Notes from the Jazz Underground

Series produced by WDCB

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Notes from the Jazz Underground is where Jazz gets a little weirder, a little louder, and a little more on the edge.

Notes from the Jazz Underground is produced by Paul Abella at WDCB in Chicago. A show that focuses on the fringes of Jazz, Notes From the Jazz Underground is where you'll hear avant-garde Jazz, Fusion, Modern Jazz and Jazz that's outside the mainstream.


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230 Pieces

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Notes from the Jazz Underground #90
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, let's listen to titans of the Avant-Garde, titans of funk, and some more great stuff to boot. Grant Green, Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Hi...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #89
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some great Jazz from Nigeria, Mali, London, and Chicago. We'll hear some great pairings, including George Benson and Tony Wil...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #88
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll bookend the shows with Jazz versions of music from Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, with a gooey middle filled with Keith Jarrett, D...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #87
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we're honing in on some great releases from 2020, and we'll hear from Lakecia Benjamin, Nubya Garcia, Ted Poor, Immanuel Wilkens and more!

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #86 BRASS BANDS
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll party in New Orleans, New York, New Delhi, Chicago and London as we get down to the sounds of the modern day brass bands.

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #85
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some well traversed pathways in the Notes from the Jazz Underground universe: music from John Scofield, Charlie Hunter (with ...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #84
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we spend some time celebrating Jerry Garcia. He dipped his toes in the Jazz waters a handful of times, and we'll hear him with Ornette C...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #83
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll get weird with Dweezil Zappa, we'll get funky with Zony Mash and the Sugarman 3, we'll go Honky-Tonkin' with Astroturf Noise, and ...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #82
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear electrified ragas, raging guitars, new music from Avishai Cohen and Derrick Hodge, and more!

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #81
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we're going to hear a lot of music, and most of it is new! New music from Amina Figarova, Jazz is Dead, The Bad Plus, some great stuff f...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #80
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear Latin Jazz from the Underground, with stops in San Juan, Havana, Chicago, Sing-Sing Prison, Yankee Stadium and more!

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #79
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll get electronic with Mark Guiliana's Beat Music, electric with Keith Emerson, and eclectic with Brownout, Russell Gunn and Gil Scot...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #78
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some fantastic slabs of 1970's Jazz funk from Grover Washington, Jr, Bob James, Eddie Harris, Ramsey Lewis and more. And, we'...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #77
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll take a listen to some excellent Jazz-Funk, some free jazz, some freer jazz, and a set of music that fuses Jazz, Post-Rock and Hous...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #76
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear Jazz from the 50's, Jazz from today, Jazz/Hip-Hop Fusion, a big band, and more. New music from Ambrose Akinmusire and Butcher...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #75
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll go in a few directions, from Jazz interpretations of classical music, to energetic shows of chops galore. Join me for an hour fill...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #74
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, a little of everything, from Miles Davis to off the wall cello music. We'll hear from pianist Kris Davis, new music from Enzo Carniel & ...

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  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #73 - Alice Coltrane
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this week, we'll take a look at one of the most unique keyboardists and harpists in the last 50 plus years of Jazz history, Alice Coltrane. We'll h...

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  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Notes from the Jazz Underground #72
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we're going to have two sets with two different ideas...light and darkness. We'll hear the freedom of "the new thing" in the early to mi...

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  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Notes from the Jazz Underground #71
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we're spending most of the hour with Medeski, Martin and Wood. We'll hear them acoustic and electric, on their own, and with John Scofie...

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  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3

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