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…
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…
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…
First, I will start by apologizing for the lack of a preview for last week’s program, which featured a preview of jazz performances in the first handful of months of 2020. Between the New Year’s Day special programing & posting about that and pitching the…
On New Year’s Day, 1 January 2020, WPFW programmer extraordinaire, Willard Jenkins, https://www.openskyjazz.com/about/willard-jenkins/, has assembled an all-star cast of Jazz programmers, plus me, to present the year 2019 in review. This special programming will commence at 5:00 a.m. and continue through midnight. I will present…
Happy Holidays First, I will start out this morning’s post by wishing all my listeners, their families, and other loved ones a joyous, peaceful and happy holiday season. I thank you all for listening this past year, and I hope we can spend time together…
Seasonably Appropriate Music I don’t do Christmas music per se, but on tomorrow’s highly eclectic program will include what I will simply call seasonably appropriate music. Yes, the show will be without a specific theme or themes. I will merely be covering several artists and…
This week’s show will focus on winners of MacArthur Foundation fellowships in Music Composition and Performance. Of the fellows in this category since 1988, about half, maybe even slightly more, have been jazz musicians or from closely related genres of gospel, blues, voice, and Americana.…
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…