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Free Bridge Quintet

  • John D’Earth talks about the Free Bridge Quintet getting down to business, April 8

    Apr 5th, 2022 | By WTJU
    Tags: Contingencies and Resiliencies, Free Bridge Quintet, jazz messenger, John D'earth, Mike Rozensky, Nathaniel Lee, Old Cabell Hall, UVA, UVA Mini-JazzFest: Jazz on the Fly, WTJU

    John D’Dearth will stop by WTJU this Friday morning, April 8, around 10 to share the wonderful news of the Free Bridge Quintet’s return.  After a two year pandemic hiatus, the band is getting back together for concerts at Old Cabell Hall on both April 8 and 9 as part of the UVA Mini-JazzFest: Jazz […]

  • Free Bridge Quintet “Off To See The Wizard” at The Stage, July 1

    Jun 26th, 2021 | By WTJU
    Tags: Bob Hallahan, Folk Beyond, Free Bridge Quintet, Jeff Decker, John D'earth, Off to See the Wizard, Pete Spaar, Robert Jospe, The Stage, Track By Track, University of Virginia Department of Music, WTJU, WTJU Folk, wtju jazz

    The Free Bridge Quintet is hitting the yellow brick road to The Stage at WTJU Thursday afternoon, July 1, to go track by track through their album, Off To See The Wizard during Folk & Beyond.  If you have been vaccinated, you are invited to be part of the studio audience for this special event.  […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 100: All Jazz Is Local (2011 – 2018)

    Mar 1st, 2019 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Aaron Binder, Andrew Randazzo, Butch Taylor, Charles Owens, Dane Alderson, Devonne Harris, Free Bridge Quintet, Hod O'Brien, Jack Kilby, Jeff Decker, John D'earth, Jonah Kane-West, Kait Dunton, Kris Monson, Madeline Holly Sales, Pete Spaar, Randall Pharr, Randy Johnston, Robert Jospe, Stephanie Nakasian, Veronica Swift

    Hod O’Brien 1936 – 2016 So far, we have broadcast ninety-nine one-hour programs to tell the story of the first 100 years of recorded jazz. We have heard the creative work of hundreds of players, composers, arrangers, and bandleaders – famous and obscure. Each of the contributors to this rich history had colleagues and bandmates […]

  • Jazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show

    Dec 11th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Archie Shepp, Arkestra, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Free Bridge Quintet, George Gershwin, Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Mal Waldron, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, New Vision Sax Ensemble, Nina Simone, Patricia Barber, Porgy & Bess, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra

    Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess debuted in 1935 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. For some period of time, the themes of domestic violence, […]

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