In addition to tomorrow’s Morning Brew – Classic Jazz Edition, this week, I will also be the guest proprietor of Robyn’s Place, sitting in for the incomparable Robin Holden. I will do my best to present her loyal listeners an enjoyable program in the spirit…
Thanksgiving While simple on the face of it, Thanksgiving is actually a complicated holiday. It means different things to different people and cultures. To say the least, the mainstream story of pilgrims and “Indians” peacefully coexisting and dining together, rather than on each other, is…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things John Coltrane Bluenite Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser Monk Live at the It Club Columbia Thelonious Monk Think of One Criss-Cross Columbia Jazz Masterpieces Bud Powell Trio I Remember Clifford Bouncing with Bud Delmark Bud…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things John Coltrane Live in Japan Impulse Jason Moran Say Peace Black Stars Blue Note Sam Rivers/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul Second Set Part 4 Reunion:Live in New York Pi Recordings Jason Moran Kinda Dukish Black Stars Blue…
This Week On this program, after a yet to be determined version of John Coltrane playing My Favorite Things, we will feature piano music for the balance of the program. While not strictly in chronological order, we will start with classic music by the masters…
Tomorrow evening, I am heading to the Italian Embassy for a concert by Neapolitan jazz singer Maria Pia de Vito. I must admit, I was not familiar with her work until Thursday afternoon, when I heard her being interviewed by WPFW’s Amy K. Bormet on…
My Favorite Things I am excited to announce that this coming Thursday, 13 November 2019 will be a very special program to mark the launch of this website and the companion twitter feed at http://twitter.com/morningbrew_CJE. To start off, I will be playing a version of…
Morning Brew & Union City Radio – Classic Jazz Edition for Thursday, November 7, 2019 – 5:00 AM Craig Williams Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane Quartet My Favorite Things My Favorite Things Atlantic Eric Revis Gallop’s Gallop City of Asylum Clean Feed Benoit Delbecq Spots…
I will be attending the 7:00 show of pianist Jason Moran and Band Wagon – Tarus Mateen (b) and Nasheet Waits (d) with guest Ingrid Laubrock on reeds. The concert will be at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Their project is entitled Black Stars, which…