“The Jazz Score” 8/30/10 – Herbie Nichols
This week on “The Jazz Score” I featured the music of the fascinating and obscure pianist/composer Herbie Nichols. Herbie was a very progressive and forward-thinking player and composer active in the 40′s and 50′s who received almost no recognition during his life but since the 90′s has been somewhat resurrected thanks to the efforts of a number [...]
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #14 – Djandjon
Today it’s back to Mali (one of these days I’ll have to do some research on East African music – if anyone has any good stuff, send it along!) for a classic tune to contrast with the previous “groove” (sorry I missed last week – was out of town in Chicago, speaking of the last [...]
“Start with Guitar….”
The other day at Bantus Band rehearsal, we were lucky to have Lucky Moyo from Zimbabwe hanging out with us. Lucky is a great singer and dancer and overall musical guy and had been in town, I believe for Zimfest, which was last weekend in Corvallis. (He now lives in the UK). Loveness had him [...]
“The Jazz Score” 8/24/10 – The Blues
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” I shifted the focus a bit, rather than focusing on a specific composer I decided to try out a theme, in this case the blues. Of course the blues is one of the main roots of jazz and I took a chronological look at the blues in jazz composition on the show [...]
“The Jazz Score” 8/16/10 – George Gershwin
Well I’ve been out of town so sorry for the delay. As promised, here is my playlist for last week’s KMHD show (just in time for this week’s show tonight at 7!). We’re changing the name of the show from “The Score” to “The Jazz Score” so as not to conflict with a show on [...]
Post-Colonial Groove of the Week #13 – Jimbasen
Today we move forward to Chicago in 1978 for a killer track from Foday Musa Suso’s Mandingo Griot Society. Kane hipped me to this album a few weeks ago and I have been checking out quite a bit since then. It’s amazing that I had never run across it before in fact, what with the [...]
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