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jazz at 100

  • WTJU’s Jazz Marathon carries the torch for jazz & blues – Sept. 24-30

    Sep 10th, 2018 | By WTJU
    Tags: Chamber music, charlottesville, Jazz, jazz at 100, live music, Programming, WTJU

    Listener favorites on WTJU come in many styles from a century of jazz recordings. This year’s WTJU Jazz Marathon promises an exploration of tremendous one-of-a-kind jazz recordings. Join WTJU this year’s Jazz Marathon, September 24-30 — our annual musical scavenger hunt for the lost and found favorites of jazz! DONATE TODAY! Special kick-off event: JOEL HARRISON Concert. On […]

  • Allen Lowe Interview on All That Jazz, Thursday 2/15 at 10:00AM

    Feb 9th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Allen Lowe, jazz at 100, Jazz History, That Devlin' Tune

    Allen Lowe, alto sax player, composer, historian and author will be in the studio on Thursday 2/15 for a wide-ranging interview with announcer Rus Perry, host of Jazz at 100. Lowe, a provocative chronicler of American culture, is the author of numerous books on music history, such as: That Devlin’ Tune, A Jazz History 1900 – […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 44: West Coast Piano – Dave Brubeck, Hampton Hawes, Nat King Cole (1944 – 1959)

    Jan 5th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Dave Brubeck, Hampton Hawes, jazz at 100, Nat King Cole, Paul Desmond

    Dave Brubeck Quartet In the last hour, we heard from Thelonious Monk, Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols – three closely associated New York pianists in the 1950s. In this hour, we’ll return to the West Coast and another trio of pianists representing some of the widely divergent strains of jazz in the 1950s. Nat “King” […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 36: Bebop Pioneers in the 1950s (1949 – 1960)

    Nov 3rd, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Ben Webster, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz at 100, Jazz at Massey Hall, Maz Roach, Oscar Peterson

    Jazz at Massey Hall Bud Powell-p, Charles Mingus-b, Max Roach-d, Dizzy Gillespie-tp, Charlie Parker-as Bebop had its roots in the big bands of the late 1930s and was nurtured in jam sessions during the war and the musician’s strike of the 1940s. By 1950, the prescient Coleman Hawkins, and the pioneers – Charlie Parker, Dizzy […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 35: Big Bands of the 1950s (1950 – 1957)

    Oct 27th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Cannonball Adderley, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, jazz at 100, Quincy Jones, Stan Kenton, Teddy Charles

    Paul Gonzalvez with Duke Ellington at Newport 1956 Woody Herman disbanded the Second Herd in 1949 and, while Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington managed to keep a big band on the road through the 1950s, Count Basie disbanded his band at the start of the decade but assembled a new one in a few years. […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 33: Proto-Cool – Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz (1946 – 1955)

    Oct 13th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: jazz at 100, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh

    Lennie Tristano Pianist Lennie Tristano was a very visible participant in the modern jazz innovations of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, winning polls and participating in all-star jam sessions. Yet his music was always a little outside the mainstream and was increasingly so as he began to experiment with fully improvised performances by 1947. […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 32: Dixieland Revival – A Sense of History (1939 – 1955)

    Oct 6th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: George Lewis Dixieland Revival, jazz at 100, Louis Armstrong, Muggsy Spanier, Sidney Bechet

    Sidney Bechet In the 1940’s, some twenty-five to thirty years into the history of recorded jazz, the sometimes violent reaction against the bebop revolution caused a hard look into the rear view and the jazz world focused on its own history. Many of the players who led the first jazz revolution were still alive, ready […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 31: My Brainwaves in His Head, and His in Mine – Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (1941 – 1967)

    Sep 29th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Tatum, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, jazz at 100, Johnny Hodges, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson

    Duke Ellington – Billy Strayhorn Duke Ellington was the well-spring that flowed through many decades of jazz. In 1938, Ellington found his soul-mate in composer/arranger Billy Strayhorn. By the early 1940s, Strayhorn combined with bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster to reinvigorate both Ellington and his band. In the next hour, we will […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 29: Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro – Sonny Stitt – JJ Johnson (1946 – 1950)

    Sep 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Goodman, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, jazz at 100, JJ Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Tadd Dameron

    Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro In the past several hours of Jazz at 100, we have featured the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. In this hour, we will continue to present bebop innovators – pianist/composer Tadd Dameron and his frequent (but short-lived) collaborator Fats Navarro, […]

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