"Jazzin' Around" - #041926a

More "J.A.M." (Jazz Appreciation Month) festivities, news, events, etc. Birthday salutes this week -- Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente (his 'Centennial'), Charlie Mingus, Kendra Shank + Paul Chambers! Plus samples of recent releases! 

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Oh yes, we're back. April. Back in April, Jazz Appreciation Month with you. And this is, of course, Jazzin' Around with you. David J here, your host for the next couple of hours of America's most informative, truly distinctive, and guaranteed. One-of-a-kind, unique jazz radio program. It's your jazz magazine that you just listened to on the radio. Each and every week we share with you the latest jazz elements on the scene, occasional sneak previews of a pre-release selection, artist features, interviews, jazz history, the latest in jazz news in our first hour, and a look in our club and concert scene for the tri-state area in the first hour. In the second hour, it's a look at jazz festivals from all across the country, and occasionally beyond, too. Also in the second hour, it's the centerpiece of the program, the only program anywhere that we're aware of that actually gives you a look at what's on the top 50 on the Jazz Week Album Chart. Jazz It Around comes to you from our cozy and comfortable Subterranean Jazz Den here in Pittsburgh. Podcast to you worldwide since 2005. And long time thanks to our partner radio stations WNJR, WSPR, KWLC, Boston Free Radio, and WWFM Jazz On 2. It is April Jazz Appreciation Month, and the April birthdays, significant April birthdays are plentiful this week. We'll focus on some of them and uh some exciting new music and a lot of activity happening on the Jazz League chart. So with all that to do, let's just jump right in, shall we, and try to answer the question of what's going on this week in the world of jazz. Exciting news as we've reported for you for some of our really ardent jazz fans up in the upper Midwest and in the Minneapolis St. Paul market. The classy upscale Minnesota Minneapolis Jazz Club, the Dakota, opening a huge additional new performance area in the downtown Nicolette Mall. The Dakota itself marked its 40th anniversary this past year. And the historic Quinlan building will mark its centennial later on this summer. The new 10,000 square foot venue boasts a stunning marble grand staircase and variable spaces for events ranging from 50 to 300 plus guests. And it is expected to open in the coming months, so look for that. The Dakota officially took purchase of the uh of the property on March 1st. On a related note, the 2026 Twin Cities Jazz Festival will be June 19 and 20, centered in and around Mears Park in St. Paul. Artists set to perform so far include the Yellow Jackets, Sullivan Fortner, Michael Mayo, and Michael Mayo featured with the Jazz Minnesota Orchestra. And what else got going on here? The next Jazz Legacy Project announced its 2026 performing artist, the fifth year of the program will host Rising Jazzers. They are saxophonist Alden Helmuth, trumpeter Allison Phillips, bassist Destiny Laqueen Diggs, band leader Sequoia Redwood Snyder, and trombonist Cia Charles. Each of the artists will have their mentors, including Jeff Watts, Diane Reeves, Cecile McLaurin Salvant, Steve Davis, Marilyn Crispell, and Andrew Cyrill. The next Jazz Legacy program partners, outstanding and promising young jazz players with master level mentors, and a year-long apprenticeship. The next Jazz Legacy board members include Terry Lynn Carrington, Sean Jones, Darlene Chan, Gerald Clayton, and Jess and Chris Chris Davis. We'd mentioned this to you earlier, and I think they're just about open for season's tickets to start. MCG Jazz Director Marty Ashby announced the Gala 40th season of MCG Jazz Series Concerts, and it is truly a remarkable season ahead. Featured artists include the current Count Basie Orchestra with guest Nina Freelaw, a Rick Braun celebration of Chuck Man Joe, saxophonist Gerald Albright, John Schofield, a Feliz Navidad evening with the Spanish Harlem Jazz Orchestra, Jose James doing a Sinatra salute, a Billy Child's 70th birthday show, and the return of Benny Banak with a Manhattan Magic Show. Oh, concert, I should say, not a magic show, but Manhattan Magic is the theme of his concert. Also, Kirk Elling, together with the Yellow Jackets, playing Weather Report. And an evening with Arturo Sandoval, plus the Django Festival All-Stars with special guest, Anat Cohen. Truly, truly an extraordinary season to look forward to. Subscriptions can be renewed now if you already have one. Starting April 30th, though, new subscriptions will be accepted. Individual tickets won't go on sale till July 6th. One of the oldest and most highly regarded European Jazz Festivals named a new executive director. The annual July Molde Jazz Festival attracts audiences of 80 to 100,000 to that Norwegian coast city. Festival's new director, Linda Melsum. Experienced leading the several of the Nordic events, festivals, and awards presentations in past years. This year's event coming up later this summer. Maybe we'll have more details on the specific artist set for that when we get closer there. Also included are a guide to jazz in Japan and Making Jazz Contemporary in Japan. The JJA Awards will be released in a couple of weeks during this Jazz Appreciation Month, so stay tuned there. An exciting premiere performance set for May 9 and 10 in Long Beach, California. A long thought-lost orchestral work composed by Maurice White, drummer, Earth, Wind and Fire co-founder, entitled Passages. The piece was originally commissioned by the symphonic jazz orchestra co-leader George Duke in 2003. Unfortunately, the premier performance uh was for some reason was canceled or was postponed and then it was never rescheduled, and so they just, you know, put the piece on the back burner. So recently, a new performance is being commissioned because the piece has been reimagined by John Clayton, Vince Mendoza, Derek Hodge, and Marshall Giltis with Mitch Glickman. White's frequent composing partner, Bill Myers, composed the piece along with White. The piece has now been rebuilt and finally fully realized and completed and will be done again May 9 and 10. For information on that superb, exciting premiere performance, go to SJOMusic.org. And one last note, Colorado's first 31st Vail Jazz Workshop, happening August 29th through September 5. It'll now be taking applications for its week-long workshop. This year's faculty includes Terrell Stafford, Whitecliffe Gordon, Lewis Nash, Bill Cunliffe, and John Clayton. The workshop has focused itself on what they call nurturing and advancing highly dedicated young musicians who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to their musical studies. And the moment is extremely competitive and limited to just 12. At the end of the workshop, each of them gets to perform alongside their pro mentors the big Veil Jazz Labor Day weekend jazz festival. For specifics there, go to ValeJazz.org. Applications close April 30th. Wrapping up Jazz Appreciation Month. Fortunately, good news is no bad news. We have no last calls to issue this week. Thankfully, that's always good to not have to report. Coming back in a moment, though, we have got plenty of exciting birthdays to celebrate this week. And some exciting new music to premiere for you, expose for you. All of that and more coming up when Jazz It Around returns in just a moment.

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Starting off our birthday celebrations with a bang here this April. With that of the great Louisville, Kentucky native, Lionel Hampton. This is called Hot Mallets from 1939. He just kept swinging so madly. Swinging pretty well there in 1939 in what could certainly only be described as a super all-star session. He was at the peak of his early power and popularity at that point in 1939. So was Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, all on that session called Hot Mallets. Happy birthday today to the memory of Louisville, Kentucky, native Lionel Hampton. This may be his signature piece, The Airmail Special. Recorded much later on, though, in the 1970s. Great. Truly legendary Lyle Hampton. Got a chance to uh MC one or two, tw at least at least one of his concerts at the Heinz Hall downtown many years back. And it was so, so enlightening. Here is Little Hampton. At the time, this was probably what? Early early to mid-90s, right? And Hampton's leading this band is a big band, and he brought it back out on tour 16, 17 pieces, whatever it was. And I don't think any of them were older than it would have been his red shoulders. Many, many, increasingly, year after year after year, we're getting more and more centennials to celebrate. The centennial, one of the centennials of this year. A birthday of this week, the great hour. Tito Puente. Who gave us, of course, this great one. Great Afro Cuban Timbalero, Tito Puente, and his composition, Oye Komova. It might have been a centenna recording of Oye Komova with a actually heavy guitar-heavy bleed. But Carlos Santana, very deeply respectful of the great tradition, doing as much as he can to enhance the great Tito Puente's reputation and legacy. This is Tito himself leading his own band in 1999 on the same composition. Carlos Santana pretty much kept the very same rhythmic approach, the feel, the vibe, the approach, so much was similar. It was just a little more high decibel and enormously more popular. And uh tributed to the great Tito Puente. And certainly would have helped put Tito's grandchildren through college, I'm sure. Tito Puente would have been 100. Would have been 100 here today, born and bred in Spanish Harlem in New York City. And uh speaking of Hamptons, also Slide Hampton, no relation to Lionel Hampton. And uh a near Pittsburger from Jeanette PA, right outside Route 30 here, just a few miles down the road. But a formidable trombonist, as you can hear there. Born again in Jeanette, Pennsylvania. Just down the road apiece. Family moved him to Indianapolis when uh during his later childhood. Kind of raised there for the most part. And a heck of a nice guy. Got a chance to work with him once at our jazz at the Shady Side Arts Festival some years back, brought him into town. Just a sweetheart of a guy, a jewel to work with, heck of a nice guy, and uh one whale of a musician. Multi, multi-talented. Uh the late great Slidehampton. Uh David J here. We're jazzing around with you during this Jazz Appreciation Month. Let's pick another Slide Hampton. This is a composition of slides here on uh One for Thad. Did a lot of tribute compositions for folks that he uh uh respected and admired. This one's called One for Thad, meaning Thad Jones.

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From Slides two thousand four album the way to the music of Slidehampton of two thousand five, MEA Jazz Master.

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Long resided in Europe, as many expat uh American musicians did uh during the 50s, 60s, 70s, for that matter. Slidehampton with Ralph La Lama there, another uh local guy from West Al Aquip, PA, doing a little solo on one for Thad. Slide Hampton, uh contributing lots and lots of work for the Thad Jones uh Mel Mel Lewis Thad Jones band, also for Woody Herman's heard. Um did some work for Disney Gillespie's band, uh worked for just a whole lot of major artists over the years, um as an arranger, orchestrator, uh and as a as a soloist as well, too. Several albums recorded with uh Dr. Gordon side by side for that matter. Let's do one more birthday before we check into some other Oh, by the way. Correction Correction Lyle Hampton, I'm afraid of Lyle Hampton and Peter Puente's birthdays are the same day. But they were Monday, not Sunday. They're both born on Monday. Uh didn't even want to make sure what I correct for that one. They were not on Sunday birthdays, they were Monday birthdays this week. And we here's another April Jazz Appreciation Month. One of the reasons, I suppose, or a lot of the major, major birthdays during the month of April. Uh, we've mentioned Erbie Hancock before, and of course, uh, this week is Lyle Hampton, Anthino Fuente, Slight Hampton. And another major birthday this week is that of the bassist, composer, and band leader, Charles Mingus. Long one of our favorite pieces of his the absolutely exuberant better get hit in your soul. A big, big, imposing man physically, and his musical output was just as imposing. Major. One of our favorite early Charles Mingus pieces that we often perform, not performed, but often played on our old radio show starting, oh, very early on. Probably, probably by early mid-70s. We were playing a lot of that kind of a lot of that. Eric Dolphy, Booker Durvin, Booker Irvin, Jerome Richardson, uh uh Jackie Byrd playing piano on that for the jazz workshop. Charles Mingus at his jazz workshop. This also from Mingus, perhaps his signature composition. Goodbye, pork pie hat from nineteen fifty-nine. From the pen to the musical mind of Charles Mingus. Goodbye. Porpe hat. That's John Handy there on saxophone, Horace Parlan on piano. Only got a chance to see Mingus in person once at a small club at the at the Encore downtown. Here on the one down on Liberty Avenue, the downtown version. It was jam-packed. There were no seats, standing room only. In fact, I was literally standing, I was kind of hiding in a corner. It was about the only place you could find any place at all to just get a little look at to stand in the catching that. Um it was I remember so very vividly of an absolutely mesmerizing, captivating evening of music with just a trio. Mingus Danny Richmond, and I believe it was not an element. I believe it was. Remarkable, remarkable night. If you've never seen Mingus perform in live, especially in a trio setting in a small club, I don't even know if the YouTube video is gonna pay it homage, but uh truly I don't forget old experience. Here's one more on the Mingus tribute. This is a Mingus piece, pretty well known, and again, one of our favorites that we've often played back in the early years. This is Conrad Herwig's version of the Boogie Stop Shuffle. And the 2022 album The Latin Side of Mingus, Conrad Herwig and Company. Without the conviction. But if you don't have that that that urgency, that that that mingus thing in it. As much as you might like the melodies, it doesn't work unless it's got that mingus thing. Charles Mingus. This coming Wednesday. Native of Nogales. Right? Nogales in New Mexico. No, Nogales, Arizona. Right, Nogales is Arizona. A lot of the cities in New Mexico and Arizona get confused a lot of times, but uh Arizona. Native of Arizona, interesting. David J, new jazzing around here. It is uh mid-April Jazz Appreciation Month. Time for us to check in some new things that are just taking out uh recently. You know, we've been playing this record because it was up on the charts, and honestly, you don't have to be a young jazzer to be really with it and happen it. You could actually be in your 90s. I mean, check this out. From Betty Bryant. 94. Playing piano, singing her heart away on the album, nothing better to do. Check this out.

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Can't you just see the glimpse in her eye, that smile on her face, right?

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Oh, everything they say is true. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Mama Sue. You're the queen of barbecue.

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Mama Sue, the Queen of Barbecue. About a block down the story told by Betty Bryant on the new album, nothing better to do. Talk about a remarkable talent and just so vibrant still in her 90s. Here's a new one from David Snyder. The album's called Introducing It's Marvelous Lee. Good stuff there from the Lee Codets days there. David J, Jazz and Around with you here. It is time for us to take a look at some well, some jazz on the live side, trying to see who is being playing where in and around the tri-state area over these next coming weeks or so. Jazz Appreciation Month, a good time to get out and appreciate some live jazz, of course. If you're here in the Pittsburgh area, come on down to Con Alma My Goodness. Almost every night of the week, and sometimes afternoons there. Tony Campbell, every Tuesday jam session going on, often featuring the great Roger Humphreys. The R.H. Factor on Knights, Dwayne Dolphin, Reggie Watkins, Tubby Daniels, Edda Cox, Alton Merrill, George Hyde III, Paul Thompson and his Wayne Tech. Tom Wentz, and just so many, so many more. Pittsburgh's finest on Ulma. Also, in Cleveland, it's the Bop Stop. Yeah, the Bop Stop in Cleveland, downtown as well. In Akron, it's Blue Jazz, the B L-U, right? Blue Jazz in Akron. And the one and only Lucille's Jazz Lounge in the Toll House in downtown Toledo. Worth checking out. Just yesterday, the John Pizzarelli trio at the Manchester Craftsman's Guild. Always a pleasure to have John Pizzarelli in top. And Dave Thomas Quartet with a Joe Henderson tribute at Blue Jazz in Akron. And also just last night. Coming up later today, Dwayne Dolphin and his faux test. At Con Alma, that's an afternoon matinee. 5 till 8. Later on, the CMU Jazz Ensemble at Carnegie Music Hall, 7.33 and open to the public. This Tuesday, the Paul Thompson Wayne Test, playing music of Wayne Shorter at the Cabaret Theater Lounge downtown. 5 o'clock no cover there. And coming up in May. Lots of stuff going on. Big, big, big show. Went Marsalis to the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Mendelson Choir, and Nikki Porter, all, all together on the program All Rise, Marsalis Music. At Hines Hall, 7:30, Saturday, May the 9th. Artists yet to be announced, but coming up in June, it is the annual Three Rivers Arts Festival taking over much of downtown Pittsburgh. That is June 5 through 7 and 9 through 14. No matter where you are, no matter where you will be over these next coming weeks, if you see or hear about any jazz going on live, spread the word. Let everybody know that you know, let everybody else know. And of course, attend or bring a friend or two. And even support it if you can by sponsorship or by putting it on yourself. Why not? Supporting living live jazz musicians, really the best. And actually, maybe truly the only way of truly keeping this music alive and breathing. So please take a walk past the buffet table, help yourself, and we'll be back in a moment.

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Celebrating a centennial of saxophonist jute Sims. This is Scott Silbert from his dream dancing tribute. To the centennial of the late Zoot Sims, that is Scott Silbert's on the Shadow Waltz, a piece not often done. It's a Harry Warren composition, but a piece that Zoot loved to perform as well, too, and recorded on a couple of different occasions. That's Scott Silbert on Dream Dancing. Talking about the minimalist movement, here's a baritone sax and drums. Just baritone sax and drums. One and one. With a big shoulder, big soul album. James Faragci to do D S T. Check this out. It's called D S T, kind of like Daylight Savings Time. I don't know if that is, but that's what it's called. James Farachi on Baritone Sacks. As I'm listening to it in the in the good headphones here now. I think that's not a Tom in there doing those fills. I think it's actually a bass. I think there's a bass. I'm doing some fills in there. So but it's still pretty minimalist. Baritone sax bass and drums. James Farachi, or Ferris. It looks like F-A-R-A-C-E. From his album Big, Big Shoulders and Big Soul. Big Sound. Big Shoulders, Big Sound. That's D S T. Here's the Stephen Philip Harvey band. The multiverse band. Recorded live. Doing the inner beast. Stephen Philip Harvey and his big band live at the Bop Stop. That is Inner Beasts. Something new from guitarist Russ Spiegel, a little different for us. The new album is called Time Pieces. This an original? Called Greener Pastures. The new album Time Pieces. That's an original Greener Pastures. Really, really like that a lot. How about taking a train here, shall we? Let's uh visit the train with Colin Hancock and his Jazz Hounds. Along with special guest vocalist Kat Russell.

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Board the Panama Limited Express. Let's go.

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I got the Choo-Choo Blues. Panama Nightingale. I got the Choo-Choo Blues. Panama Night and Day. Because the Panama Limited took my sweet man away. These blues, these blues, a drive in me and say. These blues, these blues, a drive in me and say. Don't want to hear nobody. Call that Panama image.

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Yeah, sure, she may be a little bit of a throwback, but I could listen to Cat Russell sing all night long and just keep on smiling. Cat Russell featured with Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds. Little Panama Express blues there. From the Cat and the Hound album. It's just played all good. Good stuff. Here's the Peter Paulson Turk's Head Knot. That's a mouthful. Peter Paulson's Turk Turk's Head Knot, Band. From the album Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda. It's a piece called The Maker of Bird Houses. And wulda, coulda, shoulda. Name of the album. And it's called The Maker of Bird Houses. Interesting title. One of the other centennials being one of the several now centennials being celebrated, of course, that of Miles Davis this year. Trumpeter Mark Morganelli, his Miles Davis tribute album on this centennial year. For Miles, the album. Doing Freddie, Freddie the freeloader. Freddie the freeloader Mark Morganelli's tribute version, Four Miles, his album title in this Miles Davis centennial year. Here is saxophonist Grant Stewart from his album Next Spring. This is called May into June. And of course, still in mid-April at this point, and celebrating all Jazz for Jazz Appreciation Month, and certainly hoping you're spreading the word as well to as many people. Fans and maybe not fans. Bring them in. If they're not fans yet, bring them into the music. It's pretty easy to do once you start hearing some of the good stuff. Here, another birthday celebration, that of Kendra Shank, a well-known vocalist, but very respected on the New York scene. From her new Half Moon album. Along with pianist Jeff Keyser.

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Kendra Shank with Jeff Keiser. I'm moving on from her album Half Moon, her most recent album, Half Moon. Kendra Shank, happy birthday to her this coming Wednesday. Or is it Thursday? Thursday, this coming Wednesday or Thursday. She was a longtime apprentice to Shirley Horde. You can tell where she's coming from. Well, we mentioned earlier, of course, celebrating the birthday of the great protein bassist Charles Mingus. Another major bassist with a birthday this week, and that of Paul Chambers. From the John Coltrane Wild Davis Days, right? Here is Son Pierre Chambers doing a piece done by his dad called Dear Anne. This is Son Pierre Chambers.

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Dear Anne, come with me, my love. Walk this world arm in arm. Together will be. That you're in love with one like me. Come together to be.

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A late bloomer to music. It's his first, I think it's his first and only album, so for Shining Moments from just this past year. Dear Anne, Paul Chambers. Original, dedicated to his wife, Dear Anne. And speaking of Paul Chambers, a Pittsburgh born guy, by the way, he would have been 90. He would have been 90 this week. Passed away in 1969, and never. I don't think ever no I don't think I ever got a chance to see him perform with anyone. But uh from all that I've heard from people who worked had ever worked with him, he was a really, really genuine, uh self-effacing, uh very, very pleasant and very, very talented. He also played maritone sax, as I'm as I'm led to believe. Here's perhaps his best-known composition done by saxophonist and fluidist James Spaulding from the Black Nexus album A Little Chamber of Mateo. This will take us out of our number one here, James Spaulding on a fine piccolo solo on top of Paul Chambers tune, Chamber Mates, with Ray Drummond and Lewis Hayes behind him. Hour number two jazz it around coming up here shortly. Do take another walk past the buffet table and help yourself. Got a couple more saxophone tributes here coming up in our number two, and of course, the Jazz Way chart, too. So stay with us, my friend.