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Tonight's Jazz Feature is a belated tribute to the Birthday of bassist/pianist/composer/iconoclast/ Charles Mingus. Mingus was born on Earth Day, April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona and died in Cuernavaca, Mexico on January 5, 1979 from ALS. This album on tonight's Jazz Feature is his first for Columbia Records and it literally brought Mingus out of the Jazz underground and into the forefront. It was also his best selling album and widened his audience by leaps and bounds. The album is one of the many classics that were recorded in 1959 like "Kind of Blue". "Time Out", "...

Sixty years ago, A. J. Bishop regarded the metropolitan embrace of folk music manifest in Mingus's work as reactionary and pretentious

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Jazz Corner of the World  Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Grant Green as a Sideman, Part 2  The Blue Note anniversary celebration continues with this  second show featuring guitarist Grant Green as a Blue Note sideman. We’ll hear more classic jazz records with Green and Horace Parlan, Harold Vick, Lee Morgan, Larry Young, John Patton, … Continue reading

  Jazz Corner of the World  Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Wayne Shorter as a Sideman   Host Craig Kessler continues his celebration of 85 Years Of Blue Note Records with a look at some classic “Blue Notes” featuring saxophonist Wayne Shorter as a sideman. We’ll hear Shorter’s sessions with Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Donald … Continue reading