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Recordings that pianist Bill Evans made as a sideman and as a leader in the year following his bassist Scott La Faro’s death in an automobile accid...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Music of the Terre Haute, Indiana, big-band leader whose 1940s orchestra helped pave the way for cool jazz.
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...
- Added: May 07, 2023
- Length: 59:01
An overview of the pianist and composer's career--one of the longest-running and most creative in the history of American jazz. We'll hear music fr...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In light of Ahmad Jamal's passing on April 16, 2023, we're highlighting the pianist’s frequently-overlooked late 1960s/early 70s stretch on the Imp...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 59:00
In the early 1970s trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made a series of records for the CTI label that combined hardbop, funk, modality, and 70s groove.
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In the 1960s, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter composed a torrent of music for Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and his own albums as a leader on the Blue N...
- Added: Mar 10, 2023
- Length: 59:01
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 59:03
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Wes Montgomery was one of the most influential jazz guitarists of his generation. In recent years newly-discovered live recordings have surfaced, a...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Exploring tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s triumphant return to the United States in the mid-1970s and the last years of his career.
- Added: Feb 19, 2023
- Length: 59:01
In late 1966 the fiercely individualistic singer and pianist Nina Simone signed with RCA Records and continued her genre-bending explorations of ja...
- Added: Feb 09, 2023
- Length: 59:02
Pianist Don Shirley combined classical, jazz, and spiritual influences on the many recordings he made in the 1950s and 60s. A forgotten figure in ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 59:02
The first in a recurring series of shows explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Again...
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
This hour explores Duke Ellington’s music for the 1959 film Anatomy Of A Murder and John Lewis’ score for Odds Against Tomorrow, released the same ...
Bought by KRCU Public Radio and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Jan 20, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
In 1969, Manfred Eicher founded what would become one of the world’s most successful and influential jazz record labels. We’ll hear recordings from...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Vibraphonist Gary Burton was still a teenager when he burst onto the 1960s jazz scene, going on to work with Stan Getz and make a number of memorab...
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.
- Added: Jan 05, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Night Lights celebrates the holidays with jazz from Fats Waller, Joe Williams, Claude Thornhill, and more.
Bought by KCME, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and WCVE
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Ralph Burns was one of a number of young arrangers who emerged in the aftermath of World War II and the peak of the swing era. This tribute feature...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 59:05
Jazz interpretations of spirituals from John Coltrane, Grant Green, Albert Ayler, and others.
- Added: Dec 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
A look at the early jazz career and subsequent Peanuts success of pianist Vince Guaraldi, including interviews with jazz critic Doug Ramsey, Guaral...
- Added: Dec 02, 2022
- Length: 59:01
It's Thanksgiving time in America and we are talking turkeys, and sage grouse, and taking your calls on our scary-story line. What does the arrival...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 23, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Night Lights explores Hoagy Carmichael’s Hollywood period, which yielded the hit songs “Two Sleepy People,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” and “In The Cool,...
- Added: Nov 17, 2022
- Length: 58:59
