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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Chet Baker’s trumpet provides a “Tidal Breeze” for our sendoff, Michigan State University’s guitarist Randy Napoleon has the right addition of Aubr...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Character of action, freedom of spirit characterizes our mood this day. Starting in the collector’s corner, with Monk’s “Brilliant Corners,” worth ...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Giving away in order to keep, sharing our music is the thing. We hit all decades ’50s thru now this episode, we’ve got the big and small groups, vo...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 8
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Sometimes a resolution, other times an evolution, step one is to show up. From Nashville to Wheeling we go, dancing our way with David Berger and h...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:03
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In the beginning, music is intense and up-tempo for saxophonist Walt Weiskopf (with drummer Anders Mogensen), and torrid tempos continue from as fa...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Our voice activation and metadata is when we crack the mike and back announce a record. B3 organ starts this tour, all the pleasures of life hittin...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
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Won’t be long ’til we get things right, gonna do our business in the broad daylight. Every decade from the ‘40s to the ‘20s is represented in two h...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Mallet man Bobby Hutcherson recorded prolifically from the ‘60s until passing in 2016, here he displays amazing energy and imagination on marimba a...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
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Our ingredients are organic, no chemical additives like other radio casts might add. One of jazz’s biggest hits, “Moanin’” by Art Blakey, begins ou...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
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Mr. Blues, Hank Crawford, the sax man from the Ray Charles band, starts our show from the 1990s and a particularly poignant singer named Rene Marie...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
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For starters it’s the ultimate tribute irony: Leader Joey DeFrancesco on organ, who died in August 2022, welcoming guest saxophonist Pharaoh Sander...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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We play the obscure so you don’t have to. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays “Blues Walk” (the Clifford Brown/Sonny Stitt tune, not the Lou Donaldson ...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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Spirited piano starts our first track, with Kevin Hays revealing what they do with “Scrapple from the Apple.” Next, Herbie Hancock re-unites his ‘6...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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We’ve got CDs, vinyl, digital files and even tapes, we stop at nothing to find a groove, “our footprint, our presence.” Alto sax player Eric Perso...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Our opening musician is no amateur, Lou Donaldson is today a 95-year old seasoned alto sax player! He is followed by Bobby Watson, also an alto sax...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
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Trumpet great Arturo Sandoval heads up a new group of similar young hot musicians as the original crowd he came to America with from Cuba almost 50...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
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As in a lunar eclipse, our presentation has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Vibraphonist Milt Jackson brings on a fiery performance including sa...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Blues men and vocalists of any kind fall out this entire episode, in fact not a big band to be heard for a solid mile. THESE ARE CRIMES. As we awai...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
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Emerging guitarist David Blake begins a program of innovation, and although we have the latest EP by Sara Gazarek, we discovered an astonishing 200...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Straight ahead, Calgary drummer Bobby Wiens speaks volumes from a session he recorded in mid lockdown, in safe harbor and from the deep tracks cate...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9