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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: 15
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: 15
The Primitive Quartet, Ambassadors of Southern Gospel
From: Dale Neal
Series: Down The Road On The Music Trails Of North Carolina
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The Primitive Quartet, Ambassadors of Southern Gospel

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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: 18
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: 17
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: 17
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: 17
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: 16
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: 15
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: 17
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: 19
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: 18
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: 17
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: 20
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: 20
Jazz at 100 Hour 80: Soul Jazz - Organ Trios and Quartets
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Rarely has a jazz instrument been so completely redefined as the organ was at the hands of Jimmy Smith. In his wake, the Hammond B3 organ gained wi...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Jazz at 100 Hour 79: Soul Jazz - Guitar
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these play...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
'The Stone Age' Program 226
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: "The Stone Age" with Dan Wargo
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This one hour program is presented with the idea of airing authentic and original music from the electric era of the 60's and 70's...Many styles ar...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Hour 78: Sons of Miles – Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Tony Williams
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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During the five-year tenure of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968), Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were very active o...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Jazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – ...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 20
Hour 76: Joe Henderson
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is “…an irresistibly lucid pl...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Jazz at 100 Hour 75: The Hard Bop / Avant-Garde Synergy of Andrew Hill
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label ...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
Hour 74: The Avant-Garde
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Nurtured in the seminal recordings of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in the mid to late 1950s, the jazz avant-garde came into its own in the 1960...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
Hour 73: Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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Fate could not have treated Blue Note saxophonists Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean more differently. While McLean released nine LPs for Prestige and ...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
18-29 When Politics and Music Collide! Music from Elizabeth's England, Franco's Spain, Castro's Cuba/Interviews: Paul O'Dette, Ronn McFarlane, Pepe Romero, Manuel Barrueco
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Queen Elizabeth I playing a lute
Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife ...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 40