“Cowboys and Poets.” This show is named after one of the songs we’ll be playing but there will be cowboy songs and poems galore. Hear new works from Mike Blakely, Gary Allegretto and Doris Daley.
Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: jazz bands and orchestras, and virtuoso piano. Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Maynard Ferguson, Roy Haynes, Don Ellis Orchestra, Jerry Fielding, Claude Bolling, Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble, Wynton Marsalis, Marian McPartland with George Shearing, Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, Triosence, Cassandra Wilson.
This episode is about “Towns that Made the West.” What towns do you think of when you think about the west? Tombstone? Denver? Fort Worth? Today, you’ll hear songs about important places that helped define the west.
Boogie woogie, blues, and mainstream jazz from musicians old and new tonight on Jazz After Dark! Bolyki Brothers, Pete Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum, Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson, Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry & Paul Gonsalves, Pepper Adams Quintet with Thad Jones, Eriko Ishihara, Jimmy Rosenberg, Bria Skonberg, Harold Mabern Trio.
8 pm Tuesday.
Replays Monday 11pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, and Wednesday 10-11pm.
Oakley Pastoor Price is a teen in Portland. She is an avid live music fan and even though she is a young teen, she has more concerts under her belt then most.
So you say - what is the up and coming generation listening to. Tune in this Friday and check it out.
For those outside the listening area, this show will be streamed live on KDRT
“Cowboy Breakfast.” Friday’s episode of Cowboy Tracks is full of songs and spoken word creating a portrait of food in the old and new west. You’re “purt near” guaranteed to come away with a powerful hankering for strong coffee and biscuits with gravy!
Latin jazz, Bossa Nova, some soul jazz, vocals and more tonight on Jazz After Dark!
Featuring: Vivian Lee, Joe Holiday, Ronnell Bright Trio, Chuck Wayne Trio, Vladimir Vassilieff, Kenny Burrell Octet, Tony Bennett, Lee Konitz & the Brazilian Band, Chico O'Farrill, Victor Biglione, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Cano Escribá & Hernán Milla, Harold López-Nussa.
8 pm on KDRT-LP, 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, and Wednesday 10-11pm.
I am almost 100% certain that you have not heard Mike Viola's latest album "The American Egypt." But you need to hear it. It's great, it just came out on July 17th - streaming only, nothing physical until the Fall - and it really showcases this songwriter's talents. Join me on August 1 as I play the whole album and we discuss what a middle-aged man can do with his wardrobe to be described as a mutant ninja turtle. Hint: skinny black jeans.
Catch ÌFÉ live, Saturday, July 28, 2018, at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA
"I've heard a lot of rappers freestyle over a beat, but I've never heard a beat freestyle over a rapper," Otura Mun tells me with a slight smile, and I shake my head and make some kind of sound from my chest to recognize the innovative spirit beneath this clever quip. We're talking about improvisation, something that many of us don't expect to hear in electronic music. But ÌFÉ, Mun's electronic fusion group based in Puerto Rico, goes well beyond the expectations of genre, technology, and tradition, bringing an otherworldly dimension of play to a modern musical form that often relies heavily on programming.
Sophomore albums are always intriguing to me when an artist's debut was well received. Seems like the pressure is on to do even better on (often) a shorter amount of time.
Courtney Barnett delivered with Tell Me How You Really Feel (May 2018) especially when so many garage-rock-slack-style outfits are putting stuff out there. She's from Australia, where many other cool rock bands are from. Maybe that and her collaboration with Kurt Vile in between releases helped.
Hope you tune in, you nameless, faceless listener, you.
