CiTR -- The Jazz Show

Broadcast on 05-Jul-2010

06 Jul 2010

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Richard "Blue" Mitchell was one of the most distinctive voices on the trumpet. He came through various r & b bands and paid long dues on the road but ...

Broadcast on 28-Jun-2010

29 Jun 2010

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Tonight's Jazz feature is a wonderful recording that was meant for private use. It was recorded by Dave Quarin, a great Vancouver saxophonist who also...

Broadcast on 21-Jun-2010

22 Jun 2010

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The music of pianist/composer Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea needs no introduction to most of you. He is a musician extraordinaire who has covered ever...

Broadcast on 14-Jun-2010

15 Jun 2010

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Tonight's show is always a special one and it is The Jazz Show's tribute to the city of Vancouver's most famous and best attended cultural event: The ...

Broadcast on 07-Jun-2010

08 Jun 2010

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Harold Floyd Brooks, better known as "Tina" (a nickname that he was given because of his small size is a corruption of "Teeny" or "Tiny") was one of t...

Broadcast on 31-May-2010

01 Jun 2010

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This hard driving blues based modern Jazz session was co-led by two great products of a Chicago high school named DuSable which had a great music prog...

Broadcast on 24-May-2010

25 May 2010

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This album was the first domestic release of the music of Charles Mingus in the 70's. Mingus was inactive during the latter half of the 60's. Health a...

Broadcast on 17-May-2010

18 May 2010

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This album aptly titled by Blue Note Records' owner Alfred Lion was called "Swing, Swang, Swingin'". "That's what the guys did and this was one of the...

Broadcast on 10-May-2010

11 May 2010

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Tomasz Stanko is not a household word among North American Jazz fans but I'm sure he'll become better known through his various concert appearances at...

Broadcast on 03-May-2010

04 May 2010

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Pianist Jaki (John) Byard was a genius who played every instrument in the band more than well but we'll always remember him as a great piano player wh...

Broadcast on 19-Apr-2010

20 Apr 2010

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Gil Evans place in Jazz history was essentially made alongside Miles Davis. Beginning with the famous Miles Davis nonet that recorded for Capital Reco...

Broadcast on 12-Apr-2010

13 Apr 2010

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This album is one of Herbie Hancock's masterpieces and we are featuring this stunning recording to honour one of the most significant musicians of our...

Broadcast on 05-Apr-2010

06 Apr 2010

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A double Feature tonight. We are celebrating what would be tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine's 76th birthday, He died in September of 2000 of a str...

Broadcast on 29-Mar-2010

30 Mar 2010

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This recording done by Miles Davis and his "Second Great Quintet" was the first recorded evidence that a musical change was in the air. The quintet, o...

Broadcast on 22-Mar-2010

23 Mar 2010

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George Benson is known today as one of music's superstars. A great instrumentalist/singer/entertainer who began his career as a pure Jazz player but s...

Broadcast on 15-Mar-2010

16 Mar 2010

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This recording was the second album recorded in 1966 for Blue Note by the iconoclastic pianist/composer Cecil Taylor. Taylor's music has always posed ...

Broadcast on 08-Mar-2010

09 Mar 2010

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This Feature is a tribute to National Woman's Day and this Orchestra led by Maria Schneider is one of the leading Jazz organizations of today. Maria's...

Broadcast on 01-Mar-2010

02 Mar 2010

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This short-lived quintet led by tenor saxophone master Hank Mobley and pianist Cedar Walton constituted one of Mr. Mobley's final documentation on rec...

Broadcast on 22-Feb-2010

23 Feb 2010

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This Feature is a large orchestral piece written by Boris (Lalo) Schifrin that features Dizzy Gillespie as chief soloist. It was Lalo's last contribut...

Broadcast on 15-Feb-2010

16 Feb 2010

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This album which was recorded for a small independent label on October 21,1955 was alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's first under his own name. The labe...

Broadcast on 08-Feb-2010

09 Feb 2010

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Charles Mingus' "Tijuana Moods" is one of his acknowledged classics. It was recorded in July and August 1957 by one of his best "Jazz Workshops". Ming...

Broadcast on 01-Feb-2010

02 Feb 2010

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The Jazz Show's tribute to Black History Month is the famous Max Roach recording called "The Freedom Now Suite". This was one of the first politically...

Broadcast on 25-Jan-2010

26 Jan 2010

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The late Wynton Kelly was one of the best loved pianists in Jazz. His chief era of fame was when he replaced Bill Evans in Miles Davis' ground breakin...

Broadcast on 18-Jan-2010

19 Jan 2010

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This is considered to be Clifford Jordan's debut album. His earlier appearance on the Blue Note label was a co-led two tenor saxophone session with Jo...

Broadcast on 04-Jan-2010

05 Jan 2010

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Bassist/composer Charles Mingus was one of Jazz music's icons and an amazing larger than life musician and character. His working bands were called "T...

Broadcast on 28-Dec-2009

29 Dec 2009

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Tonight's Feature is by clarinettist/tenor saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre. Giuffre was a musician who had a very wide range and was not restricted to any o...

Broadcast on 21-Dec-2009

22 Dec 2009

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This truly classic date was recorded on Christmas Eve 1954 and somehow, although not intended has a distinctive "Christmasy" feel to it. The date was ...

Broadcast on 14-Dec-2009

15 Dec 2009

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Jack DeJohnette is one of the most extraordinary musicians to come along in the last 45 or so years. Jack was born in Chicago and came to New York in ...

Broadcast on 07-Dec-2009

08 Dec 2009

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"Mulligan Meets Monk" is tonight's Feature. It's premise is simple, a meeting of two great original minds. Monk, of course and Mulligan, one of the mo...

Broadcast on 30-Nov-2009

01 Dec 2009

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Trombonist/composer Grachan Moncur 111 was born in New York on June 3,1937 and raised in Newark. He is still alive, playing,writing and teaching. Grac...

Broadcast on 23-Nov-2009

24 Nov 2009

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Keith Jarrett is one of the most extraordinary musicians of our time and can rightly be called a genius. Born on May 8,1945, he was a child prodigy, p...

Broadcast on 16-Nov-2009

17 Nov 2009

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One of the most startling debuts in Jazz history was this album by Jeremy Steig. Steig, who is the son of the great cartoonist William Steig plays flu...

Broadcast on 09-Nov-2009

10 Nov 2009

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Prince Lasha (William Lawsha) is the leader on this date and it features his close associate, alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons, one of the most distinct...

Broadcast on 02-Nov-2009

03 Nov 2009

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The great alto saxophonist Phil Woods left North America with his family in 1968, bitter and discouraged by the developments in the USA. When he lande...

Broadcast on 26-Oct-2009

27 Oct 2009

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Virtuoso bassist Richard Davis leads an adventurous band recorded at the short lived New York club called "Jazz City" on September 7,1972 on but two l...

Broadcast on 19-Oct-2009

20 Oct 2009

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This rare item is untypical of the type of session that Prestige Records put out in the 50's. The head honcho of Prestige was Robert Weinstock and he ...

Broadcast on 12-Oct-2009

13 Oct 2009

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This fine recording was made just a few days before multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef joined the renowned Cannonball Adderley group expanding it's si...

Broadcast on 05-Oct-2009

06 Oct 2009

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Larry Young was one of the most individual voices of the Hammond organ. Larry was born in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 7,1940 and sadly died at age 37 i...

Broadcast on 28-Sep-2009

29 Sep 2009

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"Jazz Guitar" is a minor classic as it was Jim Hall's first recording under his own name. Hall chose to be accompanied by just piano and bass making t...

Broadcast on 21-Sep-2009

22 Sep 2009

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This is Part 2 of The Jazz Show's "back to school" mode. Maestro Leonard Bernstein is arguably one of the most important musical icons of the 20th cen...

Broadcast on 14-Sep-2009

15 Sep 2009

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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was, of course, one of the premier alto saxophonists in Jazz. He was a great bandleader and communicator who knew how to ...

Broadcast on 07-Sep-2009

08 Sep 2009

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As a tribute to the 79th birthday of "the titan of the tenor saxophone" Sonny Rollins, we are presenting one of his "classic" recordings called "Way O...

Broadcast on 31-Aug-2009

01 Sep 2009

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As it was Charlie Parker's birthday, he would have been 89 on August 29 the special extended Feature beginning a bit after 10pm (The Jazz Show begins ...

Broadcast on 24-Aug-2009

25 Aug 2009

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This is one of the great trombonist's most personal recordings. J.J. Johnson is one of the true pioneers of Modern Jazz as his concept on the trombone...

Broadcast on 17-Aug-2009

18 Aug 2009

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This album was aptly titled as 1965 was a year of transition for Mr. Coltrane. His musical vision was expanding and changing and even though some of t...

Broadcast on 10-Aug-2009

11 Aug 2009

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This album was a "concept" record put together by Mr. Ellington over a period of time from February 1959 to December 1959 over several sessions. The b...

Broadcast on 03-Aug-2009

04 Aug 2009

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Trumpeter/composer Kenny Dorham (McKinley Howard Dorham) had a most frustrating career as he always seemed overshadowed by others. He was born in 1924...

Broadcast on 27-Jul-2009

28 Jul 2009

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Tonight The Jazz Show presents some early Brubeck Quartet recordings that are not as common as many others. These recordings are derived from broadcas...

Broadcast on 20-Jul-2009

21 Jul 2009

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This recording was drummer/composer Max Roach's second album for the Impulse label and was one of his most innovative. It is unique in that it combine...

Broadcast on 13-Jul-2009

14 Jul 2009

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The titan of the tenor saxophone performs on this rare disc with one of his favourite combinations, saxophone, bass and drums. Rollins, in the latter ...

Broadcast on 06-Jul-2009

07 Jul 2009

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This wonderful short-lived band only made one domestically produced record.A few bootlegs exist and one rare recording made in Japan,featuring tunes f...

Broadcast on 22-Jun-2009

23 Jun 2009

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Your host takes a secondary position on tonight's show as the Media Director of the Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, Mr. John Orysik takes over the ful...

Broadcast on 15-Jun-2009

16 Jun 2009

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This date done for Blue Note in April 1957 shows us a Sonny Rollins playing with confidence and authority. Rollins, who had been a member of Max Roach...

Broadcast on 08-Jun-2009

09 Jun 2009

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Denny Zeitlin is one of the great individual stylists of the piano. He was born in Chicago on April 10,1938 and studied with the great theorist/innova...

Broadcast on 01-Jun-2009

02 Jun 2009

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Guitarist Grant Green, along with Wes Montgomery set the standards for that instrument in the 1960's. They both seemed to come out of nowhere and leap...

Broadcast on 25-May-2009

26 May 2009

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This lesser known recording was the last documentation of one of the great editions of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Drummer/leader, Blakey led many e...

Broadcast on 18-May-2009

19 May 2009

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From the early 60's on drummer/composer/Jazz pioneer, Max Roach made a vow to never play or record anything that did not have some form of political s...

Broadcast on 11-May-2009

12 May 2009

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Jackie McLean's quartet dates are rather rare as he usually recorded with other horns on his own dates. McLean is in fine creative form here on this r...

Broadcast on 04-May-2009

05 May 2009

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Drummer/bandleader Roy Haynes, with few exceptions has always preferred to lead a quartet with a good horn (either an alto or tenor saxophone) out fro...

Broadcast on 27-Apr-2009

28 Apr 2009

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This is the first recording by bassist/composer/ Charles Mingus with his newly formed band "The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop". Mingus' recordings befo...

Broadcast on 20-Apr-2009

21 Apr 2009

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Tonight we are celebrating the birthday of one of the great pioneers of Jazz: Lionel Hampton. Lionel wasn't the first to play the vibraphone nor was L...

Broadcast on 13-Apr-2009

14 Apr 2009

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This album was a real milestone in the career of Thelonious Monk as it was his first recording for Columbia Records, a major label. He was signed in 1...

Broadcast on 06-Apr-2009

07 Apr 2009

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Pianist/composer Randy Weston celebrates his 83rd birthday tonight (April 6) and to honour this 6' 7" musical giant, The Jazz Show presents Randy with...

Broadcast on 30-Mar-2009

31 Mar 2009

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Pianist/composer Andrew Hill was Alfred Lion's last great discovery. Lion,of course was Blue Note's head man and a lover of original pianist/composers...

Broadcast on 23-Mar-2009

24 Mar 2009

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This album was pianist/composer Horace Silver's third recording for Blue Note with his working band. The band, with this personal was captured at it's...

Broadcast on 16-Mar-2009

17 Mar 2009

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J.R. Monterose (Frank Anthony Monterose Jr.) was a very individual stylist who was very much in evidence on the New York Jazz scene in the mid-50's. J...

Broadcast on 09-Mar-2009

10 Mar 2009

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Trumpeter, Kenny Dorham was called "the uncrowned king" by drummer Art Blakey and it was indeed true. Kenny was a musician's musician and always seeme...

Broadcast on 02-Mar-2009

03 Mar 2009

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This classic begins The Jazz Show's tribute to the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. This album has been written about so extensively that it nee...

Broadcast on 16-Feb-2009

17 Feb 2009

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This classic date shows alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson's deep bop roots. Lou surrounded himself with the cream of New York's young stars in this Decem...

Broadcast on 09-Feb-2009

10 Feb 2009

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This edition of the Bill Evans Trio is very special as it features his favourite drummer Philly Joe Jones, who was a part of Bill's working trio for a...

Broadcast on 02-Feb-2009

03 Feb 2009

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Of all the bands that tenor saxophone giant Stan Getz put together, this one is the least documented. It was formed in 1953 and worked on the East Coa...

Broadcast on 26-Jan-2009

27 Jan 2009

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The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band was one of the great modern big bands. It's only rival was the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra which was formed...

Broadcast on 19-Jan-2009

20 Jan 2009

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This album by guitar virtuoso, Ralph Towner is once again in circulation by ECM Records. It's one of Towner's most impressive recordings as it feature...

Broadcast on 12-Jan-2009

13 Jan 2009

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Trumpeter Art Farmer is the nominal leader for this orchestra in that he solos on a few pieces and picked the all-brass orchestra from the great pool ...

Broadcast on 05-Jan-2009

06 Jan 2009

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This latter-day masterpiece by one of the most distinctive voices of the alto saxophone is the first Feature of the new year. Arthur Blythe is an extr...

Broadcast on 29-Dec-2008

30 Dec 2008

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Multi-instrumentalist, Eric Dolphy's recording debut under his own name was a startling reminder of some of the changes that were taking place in Jazz...

Broadcast on 22-Dec-2008

23 Dec 2008

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This immortal all-star session took place on Christmas Eve 1954. The date was nominally led by a newly revitalized Miles Davis who by early 1954 had s...

Broadcast on 15-Dec-2008

16 Dec 2008

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When Grant Green first came on the international Jazz scene and signed, upon the recommendation of alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, to Blue Note Record...

Broadcast on 08-Dec-2008

09 Dec 2008

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Yusef Lateef (born William Evans in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Detroit) was 80 years old on October 9 2008 and is still teaching/lecturing a...

Broadcast on 01-Dec-2008

02 Dec 2008

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Dizzy Gillespie was not only a great Jazz pioneer and an extraordinary trumpet player, composer, percussionist, band leader and excellent scat singer ...

Broadcast on 24-Nov-2008

25 Nov 2008

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This album was Stan Getz' pride and joy. The great tenor saxophonist had returned to the USA from a long stay in Europe in 1961 and found himself yest...

Broadcast on 17-Nov-2008

18 Nov 2008

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This is some of the best live music ever recorded....fresh and raw...vital with a street sense that is lacking in much of today's Jazz. This music is ...

Broadcast on 10-Nov-2008

11 Nov 2008

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One of Ellington's pivotal and innovative recordings that came out of a tour of the Middle East in cities like Baghdad, Isfahan, Damascus, Tehran, Kab...

Broadcast on 03-Nov-2008

04 Nov 2008

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Recorded on Oct. 20,1960 with just a quartet with Charles Mingus on bass leading Eric Dolphy on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Ted Curson on trumpe...

Broadcast on 27-Oct-2008

28 Oct 2008

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This is one of Monk's most important recordings and set the stage for his return to the forefront of Jazz. In the early 50's Monk, although his record...

Broadcast on 13-Oct-2008

14 Oct 2008

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Although not exactly a household name, vibist/composer Teddy Charles was one of the most important musicians in the 1950's. He was at the forefront of...

Broadcast on 06-Oct-2008

07 Oct 2008

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John Coltrane's pivotal album "Giant Steps" recorded in May of 1959 with a hand picked band including Tommy Flanagan on piano,Paul Chambers on bass an...

Broadcast on 29-Sep-2008

30 Sep 2008

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The late vibraphonist, Walt Dickerson, who was born in Philadelphia on April 16, 1928 and died on May 15, 2008 was an extraordinary musician who never...

Broadcast on 22-Sep-2008

23 Sep 2008

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This famous recording is Part 2 of our "back to school" mode and an annual Feature on The Jazz Show. Bernstein, who loved, respected and understood Ja...

Broadcast on 15-Sep-2008

16 Sep 2008

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Julian Edwin Adderley was born in Tampa,Florida on September 15, 1928 and died of a stroke in Los Angeles on August 8,1975 just shy of his 47th birthd...

Broadcast on 08-Sep-2008

09 Sep 2008

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This band was one of the most innovative and exciting groups of the 1980's. It's beginnings happened in what many consider to be Charles Mingus' last ...

Broadcast on 01-Sep-2008

02 Sep 2008

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This album is a bit of a misnomer as it was recorded in New York in the studio in March and April 1965, after the band had returned from a short(Ellin...

Broadcast on 25-Aug-2008

26 Aug 2008

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Carla Bley has had one of the most interesting and varied careers in Jazz and improvised music.Composer, pianist, arranger and band leader, Bley was b...

Broadcast on 18-Aug-2008

19 Aug 2008

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The legendary Louis Smith was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 20, 1931 and although felled by a stroke and not able to play anymore is still alive ...

Broadcast on 11-Aug-2008

12 Aug 2008

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Park "Pepper" Adams is without a doubt one of the great voices of the baritone saxophone. Adams rejected the softer approaches of Gerry Mulligan and S...

Broadcast on 04-Aug-2008

05 Aug 2008

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This most personal statement from this great Chicago-born tenor saxophonist, Clifford Jordan, is even more unique because all the tunes save for the s...

Broadcast on 28-Jul-2008

29 Jul 2008

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Pianist Ahmad Jamal is one of the major stylists and this trio with the underrated Israel Crosby on bass and Vernel Fournier on drums was one of Jamal...

Broadcast on 21-Jul-2008

22 Jul 2008

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Michael Brecker's final recording was not one of a man who was in the throes of pain and death but was an affirmation of life. Pianist Herbie Hancock ...

Broadcast on 14-Jul-2008

15 Jul 2008

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Dizzy Gillespie always rose to the occasion when playing in front of a big band whether it was his own, a reunion band or like this one.....put togeth...

Broadcast on 07-Jul-2008

08 Jul 2008

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Charlie Rouse, the underrated tenor saxophonist, was one of the great individual stylists on his horn and he rose to fame as Thelonious Monk's saxopho...