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Love Updated: 2012-02-12 16:40:05 Description: This pre-Valentines Day special features jazz tunes inspired by LOVE. Not a lot of typical sappy love songs in this set, but some hard-driving emotional compositions. We start with some a great tunes from the 50’s performed by Jackie McLean and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jazz Grooves of All Kinds Updated: 2012-02-05 15:03:57 Description: After kicking off this podcast with a straight ahead jazz romp from Steve Davis, we get into a solid groove from a new release by baritone sax master Gary Smulyan. Art Pepper follows with some cool jazz grooves. We then move to a different kind of sw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD For My Dad Updated: 2012-01-29 14:04:11 Description: We kick off this show with Horace Silver’s Song to My Father, as this show is dedicated to the memory of my Dad. He loved Sarah Vaughan so we play a set of some of her live recordings. We then move into a great contemporary vocalist Dana Lauren...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sound Travels Updated: 2012-01-22 17:08:29 Description: We will get funky with some Joshua Redman, then soulful with Joey DeFrancesco and Cinque, before exploring the new release by jazz master Jack DeJohnette. Jack is featured on acoustic piano as well as drums here. Next up is Christian McBride’s ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chucho! Updated: 2012-01-16 13:07:57 Description: First we pay homage to a couple of great jazz artists who passed away five years ago this week. Alice Coltrane and Michael Brecker certainly left their mark on jazz music with some passionate playing and composing as you can hear, here. This is follo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD More Best of 2011 Updated: 2012-01-08 16:47:37 Description: This week we continue to review my pics for the top album releases for 2011. Also featured is a segment of an interview I did with Noah Preminger. This weeks on-air broadcast was hampered by technical difficulties, and sports pre-emptions, but I piec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sam Rivers tribute Updated: 2012-01-01 17:47:05 Description: We begin this show with a tribute to the great Sam Rivers who passed away this week at the age of 88. Sam Rivers was one of the finest free jazz players and composers. First we hear his work on Dave Holland’s great Conference of the Birds CD, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Xmas eve show Updated: 2011-12-25 14:27:56 Description: This podcast, broadcast on Christmas eve, features two of my favorite bands with a couple of nice holiday songs sprinkled in to add a little cheer to the season. After Chris Potter gives his interpretation of Oh Come All Ye Faithful, we get right int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joe Farrell Tribute Updated: 2011-12-18 17:20:27 Description: Before we get into our Joe Farrell set, we play some new music from some great jazz artists including Sean Jones, the Curtis Brothers, JD Allen (who’s album I feature), and Khris Royal. Joe Farrell was an amazing reed player who passed away in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Super Nova Updated: 2011-12-11 14:52:22 Description: This show features two great albums, released over 40 years apart. The first is from the Curtis Brothers, a new driving force in Jazz. Their recently released album is Completion of Proof. It features some great playing by a new generation of jazz mu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mosaic Updated: 2011-12-04 14:18:15 Description: This show features an all women band led by the great drummer Terri Lynn Carrington. She calls this group The Mosaic Project and you will hear tracks featuring Nona Hendrix, Gretchen Parlato, Hellen Sung, Patrice Rushen, Ingrid Jensen and many many m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Claire’s Picks Updated: 2011-11-27 15:46:35 Description: Claire, my lovely wife and co-producer of this radio show and podcast, put this playlist together after I had DJ block this week. We start with a brief set dedicated to Trane, with covers and tributes by Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Joel Holmes and the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rochester Jazz Updated: 2011-11-20 13:00:01 Description: This show will highlight some great jazz cats in the Rochester, NY area. A recent trip to my wife’s home town gave us the opportunity to re-connect with the Rochester jazz scene on two successive evenings. In this podcast, we bring you drummer ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All Electric Pt 2 Updated: 2011-11-12 23:07:29 Description: This second part of the All Electric show is comprised of nearly all classic jazz-rock fusion from the 70’s. Zawinul compositions start off the podcast. 125th is one of the funkiest and swinging Weather Report tunes, followed by a beautiful ver...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All Electric - part one Updated: 2011-11-06 21:33:27 Description: This all electric jazz-fusion show is in response to the lack of electricity here in Connecticut following a rare winter snow storm. Hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residence are still without power. Hopefully this show will provide some musical...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Monster Saxes Updated: 2011-11-01 00:15:53 Description: This podcast features some monster players, particularly on alto sax. We start with Greg Abate as we did last week, and expand to some other great alto players in Jackie McLean, Cannonball Adderley and Art Pepper. We move to the tenor next with a cou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Monsters Updated: 2011-10-23 13:07:55 Description: Our featured album, Monsters in the Night from Greg Abate, sets the pace for some monster playing throughout this podcast. We get primed for Abate’s upcoming performance at a Halloween concert at Chan’s in Woonsocket, Rhode Island on Octo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mid October Jam Updated: 2011-10-16 13:01:22 Description: Just some random tunes on a brisk autumn eve. Starting out with some new music, strings and all from Ben Williams, we transition to another new release from Brooklyn based Rob Garcia 4 and his album of original compostions. Rob and his quartet will b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Northampton Fest Updated: 2011-10-09 15:01:10 Description: This podcast celebrates the great time had at the Northampton Jazz Festival in western Massachusetts. We feature a great CD by young tenor sax player Geoff Vidal who appeared at the fest with Linda Oh, also featured here. Also at the festival was Mar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Autumnal Equinox Reprise Updated: 2011-10-02 14:24:45 Description: I have dug out this podcast from 2009 that celebrates the birthdate of John Coltrane (September 23) as well as the Autumnal Equinox. What better way to pay tribute to both than by playing Coltrane’s classic Equinox. We’ll follow this by S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Human Race live Updated: 2011-09-25 18:26:23 Description: A live in studio performance by The Human Race makes up this weeks podcast. Drummer Dane Scozzari leads this group of fine musicians hailing from the University of Hartford, Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Studies. The Human Race is Kyle Aaron - elec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Into Herbie Updated: 2011-09-18 17:07:14 Description: I get into Herbie Hancock’s music in a big way this week. We play his music spanning many decades and styles. Herbie was one of the great creative geniuses of jazz, as you will hear in this setlist. From straight ahead jazz to funk, fusion and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sonny and Elvin Updated: 2011-09-11 14:55:37 Description: We begin this show by honoring the birthdays of a couple of jazz giants. Last week was the birthdays of Sonny Rollins and Elvin Jones. We feature tracks from Rollins’ Bridge album and a cookin’ Elvin Jones track. From there we get into a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Night at the Standard Updated: 2011-09-04 16:55:59 Description: This show recaps our visit to the Jazz Standard in New York to see the Ron Carter Great Big Band. Although this group is not recorded, we play passages from many of the artists that appeared for the Standard gig, including Ron Carter, Steve Davis, Wa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mostly Trumpet Updated: 2011-08-28 16:06:39 Description: Trumpet reigns supreme in this podcast. We hear from some great trumpet players across many generations. We begin by featuring Josh Evans from his first recording as a leader, and as a sideman on others. Then we hear some classic jazz horn playing fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New and Near Updated: 2011-08-21 18:22:36 Description: This podcast features some fine debut recordings by young jazz artists with roots in CT and MA. We start with Jen Allen’s CD Pieces of Myself. Jen is a fine pianist well known to CT jazz fans. Her CD features her own compositions and arrangemen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Newport Wrap Updated: 2011-08-14 15:52:56 Description: This is our wrap-up of the Newport Jazz Festival coverage. For this podcast we present some of the lesser known artists that appeared, which also accounted for some of the most compelling performances of the two day event. Of particular note are Ambr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Newport Jazz Fest Preview part2 Updated: 2011-08-03 15:43:50 Description: Here is part 2 of the Newport Jazz Festival Preview show. For those who plan on attending this historic jazz event, here is a taste of what you will be seeing and hearing. For those unable to attend, I hope you dig this selection of tunes. If you are...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Newport Jazz Fest Preview Pt 1 Updated: 2011-07-31 14:50:14 Description: This is Part 1 of this year’s Newport Jazz Festival preview (part 2 will be published mid-week). Claire and I will be covering NJF for WHUS next weekend. We will be Tweeting, blogging, Facebooking from the event live. It is a great lineup inclu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Too Hot Updated: 2011-07-24 16:20:44 Description: It’s been way TOO DAMN HOT here in Connecticut as well as other parts of the country. This podcast, and a tall iced lemonade will help you to chill out in this heat. Dr. Lonnie Smith brings it on with a slow groove aptly named for tonight’...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Some new stuff Updated: 2011-07-17 14:29:54 Description: The jazz shelves at WHUS just got restocked with some new stuff. I wanted to feature these CD’s on the show so we will hear new releases from artists like Gretchen Parlato, Karrin Allyson, Ben Williams, Noah Preminger, Sean Jones, and more. The...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Unknown Cats Updated: 2011-07-10 14:00:15 Description: There are so many great talented jazz artists that don’t get the notoriety of Joshua Redman, Marsalis Family, Chick, and others. We try to feature these musicians on In The Groove as much as possible. This show is comprised entirely of these ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Part 2 from last week Updated: 2011-07-03 12:20:36 Description: Traveling in upstate New York for the holiday weekend, so I am publishing the second hour of last weeks show. We feature a new album and new quartet from Joshua Redman and some other tunes I’ve been listening to lately. Featured Album James Fa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jazz night NYC Updated: 2011-06-26 15:40:20 Description: This show recaps our Friday night hitting the NYC jazz clubs. We saw Donald Harrison’s Treme show, Joel Holmes Trio and The John Fedchock NY Sextet (featuring Walt Weiskopf). It was a great night and doing this show lets me share some of that m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Father’s Day 2011 Updated: 2011-06-19 18:18:02 Description: Its sort of a tradition on Father’s Day to begin the show with Horace Silver’s classic Song For My Father. Cannonball’s cool One For Daddy-O continues on that theme. Next up is a Curtis Brothers set to get us ready for their live gi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reprise - Tenor Sax Updated: 2011-06-12 13:42:52 Description: This podcast is a reprise of a podcast from May 16 2010, due to a preemption of my radio show this week. Tenor saxophone is front and center on this show. We’ll hear some jazz artists from today’s generation of tenor players along with s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Out To Lunch Updated: 2011-06-05 14:39:08 Description: Quite an eclectic show. It all starts off with some swinging Joshua Redman, early in his career (1995). It continues with some New Orleans sounds from Skerik and John Ellis. Then we begin our ascent into the avant garde with Greg Osby and then full o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gil Scott-Heron tribute Updated: 2011-05-29 13:37:43 Description: This week’s show begins with a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, who sadly passed away yesterday. Gil was an innovator. His contribution to jazz came with the fusion of his music, spoken word and poetry. He is credited as having a major influence on ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Groove Updated: 2011-05-22 13:19:56 Description: This show is dedicated to The Groove. Does anyone signify The Groove better than Tower of Power and James Brown? I don’t think so. That is followed by a classic (but dated) sound of Jimmy McGriff. The rendition of All Blues here is one of the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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