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Special Programs for March 15 thru March 20 Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: Popular Jazz Albums The Short List concludes its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. This week, we hear from Shelly Manne’s My Fair Lady, Art Pepper & Marty Paich’s Modern Jazz Classics, Stan Kenton’s Standards in Silhouette, more from Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall...

Oh and Sorey arent mere collaborators or accompanists; theyre educators and composers in their own rights. Of Soreys drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Ohs bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, its like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trios first studio record, which drops April 9 on ECM Records. The album is a mix of topical material "Children of Flint" with Iyer originals ("Combat Breathing") and stand...

Special Programs for March 8 thru March 13 Short List with Host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Short List: “The Hits” The Short List continues its feature of great jazz albums that crossed over into mainstream popularity and became lasting classics. Listen for Miles Davis’s Sketches Of Spain, Wynton Marsalis’s Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1, Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, and Stanley Jo...

As kids, they jammed in the basement — and he heard what would become the Chick Corea sound © Pam Berry/Globe Staff Chelsea native Chick Corea performs at the Hatch Shell in Boston on June 25, 1989. As with all deaths of people one has known personally, the passing of Chick Corea came as a shock (”Chick Corea, at 79; eclectic jazz pianist earned 23 Grammys,” Feb. 12). We were teenage friends and budding musicians, jamming on Saturday nights in his basement and gigging in class D barroo...

UpdatedTue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:37 pm ET Reply Conversations About Jazz - Guest for 2/25/21 (Hammonds House Digital) On Thursday, February 25 at 7:30 pm (EST) Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions with host Carl Anthony. Carls special guest will be jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin and they will discuss her career, sample some of her favorite songs, and delve into her latest CD, The Dream is You: Vanessa Rubin Sings Tadd Dameron. This free vi...

At the center of our #ChickForever celebration , WBGO is proud to present highlights from across a nearly 60-year recording career. Our announcers have

Chick Corea shared his inner creative soul on "Plays" On Chick Corea’s 2-CD package, "Plays" (Concord), he needed no rhythm section, no blaring horns to make his points. His 10 fingers cascading wildly over the 88 keys of his piano creates new vistas of meaning to 300 years of compositional gems by varied composers. Corea explained the joy of making "Plays" to Goldmine. Author: By Mike Greenblatt [Chick Corea passed away on February 9 at the age of 78. This interview feature originally ran...

R.I.P. Chick Corea photo by Sakurai Toshi Chick Corea, the influential jazz keyboardist and composer, has died. The news was confirmed by Dan Muse, Corea’s web and marketing manager, who confirmed the cause of death as “a rare form of cancer which was only discovered very recently.” Corea was 79. Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1941. His father was a jazz trumpeter, exposing Corea to music and records from artists like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie...

Chick Corea “What making music for people does, I’ve observed, is it stimulates what’s natural in all of us. It’s native sense, in every person. You don’t have to be a professional anything — all you need to do is be a living human being, and open to the play of imagination.” –Chick Corea, Jazz Times (2020) With a career spanning more than five decades and 23 Grammy Awards, pianist/keyboardist Chick Corea first garnered international attention with Miles Davis, ever after expl...

  / Chick Corea, seen here performing in Turin, Italy, in 2018, died Feb. 9. // Getty Images for OGR, Giorgio Perottino This story was updated at 9:28 p.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 11. The keyboardist, composer and bandleader Chick Corea — one of the most revered figures in contemporary jazz, but an artist whose work spanned fusion to classical — died on Feb. 9 at age 79. Dan Muse from Chick Corea Productions confirmed his death to NPR on Thursday afternoon. Coreas team also reported his...