Happy Thelonious Monk's Birthday, fellow jazz buffs. The great pianist, composer, and bandleader was born October 10, 1917, in North Carolina (and died in 1982 in New Jersey). Many of Monk's tunes, as we all know, have by now become standard selections in the modern jazz songbook: "Round Midnight," "In Walked Bud," "Ruby, My Dear," "Well, You Needn't," "Little Rootie Tootie," and on and on.
So...join us for the next broadcast of All This Jazz, beginning at 9pm on Saturday the 10th, right here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-FM -- and online via live stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org -- when our third-hour theme, therefore, will be Monk's Compositions. (ATJ's Hour # 3 = 11pm to 12am, mind you.)
Our program delivers three solid 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 Bill Evans to Bill Holman, from Don Ellis to Don Byron, and from Bud Powell to Bud Shank, All This Jazz is delighted by modern (and post-modern!) jazz in its many forms, and we dig sharing the same with our listeners.
If jazz is your thing, then this is your radio show -- no doubt about it.
Come on along.
(Two final points: ATJ playlist data can usually be found -- or at least searched for -- right about here...and we also maintain a Facebook page for our show. Thanks.)