13/05/2024
David Sanborn, beloved jazz saxophonist who is credited on songs for Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and many more, died on Sunday (May 12).
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Music for a rainy day or a rainy disposition. Classic Jazz and Vocal Ballads from the 30's forward. Great music to ease your troubled mind.
25/12/2023
Happy Holidays, everyone!! Tune in tonight/tomorrow for the best in classic Christmas jazz and vocals
Provided to YouTube by Columbia/LegacyWhite Christmas · Lionel HamptonJingle Bell Jazz℗ Originally released 1962. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a ...
09/09/2023
Prolific bassist, adept at many genres, played on albums by jazz greats like Pharoah Sanders and Eric Dolphy to rock legends Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon
22/07/2023
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From his initial success at the Paramount in Times Square through his generation-spanning duets, his career was remarkable for both its longevity and its consistency.
07/06/2023
It was the first song she ever recorded. And it played a key role in making the Brazilian sound known as bossa nova a phenomenon in the United States.
17/04/2023
He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
06/04/2023
Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.
04/03/2023
His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.
01/02/2023
Apologies for posting this late.
“Her approach is so intimate and confessional that you’re often left feeling as though you’ve just been told a lover’s secret,” music writer Marc Myers wrote.
23/12/2022
Holiday music on Evening Melancholy will begin on the evening of Christmas Eve and run throughout Christmas day.
Wishing everyone a Happy, Safe Holiday!!🎄
Provided to YouTube by recordJetThe Christmas Song · The Ramsey Lewis TrioThe Ramsey Lewis Trio Sound Of Christmas℗ 2012 Mocking BirdReleased on: 2012-10-31C...
24/09/2022
He first gained wide recognition for his work with John Coltrane and went on to a fertile, prolific career, releasing dozens of albums as a leader.
13/09/2022
His 1965 recording of “The ‘In’ Crowd” brought him to a place few jazz musicians reached in that era: the Top 10.
27/08/2022
A prodigy whose playing had drawn raves since he was a teenager, he helped bring the Hammond B3 back into the jazz lineup.
29/05/2022
When you’re young, the pop culture you absorb becomes a kind of “parent.” Wesley Morris and the critic Margo Jefferson reflect on the icons who shaped them.
25/03/2022
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans school board has unanimously reversed a little known but century-old ban on jazz in schools in a city which played a huge role in developing jazz and where it is still played nightly at various venues.
22/12/2021
Happy Holidays Everyone. Tune in Christmas Eve (starting 6PM EST)/Christmas Day for the best in jazz and vocal holiday classics.🎄
23/11/2021
"Though he never achieved the fame of J.J. Johnson, a formative influence, Hampton was revered as a modern jazz trombonist; in passing, critic Gary Giddins once proclaimed him 'perhaps the most underrated bebop virtuoso soloist alive.'"
A trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose career spanned seven decades, Slide Hampton died on Nov. 18 at his home in Orange, N.J.
20/11/2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/11/19/dave-frishberg-dead/
His witty songs, such as "I'm Hip" and "Peel Me a Grape," became modern standards. He also wrote "I'm Just a Bill" for "Schoolhouse Rock!"
03/11/2021
He was forced to relearn the guitar after a brain aneurysm affected his memory.
14/09/2021
His radio programs, most notably on Columbia University’s WKCR, were full of minutiae he had accumulated during a lifetime immersed in the genre.
14/09/2021
He brought jazz (and later folk music) to Rhode Island, and made festivals as important as nightclubs and concert halls on jazz musicians’ itineraries.
25/08/2021
In a previously unpublished interview from 2013, Watts goes deep into his favorite drummers, what the Stones do better than the Beatles, and outlasting almost every band
12/05/2021
He performed with John Coltrane and Art Blakey and was named an NEA Jazz Master.
11/02/2021
Keyboardist helped Miles Davis usher in the fusion revolution and founded his own revolutionary groups, including Return to Forever
03/01/2021
Last surviving member of group who cut Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk was described as an ‘honorary uncle to the Brubeck family’
24/12/2020
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
As always, Christmas music will begin on the station at 6PM EST and run through Christmas Day.
Wishing you all good health and much fortune in 2021!
18/12/2020
We remember luminaries we lost this year in our In Memoriam program: Jimmy Heath; Lee Konitz; Càndido; Tony Allen; Annie Ross; Freddy Cole; Gary Peacock; Henry Grimes; Wallace Roney; and McCoy Tyner.
09/12/2020
An album of previously unheard recordings from the “Time Out” sessions in 1959 reveals the making of a masterpiece.
24/10/2020
She formed the Coquettes “all-girl” big band and championed women in the almost completely male preserve of 1930s and ’40s popular music.
21/10/2020
The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public.
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