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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 98: Highlights of Jazz in the Late 2000s (2004 – 2010)

    Feb 15th, 2019 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Esperanza Spalding, Jason Moran, Marian Schneider, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins

    Esperanza Spalding This is the 98th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. The programs have chronologically followed the history of recorded jazz and, as we approach the present, the question of historical perspective becomes relevant. Just how well can we predict what will endure? What will have lasting importance? We are in […]

  • 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 63: Hard Bop Tenor, Part 2 (1959 – 1964)

    Jun 1st, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Sonny Rollins

    Sonny Rollins In this portion of Jazz at 100, we are featuring tenor players and trumpeters who propelled hard bop into the 1960s. In this hour, we will continue with the Tenor Players, Part 2, featuring Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, and Sonny Rollins, three tenor players who have impacted the music over the past six […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 47: The Experimentalists – Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane (1956 – 1959)

    Jan 26th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins

    Charles Mingus In his book Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965, David Rosenthal outlines a group of musicians within the hard bop idiom that he identifies as “experimentalists”, describing them as “…consciously trying to expand jazz’s structural and technical boundaries: for instance, pianist Andrew Hill, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane prior to his 1965 […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 43: Monk and Friends: Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, & Elmo Hope in the 1950s (1953 – 1957)

    Dec 15th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Elmo Hope, Herbie Nichols, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

    John Coltrane – Shadow Wilson -Thelonious Monk – Ahmed Abdul-Malik The 1950s were a very productive decade for Thelonious Monk, perhaps his most productive as a composer. During the fifties his reputation and impact grew tremendously. His influence on other pianists can be seen in the work of Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols, among others. Although neither had […]

  • 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, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 39: The Birth of Hard Bop (1950 – 1958)

    Nov 24th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Clifford Brown, Hard Bop, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, The Jazz Messengers

    Horace Silver While the “Cool School” was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in “The Birth of the Cool” sessions of 1949 – 1950, what became known as Hard Bop, a gospel- and blues-influenced variant was growing from Bebop in the east. “If cool jazz […]

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