Conversations with fascinating people about the past, present and future of jazz.
This is not the old Dixieland-to-Swing-to-Bebop story you’ve heard a hundred times.
We go deeper – every week.
A jazz university for serious fans of the music…
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Chuck Israels
Bass Notes, a talk with Chuck Israels
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Dale Cockrell
Everybody’s Doin’ It
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Patrick Huber
Roots of the Roots
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Aidan Levy
Saxophone Colossus
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Ken McCarthy
Reading and reflecting on “Me and Sister Bobbie”
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David Amram
Interview with the Renaissance Man of American Music
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Kris Hendrickson and Loren Schoenberg
Eddie Durham documentary – “Wham Re-Bop-Boom-Bam”
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Bob Beamon
Yes that Bob Beamon
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Al Jackson
Growing up in New Orleans in the 50s and 60s
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Bobby Sanabria with Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer) and Antoinette Montague
Vox Humana
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Sean Wilson
Gospel: Jazz’s secret engine of innovation
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John Peden (guest host)
The big ears – and mind – of Gene Santoro
(Syndicated by permission)
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Mike Vaccaro
Music and Life
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Ken McCarthy
The country church people origins of American music
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Kevin Finch
Wes Bound: The Genius of Wes Montgomery
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Al Kennedy
Chord Changes on the Chalkboard
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Jan Ramsey
Offbeat Magazine
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Matt Marble
Secret Sound
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T.J. English
Dangerous Rhythms – Jazz and the Underworld
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Scott Yanow
Life through the Eyes of a Jazz Journalist
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Karl Berger
Creative Music Unlimited
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Matt Fripp
The business of jazz
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Jeff Schneider
The new world of music education
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Phil Schaap (guest host)
The Young Men from Memphis
(Syndicated by permission)
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Mike Vaccaro
Big bands, Hollywood, and a life of music
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Sean Jones
Jazz Education Network
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Kareem Abdul Jabar
LA’s Central Avenue
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Cisco Bradley
Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker
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David Sulzer (aka Dave Soldier)
Music, Math and Mind
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“Swing Under the Nazis” by Mike Zwerin
Excerpt: A little bit of Django
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Aurora Nealand
A look at KindHumanKind
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Roger Lewis
The Good News from New Orleans
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Michael Lazaroff
Taking Live streaming to a new level
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Harlem of the West – The San Francisco Jazz Era
Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts
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Alina Bloomgarden
MusicontheInside.org
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Alexis Cole
JazzVoice.org
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Mark Stryker
Jazz from Detroit
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Stephen Porges
A scientist looks at the profoundly nurturing quality of music education
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Jacob Goldberg
How black musicians helped reform Local 802
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Dennis Owsley
St. Louis – City of Gabriels
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Richard Vacca
The Boston Jazz Chronicles
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Remembering Eddie Durham
Recollections with Eddie’s daughter Topsy
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Goin’ to Kansas City
Readings from Nathan Pearson’s classic study
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Back to school – Re-visioning jazz education
Monika Herzig, Vic Hobson, David Wright
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A.B. Spellman
Reading – Ornette’s boyhood career
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Michael J. Price
Reading – Ornette in Amarillo
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Dave Oliphant
Ornette – Deep from the Heart of Texas
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Harvey Averne
Cortijo and His Time Machine – Behind the scenes
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Jazz on the Barbary Coast
Readings from the book
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Harvey Averne
Fireworks – Behind the scenes
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Alexander Ravett
Forgotten Tenor – Wardell Gray
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Vic Hobson
The roots of Armstrong’s music
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Dave Oliphant
Jazz from deep in the heart of Texas
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Gilberto Valdés Zequeira
90 years in Cuba
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Hugh Wyatt
Sonny Rollins: Meditating on a Riff
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Ronnie Burrage
Music for the whole community
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Randy Klein
Jazzheads.com
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Jake Meginsky
Milford Graves Full Mantis
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Bobby Sanabria
West Side Story unleashed
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Judy’s back
Part II of our interview with Judy Carmichael
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Highlights of our first 50 programs
Plus some talk about the future
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Judy Carmichael
Jazz Inspired
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Al Jackson
Telling the truth about Louis Armstrong
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Jack Sullivan
New Orleans Remix – America’s musical heartbeat
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John Gennari
Flavor and Soul – Italian America and its African American Edge
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Carol Bash
Mary Lou Williams – The Lady who Swings the Band
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Rudresh Mahanthappa
Composer, soloist, educator
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Eve Zanni
A singer tells the stories of jazz
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Jamey Aebersold
Teaching the world to improvise
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Carl Gerhard
Anchors Away: The Navy and Jazz
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Howard Mandel
Jazz Journalism
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John Ernesto
Berks Jazz Fest
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Louis Marks
A record label for artists
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Michele Rosewoman
Down home bembé: Blending the American and Cuban traditions
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Tomás Peña
The best kept secret in jazz – Puerto Rico’s master musicians
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Robert Wagner
The ArtistsofJazz.com film project
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Rich Pulin
A big band veteran brings jazz to kids
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Darren Hoffman
Tradition is a Temple
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Michael Lazaroff
The Jazz Cruise
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Tom Cunniffe
JazzHistoryOnline.com
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Milcho Leviev
East to West to Back Again
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Bruce Conforth
Meet the real Robert Johnson
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Steve Coleman
Music without borders
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Bobby Sanabria
Latin Jazz and the Beloved Bronx
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Paul Steinbeck
Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago
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Martin Cohen
Latin Percussion and Congahead
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Artt Frank
Chet Baker’s Brother in Bebop
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Ed Polcer
A life in jazz
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Jim Eigo
Heaven is a great jazz record store
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Scott Yanow
Mr. Prolific
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Martin Torgoff
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
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Al Jackson
Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum
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Jane Bunnett
Cuban Odyssey
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William Sabourin O’Reilly
A Cuban Filmmaker looks at race
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Chris Behrens
Beloit Memorial High School Jazz Orchestra
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Frank Malloy IV
South Carolina to Ghana to the Big Apple
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Verna Gills
Exploring the Soundscape: Cuba and Beyond
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Jana La Sorte: Horns to Havana
Instruments, instrument repair, education for young musicians in Cuba
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Matt Geraghty
The Trade Winds Project: NYC, New Orleans, Cuba and beyond
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NC Heikin
Director of “The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story”
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Ron Wasserman
NYJazzHarmonic.org – NYC big band commissioning composers
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Richie Gerber
“Jazz America’s Gift: From It’s Birth to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Beyond”
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Douglas Henry Daniels
“Lester Leaps In”. Jazz in Asia, and more
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James Catchpole
TokyoJazzSite.com – The ultimate English language guide to the world’s biggest jazz scene
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Philip Arneill
TokyoJazzJoints.com – Documenting Japan’s jazz shrines
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Ned Sublette
“Music is a text” – The history of music and the music of history
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Bill Crow
“From Birdland to Broadway” – Memoirs of a jazzman
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Margie Baker
A happy, “accidental” life in jazz
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Henry Holloway
“Swing, Sing and All That Jazz” – 40+ years of extraordinary jazz broadcasting
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Deborah Charity – JazzInformance.com
Presenting jazz in a uniquely beautiful way
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John Swenson – New Atlantis
How jazz musicians brought New Orleans back to life
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Dan Sheppard – TheJazzAgency.co.uk
Getting more gigs for jazz musicians
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Art Blakey