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Story of Standards—Joy Spring Linda Hillshafer Share Tune in weekday mornings to hear our favorite versions of “Joy Spring.” Rodney Franks presents Stories of Standards Monday through Friday at 7:50 and 8:50 am! Stories of Standards is sponsored by ListenUp. Clifford Brown wrote “Joy Spring” in 1954, naming it for his wife, Larue, as “Joy Spring” was his nickname for her. He first recorded the song on August 6, 1954, in two takes, with Harold Land on tenor saxopho...

Gabriel Mabi Segwagwa reportedly suffered a stroke and passed on on 3 June 2021.  Known as the man who became The Drum, Segwagwa died aged 74.  A friend and collaborator, David Coplan recalls the artists magnificence.  Winter chokes the highveld in Johannesburg, South Africa, and takes from me, from our entire culture, a mighty mountain. Gabriel Mabi Segwagwa Thobejane, the diminutive tower of rhythmic power, has left us: a man who did not so much play the drums, but became The Drum. He repo...

/ Lee Morgan — one of WBGOs Top 100 artists, as selected by our listeners — was a trumpeter who led his share of combustible bands. When his Live At The Lighthouse was first reissued in the U.S. in 1996, many listeners had their first encounter with his working group of 1970, featuring reedist Bennie Maupin and the piano-bass-drums rhythm team of Harold Mabern, Jymie Merritt and Mickey Roker. That collection expanded the original double-LP release from four extended tunes (each occupying...

Charlie Watts celebrated his 80th birthday this week. In his teens he was an aspiring jazz drummer, obsessed with big band drummers like Sid Catlett, Dave…

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Ascension – added further propulsion to his career, emboldening him to delve deeper in his sonic explorations and liberate Black improvised music (Shepp wasn’t comfortable with the word “jazz”) from musical clichés as well as stock melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and structural conventions. While some of his contemporaries – like Coltrane, Ayler, and Pharoah Sanders – ruminated on cosmic and spiritual themes, Shepp was more overtly political. His music reflected the zeitgeist of an i...

Though a few favorite noteworthy museums are not yet reopened to the public, (We miss you, LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Elisabet Ney Museum, and Geor

Print this article “The first five to 10 seconds of it was all really all I needed to hear,” Matteo Capoluongo, founder of the Source magazine, says of his first listen to a Notorious B.I.G. demo tape in Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell, the new Netflix documentary about the late Brooklyn rapper. “I heard it, I was like, what the f***?” recalls Sean Combs, the rapper-turned-businessman who was a talent director at Uptown Records when he heard the then-unknown Christopher Wallace for the...