Cowboy music isn’t just from the North American west but is heard and created across the globe. In this episode, you’ll hear music from other countries that shows appreciation of American western songs and also music created in other parts of the world to reflect their own cowboy traditions.
Tonight on Jazz After Dark I went deep into the archives for a show from year-end 2011. Here's to lots of great jazz in the New Year!
Jerry Gray -- The Anvil Chorus
Ray Eberle -- Chatanooga Choo Choo
Duke Ellington -- Satin Doll
Bunny Berigan -- Skylark
Freddy Martin -- Tonight We Love
Ray Anthony -- The Man With A Horn
Benny Goodman -- Let's Dance
Count Basie -- You Can Depend On Me
Ella Fitzgerald -- Night And Day
Louis Armstrong -- I Get Ideas
Tomas Einarsson -- Rumdrum
Machito with Cannonball Adderley -- Congo Mulence
Erroll Garner -- How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me [Live]
Winifred Atwell -- Near You
Dave Brubeck/Tony Bennett -- That Old Black Magic
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- Jump With Me Baby
Guy Lombardo -- Auld Lang Syne
Winter seasonal jazz tonight: Peanuts themes, acoustic guitar, improvisations on carols, and more.
Toms Mucenieks, Cyrus Chestnut, Ellis Marsalis Trio, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Charles Kynard, Kaki King, Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie, Al Di Meola, Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet, Chick Corea, Chet Baker, Joe Pass
This episode is a cornucopia of little-known cowboy Christmas songs and better-known holiday tunes done Western-style. Happy Holidays!
On Jazz After Dark: Focus on the 50’s first tonight with Sarah Vaughan, Sidney Bechet, Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Milt Jackson & John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, and Pete Fountain. Then some guitar by Emily Remler, and Al Di Meola, and we'll wrap up the show with Milt Buckner.
The Folk Brothers dedicate this week's program to this new, Grammy-nominated double album of 32 tracks of Appalachian ballads which originated both in the old (i.e., Scotland and England) and new worlds. The album, featuring artists including Rosanne Cash, Martin Simpson, Alice Gerrard, Jody Stecher, Doyle Lawson, is a fundraiser for the Great Smoky Mountains Association.
KDRT will broadcast direct and live from Armadillo Music in Davis, CA, for 2nd Friday ArtAbout on December 8th. This month will be a real treat as one of the favorite duos in California perform. Soaring vocal harmonies and story-filled, poetic songwriting, Misner & Smith's sound harkens back to the bedrock of modern American rock and folk. Paying tribute to strong influences like Simon & Garfunkel, The Band, and Buffalo Springfield, they invent a sound all their own, seducing listeners with music that captures longing and belonging in the same moment. Their partnership in music is a search for meaning. The songs yearn for connection, ache for understanding, relish in mystery, and rejoice in creation. In a world that often feels to be crumbling down around us, they dig deep and find hope in simple things, in the beauty that surrounds us all.
Misner & Smith's latest release is Headwaters, a collection of covers. Please join us December 8th for the live broadcast from Armadillo, or if you're outside the listening area, please listen online at kdrt.org.
Up this week (Friday Dec 8) is our Cowboy Christmas special, part 1. This isn’t a rehash of the same ol’, same ol’ Christmas songs you’ve heard your whole life but COWBOY holiday songs! Tune in and be embraced by western Christmas good cheer!
Mostly Latin jazz, with some gypsy, soul, and blues tonight on Jazz After Dark!
Ray Charles, Jelly Roll Morton, Mundell Lowe, Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Gabor Szabo, David "Fathead" Newman, Dianne Reeves, Jose James & Jeff Neve, Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton, The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project.
November 17, 2017
As Cam and I have been getting ready to start our program, One Foundation, people have been asking us, "So is this a reggae show?" Our answer: No and Yes.
No, in the sense that we'll be playing a wide variety of musical styles from around the globe, especially from the Caribbean, Latin America, and the diasporas of those regions throughout the world. Reggae might be the majority of what we play, but you could say we're "hardly strictly reggae."
