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On the Next Edition of All This Jazz: The Compositions of John Coltrane

Listen for the next broadcast of All This Jazz, beginning at 10pm on Saturday the 20th, right here on Public Radio 89.5 (KWGS-FM)...and online via live stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org.

In the first half of the program, we'll hear from Jane Ira Bloom, Diego Urcola, The Jazz Crusaders (featuring the late-great Joe Sample on piano), Ken Peplowski, and more.

And then, in the second-hour, theme-driven part of ATJ, we'll hear the songs of John William Coltrane (shown here). Trane would've turned 88 on Tuesday the 23rd; he was born September 23, 1926, and died at age 40 of liver cancer. Thus we'll hear such Coltrane-penned jazz standards as "Naima" and "Giant Steps" -- along with a few lovely-if-less-familiar surprises, such "Straight Street" and "After the Rain" -- as performed by the likes of (to name but a few) Lee Konitz, McCoy Tyner, and Karrin Allyson.

It'll be just plain great -- two hours of wall-to-wall outstanding jazz, with one spot-on track after another. Hope you can tune in.

(The fine print: All This Jazz [please see recent playlist data here] airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5, from 10pm till 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 program, beginning at 11pm, invariably carries a theme. Also, for those so inclined: All This Jazz now maintains a Facebook page. Thank you. Good day.)

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.