Full Moon Hacksaw

Series produced by KRDP

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Full Moon Hacksaw is a weekly two-hour radio series spotlighting an eclectic mix of classic and modern Jazz and Blues music, hosted by Arizona radio veteran Tom "Hacksaw" Coulson.

The program is free and stations have the option of carrying it in one of three formats:
(a) 2 consecutive hours weekly,
(b) Two non-consecutive one hour programs weekly, or
(c) As a one hour program weekly (either hour 1 or hour 2)

Full Moon Hacksaw features great stories, rare and emerging recordings, as well as conversations with musicians and aficionados.

Produced by Radio Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona, the program is available nationally to college, community, and public radio stations from Pacifica Radio and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX).


Additional Files

515 Pieces

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Christian McBride opens preceedings with a tight big band arrangement of a Miles tune, pianist Hank Jones celebrates Bobby Timmons. For daily tromb...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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It’s Basie with electric bass, an arrangement unlike his sound, African rhythms, and an obscure label. How’d you do that, man? Saxophonists Pete Ch...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Old and new, whacky & rhythmic. We’ve got the “BEst ANd” only BEAN, Coleman Hawkins, inventor of jazz saxophone, and we’ve got a pianist from today...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Monk, Muddy, Milt, Moody & Mulligan music is made this episode. First Thelonious Monk features trumpeter Clark Terry uncredited, a recording by the...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Always with it, on our way to tune in the radio or log on to FullMoonHacksaw.com. This is a piano-heavy show with many recent releases, for example...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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More previously unreleased 2018 material from the late Harold Mabern is being released, and we bring in Charles Neville from the famous New Orleans...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Let’s drop in on trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in the days of Kenny Barron and James Moody, then take another trip across the Atlantic for John Coltran...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Veteran JJ Johnson leads from the trombone including Freddie Hubbard for openers, Jeff Rupert and George Garzone represent tandem tenor saxophones ...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A standard tune about 30 years old when recorded in ’69, now the remake by organist Charles Earland of “Undecided” is over 50 years old. Pianist/co...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In listening back at our favorite tracks played on-air during 2021, we do not start out subtly: The forceful Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra is sanc...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 7
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We have made an attempt to review the year of 2021 new jazz releases in part. We start with guitarist Dave Stryker backed by organ, to the big band...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Serious jazz and a touch of blues for a brand new year, Joe Henderson’s tenor sax was recorded on Blue Note Records at the recommendation of trumpe...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Regional superstars of the blues open our episode, Frank Frost and Sam Carr were the Jelly Roll Kings of the south. Born in Muskogee Oklahoma was p...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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We can’t ignore the dynamic Salsa Big Band of Machito, during the latter but still-powerful stage of his career, and so effortlessly into the Moder...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
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We are reunited with a couple excellent but rare piano albums from the ’70s. Beginning with a rumble we hear Monty Alexander in his prime, playing ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Lively and fun, the bouncing of Barney Kessell’s guitar resounds among our reception areas, with Jimmy Witherspoon the only next logical bearer of ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
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We keep digging and sorting, nothin' like it when ya need it. Trumpeter Eddie Henderson drives his red Ferrari to gigs, Gal Costa sings a Brazilian...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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A new release from studious flutist Tom Keenlyside is featured to start our weekly broadcast, followed by the irreplaceable Charles Mingus. Saxopho...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Back and forth we go, from saxophonist Illinois Jacquet’s appropriately entitled “Hot Rod” to the contemplative Howard Britz Trio of today, and mea...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Covering decades from the 1960s to the 2020s, in the beginning we start with prime cuts. Like saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, simmering i...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 10