Short List with Bob Naujoks
Mon. - Thurs. at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM
The Short List: B-3 Blitz Two: Ron Levy
Ron Levy is a Boston B-3 marvel.
While in high school he was playing on the local jazz scene, and not even
graduated, would tour with blues singer Albert King. After four years he
switched to another blues “King”---B. B.---and would be in his backup band for
seven years. From that background Levy formed a great devotion to blues and
jazz, he also plays Latin and hip-hop. Still, Levy’s foundation is as a
“soul-jazz” musician and his story is interesting.
Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson
Monday at 6:00 PM
Johnny Hartman, 'The Romantic Balladeer'
Johnny Hatman followed in the
wake of Billy Eckstine and Nat "King" Cole, two singers who personified
the "black baritone movement" of the late '40s and '50s. Overshadowed
by these two, Hartman never achieved the popularity he deserved. Through the
release of the soundtrack to Clint Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County and the
re-release of a recording with John Coltrane, the public has rediscovered this
wonderful balladeer.
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig Kessler
Monday, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (follows Jazz Profiles)
"Jazz in 1973"
Craig gives us a taste of
what was happening 40 years ago in the world of jazz. We'll hear selections recorded during 1973 by
a wide variety of artists including Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra, Billy Cobham, Flora
Purim, Keith Jarrett, Charles Mingus, and many others.
Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wendell Pierce
Tuesday at 6:00 PM
Chucho Valdes and The Afro Cuban Jazz Messengers
Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes is today's ultimate jazz ambassador - from deep Afro-Cuban roots and improvisational jazz mastery, he creates a sophisticated style all his own. For their first stateside performance in seven years, Valdes brings his Afro Cuban Messengers to the Allen Room.
Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes is today's ultimate jazz ambassador - from deep Afro-Cuban roots and improvisational jazz mastery, he creates a sophisticated style all his own. For their first stateside performance in seven years, Valdes brings his Afro Cuban Messengers to the Allen Room.
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Ray Anderson Pocket Brass Band's "Sweet Chicago
Suite"
The trombonist's little New
Orleans style band celebrates the windy city of his youth, in a New Jazz Work
commissioned by Chamber Music America with funding from the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation and played at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Wednesday Night Special
7:00 PM (Follows JazzSet)
Robert Glasper Experiment at the Newport Jazz Festival
2013
by Patrick Jarenwattananon (npr.org)
One gets the sense that
pianist Robert Glasper feels completely at ease with his Experiment band,
running his right hand in circles, cracking jokes and switching directions on
the fly. Along the way, he's cracked the mold of how jazz might approach the hip-hop
and R&B of today. The breakout success of last year's album Black Radio,
with its real-time boom-bap and myriad vocal cameos, has already led to a
sequel, due out yet this year. Here's a freewheeling set of vamps and vocoder
from Glasper and company.
Personnel:
• Robert Glasper,
piano/keyboard
• Casey Benjamin, alto
saxophone/vocoder
• Derrick Hodge, electric
bass
• Mark Colenburg, drums
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
Thursday at 6:00 PM
Robert Glasper
Pianist and composer Robert
Glasper is a powerful voice on the jazz scene. His Grammy-winning group, Robert
Glasper Experiment, blends hip-hop, R&B, rock, and jazz into an appealing and highly intelligent
sound. He kicks off the show with an original tune, “Rise and Shine,” and jams
with McPartland on Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance.”
Jazz Corner of the World with Craig
Kessler
Saturday, Noon - 4:00 PM
"Jazz in 1983"
Craig gives us a taste of
what was going on 30 years ago in the world of jazz. We'll hear selections recorded during 1983 by
a wide variety of artists including Dave Holland, George Russell, Miles Davis, Kenny Wheeler, Abdullah Ibrahim,
and many others.
Riverwalk Jazz
Sunday at 5:00 PM
Peck’s Bad Boys: The Peck Kelley Story
Dick Hyman joins The Jim
Cullum Jazz Band for the story of piano virtuoso Peck Kelley. Kelley was in
high demand by the top bandleaders of the ’20s, but preferred to spend his life
playing in Texas honky-tonks.
KCCK's Midnight CD
The Monday - Sunday Midnight CD for this week can be
found at:
http://www.kcck.org/onair/midnight_cd.php
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