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Weekly one-hour classic jazz radio program and jazz blog hosted by David Brent Johnson, focusing on jazz from 1945-1990, covering artists such as John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Nina Simone.
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Live at Cafe Bohemia: Hardbop in the Heart of Greenwich Village
In the mid-1950s Cafe Bohemia was one of the most happening jazz clubs in New York City—a Greenwich Village club that caught the vibe of Manhattan’s thriving art and intellectual scene. Those who checked it out might find Charles Mingus, Art Bla...
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: Class of ‘57
Drummer Art Blakey led the Jazz Messengers, one of jazz history's most noted and longest-running collectives, for four decades. The lesser-known 1957 edition included saxophonist Jackie McLean and trumpeter Bill Hardman, whose chemistry one writer d...
Young Wynton: Early Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is respected and scorned as jazz's most prominent spokesperson, but at the dawn of his career he was seen simply as a brilliant young trumpeter. ...
The Horace Silver Songbook
Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a founding father of hardbop and soul jazz and one of the most renowned figures of the post-World War II jazz scene, turns 80 on September 2, 2008. Many of his compositions, such as “Opus de Funk,” “The Preacher,”...
The Wayne Shorter Songbook
Wayne Shorter, one of the great tenor saxophonists and composers of the modern jazz era, turns 75 on August 25. An enigmatic and searching musician and personality, Shorter was once labeled by jazz critic Larry Kart as "one of the most dangerous pla...
Away From the Spaceways: John Gilmore
Tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, who influenced John Coltrane and helped to pioneer the challenging techniques of 1960s avant-garde saxophone, spent most of his career with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recording outside of Sun Ra’s band on only a handfu...
