Art Pepper Perfectly timed to reinforce the value of acoustic mainstream jazz and provide an alternative to both fusion and free jazz, Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin reappeared and reestablished themselves as key players at the end of the 1970s. Their excellent late career work paved the way for the resurgence of mainstream […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 88: Acoustic Jazz Lives
Woody Shaw Jazz-rock fusion was a powerful force in the music in the early seventies, but noticeably began to run out of steam mid-decade. European influences began to gain traction as the decade progressed as represented by the rise of ECM. American acoustic jazz musicians, who seemed to be taken for granted, continued to produce […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 87: Jazz From Europe on ECM
Keith Jarrett Previously in this series we have surveyed record labels as representative of the jazz trends in their times – for example bebop on Dial in the 40s, mainstream jazz on Verve in the 50s, and hard bop on Blue Note in the 60s. The German label ECM can be seen as representative of […]
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Blazing Saddle Tramps on Lambeth Live, Nov 30
Western Swing Band the Blazing Saddle Tramps will put on the November 30 edition of Lambeth Live (heard each Friday night from 8-9 on WTJU), and you are invited to be part of the studio audience for this FREE concert broadcast! You can of course listen to the concert (91.1 FM around Charlottesville, on-line at […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 86: Weather Report
Joe Zawinul – Jaco Pastorius – Wayne Shorter By 1970, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were recognized as two of the finest hard bop composers and players having contributed the full range of their talents to The Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis Quintet (in Shorter’s case) and the Cannonball Adderley Quintet (in Zawinul’s). Both contributed […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 85: Chick Corea Acoustic and Electric
Gary Burton – Chick Corea Chick Corea began recording as a sideman for artists like Mongo Santamaria, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann and Cal Tjader in 1962. In 1966, his began to record as a leader, while still touring with Stan Getz. Like many others, his studio work and touring with Miles Davis from 1968 – 1970 […]
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Marietta McCarty, author of “Leaving 1203,” joins Jazz Messenger Friday, Nov 2
Author Marietta McCarty stops by WTJU’s Jazz Messenger on Friday, November 2nd to talk about her latest book “Leaving 1203.” Brian and Marietta will discussing the book, all things philosophy, baseball, the myth of multi-tasking, and much more. You can catch the Jazz Messenger each week from 10am – 12pm. Marietta McCarty’s fourth book entitled […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 84: John McLaughlin & The Mahavishnu Orchestra
John McLaughlin British guitarist John McLaughlin contributed to creating the bold new sound of Miles Davis’s great proto-fusion works, In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew. He was a member of what could be the first great fusion band, Tony Williams Lifetime, and then founded what Ben Ratliff describes as “the ideal band for the […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 83: Road to Fusion
Miles Davis Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rhythms, it could be loud and fast, but just as likely, could be melodic or lyrical or funky. The Charles Lloyd Quartet, the Gary Burton Quartet, Tony Williams Lifetime and […]