Jazz at 100

Series produced by WTJU

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"Jazz at 100” is that story – one hundred years of jazz recordings – in 100 one-hour programs that will present representative music from a century of recorded jazz history

In early 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recording. Over the next 100 years we have heard transcendent leaps of creativity and staggering virtuosity; we have experienced the music of crushing pain, breathless romance, anger, exhilaration and humor. “Jazz at 100” is that story – one hundred years of jazz recordings – in 100 one-hour programs that will present representative music from a century of recorded jazz history. The series will explore the broad sweep of that narrative; its representative and its idiosyncratic players; its durable movements and dead ends; its popular recordings and rarities.


100 Pieces

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Jazz at 100 Hour 80: Soul Jazz - Organ Trios and Quartets
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Rarely has a jazz instrument been so completely redefined as the organ was at the hands of Jimmy Smith. In his wake, the Hammond B3 organ gained wi...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Jazz at 100 Hour 79: Soul Jazz - Guitar
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these play...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 78: Sons of Miles – Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Tony Williams
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Series: Jazz at 100
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During the five-year tenure of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968), Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were very active o...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Jazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – ...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 76: Joe Henderson
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is “…an irresistibly lucid pl...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Jazz at 100 Hour 75: The Hard Bop / Avant-Garde Synergy of Andrew Hill
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label ...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 74: The Avant-Garde
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Nurtured in the seminal recordings of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in the mid to late 1950s, the jazz avant-garde came into its own in the 1960...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 73: Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Fate could not have treated Blue Note saxophonists Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean more differently. While McLean released nine LPs for Prestige and ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Jazz at 100 Hour 72: Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Roland Kirk, who began recording in 1956, had been an ideal sideman for Charles Mingus, appearing on the 1961 release Oh Yeah. In the 1960s, he est...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 71: Silenced in Their Prime - Eric Dolphy & Booker Little
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Series: Jazz at 100
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From his first recordings with Chico Hamilton in 1958 until his unnecessary death from misdiagnosed diabetic shock in 1964, Eric Dolphy was limited...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Jazz at 100 Hour 70: Charles Mingus in the 1960s
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Charles Mingus completed the 1950s with an astonishing series of releases in 1959 - Blues and Roots, followed by Mingus Ah Um and finally, Mingus D...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 69: School of Trane – Wayne Shorter, Archie Shepp, Charles Lloyd, & Pharoah Sanders
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Series: Jazz at 100
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No tenor player cast a larger shadow over the 1960’s than John Coltrane. Arguably, that time frame could be expanded to include all decades since, ...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 68: John Coltrane – The Final Act
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Series: Jazz at 100
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John Coltrane is undoubtedly one of the most influential players in the history of jazz, yet his important work fits within a brief twelve-year per...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 67: The Legacy of Jimmy Giuffre and Lennie Tristano
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and pianist Lennie Tristano were heavily influential in the musical explorations of the 1960s. The Jimmy Giuffre Trio rec...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 66: Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)
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Series: Jazz at 100
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As hard bop was running out of steam and rock & roll was becoming the music of choice for the younger audience, many musicians were building on the...

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  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 65: Hard Bop Trumpet, Part 2
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Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the final hour of a four-part sequence featuring important tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 64: Hard Bop Trumpet, Part 1
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In this portion of Jazz at 100, we are featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue...

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  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 63: Hard Bop Tenor, Part 2
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In this portion of Jazz at 100, we are featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue...

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  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 62: Hard Bop Tenor, Part 1
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Over the next four hours of Jazz at 100, we’ll be featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we wi...

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  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 61: Horace Silver Continued
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Despite revisionist history that suggests that the energy of hard bop was spent by the time the sixties came, in the last hour we heard from the gr...

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  • Added: May 01, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18

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