Thursday Night Jazz KLCC

12/01/2024

11/13/2024

Featuring new releases from Tord Gustavsen Trio, Samara Joy, Claire Martin, Aaron Parks amd more

11/09/2024

HAPPY 69th BIRTHDAY to Patricia Barber!!!

Patricia Barber’s unique style and unusual voice made her an easy target for critics in the early days of her career. Her piano playing and singing, while inventive, never ventured close enough to the avant-garde to earn her artistic license, and her insistence on writing her own material and adapting songs from the pop world made her difficult to categorize. A tireless performer who refused to conform to more conventional vocal jazz idioms, she worked her way up through the Chicago jazz scene slowly, almost reluctantly, after having spent several years in Iowa attending college and performing with local groups.

The daughter of Floyd “Shim” Barber and a blues vocalist, she had all but rejected the idea of becoming a jazz musician, but found herself drawn to the performing world after college. When she returned to Chicago, she was trashed by the local critics, and only after winning a five-day-a-week gig at the intimate Gold Star Sardine Bar and releasing her first album on her own Floyd label (1989’s Split) did the tide begin to turn for her. She signed a contract with Verve and released A Distortion of Love in 1992, which brought her some positive critical attention and earned her a more national audience, but the big-label experience was trying for Barber and she sought a place where she could have more creative control. Her next two albums were issued by the tiny local label Premonition (1994’s Café Blue and 1998’s Modern Cool).

Premonition was purchased by Blue Note in 1998, and the label put some marketing muscle behind Barber, helping to bolster the international reputation she had already begun to earn. Blue Note released Companion in 1999 — intended to act as her introduction to a wider audience, the album reprised much of her popular material and was recorded live at Chicago’s Green Mill, a historic jazz club where Barber had been performing weekly for several years. 2000’s Night Club took her back into a studio setting, but still featured many of the inventive interpretations that had distinguished her work in the past. Barber issued her edgy, critically acclaimed Verse on the Blue Note label in 2002. She won a Guggenheim in March of 2003 to create a song cycle based on Ovid’s Metamorphses. Her concert set Live: A Fortnight in Paris was issued on the label in 2004, consisting of five originals, five covers, and two brand new songs. Mythologies followed in 2006. A year later, the anthology The Premonition Years: 1992-2002 appeared detailing most of Barber’s early releases. In 2008, Barber took a break from her original material and delivered the jazz standards studio album The Cole Porter Mix.

Source: Stacia Proefrock, Blue Note Records

10/31/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY HALLOWEEN RADIO SHOW tonight at 8pm (Pacific) streamed at klcc.org 89.7 FM and on-demand at https://www.klcc.org/show/thursday-eklectic Mostly stuff about witches! Trick or Treat!

10/25/2024

Pop Queen covers Radiohead!

Cover of Radiohead- “True Love Waits” live in Monet’s Water LiliesOctober 18th 2024 at Musée de l’OrangeriePerformance commissioned by Klaus Biesenbach and O...

10/17/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY RADIO SHOW! The music begins at 8 PM on "Thursday Eklectic on KLCC". Tonight feat. everything from a bluegrass cover of a Bangles tune to Johnny Mathis to a new song from Portland's Haley Heynderickx! Streamed at klcc.org and on-demand at the same place.

10/14/2024

10/11/2024

My favorite song for Fall. A Joni Mitchell tune covered and owned by the then 18 yo Claire Hamill on her debut album. "I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down"

Joni Mitchell's Song Coveredwith Terry Reid, Simon Kirke, John "Rabbit" Bundrick, Tetsu Yamauchireleased in 1972

10/10/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY RADIO SHOW!
Listen to the music on Thursday Eklectic on KLCC starting at 8 PM. Tonight feat Jenny Scheinman, My Brightest Diamond (both appearing in Eugene next Thusday), classical mandolinist Carlo Aonzo, Chappell Roan, Men I Trust, Bebel Gilberto, The Hard Quartet and October/Autumn stuff. Hear Thursday Eklectic on KLCC on-demand here: www.mixcloud.com/Thursday_EKLeCtiC/thursday-eklectic-101024/

09/26/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY RADIO SHOW! Great music tonight at 8pm on Thursday Eklectic on KLCC feat. musicians appearing at this weekend's Sisters Folk Festival plus some songs for Autumn about the Dead Leaves. Hear Thursday Eklectic on KLCC here: www.klcc.org/show/thursday-eklectic

09/19/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY RADIO SHOW! Tonight at 8pm (Pacific) on Thursday Eklectic on KLCC (klcc.org 89.7 FM) hear musicians appearing at this year's Sisters Folk Festival (9/27,28 and 29th) and some musicians I wish were there. Hear Thursday Eklectic on KLCC on demand here: https://www.klcc.org/show/thursday-eklectic

09/11/2024

09/05/2024

HEY! LISTEN TO MY RADIO SHOW! Listen to some cool music starting at 8 pm (Pacific) on "Thursday Eklectic on KLCC" streamed @ klcc.org 89.7 FM tonight featuring selections from Body Meat, Horse Jumper of Love, Why Bonnie, Linda Perhacs, Joshua Bell, Kurt Elling, Post Malone, Orville Peck, Mumford & Sons, Becca Stevens & more. All sorts of stuff and available on-demand at https://www.klcc.org/show/thursday-eklectic. Tune way in.