“The Jazz Score” 10/25/10 – Gil Evans
This week on “The Jazz Score” I featured the compositions and arrangements of the great Gil Evans – I had just picked up great vinyl copies of “Sketches of Spain” and “Porgy and Bess” at Jazz Record Mart in Chicago in August and became re-interested in the music of this great contributor to the large [...]
“The Jazz Score” 10/18/10 – Cole Porter
Yesterday on “The Jazz Score” on 89.1 KMHD, I featured the compositions of the great composer and lyricist Cole Porter. We covered a lot of ground from James P. Johnson to Ben Monder. Here’s the playlist: – What Is This Thing Called Love? / James P. Johnson (Snowy Morning Blues) – What Is This Thing [...]
“The Jazz Score” 10/11/10 – Duke Ellington
Sorry for the couple of day delay, things are rather hectic around here, but here is the playlist for Monday’s “The Jazz Score” on, of course, the great Duke Ellington. It was great to feature some of Duke’s stuff from throughout his career as well as some killer Strayhorn tunes in the second hour as [...]
“The Jazz Score” 10/4/10 – Jaki Byard and Mal Waldron
For this week’s episode of “The Jazz Score” on KMHD I focused on two unique and progressive pianist-composers who both had long careers spanning the 1950′s-2000′s: Jaki Byard and Mal Waldron. I played a bunch of long tracks for a change, as both Byard and (especially) Waldron’s compositions lend themselves most effectively to a longer [...]