Last Chance!!!! Today through midnight is your last chance to get a 2019 tax deduction while supporting your favorite Jazz and Justice radio station, WPFW 89.3 FM and www.wpfwfm.org. Tell the phone volunteer if calling 202.588.0893 or use the drop down menu if donating on…
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…
New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2019, the Branford Marsalis Quartet, https://www.branfordmarsalis.com, will be doing two shows at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. in the Terrace Theater. If you are a fan of this simply amazing quartet,…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane Quartet My Favorite Things My Favorite Things Atlantic John Coltrane Blue World Blue World Impulse Branford Marsalis Quartet Dance of The Evil Toys The Secret Between The Shadow and the Soul Marsalis Music/Oken Ron Carter Little Waltz Foursight…
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…
Artist Song Title Album Label John Coltrane My Favorite Things (Live At The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, 7/7/1963) My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport Impulse Art Ensemble of Chicago We Are on the Edge We Are on the Edge, A 50th Anniversary Celebration Pi…
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…
WPFW Fundraiser This Friday, 20 December 2019, WPFW will host a year-end holiday bash and fundraiser at Bethesda Blues & Jazz, featuring multi-talented, multi-genre, genre bending vocalist Nona Hendrix and her band Mamafunk. The evening begins at 6:00 when WPFW’s own, DJ’s Lance Reynolds (House…
The Art Ensemble of Chicago will visit the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’s Terrace Theater this evening for two performance (7:00 & 9:00 p.m.) as part of their 50th Anniversary Tour. Founder and newly named NEA Jazzmaster, Roscoe Mitchell, and long-time member,…