“Big Country.” This week’s show title is named after one of the songs you’ll hear but also represents our country’s vastness and great diversity.
Mostly sax tonight on Jazz After Dark: hard bop, some bossa nova, and more.
Joe Sullivan, Lou Donaldson, Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges, Illinois Jacquet, Oscar Peterson, Cannonball Adderley, Hideo Shiraki, Ella Fitzgerald, Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc, Houston Person, Winston Walls & Brother Jack McDuff
On January 11, 2019, the episode of Meraki was a lively discussion on global warming.
Joining Alison B and I in the studio was our regular guest Francis along with Dante.
I had the pleasure of introducing my dear friend Psychotherapist, meditator and environmental activist Michael Apathy.
Jessica Malone is an award winning singer/ songwriter who was raised in the tall mountains of far northern California. Her original music evokes a sense of wanderlust, self-discovery, positivity and moving forward. On Jessica's latest release, "The Waiting Hours" EP, drums, upright bass, violin, acoustic & electric guitar accompany her powerful and soothing vocals. Her raw and unfiltered approach to folk/ Americana songwriting creates music that will take you back in time, while her heartfelt lyrics will keep you rooted in the present.
For those outside the listening area this show will be streamed live on www.kdrt.org
Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark:
A ‘new’ album from Erroll Garner is always something to celebrate! A 1964 live recording from the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, “mixed and mastered from new transfers of the original 3-track analog tapes found in Garner’s personal archive,” was just released in 2018. We’ll hear three selections.
Our other featured performer is Sonny Stitt, prolific sax player from the early 1940’s to the early 1980’s. Plus works by Eva Cassidy, Johnny Hodges, Oscar Peterson with Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Rob Agerbeek , and Monty Alexander.
”Playing Favorites, Part 2.” In this second installment, Nancy will play more of her favorite western songs and poems from 2018 Cowboy Tracks episodes. They’re all worthy of your attention!
Divine Intervention strikes this week with the typical mix of rock, punk, and pop plus some new releases and reissues from some oldsters to kick off 2019: Flesh Eaters, Marc Ribot, Eugene Chadbourne, Snakefinger... See the playlist and stream the show via the program page. Cheers!
“Playing Favorites.” On this first show of 2019, Nancy will share some of of her favorite western songs and poems from her 2018 Cowboy Tracks episodes. Listen in if you want to hear the cream of the crop, the pick of the litter, the best in class!
Honoring Nancy Wilson on Jazz After Dark tonight, plus performances by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Lucky Thompson, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Erroll Garner, Don Ellis, Mel Torme & George Shearing, Art Pepper, Tony Bennett, and Al Di Meola.
Photo, clockwise from upper left: Nancy Wilson, Mel Tormé, Art Pepper, Erroll Garner
Divine Intervention strikes once again on KDRT, closing the year with a musical sampling of 2018's best rock/pop/related/random releases, including new sounds from Otis Gibbs, Yowler, Derek Ted, Field Medic, Th’ Losin Streaks, and Perfume Genius, as well as a few—just a few—new so-called holiday tunes. See the playist and stream the show via the program page. Happy holidays and and a healthy new year to you!
