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On the Next All This Jazz: The Compositions of the Iconic Sonny Rollins (on His Birthday)

Tune in for the next broadcast of All This Jazz, beginning at 10pm on Saturday the 6th -- right here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-FM...and online, via "live stream," at PublicRadioTulsa.org.

Sonny Rollins -- the original "Saxophone Colossus" and a 2011 Kennedy Center Honoree (whose Twitter feed, by the way, you'll find here) -- will turn 84 on Sunday the 7th. We at ATJ look forward to marking his birthday with an hour of his timeless tunes.

So, for the second-hour theme of our forthcoming program, we'll happily spotlight such Rollins-penned standards as "Oleo," "St. Thomas," and "Airegin," as well as several of his equally-great-if-less-familiar lines. All of the above will be performed by Paul Bley, Benny Golson, John Hicks, Rollins himself (of course), and many others.

And in the first half of our show, we'll hear from guitarist Howard Roberts, pianist Brad Mehldau, drummer Matt Wilson, and more.

Join us, jazz buffs! We've got the goods and then some.

(The fine print: ATJ airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5, from 10pm until midnight. We always thereafter offer a 7pm re-airing of the program on Sunday evening, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our station's all-jazz HD Radio channel. Each week, we spin modern jazz, both recent and classic, across a range of styles. And the second half of our two-hour show, beginning at 11pm, invariably carries a theme. Also, we have a weekly blog -- it's called Kind of Blog -- which you'll find here. And lastly, for those of you so inclined: All This Jazz maintains a Facebook page. Cheers.)

Scott Gregory started working at Public Radio Tulsa in 2006; he started listening to public radio circa 1980, when he and NPR both marked their tenth birthdays (although only one of them commemorated the occasion with a party at Skate World). Scott became this radio station's Operations Director in the summer of 2023; he also hosts and programs All This Jazz, which airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5-1 from 9pm till midnight.