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  • Hour 16 New Organ Combos – Dr. Lonnie Smith, Organissimo, Deep Blue Organ Trio, William Parker, Swallow Quintet, Joey DeFrancesco

    Nov 17th, 2020 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby Broom, Carla Bley, Deep Blue Organ Trio, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Joey DeFrancesco, Organissimo, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Swallow, William Parker

    Dr. Lonnie Smith In 1956, Jimmy Smith created the organ trio of organ, guitar and drums. Soon thereafter, his quartets with Lou Donaldson and Stanley Turrentine defined the organ – saxophone quartet sound. Today, these traditions live on and, although the instrumentation may vary slightly, the debt to Jimmy Smith’s pioneering soul jazz trios and […]

  • Hour 2: Jazz and Poetry: Benjamin Boone, Laurence Hobgood, Jane Ira Bloom, Matt Wilson, David Murray

    Aug 11th, 2020 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Amiri Baraka, Benjamin Boone, David Murray, Jane Ira Bloom, Laurence Hobgood, Matt Wilson, Philip Levine, Robert Creeley, Robert Pinsky, Steve Swallow

    Philip Levine – Benjamin Boone Since the Charles Mingus – Langston Hughes collaborations in the 1950s, there has always been a durable under-current of Jazz / Poetry projects. Recently Poet Laureates Robert Pinsky and Philip Levine have recorded with pianist Laurence Hobgood and alto-saxophonist Benjamin Boone. Bassist Steve Swallow and poet Robert Creeley collaborated on […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 87: Jazz From Europe on ECM (1972 – 1976)

    Nov 16th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Anthony Braxton, Barry Altschul, Dave Holland, Dave Liebman, Eberhard Weber, Enrico Rava, Gary Burton, Jaco Pastorius, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Ralph Towner, Sam Rivers, Steve Swallow

    Keith Jarrett Previously in this series we have surveyed record labels as representative of the jazz trends in their times – for example bebop on Dial in the 40s, mainstream jazz on Verve in the 50s, and hard bop on Blue Note in the 60s. The German label ECM can be seen as representative of […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 67: The Legacy of Jimmy Giuffre and Lennie Tristano (1961 – 1969)

    Jun 27th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Barry Altschul, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Warne Marsh

    Paul Bley – Jimmy Giuffre – Steve Swallow Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and pianist Lennie Tristano were heavily influential in the musical explorations of the 1960s. The Jimmy Giuffre Trio recorded a series of records in the early 1960s now seen as significant milestones in improvisational music, although they made no commercial impact at the time. […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 57: Jazz Singers in the 1960s (1961 – 1969)

    Apr 20th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Barry Harris, Betty Carter, Cannonball Adderley, Carmen McRae, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eddie Jefferson, James Moody, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Jon Hendricks, Nancy Wilson, Nat Adderley, Sheila Jordan, Shirley Horn, Steve Swallow, Thelonious Monk

    Betty Carter The 1960s featured many recordings by highly musical singers in the company of great jazz instrumentalists. In this hour of Jazz at 100, we will survey the 1960’s recordings of jazz singers Betty Carter, Eddie Jefferson, Sheila Jordan, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Jon Hendricks and Johnny Hartman. Betty Carter. “What draws […]

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