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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Hour 60: The Jazz Messengers Continued
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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As the 1960s began Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers were fueled by the compositions of Wayne Shorter with the front line of Shorter and Lee Morgan. In ...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, t...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 58: Still Swinging
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Duke Ellington and Benny Carter, whose careers stretched back to the 1920s, continued to be vital musical presences in the 1960s. In this hour we w...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Hour 57: Jazz Singers in the 1960s
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Series: Jazz at 100
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The 1960s featured many recordings by highly musical singers in the company of great jazz instrumentalists. In this hour of Jazz at 100, we will su...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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Hour 56: Bebop Lives
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Bebop was a revolutionary new music in the late 1930s, dominated jazz in the 1940s, and powerfully influenced all jazz that followed. By the 1960s ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 55: The Modern Jazz Quartet in the 1960s
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Series: Jazz at 100
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As the Modern Jazz Quartet, members of which were once Dizzy Gillespie’s rhythm section in the 1940s, moved into the 1960s, they continued to swing...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 54: The Return of Dexter Gordon
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Series: Jazz at 100
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After spending most of the 1950s in jail for two different drug busts, Dexter Gordon was paroled in 1960 and preceded to record a legendary series ...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Hour 53: The Piano Trios – Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, & Bill Evans
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Series: Jazz at 100
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While there were influential piano trios in the 1940s (Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano, or Nat King Cole, for example), the format rea...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 38:10
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Jazz at 100 Hour 52: Miles Davis & the First Great Quintet (Sextet)
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Miles Davis was more than a trumpet player, composer and taste-maker - he led some of the greatest bands in the history of jazz. In this hour, we w...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Hour 51: The Alto After Bird
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Series: Jazz at 100
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When Charlie Parker died at 34 in 1955, it was as if an ancient tree fell in the forest with the resulting sunlight promoting the growth of numerou...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 50: Vocalese
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Arising out of bebop vocals, a number of singers in the 1950s began to replicate famous instrumental solos with the human voice. The practice, init...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 49: Jazz Singers in the 1950s
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Many jazz singers of the 1950s continued the tradition of recording with major instrumentalists who were given the space to improvise, feeding off ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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Hour 48: The Experimentalists - Russell,Taylor, Coleman and Dolphy
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In the wake of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins came a wave of players eager to experiment further within the broadening definition ...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Hour 47: The Experimentalists – Mingus, Rollins, and Coltrane
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In his book Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965, David Rosenthal outlines a group of musicians within the hard bop idiom that he identifies as...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 46: The Songbooks
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began record...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23
Hour 45: Norman Granz and Verve Records
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In July 2, 1944, Norman Granz, a jazz fan and small-time LA promoter staged a concert in the Philharmonic Auditorium with $300 of borrowed money. H...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 44: West Coast Piano - Dave Brubeck, Hampton Hawes, Nat King Cole
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Series: Jazz at 100
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In the last hour, we heard from Thelonious Monk, Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols – three closely associated New York pianists in the 1950s. In this ho...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Jazz at 100 Hour 43: Monk and Friends: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, & Elmo Hope in the 1950s
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Series: Jazz at 100
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The 1950s were a very productive decade for Thelonious Monk, perhaps his most productive as a composer. During the fifties his reputation and impac...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
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Hour 42: The Chicago Sound
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Series: Jazz at 100
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Because it acted as a safe harbor for the New Orleans diaspora of the teens and twenties, Chicago played a key role in early jazz. By the 1950s, mu...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
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Jazz at 100 Hour 41: The Lyricists - Benny Golson, Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer
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Series: Jazz at 100
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“Musicians of a gentler, more lyrical bent … found in hard bop a more congenial climate than bebop had offered: for instance, trumpeter Art Farmer,...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 23

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