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  • 43 Happy Birthday, Cole Porter

    Jun 8th, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Brad Mehldau, Emmet Cohen, Eric McPherson, Evan Sherman, Fred Hersch, Harris Simon, Harry Connick Jr., Jacob Christoffersen, Jeff Ballard, Joey Baron, John Hebert, Larry Grenadier, Larry Koonse, Marshall Gilkes, Ron Carter, Scott Colley, Sinne Eeg, Stephanie Nakasian, Veronica Swift

    Brad Mehldau Born June 9, 1891, we are celebrating Cole Porter’s 130th birthday. This means that Porter was 27 years old, having already had shows produced on Broadway, when the first jazz recording was made in 1917. Early recordings by James P. Johnson, Jimmie Lunceford, Teddy Wilson and Django Reinhardt showed the adaptability of his […]

  • 42 Trumpet Master Jeremy Pelt – Hard Bop and More

    Jun 1st, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Allan Mednard, Billy Drummond, Chien Chien Lu, Danny Grissett, Dwayne Burno, Fabiana Masili, Gerald Cleaver, Ismel Wignall, JD Allen, Jeremy Pelt, Jim Snidero, Jonathan Barber, Nat Reeves, Orrin Evans, Ron Carter, Roxy Coss, Victor Gold, Victor Lewis

    Jeremy Pelt Emerging as a recording artist in 2002, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt’s warm tone and thoughtful improvisation initially brought hard bop legends Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard to mind. After two decades, his mature post-bop work evidences a willingness to experiment with sound and ensemble make-up. Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet and his electric period […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 88: Acoustic Jazz Lives (1972 – 1978)

    Nov 23rd, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Azar Lawrence, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, John Stubblefield, McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, Scott Hamilton, Sonny Fortune, Sonny Rollins, Tony Williams, VSOP, Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw

    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 […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 77: Miles Davis and the Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968)

    Sep 7th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: George Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter

    Miles Davis – Herbie Hancock – Wayne Shorter Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – liberation from chord changes, from rhythm, from harmony, from melody, from structure. Yet, although he continued to explore broadly, he was public in […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 56: Bebop Lives (1961 – 1971)

    Apr 6th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Barry Harris, Charles McPherson, Howard McGhee, Ron Carter, Sonny Stitt

    Sonny Stitt Bebop was a revolutionary new music in the late 1930s, dominated jazz in the 1940s, and powerfully influenced all jazz that followed. By the 1960s it still had its adherents who were producing compelling music thirty years later. In this hour of Jazz at 100, we will hear bebop from trumpeter Howard McGhee, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 40: Sons of the Jazz Messengers (1956 – 1964)

    Dec 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Albert "Tootie" Heath, Art Blakey, Barry Harris, Billy Higgins, Bobby Timmons, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Jymie Merrit, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, The Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Kelly

    Wayne Shorter – Art Blakey – Lee Morgan In 1956, with Horace Silver’s departure, Art Blakey inherited the Jazz Messengers. Over the next five years, the Jazz Messengers took part in recording sessions that have resulted in almost 40 live and studio recordings. Also in this period, Blakey collaborated with players who became the stars […]

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