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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 61: Horace Silver Continued (1959 – 1965)

    May 18th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Blue Mitchell, Carmel Jones, Horace Silver, JJ Johnson, Joe Henderson, Junior Cook, Woody Shaw

    Horace Silver – Blue Mitchell – Junior Cook Despite revisionist history that suggests that the energy of hard bop was spent by the time the sixties came, in the last hour we heard from the great 1960s Freddie Hubbard – Wayne Shorter – Curtis Fuller – Cedar Walton edition of The Jazz Messengers. In this […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 41: The Lyricists – Benny Golson, Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer (1953 – 1962)

    Dec 8th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Hard Bop, JJ Johnson

    Art Farmer – Benny Golson “Musicians of a gentler, more lyrical bent … found in hard bop a more congenial climate than bebop had offered: for instance, trumpeter Art Farmer, [and] composers Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce…. In a sense, such musicians were not hard boppers at all. They are, however, partially associated with the movement […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

    Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

    Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

  • 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, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 25: Yardbird – The Savoy and Dial Recordings of Charlie Parker (1945 – 1948)

    Aug 18th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz at 100, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Max Roach, Miles Davis

    Charlie “Yardbird” Parker – Miles Davis Emerging from the Jay McShann Orchestra from Kansas City and relentlessly curious about how to play the new music he heard in his head, Charlie Parker found sympathetic players in New York, especially Dizzy Gillespie. In November of 1945, Bird, as he was universally known, began to record with […]

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