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Masters Part 3

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:34:47 +0000

The final installment of a 3 part series of Masters of Jazz music. Trane, Miles, Blakey and more are represented here.

11.14.09

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:31:20 +0000

A mix of some great music I’ve been listening to, spanning many styles of jazz. Highlights include Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, and Thomas Chapin.

The Masters - Part 2

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:36:41 +0000

This podcast is part 2 of a 3 hour radio special I did recently on the Masters of Jazz. This one features Sonny, Miles, Wes, Cannonball, Rashaan and more. Part 3 will show up next time my regular broadcast is pre-empted for sports programing, which happens frequently during this time of year. So, keep downloading these podcasts.

A Ghostly Podcast

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:13:08 +0000

We get into the Halloween spirit with this scary collection of jazz tunes. Voodoo, Black Magic, Zombies, Ghosts and more for this weeks selection of tunes. For an entire CD of music inspired by ghosts and goblins, I would recommend Greg Abate’s Monsters of the Night. One of the tunes closes out this weeks podcast, but Greg brews up an entire CD of hard driving compositions inspired by the Halloween theme. Featured Album Monsters In The Night at Amazon.com

Masters Part 1

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:04:30 +0000

This is part 1 of a special 3 hour broadcast. I will reserve publishing part 2-3 for weeks when my show is preempted for sports, which happens often during the fall semester at UCONN.

Afternoon Fill-in

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:23:02 +0000

With my regular Saturday evening show pre-empted for sports, I dig out an afternoon fill-in I did back in March of this year. It is an eclectic mix of fusion, bop, Indian and classic rock. Hope you enjoy the variety of this mix.

Heard in Hartford

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:19:40 +0000

Jazz fans in the Hartford area are very fortunate to have access to great live music in such abundance. Lately we have our friend Andres Chapparo to thank for producing many of the concerts here. He has brought us the Pork Pie Hat Jazz series with shows every couple of weeks through the Fall and early Winter. Friday we saw the Avery Sharpe Trio, and in following weeks we will be presented with Ralph Peterson, Antonio Hart and more. Also of note are local jazz heroes Steve Davis and the Luques and Zaccai Curtis who continue to perform for us here in Hartford despite having a busy career traveling around the world playing jazz with their own ensembles and playing with some of the greats of the genre. All of the aformentioned jazz artists are represented here in this jazz podcast.

The Envelope

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:38:21 +0000

I was happy to fill-in for Joel Krut’s Pushing the Envelope on WHUS one Thursday Evening in July. This podcast is a recording of a segment of that show.

Pork Pie Hat

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:00:50 +0000

This podcast celebrates tenor sax great Prez, Pork Pie Hat, Lester Young. This year is the Centenial of the Prez’ birth. Lester Young was one of the influential jazz artists of the 1940’s and 50’s. He played with Count Basie and Billy Holiday and many others. His mellow full tone on tenor is featured on this podcast. Pork Pie Hat is also the name of a jazz series of live concerts going on now in the Hartford area. We feature some of the artists performing in that series on this show.

Playlist Track * Artist * Album All of Me * Lester Young * Pres and Teddy Almost Like Being in Love * Lester Young * Tea for Two Goodbye Porkpie Hat * Kevin Mohogany * Another Time Another Place Matrix * Ignacio Berroa * Codes Bolivia * Cedar Walton * Eastern Rebellion Turn it Over * Ralph Peterson * The Reclamation Project Auditory Illusion * Antonio Hart * All We Need The Children and the Warlock * Harry Whitaker * Thoughts (Past and Present) The Temple of the Olympic Zeus * Eric Alexander * Temple of Olympic Zeus Necessity * Insight * A Genesis

Autumnal Equinox

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:29:02 +0000

This podcast celebrates autumn’s equinox (September 22) in jazz music. At the same time, we are honoring what would have been John Coltrane’s 83rd birthday (September 23). What better way to achieve both than by playing Coltrane’s classic Equinox. We’ll follow this by Steve Kuhn’s rendition of Autumn Leaves.

Dave Holland Speaks to ITG

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:48:31 +0000

Prior to his performance at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lennox, MA, I had the opportunity to interview jazz bassist Dave Holland. We spoke about the beginning of his career in jazz, working with Miles, his thoughts on composition and bass playing.

Summer Jazz Part 2

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:57:32 +0000

Labor day weekend marks the end of the summer and this podcast is second half of last weeks summer recap show. It was a great summer for catching live jazz music. Dig these tunes by Seamus Blake and the norwegian organ trio Solid led by guitarist Bjorn Solli. We saw these cats playing at Smalls Jazz Cafe in NYC. Jason Palmer is represented on two tracks in this playlist. A fine trumpet player and composer, he plays every weekend at Wally’s Cafe and Jazz club in Boston. The first of these tracks also features Ravi Coltrane on sax. We saw Jason accompany Ravi’s quartet this summer at the Zinc Bar in New York city this summer. Locally we heard pianist Nando Michelin and alto sax great Mike DiRubbo playing in jazz ensembles at here in Hartford and they laid us on to their latest CD’s to share with you on this podcast.

featured album

Songbook on Amazon.com

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Way Out Willy * Seamus Blake * Way Out Willy
Normy * Solid * Happy Accidents
Paula * Nando Michelin * Reencontro
The Shadowboxer * Jason Palmer * Songbook
Will there ever be employment for the Exonerated People * Jason Palmer * Songbook
Deja vu * Mike Dirubbo * Repercussion

Summer Jazz

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:58:45 +0000

Summer is the season of jazz. There are great festivals all over the country, outdoor concerts, and warm summer nights at hip jazz clubs. Its a great time to hang in NYC and go club hopping till the early morning hours. This summer was particularly fine for seeing great live music. Of course, Newport was the highlight, but we saw some great music here at the Monday night Jazz series in the park, at Black Eyed Sally’s and in NYC. Next weekend is the Tanglewood Jazz festival in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. This radio show highlights some of the great artists who performed this summer in Southern New England.

Mostly Piano

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:11:42 +0000

This podcast showcases some great pianists. Among those featured are Robert Glasper, with a new CD to be released this week, and Joey Calderazzo, who we were very impressed with at the Newport Jazz Festival two weeks ago. Also in the mix are two smokin’ tracks by the incomparable McCoy Tyner. The two recordings are from the 1970’s, when Tyner was at the top of his game.

Newport Jazz Festival 2009 Review

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:23:54 +0000

I covered the 2009 Newport Jazz Festival for WHUS and this blog/podcast. Coverage of the event consisted of a NJF Preview show, a written review of the event, photo gallery, and a Post Festival review podcast. They are all presented here for your viewing, reading and listening pleasure. I also included a link to NPR’s excellent coverage of the event that includes recorded performances that you can download as a podcast or listen to as streaming audio. Enjoy!

Fiat Fun

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:31:15 +0000

I am at Newport Jazz Festivial this week, so I didn’t have my regular show on WHUS. Here is a show I did in another time slot. Kind of rocked out on this one. Hope you enjoy.

Newport Preview

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:16:02 +0000

George Wein has put together a creative and artistic lineup for the 55th Newport Jazz Festival. From legendary masters like Tony Bennet and Dave Brubeck, to the lions of jazz like Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, to the avante garde like Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthapa. Even Hip-Hop is represented with Mos Def. This is going to be an exciting festival.

New Fusion

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:02:38 +0000

Walk on the Moon

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:54:25 +0000

Monday July 20th marks the 40th anniversary of Appollo 14 walk on the moon. A pretty amazing feat for 1969. This has little or nothing to do with this weeks jazz program, but I couldn’t think of a theme or a name for the show. Actually one tracks on this show is titled “Lunar”, from one of our favorite alto sax players, Mike DiRubbo, so we might as well use his fine newly released CD as our featured album of the week.

Jazz on the River

jazzandbeyond — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:30:47 +0000

Most of this show features our friend Andres Chaparro from Beatnik Entertainment and his Jazz on the River series. Beginning this Wednesday, July 15 with the Winard Harper Quartet and for six consecutive Wednesday evenings there will be some great performances at a new venue for Jazz. These shows will be hosted at Albert’s Riverside on 1530 Palisado Ave., Windsor, CT. For more information see Andres’ website at www.beatnik-entertainment.com. Come out to Albert’s Riverside for some killer jazz music, and good food. Support jazz in Hartford.