Tune into this year’s Cowboy Christmas special on “Cowboy Tracks” (Dec 14, 1pm). The holiday songs you’ll hear aren’t the same old ones you’ve heard forever but are Christmas songs with a Western flair!
Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Five extended sets:
Artie Shaw -- Concerto for Clarinet [1940],
Cannonball Adderley Quintet -- This Here (live, 1959),
Chet Baker -- Portrait In Black and White (live, 1987),
Dorothy Donegan -- Things Ain't What They Used To Be (live, 1991),
Gabor Szabo -- Mizrab (live, 1972)
Fresh From the Festival, Part 3.” This episode concludes our 3-part series of music and cowboy poetry from artists who performed in November at the International Western Music Association festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary Kaye, the High Country Cowboys, Notable Exceptions and more than a dozen artists on this episode!
Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark: bebop and Brubeck with a twist of reggae! Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker's All-Stars, Frank Morgan & Gigi Gryce, Yusef Lateef, Ernestine Anderson, Frank Morgan, Big Miller & Tommy Banks, Monty Alexander, Dave Brubeck.
Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday midnight, Wednesday 10-11pm
So many things to talk about with this very special guest.
Juan Miranda is a recent Ph.D. of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, focusing in Spanish, Southern Cone and Latinx Literature, Cinema and Culture. He is a radio host for KDVS 90.3’s Correveydile (Every other Monday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.), an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Spanish and Portuguese Review, and an activist in various non-governmental institutions. In addition, he is a writer (including the plays ¡Mama! Grandes Funerales and The Karma of Fools), actor (La Fronteriza Theatre Company; La Poltrona; The Art Theater of Davis), and a performer in the Sammy award winning musical project group Bomba Fried Rice.
For those outside of the listening area this program will be streamed live on kdrt.org
“Fresh From the Festival, Part 2.” Hear more great music and cowboy poetry from artists who performed at the International Western Music Association festival in Albuquerque.
Traditional and mainstream jazz, old and new, 8 pm tonight on Jazz After Dark!
Gabor Szabo, Bix Beiderbecke & Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars, Sidney Bechet, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Claude Bolling Big Band, Zoot Sims, Bob Schultz & His Chicago Rhythm Kings, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
Photo clockwise from upper left: Sidney Bechet, Billie & DeDe Pierce, Zoot Sims, Claude Bolling.
Coming up at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark, here’s the lineup:
Dianne Reeves -- I'm All Smiles;
Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet -- Almost Like Being in Love;
Art Pepper/Conte Candoli -- Old Devil Moon;
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong -- Autumn In New York;
Cannonball Adderley -- Love For Sale;
Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges -- Villes Ville is the Place, Man;
Betty Roché -- Where Or When;
Ben Webster -- Over The Rainbow;
Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery -- Night Train;
Abbey Lincoln -- Brother Can You Spare A Dime;
Hank Jones -- Emily.
Replays Monday 11 pm, Tuesday 12 midnight, Wednesday 10 pm
DJ Rodriguez is thrilled to be hosting Lew Hopson, in-studio guest this Saturday when we will be treated to what Hopson calls Brand New, Old School Funk, Soul and R&B. Hopson is a man with many hats including singer/songwriter, author/poet, and actor in films and television, to name a few. For those of you who have been long-time listeners to DJ Rodriguez, you may have heard several tracks from Hopson's " When U Pick Up Da Funk" album played on The Grapevine show that aired for many years on KDRT. Lew Hopson grew up in Chicago listening to WVON radio, and was influenced by Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Smokey Robinson and Etta James. He produced When U Pick Up Da Funk and the more recent Goody Bag albums with his friends at RudeLab Records and remains grateful to our grassroots community station for airing them on several of our shows.
“Fresh from the Festival.” Nancy is just back from the International Western Music Association’s festival in Albuquerque. She’ll share with you the fantastic music and poetry she heard over 5 days. Today’s episode will recreate the annual Western Music Awards show, which is like the Grammys but for western works. In the upcoming weeks, she’ll have Parts 2 & 3 of “Fresh From the Festival” so that you can hear from many more artists who performed at the festival.
