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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Jazz at 100 Hour 100: All Jazz Is Local
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz. We have heard the creative work ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 99: Highlights of the Current Decade.
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the last of a series of five programs featuring jazz since 1990, presented as a single selection for each year to reflect trends, career hi...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 98: Highlights of Jazz in the Late 2000s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the 98th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. The programs have chronologically followed the history of recorded jazz and, as we appr...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz at 100 Hour 97: Highlights of Jazz in the Early 2000s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the 97th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. We move now into the 21st century, presenting music from less than twenty years ago. Wh...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz at 100 Hour 96: Highlights of Jazz in the Late 1990s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the 96th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. As we present more recent music, we face the historian’s dilemma - what performances wi...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz at 100 Hour 95: Highlights of Jazz in the Early 1990s
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 y...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz at 100 Hour 94: John Zorn and The Downtown Scene
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Never far from the pulse of jazz innovation, New York in the 1980s incubated what has become known as the “downtown scene.” Radically multi-stylist...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz at 100 Hour 93: Music from the Black Saint Label
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Ironically, the record label that most consistently offered an outlet for the American jazz avant-garde in the 1980s was the Italian Black Saint / ...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Jazz at 100 Hour 92: David Murray & the World Saxophone Quartet
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Perhaps no jazz musician recorded a more varied output in more diverse setting in the 1980s than tenor saxophone and bass clarinet player David Mur...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 91: Whither Freedom?
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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In the 1980s, the avant-garde, although still home to many fine free jazz players, increasingly adopted an ecumenical approach to historical styles...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 90: Art Blakey and the Young Lions
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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As the 1970s came to a close, many musicians searching for alternatives to jazz-rock fusion or free jazz found a home in straight-ahead acoustic ja...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 89: The Second Acts of Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, & Johnny Griffin
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Perfectly timed to reinforce the value of acoustic mainstream jazz and provide an alternative to both fusion and free jazz, Art Pepper, Dexter Gord...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Jazz at 100 Hour 88: Acoustic Jazz Lives
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Jazz-rock fusion was a powerful force in the music in the early seventies, but noticeably began to run out of steam mid-decade. European influences...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Jazz at 100 Hour 87: Jazz From Europe on ECM
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Previously in this series we have surveyed record labels as representative of the jazz trends in their times – for example bebop on Dial in the 40s...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Jazz at 100 Hour 86: Weather Report
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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By 1970, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were recognized as two of the finest hard bop composers and players having contributed the full range of the...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Jazz at 100 Hour 85: Chick Corea Acoustic and Electric
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Chick Corea began recording as a sideman for artists like Mongo Santamaria, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann and Cal Tjader in 1962. In 1966, his began t...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 17
Jazz at 100 Hour 84: John McLaughlin & The Mahavishnu Orchestra
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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British guitarist John McLaughlin contributed to creating the bold new sound of Miles Davis’s great proto-fusion works, In A Silent Way and Bitches...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 17
Jazz at 100 Hour 83: Road to Fusion
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rh...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 16
Jazz at 100 Hour 82: Jazz From South Africa
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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The brutal repression of the subversive mixed-race jazz subculture in South Africa led to the emigration of several important musicians whose work ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Jazz at 100 Hour 81: Soul Jazz - Saxophonists and Pianists
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Soul Jazz developed in the late 1950s and become a staple of ghetto jukeboxes. Its catchy lines, heavy beat and blues-influenced phasing became a p...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19

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