Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things Live Trane: The European Tours Pablo Shirley Horn Close Enough for Love Close Enough for Love PolyGram Cyrille Aimee + Friends Love for Sale Live at Smalls Smalls Live Ron Carter Softly, As in a…
Pre-Valentine’s Day Program When the only sound in the empty street Is the heavy tread of the heavy feet That belong to a lonesome cop I open shop When the moon so long has been gazing down On the wayward ways of this wayward…
Stuff We All Get Once again, I, Craig Williams, chief cook and bottle-washer of Morning Brew – Classic Jazz Edition, will be offering Thank You Gifts to those donating certain amounts during the WPFW 2020 Winter Fund Drive. Premiums, Collateral Materials, Branding, Logo-Wear, or Thank…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things My Favorite Things: Coltrane at Newport Impulse Maggie Nichols, Silke Eberhard Nikolas Neuser & Christian Marien Haitian Fight Song I am Three & Me, Mingus’ Sounds of Love Musikfunds Rob Brown Trio The Upshot Unknown…
Due to circumstances beyond my control, this will be an abbreviate preview of tomorrow’s program. I apologize, but please give a listen. The Front Line According to New Orleans’s WWOZ, A Closer Walk website, in a post entitled Musical Threads in Early Jazz, https://acloserwalknola.com/historical-context/musical-threads-early-jazz/, “In…
THIS POST IS SERIOUS, AS SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK! PLEASE READ The Pacifica Foundation For those who do not know, WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC is one of five sister stations that make up the Pacifica network, owned and governed by the Pacifica…
Milk Boy Art House Leyla McCalla will be performing this evening at The Milk Boy Art House in downtown College Park, Maryland. Milk Boy Art House is an interesting club like venue with artistic programing run by the University of Maryland’s The Clarice Smith Performing…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things Live at the Village Vanguard Again! Impulse Donald Brown I Didn’t Know What Time It Was Car Tunes Muse Art Balkey and the Jazz Messengers In Walked Bud Keystone 3 Concord Keith Brown Human Nature…
Jimmy Heath With great sadness, I learned of the passing of saxophonist Jimmy Heath, so in addition to my otherwise planned show, I will pay tribute to and celebrate the music of Mr, Heath during my program tomorrow, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/obituaries/jimmy-heath-dead.html. At a mere 5′-3″, Mr. Heath…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things Live Trane: The European Tours Pablo John Coltrane Giant Steps Giant Steps Atlantic John Coltrane Crescent Crescent Impulse Spike Wilner Bess, You is My Woman Now Solo Piano, Live at Smalls Smalls Live Spike WIlner…