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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
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
- Added: May 08, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
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
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome the Alyssa Allgood Quartet, with the wonderful vocalist, Alyssa Allgood, backed by Tom Vaitsas on the pia...
- Added: Apr 24, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
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
James McMurtry is a storyteller of the highest order. He is a performer who can guide you to the widest emotional extremes, not just in one concert...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Mar 14, 2023
- Length: 56:26
- Purchases: 1
Dusty Ray Simmons, the multi-instrumentalist and soul singer-songwriter hailing from Richmond, VA, joins me as my esteemed guest. During our conver...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 59:00
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
An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.
Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 39
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
Recording artist, singer/songwriter and producer Tufawon has gained notoriety In Minnesota and internationally for his powerful songs of protest an...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 05:05
- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
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
Ben Trenerry, and his Rock music project Prince Bishop, has created an emotional and intelligent Karmic map to finding inner peace with Prince Bish...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Feb 13, 2023
- Length: 56:42
- Purchases: 1
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
