Cassandra Wilson This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 years of jazz recordings, following trends, introducing major players and stylistic evolutions. As we approach the present, we face the historian’s dilemma – in more […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 94: John Zorn and The Downtown Scene
Dave Douglas – John Zorn Never far from the pulse of jazz innovation, New York in the 1980s incubated what has become known as the “downtown scene.” Radically multi-stylistic, the resulting music was unabashedly eclectic, celebrating influences from bebop to punk rock to cartoon music and eventually klezmer and Balkan music. John Zorn and the “downtown […]
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Jack Kilby Drums Along to the Jazz Messenger, Jan 11
Drummer and band leader Jack Kilby will stop by WTJU this Friday morning, January 11, at 11 to chat about his new CD and his band’s concert that night at Miller’s in downtown Charlottesville.
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Low Lily stop by WTJU, Jan 7
Flynn Cohen and Liz Simmons of Low Lily will stop by WTJU on Monday morning, January 7 at 10:30 (eastern) for a live session during Left of Cool. You can listen locally at 91.1 FM, and on-line at wtju.net.
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Jazz at 100 Hour 93: Music from the Black Saint Label
Billy Harper Ironically, the record label that most consistently offered an outlet for the American jazz avant-garde in the 1980s was the Italian Black Saint / Soul Note imprint. On the site All About Jazz, Jeff Stockton wrote, “…from 1984 to 1989 Black Saint won the Down Beat critics poll for “Best Label” and “Best […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 92: David Murray & the World Saxophone Quartet
World Saxophone Quartet Perhaps no jazz musician recorded a more varied output in more diverse settings in the 1980s than tenor saxophone and bass clarinet player David Murray. Three of the best bands to emerge in the decade were his Octet, his Quartet and the collaborative – the World Saxophone Quartet. He may also have […]
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WTJU Best of 2018: Professor Bebop (Jazz)
Dave Rogers, aka Professor Bebop, has been hosting a program on WTJU for over four decades. He is also the Jazz, Blues, and Soul reviewer. Professor Bebop’s Top Jazz Releases of 2018 Ben Allison – Quiet Revolution (Self-produced): Ben Allison (bass), Steve Cardenas (acoustic guitar) and Ted Nash (tenor sax, clarinet) have decided to stage their own […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 91: Whither Freedom?
Don Pullen In the 1980s, the avant-garde, although still home to many fine free jazz players, increasingly adopted an ecumenical approach to historical styles. Freedom came to include freedom to be “in the tradition.” The broadly-influenced music of alto saxophonists Arthur Blythe and Henry Threadgill, clarinetist John Carter and pianist Don Pullen illustrate this trend […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 90: Art Blakey and the Young Lions
Wynton Marsalis 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 jazz. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, whose Blue Note contract was not renewed in 1964, had spent a decade in relative obscurity, when he came roaring back with […]