

Broadcast on 08-Jul-2013

09 Jul 2013

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Lou Donaldson is a Jazz Master of the first order and is still touring and playing at age 86. During the late 60's and early 70's he did a whole serie...

Broadcast on 01-Jul-2013

02 Jul 2013

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This is a classic album make no mistake about that fact. It was given a lukewarm treatment by the Jazz critics at the time because it was such a casua...

Broadcast on 24-Jun-2013

25 Jun 2013

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Eli "Lucky" Thompson had a long career in Jazz music but not all of it was lucky. He was very respected in the community for his great talent on the t...

Broadcast on 17-Jun-2013

18 Jun 2013

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The late Sonny Clark left us too soon at age 31 on January 13,1963 from an overdose of heroin. Sonny was not an originator or a Jazz pioneer but a won...

Broadcast on 10-Jun-2013

11 Jun 2013

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Tonight's show is a special treat as it is the annual Jazz festival edition. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival 2013 is in the spotlight with a...

"The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow"

04 Jun 2013

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This is quintessential Tal Farlow one of the masters of Jazz guitar with his trio including the fabulous Eddie Costa at the piano and Vinnie Burke on ...

Broadcast on 27-May-2013

28 May 2013

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Tonight's music is swinging, lyrical and elegant and played by a group of Jazz masters under the leadership of one of the pioneers of Modern Jazz, vib...

Broadcast on 20-May-2013

21 May 2013

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Pianist/composer Freddie Redd occupies a small but important place in Modern Jazz. A self-taught and resourceful musician, Freddie Redd worked hard th...

Broadcast on 13-May-2013

14 May 2013

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A "desert island" disc. This was a short-lived band that performed a few gigs in the New York area then for two afternoons in May of 1962 went into th...

Broadcast on 06-May-2013

07 May 2013

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This intimate get together between two musically related people became an instant classic. It was a true meeting of minds by two of the most prominent...

Broadcast on 29-Apr-2013

30 Apr 2013

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To celebrate the 114th Anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth, The Jazz Show presents one of his true musical masterpieces....The Far East Suite. The m...

Broadcast on 22-Apr-2013

23 Apr 2013

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Tonight The Jazz Show honours and celebrates the 91st Birthday of one of American's most individual and iconic geniuses of this music referred to as J...

Broadcast on 15-Apr-2013

16 Apr 2013

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This well organized session featured two great Chicago-born musicians who went to the famous DuSable High School and learned the nuts and bolts of mus...

Broadcast on 08-Apr-2013

09 Apr 2013

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This great band was based in San Francisco and was the brain child of tenor and soprano saxophonist Mel Martin who organized this band in the early 19...

Broadcast on 01-Apr-2013

02 Apr 2013

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A startling debut recording by a musician whose short life was musically very well documented. Born in Los Angeles but upon moving to New York in mid-...

Broadcast on 25-Mar-2013

26 Mar 2013

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This oft recorded band was one of the best in Modern Jazz history. Led by the great alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, it featured his bro...

Broadcast on 18-Mar-2013

19 Mar 2013

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Composer,theorist, pianist, arranger George Russell occupies an important place in Jazz history. He wrote the influential theory book called "The Lydi...

Broadcast on 11-Mar-2013

12 Mar 2013

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In 1962 Lee Morgan was sick, drug addicted and destitute and without a trumpet yet at the beginning of the year he made this extraordinary recording b...

Broadcast on 04-Mar-2013

05 Mar 2013

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Tonight is a special Jazz Show as CITR is in the middle of it's annual Fun Drive to raise money for new equipment and keep the station happening. The ...

Broadcast on 25-Feb-2013

26 Feb 2013

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This album is one of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's masterpieces. It is his first full-blown venture into some unknown territory. When McLean signed...

Broadcast on 18-Feb-2013

19 Feb 2013

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This was the third recording of this famous suite called "Black,Brown and Beige" which had it's genesis at Carnegie Hall in 1943. Ellington wrote this...

Broadcast on 11-Feb-2013

12 Feb 2013

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This album was recorded in October of 1962 at the legendary Jazz Workshop in San Francisco as part of a two week engagement. Mr. Roach usually travele...

Broadcast on 04-Feb-2013

05 Feb 2013

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This album was recorded during a very turbulent time in American History.....assassinations, the Viet Nam War, youthful rebellion all rolled into one....

Broadcast on 28-Jan-2013

29 Jan 2013

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On May 1,1962, Duke Ellington had booked his Orchestra into A&R Recording Studio in New York but had no idea what to record. He had written no new mus...

Broadcast on 21-Jan-2013

22 Jan 2013

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Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco was the man who brought the clarinet into the Modern jazz era. DeFranco began and can be heard on very ear...

Broadcast on 14-Jan-2013

15 Jan 2013

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This great album and concept comes from the ever changing musical mind of Miles Davis, a man who not only was one of the most individual stylists of t...

Broadcast on 17-Dec-2012

18 Dec 2012

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There is really no need to describe this classic date. I consider this date an essential listening experience. This date defines Modern Jazz in a way ...

Broadcast on 10-Dec-2012

11 Dec 2012

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This famous recording put alto saxophonist/composer John Handy back on the Jazz map.After a great beginning in New York as part of The Charles Mingus ...

Broadcast on 03-Dec-2012

04 Dec 2012

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This obscure artist who rarely if ever played his music in public (he made his living playing in Dixieland and show bands) was able through the graces...

Broadcast on 19-Nov-2012

20 Nov 2012

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This great edition of the Kenton band performs one of composer/arranger Johnny Richards' masterpieces. It's a seven part suite called "Cuban Fire". Ri...

Broadcast on 12-Nov-2012

13 Nov 2012

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One of the most unique and interesting musicians to ever visit our humble planet.Kirk began perfecting his mastery over three saxophones played at onc...

Broadcast on 05-Nov-2012

06 Nov 2012

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This is an unusual recording by these two major Jazz voices. Their association went back to the days when they were both in Miles Davis' sextet. By th...

Broadcast on 29-Oct-2012

30 Oct 2012

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Today would have been the 87th Birthday of John Haley Sims better known as "Zoot", a nickname that he acquired when he was a teenager and he kept for ...

Broadcast on 22-Oct-2012

23 Oct 2012

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Two of the finest and most innovative trumpeters in Jazz are on tap here. Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge and John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Roy was the eld...

Broadcast on 15-Oct-2012

16 Oct 2012

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Tonight's Feature is a true Jazz summit meeting. It took place in a New York studio for United Artists Records on September 17,1962. The people involv...

Broadcast on 08-Oct-2012

09 Oct 2012

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Today, October 8 is the birthday of one of the great masters of the big baritone saxophone, Park Frederick Adams 111 better known as Pepper. He was bo...

Broadcast on 11-Jul-2011

12 Jul 2011

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This was the first recording by the newly expanded band led by the great alto saxophonist, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. The core band included Julian...

Broadcast on 04-Jul-2011

05 Jul 2011

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This is a wonderful relaxed recording between two great tenor saxophonists who displayed widely different styles. John Coltrane is here on this date d...

Broadcast on 27-Jun-2011

28 Jun 2011

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St. Elmo Sylvester Hope Jr.was born on this day (June 27), the only child of hard working West Indian immigrants, in New York in 1923. Elmo was one of...

Broadcast on 20-Jun-2011

21 Jun 2011

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The album "Out To Lunch!" was recorded on February 25,1964 and was Eric Dolphy's final statement recorded domestically. It was his musical vision with...

Broadcast on 13-Jun-2011

14 Jun 2011

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Tonight is a special program in that your host Gavin Walker takes a back seat and turns the show over to The Manager of Artistic Programming for the C...

Broadcast on 06-Jun-2011

07 Jun 2011

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Guitar master Grant Green emerged on the Jazz scene in the early 60's and along with Wes Montgomery were two of the most prominent exponents of that i...

Broadcast on 30-May-2011

31 May 2011

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Tonight The Jazz Show celebrates what would be the 102nd birthday of one of the icons of 20th Century music. The King of Swing: Benny Goodman. I'll be...

Broadcast on 23-May-2011

24 May 2011

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The conclusion of The Jazz Show of May 23 and the Feature: The Final Recordings of Artie Shaw.

Broadcast on 23-May-2011

24 May 2011

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Tonight The Jazz Show is celebrating what would be Artie Shaw's 101st birthday. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky was born on May 23, 1910 and died at the ripe o...

Broadcast on 16-May-2011

17 May 2011

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Tonight we send birthday wishes to Woodrow Charles Herrman who became better known as Woody Herman, one of the all-time greatest band leaders and one ...

Broadcast on 09-May-2011

10 May 2011

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Booker Ervin was one of the most identifiable voices of the tenor saxophone. He possessed a high, hard, keening sound and a rich blues based concept. ...

Broadcast on 02-May-2011

03 May 2011

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Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes was born on this day, May 2, 1931 in Camden New Jersey and was one of the great masters of the mighty Hammond B3 organ....

Broadcast on 25-Apr-2011

26 Apr 2011

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Ella Fitzgerald wasn't called "The First Lady of Song" for nothing. Her clear diction and faultless intonation and her rich mezzo-soprano voice to thi...

Broadcast on 18-Apr-2011

19 Apr 2011

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Pianist/composer Cecil Taylor is today recognized as one of the world foremost artists and has received many accolades and honours for his work. His m...

Broadcast on 11-Apr-2011

12 Apr 2011

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This amazing music was recorded in performance at New York's "Fillmore East", which was at the time primarily a rock venue. Miles Davis had entered hi...

Broadcast on 04-Apr-2011

05 Apr 2011

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This album is on so many people's "desert island discs". This classic was recorded over two dates in May of 1962. The band worked a few engagements ar...

Broadcast on 28-Mar-2011

29 Mar 2011

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Thad Jones was better known as a bandleader/composer arranger but he was also a magnificent trumpeter. Thad was from the famous Detroit Jones family t...

Broadcast on 21-Mar-2011

22 Mar 2011

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Rusty Bryant was an authoritative voice of the tenor and alto saxophones. Because of his love for Columbus, Ohio he never ventured very far from that ...

Broadcast on 14-Mar-2011

15 Mar 2011

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Quincy Delightt Jones needs no introduction to anyone even remotely interested in music. Whether you taste is Jazz,pop, or whatever...Quincy Jones has...

Broadcast on 07-Mar-2011

08 Mar 2011

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The name Grachan Moncur might not immediately register with Jazz fans but he was one of the movers and shakers of Modern Jazz in the mid-60's and he w...

Broadcast on 28-Feb-2011

01 Mar 2011

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This album recorded in August of 1959 marked a turning point in the recording career of one of the greatest Modern Jazz tenor saxophonists: Johnny Gri...

Broadcast on 21-Feb-2011

22 Feb 2011

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One of Jazz music's greatest drummers was Joseph Rudolph Jones who was better known as "Philly Joe" Jones to distinguish him from the older drummer wh...

Broadcast on 14-Feb-2011

15 Feb 2011

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Trumpeter Joe Gordon was a great player who like many others didn't get the recognition that he deserved. His recorded documentation is short with a n...

Broadcast on 07-Feb-2011

08 Feb 2011

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Guitar master Grant Green and Wes Montgomery were two of the most influential voices of their instrument in the 1960's. They seemed to come out of now...

Broadcast on 31-Jan-2011

01 Feb 2011

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This is arguably Charles Mingus' last great recording. It was done at two separate sessions. One composition was done in 1976 with his working band of...

Broadcast on 24-Jan-2011

25 Jan 2011

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January 24 is the birthday of one of the great unsung drummers....his name....Leonard Louis McBrowne. He was born in New York on Jan. 24,1933 and pass...

Broadcast on 10-Jan-2011

11 Jan 2011

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A significant recording in the long distinguished history of Modern Jazz pioneer, drummer extraordinaire Max Roach. Today, January 10 is Mr. Roach's B...

Broadcast on 03-Jan-2011

04 Jan 2011

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Alto saxophonist John Jenkins was a rather shadowy figure on the Jazz scene in New York in the 50's. John was born on Jan. 3,1931 in Chicago and today...

Broadcast on 20-Dec-2010

21 Dec 2010

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This classic session had always been a Jazz Show tradition and once again this year, 2010, we present it. Little need be said about this date which to...

Broadcast on 13-Dec-2010

14 Dec 2010

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This album was recorded by the great tenor saxophonist/arranger/composer Teddy Edwards (April 26,1924-April 23,2003) who was asked to put together a b...

Broadcast on 06-Dec-2010

07 Dec 2010

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The album called "Jazz At Oberlin" was a turning point for Dave Brubeck who today (Dec. 6,2010) celebrates his 90th Birthday! When this record was iss...

Broadcast on 29-Nov-2010

30 Nov 2010

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Baritone saxophone master Leo Parker has been unfairly treated in the history books and left out as one of the pioneers of Modern Jazz and the first m...

Broadcast on 22-Nov-2010

23 Nov 2010

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Jimmy Knepper was born today in Los Angeles on Nov. 22,1927 and passed away in 2003. Knepper was one of the foremost Jazz trombonists and had an unmis...

Broadcast on 15-Nov-2010

16 Nov 2010

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Legendary pianist Sonny Clark was a known entity on the Jazz scene for about 9 years. His life was snuffed out by drug addiction and he died in Januar...

Broadcast on 08-Nov-2010

09 Nov 2010

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If there were two North American musicians who instinctively understood the subtle and lyrical rhythms of the Bossa Nova it was tenor saxophonist Stan...

Broadcast on 01-Nov-2010

02 Nov 2010

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Lou Donaldson on this day,November 1, 2010 is 84 years old and is one of the living masters of the alto saxophone and someone who has stylistic ties w...

Broadcast on 25-Oct-2010

26 Oct 2010

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Today (October 25,2010), tenor saxophonist/composer/arranger turns 84. Tonight's Feature is an award winning album that has Jimmy playing his tenor sa...

Broadcast on 18-Oct-2010

19 Oct 2010

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Tonight is the birthday of one of the finest Jazz singers the world has ever seen except she doesn't get often mentioned when many people discuss Jazz...

Broadcast on 11-Oct-2010

12 Oct 2010

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An historic record date done for Atlantic Records on May 14 & 15, 1957 with the l957 edition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Bill Hardman on trum...

Broadcast on 04-Oct-2010

05 Oct 2010

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Pianist Walter Bishop Jr. was born in New York of West Indian parentage like many Jazz players (Sonny Rollins, Randy Weston,Arthur Taylor etc.) in 192...

Broadcast on 27-Sep-2010

28 Sep 2010

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The great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died at age 70 in 2008 and he is sorely missed to this day. He is a musician who always gave his all every time he...

Broadcast on 20-Sep-2010

21 Sep 2010

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As part of The Jazz Show's tribute to Fall and the "back to work/school/grind" syndrome we present Part 2 of our educational and I hope, entertaining ...

Broadcast on 13-Sep-2010

14 Sep 2010

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This is from a recording done in 1960 for Riverside Records and it is a capsule history of Jazz with recorded examples and snippets of recordings avai...

Broadcast on 06-Sep-2010

07 Sep 2010

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Very little need be said about tonight's Jazz Feature except to say that is our way of celebrating Sonny Rollins 80th birthday. He was born in New Yor...

Broadcast on 30-Aug-2010

31 Aug 2010

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The name Johnny Lytle may not be a household word but he was a very well respected player of the vibraphone. Like one of his mentors, Lionel Hampton, ...

Broadcast on 23-Aug-2010

24 Aug 2010

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Tonight's Feature is very special as it is one of the few recordings that arranger/composer Gil Evans did under his own name. We all know that he beca...

Broadcast on 16-Aug-2010

17 Aug 2010

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This band of musicians are the cream of the crop of New York City's "straight-ahead" players. I hate to use that cliche phrase but to expand that a bi...

Broadcast on 09-Aug-2010

10 Aug 2010

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Tonight's feature is special in a way that any Miles Davis recording is special but it's special also because I was there in the audience as a young m...

Broadcast on 02-Aug-2010

03 Aug 2010

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This major Jazz orchestra was the brainchild of one of the leading arrangers and trumpeters in Jazz music: Thad Jones and one of the finest big band d...

Broadcast on 26-Jul-2010

27 Jul 2010

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This wonderful recording is led by one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in Jazz, Clifford Jordan. Here he leads two quartets each playing or...

Broadcast on 19-Jul-2010

20 Jul 2010

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This is an important document in Jackie McLean's recorded legacy for Blue Note Records, a label he recorded for from 1959 to 1968. McLean, who was a m...

Broadcast on 12-Jul-2010

13 Jul 2010

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Pianist/composer Bobby Timmons was responsible for a number of Jazz "hits" like "Moanin', "This Here" aka "Dish Hea", "Dat Dere" and of course he was ...