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MARCH/APRIL 2011
WBGO Program Guide
Jazz 88.3 FM
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WBGO CELEBRATES
JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH
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THE WAY WE WERE:
A PICTORIAL OF CLUB HARLEM
rom the time Club Harlem
opened in Atlantic City in 1935,
until it closed its legendary red
leather doors in the 1980’s, it attracted
F
Pattie Harris
(Club Harlem
Dancer)
the brightest stars from the world of
African-American entertainment. Billie
Holiday, Cab Calloway, Sammy Davis Jr
and James Brown were but a few who
attended the club.
The exhibition on display at WBGO
through April 1, provides a nostalgic
glimpse of a side of Atlantic City’s history that is rarely seen. Curated by
Ralph Hunter, of the African American
Heritage Museum of Southern New
Jersey, the exhibition features photographs of performers with their album
covers, the club’s showgirls and the
venue itself.
Join us for a gallery reception on
Thursday, March 17 from 6 to 8pm at
WBGO, 54 Park Place in Newark.
BOARD MEETING Our next WBGO Board of Trustees
meeting will be held March 21, 2011 at 6pm in the
Performance Studio at WBGO, 54 Park Place, Newark, NJ.
This meeting is open to the public.
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Gary Walker
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WBGO PRESENTS
2011 Spring
Kids Jazz
Concert Series
Bart Lewis
he WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series
continues this Spring with performances in various cities in New
Jersey. These interactive, hour-long programs give young people opportunities to
learn about the distinct qualities of jazz,
and why it is a reflection of our community,
nation, and world. Top jazz and blues artists
produce special programs tailor-made for
young people. The audience participates in
Q&A sessions with the artists, and the children are eligible for a prize drawing, plus all
young people will receive a small gift. All
concerts are free, adults must be accompanied by a child.
Dates and locations are subject to change.
All concerts are held in handicapped accessible venues on Saturdays and begin at
12:30 P.M. Visit www.wbgo.org/kids for
updates on the locations and performers in
this series, as well as other news for jazzy
kids!
April 9
Location TBA
April 16
Montclair Art Museum
April 30
Newark Museum
May 7
NJPAC/Victoria Theater
Bart Lewis
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SCHEDULE
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BROADCASTING
n 2010, Americans rated public broadcasting as an “excellent” use of taxpayer
dollars, second only to defense spending.
80% of those polled said funding for public
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Federal funding provides essential support
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universal access to high-quality non-commercial programming that educates, informs,
enlightens, and enriches the public, with a
particular focus on the needs of underserved
audiences, including children and minorities.
This is particularly true for WBGO which uses
this funding to ensure that we have adequate
staff and other critical support for the New
York/New Jersey market’s only full time jazz
radio station.
Congressional efforts to eliminate federal
funding for Public Broadcasting will likely be
underway by the time you are reading this, as
the House was scheduled in February to consider legislation to fund the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year.
The Continuing Resolution (CR), approved
during last fall’s lame duck session, expires
on March 4th. We expect the House
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*2010 Roper Opinion Poll
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WBGO’S
(JAZZ APPRECIATION
MONTH) NEXT
GENERATION FESTIVAL
s well as being WBGO’s birthday
month, this April is the 10th
anniversary of Jazz Appreciation
Month. In celebration, WBGO will once
again bring bright, new jazz talent to its
airwaves with the annual student jazz
ensemble live broadcast event, WBGO’s
Next Generation Festival. The series will
air throughout the month on weekdays
from 2–3pm in the afternoon, and feature some of the area’s best student jazz
ensembles both live from the WBGO
Performance Studio as well as recently
recorded on location.
WBGO listeners will get a glimpse into
the future, as these students of today are
on their way to becoming the jazz legends
of tomorrow. WBGO’s Vice President of
Programming and Production, Thurston
Briscoe, said “There are a number of jazz
musicians known to all of us who came
out of, or are teaching in one of these
schools.” Briscoe joins forces each year
with Matrin Mueller, Executive Director
at the New School for Jazz and
Contemporary Music to build this student broadcast festival.
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The broadcast schedule to date includes:
April 1
NYU—Wayne Shorter Ensemble,
directed by Dave Pietro
April 4 Queens College
April 6 William Paterson College
April 8 New School—The New School Jazz
JAM Ensemble, directed by Richard
Boukas
April 11 Manhattan School of Music
April 12 The Juilliard School
April 18 SUNY Purchase – Purchase Jazz
Endeavor (Jazz Combo)
April 20 NJCU—NJCU Jazz Ensemble directed
by Ed Joffe
April 22 Rutgers—Rutgers New Brunswick
Jazz Ensemble
April 26 Berklee College of Music
All performances air from 2–3pm. For updated
information, visit www.wbgo.org/jams.
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PHOTO: JIMMY RYAN
programs at a glance
programguide
March/April 2011
SUNDAYS
5:00AM LIVING ON EARTH
with Steve Curwood
A magazine show covering environmental
issues.
6:00AM SUNDAY MORNING HARMONY
with Dan Karcher
10:00AM SINGERS UNLIMITED
with Michael Bourne
Singers Unlimited is 4 hours of new and
classic singers singing ballads and bossas,
blues and be-bop. For more than 25 years,
WBGO’s Michael Bourne has turned the
spotlight on jazz vocalists with live in-studio
performances, interviews and more.
6:00 PM JAZZSET WITH
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
Re-broadcasts on Wednesdays at 6:30
with support from Chamber Music
America’s 2008–09 New Jazz Works:
Commissioning and Ensemble Development
of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
The Mary Lou Williams
Women in Jazz All-Stars
at the Kennedy Center
One time only! Grammy© Award Winner
Dee Dee Bridgewater, altoist Grace Kelly
(in her teens), pianist Geri Allen, Grammy©
Award Winning bassist Esperanza Spalding,
and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington jam like
there’s no tomorrow on Mary Lou’s music
and more.
“Allen’s orchestral designs, sublime examples of keyboard coloring and dynamics,
allowed the ensemble to display winning
finesse amid improvised tangents, heated
exchanges and terrifically vibrant collaborations with Bridgewater.” (Mike Joyce,
Washington Post)
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*Sorrows and Triumphs is made possible
program, funded through the generosity
March 6
Tom Beetz
JAZZSET
March 6 The Mary Lou Williams
Women in Jazz All-Stars
See sidebar.
March 13 New Jazz Work*: Sorrows and
Triumphs by Edward Simon
at the Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AK
Pianist Simon premieres a work for his
septet Afinidad, co-led by saxophonist David
Binney, with vocals and Brazilian percussion.
Sorrows and Triumphs draws on the
Buddhist practice of finding inner balance,
and contrasts with Binney’s extroverted
“Party Man” and more.
March 20 Bill Frisell at the
Kennedy Center
The guitarist transcends his medium. “Think
of Frisell as a master painter,” writes
JazzSet’s Mark Schramm. He splices in bluegrass and country, creates soundscapes with
space and effects, and turns 60 on March
18. Happy Birthday!
March 27 “Two Skirts and A Shirt”
From “Two Skirts and A Shirt” to “Bye Bye
Blackbird,” vocalists Rene Marie, Carla Cook
and Allan Harris play a swinging, retro show
at the KC Jazz Club.
April 3 Ambrose Akinmusire, Carmen
Staaf at the Kennedy Center
The trumpeter is a 2011 Face to Watch, says
The Los Angeles Times. He can “sigh, flutter
or soar.” We pair Ambrose highlights with
pianist Carmen Staaf’s debut at the Women
in Jazz Festival.
April 10 Billy Childs’s “Music for T
wo Quartets” at Monterey
LA pianist Childs and an airborne, passionate
Steve Wilson on sax with Scott Colley and
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Brian Blade meet the Bay Area Kronos
Quartet (strings) on a piece commissioned
by the Monterey Jazz Festival.
April 17 Live at The Village Vanguard
in Surround Sound
Reprises and new music from the monthly
WBGO/NPR series, with artists to be
announced
April 2 The Kennedy Center presents
Ella! Featuring Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Janis Siegel,
Al Jarreau
Hear the broadcast premiere of a Concert
Hall celebration of Ella Fitzgerald. Some
arrangements come from the vocalist’s
collection, now at the Library of Congress.
7:00 PM SUNDAY NIGHT MUSIC MIX
Grammy™ nominated record producer Eulis
Cathey plays an eclectic mixture of jazz,
contemporary jazz, fusion, jazz/funk, Latin,
classic R&B and so much more. From
Grover Washington, Jr. to Weather Report;
from James Brown to Eddie Palmieri; from
Charles Earland to Incognito, the Sunday
Night Music Mix has something for everyone.
11:00 PM JAZZ FROM THE ARCHIVES
March 6 Dan Block’s Ellington
The multi-reedman and host Dan
Morgenstern discuss and listen to Block’s
fine original interpretations of Ellington (and
Strayhorn) themes from his notable new CD.
March 13 Big Band-less Toshiko Akiyoshi
Host Annie Kuebler explores the music of the
talented pianist-composer away from her big
band settings, including solo, trio and other
small group performances.
March 20 Sono
Bill Kirchner examines the contributions of
long-time Ellington baritone saxophonist (and
bass clarinetist) Harry Carney (1910–1974).
March 27 Spike Hughes:
The British Recordings
Best known for his NY all-star sessions from
1933, the Anglo-Irish bassist/composer
recorded some of the very first non-US jazz
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classics in the early 30’s. Host Loren
Schoenberg has selected highlights.
April 3 Tal Farlow:
The Verve/Norgran Years
Host Vincent Pelote salutes guitarist Tal
Farlow, playing some of the great recordings
he made for producer Norman Granz’s
Norgran and Verve labels in the 1950s.
April 10 Benny vs. Artie
Goodman and Shaw were Swing Era and
beyond rivals. Host Dan Morgenstern compares their distinctive treatments of the same
songs.
April 17 Albam’s Albums
Host Bill Kirchner samples the music of composer-arranger Manny Albam (1922–2001)
from recordings made in the 1990s.
April 24 Musical Time Capsule:
February 1940
You won’t believe how many great jazz
recordings were made in just one month’s
time! Join host Loren Schoenberg for some
of the best swing music ever played.
MONDAYS
6:30PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
WITH WENDELL PIERCE
March 7 Great American Songwriters:
Vernon Duke
We get whisked away to “Autumn in New
York,” “April in Paris” and “A Cabin in the
Sky.” Pianist Bill Charlap with Houston
Person (sax), Ethel Ennis (vocals), Peter
Washington (bass) and Kenny Washington
(drums) perform the book of composer
Vernon Duke. The perfect get away. Wendell
Pierce hosts.
March 14 Dianne Reeves
Singer Dianne Reeves turns every note into
an alluring story. In Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Allen Room, she’s joined by guitarist Peter
Sprague, pianist Peter Martin, bassist Reuben
Rogers and drummer Terreon Gully. Wendell
Pierce hosts.
March 21 Luciana Souza Trio
Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza has made a
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home in both the Bossa Nova and jazz traditions. For this concert she adds texts by ee
cummings and Pablo Neruda. Souza’s acrobatic inflections are propelled by percussion
of Cyro Baptista and the guitar of Romero
Lubambo. Wendell Pierce hosts.
March 28 Darin Atwater Gospel
Pianist and composer Darin Atwater draws
on deep roots in gospel, jazz, and classical
traditions for his 15-piece gospel choir. With
special guest singer Kim Burrell—they shake
the roof of the Allen Room in this heavenly
concert including Atwater’s own compositions plus Wade in the Water, What a
Wonderful World, and Amazing Grace. Written
by David Goren. Wynton Marsalis hosts.
April 4 Bobby McFerrin
Bobby McFerrin introduces a major work for
a rhythmically-charged, internationally-cast,
22-voice, improvising choir. McFerrin’s
sprawling work VOCAbuLarieS evokes African
chant, gospel energy, Motown soul, minimalism and jazz polyphony—and this exhilarating performance also features a role for the
Rose Theater audience. Wendell Pierce hosts.
April 11 The Music of Sarah Vaughan
Brash vocals earned Sarah Vaughan’s the
titles “Sassy” and “The Divine One.” Musical
director and pianist Eric Reeds leads this celebration of her work through the glorious
range of Jane Monheit and Mary Stallings’
sure swing. Wendell Pierce hosts
April 18 John Coltrane/ Johnny Hartman
Johnny Hartman’s lush vocals meshed perfectly with John Coltrane’s lyric tenor sax on
their legendary record album. Now, baritone
Kevin Mahogany joins Todd Williams – one of
today’s great tenor sax men – to recreate
classics from that 1963 collaboration, including: “Dedicated to You,” “Autumn Serenade”
and “You Are Too Beautiful.” Wendell Pierce
hosts.
April 25 Bossa Nova Journey
In 1958, the world was seduced by the Bossa
Nova of João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos
Jobim. The romance continues today with
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Rosa Passos. Her perfect pitch and delicate
rhythms grace the stage of Allen Room. Billy
Banks hosts.
7:30 PM NJ CAPITOL REPORT
Emmy Award-winning anchors Steve
Adubato and Rafael Pi Roman host New
Jersey Capitol Report which examines New
Jersey’s most pressing public and policy
issues. The program looks at political, social,
and cultural issues affecting the people of
New Jersey through in-depth conversations
with the state’s top legislative leaders, political pundits, and “movers and shakers.”
TUESDAYS
6:30PM THE CHECKOUT
This hour-long music magazine, hosted by
Josh Jackson, is also available as a podcast,
which can be found at the show’s dedicated
website, www.checkoutjazz.com. The multimedia show features what’s new in the New
York jazz scene, including featured new
music selections, sessions from the WBGO
performance studio, as well as interviews.
New York Times music critic, Ben Ratliff,
occasionally joins Josh to discuss new
releases, recent reissues and newly discovered or unearthed music.
7:30PM LATINO USA
with Maria Hinojosa
Multi award-winning Latino USA, the radio
journal of news and culture, is the only
nationally distributed English-language radio
program produced from a Latino perspective. This program covers the social, cultural
and political issues facing today’s Latino
community.
Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA, is also
urban affairs correspondent for CNN and a
former NPR News reporter. In addition to
being a broadcaster, Hinojosa is an author,
and a frequent lecturer on college campuses. She has received the Robert F. Kennedy
Award, an Associated Press award and the
National Council of La Raza’s 1999 Ruben
Salazar Award.
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8:00PM
LATIN JAZZ CRUISE
with Awilda Rivera
WEDNESDAYS
6:30PM JAZZSET WITH
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
Re-broadcast of Sunday’s Program; See
Listing
7:30PM WORLD VISION REPORT
The Edward R. Murrow Award-winning World
Vision Report is a weekly radio program that
captures the human drama behind global
issues and events. World Vision Report is
hosted by Peggy Wehmeyer, former ABC
World News Tonight correspondent.
THURSDAYS
6:30PM MARIAN MCPARTLAND’S
PIANO JAZZ
March 3 Ladies of Song with
guest host Murray Horowitz
From Sarah Vaughan and Rosemary Clooney
to Diana Krall and Norah Jones, Piano Jazz
celebrates Women’s History Month with the
joy and beauty that women singers have
brought to the Great American Songbook.
March 10 Nicki Parrott
Australian singer/bassist Nicki Parrott made
her mark on the New York scene working
with the likes of Skitch Henderson, Billy
Taylor, Warren Vache, and the late Les Paul.
She has also emerged as a first-rate vocalist.
On this Piano Jazz, Parrott performs her
enchanting take on Peggy Lee’s “I Love The
Way You’re Breaking My Heart.”
March 17 Marian with guest host
Elvis Costello—Part One
In celebration of Marian McPartland’s birthday, Piano Jazz presents part one of a very
special interview. The tables are turned as
McPartland sits at the guest bench to discuss
her life as a performer and as the program’s
host. She reminisces about the program’s
early days, including her debut guest Mary
Lou Williams, and Bill Evans giving her a lesson in the structure of his playing. Pianist
Pete Malinverni accompanies Costello on a
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few tunes, and McPartland plays and Costello
sings on “Our Love Is Here To Stay.”
March 24 Marian with guest host
Elvis Costello—Part One
Piano Jazz continues with part two of this
special interview with Marian McPartland, the
creator of Piano Jazz and host for over 30
years. McPartland and guest host Costello
stroll down memory lane as she recounts
some of her favorite moments from over 700
episodes. Costello serenades McPartland with
a moving version of “P.S. I Love You.”
March 31 Roberta Gambarini
Vocalist Roberta Gambarini continues the
legacy of Sara Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and
Carmen McRae, and she is well-qualified to
fill their famous heels. She recorded with legendary accompanist to ladies of song, the late
Hank Jones, and received a 2010 Grammy
nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. On this
Piano Jazz, she sizzles on a set of tunes from
the Great American Songbook.
April 7 Remembering Dr. Billy Taylor
The jazz world lost a great performer, friend,
and advocate when pianist Dr. Billy Taylor
passed away in 2010. He was also a threetime guest on Piano Jazz. On this 2007 program recorded before a live audience at the
John F. Kennedy Center, Taylor performs his
tunes “In Loving Memory” and “If You Really
Are Concerned;” and joins McPartland for a
duet of “These Foolish Things.”
April 14 Veronica Nunn with Travis Shook
Vocalist Veronica Nunn grew up in Little Rock,
Arkansas, absorbing all kinds of music, from
jazz to funk to gospel. When she moved to
New York in 1978, she split her time between
Harlem’s jazz clubs and the Theology department at Lehman College. Now a full time jazz
singer and accompanied by her pianist and
husband, Travis Shook, Nunn demonstrates
her soulful touch on “One Note Samba” and
“I’m Old Fashioned.”
April 21 Mercer Ellington
Composer and arranger Mercer Ellington
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worked for his famous father, Duke Ellington,
as a horn player, copyist, and general manager. He also led the Ellington orchestra after
Duke passed away in 1974. On this program,
Ellington performs his tune “Things Ain’t
What They Used To Be,” Billy Strayhorn’s
“Chelsea Bridge,” and duets with Marian
McPartland
on “C Jam Blues.”
April 28 Bela Fleck
With his Flecktones, Bela Fleck has expanded
the banjo far beyond bluegrass and folk, and
is a regular collaborator with jazz players
including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and
Jean-Luc Ponty. On this session Fleck joins
McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for
trio renditions of “In Walked Bud,” “All The
Things You Are,” and “Polka Dots and
Moonbeams.”
7:30PM PEOPLE’S PHARMACY
This program examines current issues in medicine, mental health, nutrition and fitness.
FRIDAYS
6:30PM PORTRAITS IN BLUE
Re-broadcast of previous Saturday’s
Program; See Listing
7:30PM WBGO JOURNAL
This program, produced by the multi-award
winning WBGO team, covers issues of importance to the Newark/NY metro area.
SATURDAYS
6:00AM RIVERWALK JAZZ
March 5 A Woman’s Touch: Celebrating
Women Composers in Jazz
See sidebar.
March 12 International Sweethearts
of Rhythm: America’s
#1 All-Girl Band
Organized to raise money for their
Mississippi orphanage in the late 1930s, the
International Sweethearts of Rhythm became
a sensation in the 1940s. This program tells
their story through their recordings, interviews with surviving band members, and the
music of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
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March 19 From Bach to Bix: Influence
of European Classics on
American Jazz
Most would think that Jazz and Classical
music make strange bedfellows—not necessarily true. Join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
for their interpretations of operetta and ‘art
music’ with music of James P. Johnson, Bix
Beiderbecke and George Gershwin.
March 26 All In a Texas Family:
The Jazz Legacy of Emilio
and Ernie Caceres
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, violinist Johnny
Frigo, clarinetist Henry Cuesta and alto sax
man David Caceres pay tribute to San
Antonio’s musical Caceres brothers—Emilio
Caceres, one of the hottest violinists of the
Swing Era and his brother Ernie who played
clarinet and sax in the top dance bands of
the day.
7:00AM PORTRAITS IN BLUE
Re-broadcasts on FRIDAYS at 6:30
March 5 Johnny Rawls,
Southern Soul Man
March 12 Jimmy Witherspoon,
From The Beginning, Vol. 1
RIVERWALK JAZZ
March 5
A Woman’s Touch:
Celebrating Women
Composers in Jazz
Ever heard of Beth Slater
Whitson and Kay Swift?
Maybe not, but you’ve
heard their compositions,
“Fine and Dandy” and
“Meet Me Tonight in
Dreamland,” all jazz standards today. This week,
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
tips their hat to the ladies
with a jazz concert of tunes
composed by women.
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March 19 Bobby Charles, Vol. 2
New York, and was named Best Radio Show
March 26 Robert Johnson Centennial
by New York Magazine and the Village Voice.
April 2 Dinah Washington, Vol. 14
April 9 Little Walter, Vol. 3
April 16 Chuck Berry, Vol. 8
MUSIC DIRECTOR GARY WALKER’S
April 23 Lonnie Johnson, Vol. 6
TOP CDS + RE-ISSUES
April 30 Lloyd Price, Vol. 4
8:00AM SATURDAY MORNING FUNCTION
WBGO’s Bob Porter plays blues, R&B and
classic soul, with an emphasis on the early
1950s to the late 1960s. New artists who
Top Tunes
perform these styles are also featured.
10:00AM RHTYHTM REVIEW
Gary’
Joe Lovano/Us Five
s
with Felix Hernandez
P
lays
Bird Songs (Blue Note)
Rhythm Revue’s blend of classic soul and
David Hazeltine
R&B received the A.I.R. (Achievement in Radio)
Inversions (Criss Cross)
Award for the Best Weekend Program in
Kevin Eubanks
Zen Food (Mack Avenue)
Russell Malone
Triple Play (Maxjazz)
Dave Stryker
Keystone (Steeplechase)
Bill Easley
Love Stories (American Showplace)
Jazz@Lincoln Center Orchestra
Vitoria Suite (Emarcy)
Roomful Of Blues
Hook, Line & Sinker (Alligator)
The Microscopic Septet
Friday The Thirteenth (Cuneiform)
New Re-issues:
Various
40th Anniversary Blues (Alligator)
Chet Baker
She Was Too Good to Me
(Masterworks Jazz)
Jim Hall
Concierto
(Masterworks Jazz)
Ron Carter
All Blues (Masterworks Jazz)
Sinatra, Martin, Davis
Best of The Rat Pack (Rhino)
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LIVE AT THE
VILLAGE VANGUARD
he monthly
series, Live at
the
Village
Vanguard, continues
with
host
Josh
Jackson on WBGO.
On Tuesday, March
15 at 9pm (Eastern
time), Terell Stafford
will celebrate the
Jimmy Ryan release of his new
recording, This Side of Strayhorn, during
the broadcast.
Terell Stafford, on trumpet & flugelhorn, will be joined that evening by Tim
Warfield (soprano & tenor saxophone),
Bruce Barth (piano), Peter Washington
(bass) and Dana Hall (drums). The group
will perform selections from the album
which was produced by John Clayton with
arrangements by Bruce Barth.
In addition to his role as an arranger,
composer and bandleader, Stafford has
been an integral part of jazz groups led by
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such performers as Kenny Barron, Matt
Wilson (Arts & Crafts), Cedar Walton, the
Clayton Brothers, Sadao Watanabe,
Herbie Mann, and many New York-based
big bands including Jon Faddis’ Carnegie
Hall Jazz Band, Wynton Marsalis' Lincoln
Center Jazz Orchestra, the Mingus Big
Band and the Village Vanguard Jazz
Orchestra. Stafford has appeared on television (Tonight Show with Jay Leno; You
Bet Your Life with Bill Cosby, the soundtrack for Robert DeNiro’s feature film, A
Bronx Tale, and on NPR's Billy Taylor's
Jazz at The Kennedy Center, where he
performed as featured guest artist with
the Billy Taylor Trio as well as with his
own quintet. Stafford is currently the
director of Jazz Studies at Temple
University.
To hear this artist who JazzTimes heralds
as having “a vibrant command of his
instrument,” tune into WBGO Jazz
88.3FM or log on to wbgo.org and npr.org,
Tuesday, March 15 at 9pm.
artial Solal will be featured on Live at the Village Vanguard on
Wednesday, April 13 at 9pm. The composer and pianist NPR
calls “one of the greatest European musicians alive today”
lives in a suburb of Paris and has, at 83, lived an interesting life in jazz.
Born in Algeria, his amateur opera-singer mother introduced him to
music. He is largely self taught, though he did manage to take piano lessons after 1940 when Nazi race laws excluded him from school because
his father was Jewish. He moved to Paris in 1950 and worked there with Django Reinhardt,
Sidney Bechet, Don Byas and composed the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film, A Bout
de Souffle (Breathless).
Solal has only performed in New York a handful of times since the early 1960s. He made two
very beautiful recordings at the Village Vanguard - with his trio shortly after September 11th,
2001, and the first solo piano recording ever made from the club in 2009. Now, we'll get to
hear him in duo with bassist Francois Moutin. Don’t miss this rare opportunity as Josh
Jackson hosts Martial Solal Live at the Village Vanguard, Wednesday, April 13 at 9pm on
WBGO Jazz 88.3FM and www.wbgo.org.
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Hot Stuff
NEW SHOW!
Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
W
hat
started
as
an experiment on
October 1, 2010 has
become the newest
weekly program on
WBGO. Co-hosted
by Tavis Smiley and his longtime
friend and collaborator, Princeton
professor Cornel West, Smiley &
West is a meeting place for a contemporary movement based on the ideas,
morality, and spirit of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Each week Smiley & West engage in
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deep dialogue in the “Hot Stuff” as they
dissect the news of the moment.
Listeners get to turn the tables in the
“Take ‘Em To Task” segment and challenge Smiley & West on something they
said. The second half of the show features “icons and issues”, in-depth, 30minute conversations with legendary
leaders, artists and thinkers—and people on the front lines of issues close to
the hearts of Smiley & West.
Smiley & West will replace Riverwalk
Jazz on WBGO, Saturday mornings
at 6am.
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