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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 Concert, and selections from Billie Holiday’s Columbia sessions.  

Oh and Sorey aren't mere collaborators or accompanists; they're educators and composers in their own rights. Of Sorey's drumming, Iyer cites a "life-sustaining kind of magic." And of Oh's bass playing, "Her awareness of and relation to pulse, it's like micro-detail," he says. Those qualities and more can be found on  Uneasy, the trio's 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 standards ("Night and Day") from deep in their wheelhouse. Most importantly, Iyer considers the pai...

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 Jordan’s Magic Touch. r Charles Tolliver’s 79 th Birthday Party Craig celebrates the birthday and...

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 barrooms on Broadway in Chelsea. I played the drums. The first time I visited his basement, he was playing...

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. Carl's 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 virtual program will stream on Hammonds House Museum's Facebook and YouTube channels. For more inform...