Equinox - WYSO jazz

04/07/2024

Celebrating Independence Day today, and proud to be part of this American art form every day. 🇺🇸

26/06/2024

Oh no :(

Rest In Peace “Papa” John DeFrancesco. I know Joey was there to welcome you with his loving embrace 🕊️❤️

22/06/2024

Who’s looked outside tonight?

How could I have a smooth jazz channel and not pay homage and tribute to the late, great Grover Washington, Jr.?

22/06/2024

♥️

WYSO is proud to announce that our news team took home top honors from the Public Media Journalists Association 2024 Awards. We won for coverage of the Beavercreek Wal-Mart shooting, for the series “Everyday People,” and for our reporting about school bus safety.

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22/05/2024

13/05/2024

Remembering CHET BAKER, who passed away on this day in 1988 💙

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

Chet Baker playing trumpet on a window ledge in Lucca, January 01, 1961| Photo: Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche

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13/05/2024

It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications.

Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently. Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025.

David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music. It has been said that he "put the saxophone back into Rock ’n Roll.”

09/05/2024

I am a huge Bobby Blue Bland fan, but DAMN I love this song.

Bobby "Blue" Bland - Who Will The Next Fool Be?

04/05/2024

Bass player and jazz legend Ron Carter turns 87 on May 4, he spoke with KNKX jazz host Abe Beeson about his career with Miles Davis and many more.

30/04/2024

65° and pouring rain for hours and hours here in the Motor City. All windows open, lights low, noir tunes playing softly. A grand evening, on the smallest terms. ♥️

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Alb...

29/04/2024

Today is Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, and this musical prayer is just one of many truly great pieces from his outstanding New Orleans Suite from 1970. The groove is both funky and sanctified, with the horns forming a choir behind tenor saxophonist Harold Ashby.

From Duke Ellington's 1970 'New Orleans Suite,' with a seductive tenor saxophone solo by the underrated Harold Ashby.

04/04/2024

“So What?: The Life of Miles Davis”, John Szwed, 2002

20/03/2024

Happy spring.

Album : Coltrane's Sound (1964)Chroniques musicales sur Echoes of a Friendhttp://www.echoesofafriend.fr/

05/03/2024

15/02/2024

Dizzy Gillespie, 1996

12/02/2024

A marvelous anniversary. ~dB

American composer George Gershwin’s watershed work premiered 100 years ago today. 🎵

Still one of today’s most popular concert works, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ brilliantly combines elements of classical music and jazz. It has become a defining piece of music in the Jazz Age and American music at large.

We’ll be celebrating today – join Anne-Marie Minhall just before 2pm to honour the centenary of this groundbreaking piece of music. ❤️

15/01/2024

6. I Hope In Time A Change Will ComeSoloist: Oliver Nelson - soprano saxophoneFrom "Black, Brown and Beautiful"Flying Dutchman RecordsStereo FSD-116

23/11/2023

Listening to “Back at the Chicken Shack” and thinking back on so many nights at Dayton’s Jazz Central, and of course “Chicken Shack” was Ms. Freddie’s favorite song. Her son, Charles “Butch” Stone, was a warrior for jazz in the Miami Valley region, and I’m feeling pretty bittersweet as I listen on this Thanksgiving Eve.

-dB

Song: Back at the Chicken Shack (1/4; written by Jimmy Smith)Album: Back At The Chicken Shack (Recorded: April 25, 1960 / Released: 1963)Artist: Jimmy SmithP...

21/11/2023

Folks who miss my annual Thanksgiving feast episode of Equinox, fear not, it’s bigger and better than ever on this Spotify playlist! This is a 6.5-hour feast for the ears, with food-themed songs taking you from appetizers and salty snacks through breads and sides, main dishes, and even dessert and coffee! Get into it! Stream “Soul Food: Thanksgiving Jazz” at the link below!

-dB

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6DrHoi9ifGrietODBckGep?si=cqklHZb2RMajZyPgsZt_2Q&pi=u-mp0YgGRrRe69

23/09/2023

This year, the autumn equinox falls on John Coltrane’s birthday.

He would have been 97 today.

John Coltrane — Tenor Saxophone McCoy Tyner — PianoSteve Davis — Bass Elvin Jones — DrumsFrom: Coltrane's Sound released in 1...

27/07/2023

This is so, so special.

Tony Bennett "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" on The Ed Sullivan Show, November 22, 1964. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSulli...

21/07/2023

I have great news! For 96 years, Anthony Benedetto sang his heart out, and we were blessed to share part of that timeline with him and his talent.

Breaking News: Tony Bennett, whose interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world, died at 96.
https://nyti.ms/3rEJbBr

18/06/2023

In honor of Father’s Day, I offer the late, great Joey DeFrancesco playing the Godfather theme. I had the privilege of seeing him live several times in Dayton and interviewing him here in Detroit just a few months before he left us.

06/06/2023

One of my all-time favorites and a huge inspiration to me. Not a week goes by that her voice isn’t heard in my home. I’m very sad about this. Safe travels.

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.

13/05/2023

Etta Jones — NOT James. This song is so dreamy. Watching the rain fall and listening. Oh man.

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22/03/2023

Happy 80th birthday to George Benson. This is an excellent performance of a Stevie Wonder cover.

Absolutely LiveGeorge Benson - Guitar and VocalsJoe Samle - PianoMichael O'Neill - Guitar and vocalsDio Saucedo - Percussion and VocalsStanley Banks - BassDa...

02/03/2023

Today at 4am, Wayne Shorter peacefully continued on his immense journey into the unknown. He was surrounded by loving family. In his words, “It’s time to go get a new body and come back to continue the mission.” Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

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14/12/2022

Tune into the New Jazz Listener room on Clubhouse tomorrow night from 8-9pm, when I’ll be spinning some of my very favorite Christmas jazz tracks and walking you through a cranberry margarita that’s been a huge hit with our holiday guests. -dB

02/12/2022

Heartbroken. Julia was such a sweetheart and was a big fan and regular caller of my WYSO radio show. When I ended it earlier this year, she and Steve made me a cute handmade thank you card. Oh, this is just the saddest news to wake up to. Safe travels, Julia.

//Her films include three Academy Award nominees: "Union Maids" and "Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists" (with Jim Klein), and "The Last Truck: Closing of A GM Plant" (with Steven Bognar). "The Last Truck" documented the last GM truck to roll off the Moraine assembly line.

In 2020, she and her partner Steven Bognar won an Academy Award for best feature documentary and a Sundance Film Festival best director award for "American Factory."

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During her 50-year career, Hollywood offers came Reichert's way — accompanied by what she called "real money." But the artist credits her personal commitment to tell the stories of people for keeping her planted in the Midwest.

"We need filmmakers, radio, people, whatever. Activists in the Midwest. We need people who are interested in examining and changing the world. We need to put down roots so we can be a voice where there is no voice. The Midwest, in this case, it was Dayton, Ohio, and I'm very proud of that."//

Julia Reichert, an Academy Award winning documentarian and longtime Yellow Springs resident, died Thursday.

24/09/2022

Pharoah Sanders has died at 81. Revisit an interview with the legendary jazz saxophonist on buying his first horn, playing with John Coltrane, and searching for the right sound: http://nyer.cm/jbFehHg