Jazz 91.1 Program Highlights
I'm Talkin' JazzSunday at 9am |
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1/3 |
Anat Cohen with Chris Cortez |
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1/10 |
Bob Dorough with Alisa Clancy |
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1/17 |
Johnny Griffin with Dick Conte |
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1/24 |
Take 6 with Chris Cortez |
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1/31 |
Louis Hayes with Lee Thomas |
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In The Soul Kitchen with Harry DuncanSunday at 8pm |
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1/10 |
Long Player Special Edition |
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Jazz Night in America with Christian McBrideMonday at 9pm |
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1/4 |
Crate Digging: Cedar Walton and Mulgrew Miller |
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1/11 |
The Newport Jazz Festival: The Golden Age Encore Presentation The Newport Jazz Festival was just one year old when the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet blazed onto its stage in 1955. By 1960, when pianists Dave Brubeck and Horace Silver each played a rollicking set, the event was an institution, known all over the world. And so it remains today - though there's something to be said about the fest in that formative era, when every step forward was historic. For all of us at Jazz Night in America, the Newport Jazz Festival is both hallowed ground and a cherished hang. Our host, Christian McBride, is the festival's artistic director. (Call that a disclosure, if you like; we think of it as a heavy asset.) Last summer, in the absence of a physical gathering, we set out to lovingly recreate the festival experience, Jazz Night-style. Our three-part series begins with The Golden Age - a jump back to the mid-to-late '50s, featuring McBride's selection of rare and unreleased Newport recordings by Brown and Roach, Brubeck and Silver, along with a killer festival house band. (Will there also be a taste of Muddy Waters? You'll have to listen to know for sure.) |
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1/18 |
Newport Jazz Festival: From Duke Ellington to Ray Charles Encore Presentation he Newport Jazz Festival was in full, glorious stride during the 1960s, featuring top-shelf talent not only from jazz but also the realms of soul, rock and more. That's the backdrop for The Stars Shine, episode two of our three-part Newport special. We'll hear festive sounds from both Ray Charles and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley in 1960; peerless jazz singer Sarah Vaughan in 1964; the incomparable Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1968; and Pops himself, Louis Armstrong, during a special birthday tribute in 1970. For all of us at Jazz Night in America, the Newport Jazz Festival is both hallowed ground and a cherished hang. Our host, Christian McBride, is the festival's artistic director. (Call that a disclosure, if you like; we think of it as a heavy asset.) So last summer, in the absence of a physical gathering, we've set out to lovingly recreate the festival experience, Jazz Night-style. |
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1/25 |
The Newport Jazz Festival: The Modern All Stars Encore Presentation Christian McBride was 19, a vigorous young bassist just making his name on the scene, when he paid his first visit to the Newport Jazz Festival as a member of Jazz Futures. Skip ahead some 30 years, and McBride is the artistic director of the festival, as well as our esteemed host at Jazz Night in America. It's in these dual capacities that he helped curate the music in our three-part Newport Jazz Festival Special. We're calling this third episode The Modern All-Stars, and the name really fits. We'll be hearing from several stellar performances at Fort Adams State Park - everything from an acoustic Herbie Hancock Trio in 1988 to singer Cecile McLorin Salvant with Artemis in 2018. Also in the mix: a 2001 set by the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and even a bit of that Jazz Futures hit, which featured Hargrove alongside McBride and others. It's a fun and fitting conclusion to our series, which began with a celebration of the Newport Jazz Festival's first decade (The Golden Age) and continued with a look at its spectacular second phase (The Stars Shine). And as McBride would say, it's also a reminder that this story is still ongoing. Newport Jazz Lives! See you out there next summer. |
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Desert Island JazzFriday at 9am |
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1/8 |
Adam Shulman Adam can also be seen as a sideman with countless bay area musicians and vocalists such as, Marcus Shelby, Anton Schwartz, Andrew Speight, Erik Jekabson, Ed Reed, Mike Olmos, Gary Brown, Patrick Wolff, John Wiitala, Vince Lateano, Faye Carol, Kellye Gray, Ian Carey, and Mike Zilber among many others. |
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12/11 |
Jaz Sawyer |