Listen for the next All This Jazz, beginning at 9pm on Saturday the 19th, right here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-FM...and online by way of our "Listen Live" stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org. ATJ delivers three hours of modern jazz -- across a range of styles -- each and every Saturday night, from 9 o'clock till midnight. (We also offer a 7pm re-airing of ATJ on Sunday evenings, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is Public Radio Tulsa's all-jazz HD Radio channel.)
From Art Farmer to Duke Ellington, Art Tatum to Duke Jordan, and Art Blakey to Duke Pearson, All This Jazz is delighted by modern (and post-modern!) jazz in its many forms, and we love sharing the same with our listeners.
And in our next program, we’ll hear several cuts by the late and legendary Mose Allison, who died recently at 89. He was, per his New York Times obituary, “a pianist, singer, and songwriter who straddled modern jazz and Delta blues…[and who] used his cool, clear voice to conversational effect, with an easy blues inflection that harked back to his upbringing in rural Mississippi. Backing himself at the piano, he favored a loose call and response between voice and instrument, or between right and left hands, often taking tangents informed by the complex harmonies and rhythmic feints of bebop. His artistic persona, evident in his stage manner as well as his songs, suggested a distillation of folk wisdom in a knowing but unpretentious package.”
Also, in the theme-driven, 11-to-midnight hour of our forthcoming program, we’ll offer an across-the-decades retrospective of the music of Chick Corea. He turned 75 back in June, and he’s currently celebrating this special b’day with an extended series of shows at the Blue Note jazz club in New York City, playing with a variety of different bands and ensembles. (He’s playing a couple of duet sets with Herbie tonight, for example.) Elsewhere in our show, we shall dig the likes of Sonny Rollins, Charlie Haden, Lew Soloff, and Chicago Underground Quartet.
So, please join us for the next All This Jazz! If you're a fan of the music, then this here radio show is the cure for what's ailing you. (Two final points: ATJ playlist data can be found...if you scroll down a bit...right here. And we also maintain a Facebook page for our show. Thank you.)
