In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond

WHUS Radiothon 2010

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Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Simplicity * Silvano Monastario * Fostered
Pentagram, The Wolfman * Greg Abate * Monsters in the Night
Line of Flight * Steve Davis * Outlook
March of the Lost Children * Zawinul * Brown Street
Now! * Noah Baerman * Bliss
Cherokee * Rob Garcia 4 * Perennial
Real Nice * Noah Preminger * Dry Bridge Road

Jazz 'n Soul

This weeks podcast is a soulful one, but not in the obvious sense of Jimmy Smith or Ray Charles. It starts out with the classic rock group War and a 13+ minute instrumental called City, Country, City. We follow up with some soulful new jazz from Wayne Escoffery and Noah Baerman followed by jazz masters Charles Mingus and Stan Getz.
Featured Album

Soul Force from amazon.com

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
City Country City * War * The World is a Ghetto
Nu-Soul * Wayne Escoffery * Uptown
Soul Force * Noah Baerman * Soul Force
Tastes Like Chedda * Noah Baerman * Bliss
Remember the Goldfish * Playdate * Playdate
Things Ain't What They Used To Be * Charles Mingus * Ah Um
Times Lie * Stan Getz * Captain Marvel on amazon.com

Back from Fla

Returned from Florida, refreshed and renewed to bring you more great jazz. While in Miami, we stopped in at Van Dykes. A fine restaurant and jazz club, serving up live music 7 days a week. While there we were introduced to Silvano Monasterios, a great jazz pianist and composer. His group blew us away. In this podcast we feature along with Silvano, other great artists. The show starts with Ed Thigpen, the great drummer who passed away last month. Later in the show we feature many great young talent from the New York City jazz scene.
Featured Album

From CD Baby, iTunes

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Lonnies Lament * Ed Thigpen * The Element of Swing
Bittersweet * Silvano Monasterios * Fostered
Softly * Silvano Monasterios * Jazz Impressions
African Song * Bill McHenry * Roses
Echolalia * Ben Monder * Oceana
Trees * Dan Tepfer and Lee Konitz * Duos with Lee
Tautology * Lee Konitz * Subconscious-Lee
Mali * John Patitucci * Remembrance
Somewhere * Vijay Iyer Trio * Historocity
Mystic Brew * Vijay Iyer Trio * Historocity

Valentines weekend show

This show was recorded the day before Valentines day. No real theme to the show, in fact I don't even mention the Hallmark card holiday. The majority of the playlist comes from talented young musicians/composers that are having an impact on the future of jazz music. Hope you enjoy the tunes.
Featured Artist

Double Booked from amazon.com

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Back Road * Jeremy Pelt * Men of Honor
Fugue * John Funkhauser Trio * Time
When Seaguls Fly * Noah Preminger * Dry Bridge Road
All Matter * Robert Glasper * Double Booked
Think of One * Robert Glasper * Double Booked
The Hutch * Ken Fowser/Ben Gilece * Full View
Maimi Jazz Scene * Jean Caze * Miami Jazz Scene
Valley of Neptune * Jimi Hendrix * Valley of Neptune

Waiting for Kenny

As we were waiting for the arrival of Kenny Barron for an exclusive WHUS interview (see last weeks podcast), we kicked back and played some great tunes from Rob Garcia 4, Chris Potter, Les McCann and Danillo Perez. This weeks and last weeks podcast can be listened to as a set with this podcast being the first part of the show.
Featured Album

Follow The Red Line - Live At The Village Vanguard, from Amazon.com

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Vortex * Rob Garcia 4 * Perennial
Wongs Way * Greg Abate & Alan Barnes * Birds of a Feather
Morning Bell * Chris Potter * Underground
Togo * Chris Potter * Follow The Red Line - Live At The Village Vanguard
Another Star * Cedar Walton * Voices Deep Within
Compared to What * Les McCann & Eddie Harris * Swiss Movement
Elegant Dance * Danilo Perez * Motherland

Monterey Jazz comes to WHUS

We were honored to have Kenny Barron and Regina Carter, currently with the Monterey Jazz Festival Tour, come to the WHUS studios for a live interview. Kenny Barron, a true grand master of jazz piano, and the wonderfully talented violinist Regina Carter speak about music and the jazz scene with me in between concerts held at University of Connecticut. We start out the show with an inspiring recording form John Coltrane and a Connecticut favorite and friend of the show, pianist Craig Hartley.

Links: More pics, Jazz Note SDP



Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Love * John Coltrane * Meditations
The Old Country * Craig Hartley, Bob Simonelli, Eric Nebbia * The Old Country
For Someone I Love * Regina Carter * Motor City Memories
Images * Kenny Barron * Images
Voyage * Stan Getz * Soul Eyes
Reverie * Regina Carter * Paganini: After a Dream
Traveler * Kenny Barron * Traveler

First Hour Last Week

This is the first hour of last weeks radio broadcast. It's an eclectic mix of different styles. This is modern jazz music using different instrumentation and creative arrangements. We start out the show with Alice Coltrane's harp, followed by modern electric guitar, tuba, voice, and electronics. It brings to mind how diverse, modern and creative the jazz experience is.
Featured album

Ptah The El Daoud from Amazon.com

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Blue Nile * Alice Coltrane * Ptah, the El Daoud
Continuance * Adam Rogers * Apparitions
Lingala * SFJazz Collective * Sfjazz Collective
My Son Ra * Arthur Blythe * Focus on amazon.com
Found It * Jason Palmer * Songbook
Principle * Greg Osby * Nine Levels
Married Life * Dave Douglas * Moonshine

Noah Preminger Interview

I had the pleasure of hosting tenor sax artist and composer Noah Preminger for an interview at WHUS on Saturday evening. Noah is one of the young creative jazz artists based in New York City that is defining the future of jazz music. He spoke with us about his background and influences, his method of composition, and some of his current projects. We get to hear from his critically acclaimed album Dry Bridge Road, and some yet to be released recordings. Noah also plays for us live in the studio. We also take the opportunity to promote a couple of live performances coming up this week in Hartford and NYC.



Dry Bridge Road from Amazon.com or iTunes

Track Listing
Today is OK, Dry Bridge Road
Rhythm for Robert, Dry Bridge Road
Sax of a Kind, Dry Bridge Road
My Blues for You, unreleased recording
untitled piano/sax duet
Polka Dots and Moonbeams, live in studio