"Jazzin' Around"
Weekly 2-hour highly informative & unique jazz magazine program. Covers weekly jazz scene news, music milestones, new album samples/reviews, jazz history-of-the-week, a look at upcoming jazz festivals nationwide/globally, the only show to feature weekly review of latest JazzWeek (album) Chart. Bonus -- a relaxed & fun program to enjoy & better appreciate the music! Hosted by veteran jazz radio host David-J.
"Jazzin' Around"
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Birthday features on: Buddy Collett, Abbey Lincoln, Eddie Jefferson & Benny Carter. Upcoming Jazz Fest watch. And the latest JazzWeek Top-50 album chart!
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SPEAKER_12Our number two, starting off here with the light sounds, little buddy Colette. From his Jazz Loves Paris album from nineteen fifty-eight. A little lightly swinging session, huh? Buddy Collette was a master of many wins. Clarinets plural, I should say. Bunny Collette would have been one hundred and four this Thursday. And uh sharing his birthday in a different year.
SPEAKER_02When you got no living room.
SPEAKER_12The wonderful Abby Lincoln.
SPEAKER_02Your heart is bound to breathe when you're living in the pool. Cause you need a little space if you're gonna run the race. If you're gonna run the race. When you got some lifting room, it will find some sweet. When you got some room to blue. So give yourself some breathing space if you're gonna stand the face. If you're gonna stand the face. Well open up the windows. When I open up the doors, I can see. I can see.
SPEAKER_12Oh, what a gift she had, huh? So very, very personal style. An approach of Abby Lincoln, Anna Marie Wooldridge, as it were. From the live at Keystone Corner, uh, from 1980 with Phil Wright's trio, an album we were so pleased and privileged to be able to have produced for her uh posthumously. I think she would have been very, very pleased with it. That one and the one prior to it from uh from the same gig, right? From the same dates out there at Keystone Corner. Happy birthday to her memory, also this coming Thursday. One of the all-time great Pittsburghers, vocalist, innovator, and pioneer Eddie Jefferson, with Richie Cole here, little El Toe Madness, and Eddie.
SPEAKER_15I'll rub elbow with great kings and such. I might get famous. It's that common side. Honestly, it seems to me. I find it's the key. How do you do that? I don't care who you are, bending your elbow at the corner bar. Face the fat beef surrounding me. Don't be like from the world, you see. It's go to come in touch with me.
SPEAKER_12I do not know how I missed that one. For all these years, I don't think I've ever played it on the air. The Common Touch, the great EJ, Eddie Jefferson, one of the truly great masters, pioneers, and innovators of the jazz vocal scene. Moving along to another couple of birthdays before we get into the jazz wing chart this week. One of our favorite albums by one of our favorite artists. The versatile Charlie Hayden, the bassist, composer, and band leader, with his piece from Always Say Goodbye. So very verbane you would think otherwise, huh? The Charlie Hayden Quartet West from Always Say Goodbye at the title piece, his composition. Charlie would have been 96, something like 97 this week. And here, one of our favorite, favorite all-time artists, the great, the iconoclastic. The truly unique could have been never have been another like Roland Kirk. The great Rasa and Roland Kirk. Doing only what he did. Not only him on the saxophone, but that's him on all of those saxophones. Two or three, it almost sounded like there. And he could do that at once. A truly remarkable musician. Uh, reinventing what you could do with horns and whistles and flutes. Uh, truly a truly innovative, unique individual. And one last birthday before we check in with the Jazz Week chart. Mr. Elegant, the late Benny Carter, together with the elegant Hank Jones on piano. From the Legends album of 1992. Oh, one of the sweetest sounds ever on the Alto Sacks. Many Carter. Fine arranger, composer, and band leader as well. But truly, an elder statesman in general. Generous gentleman of jazz. And he cartered his birthday would have been this coming Saturday. New York City, born and bred. Oh boy, love his sound, love his sound, love his sound on that sack. Brandon. It's first week on the chart at number 50 this week. Cecile McLaurin Salvant, her latest album. With every breath I take.
SPEAKER_06They say into your early life romance came, and in this heart of yours burned a flame, a flame that flickered one day and died away. And then with disillusion deep in your eyes, you learned that foods in love soon grow wise. The years have changed you somehow. I see.
SPEAKER_12Taking her art to a whole nother level. Boy, Cecile McLaurin Salvat with the Metropole Orchestra on the new album with every breath I take, showing up at number 50. Brazilian Antonio Modalfo with his kind of autobiographical album, Balayos. First week on the chart itself as well. And Antonio Dolfo, another super attractive album, Malayos, showing up on the chart first week at number 46 here. Coming at album number 44, it is Joe Sirian and his Motor City Jazz Octet. The album title is A Blue Time. Out of the Motor City Detroit, of course. Reimagining Nature Boy dramatically there from the album A Blue Time at number 44. Coming at album 43, former top ten, top five album. From Javier Renero and his jazz orchestra from the Alkebulon album 43, coming album number 37 this week. Saxophonist Javon Jackson takes on the Bob Dylan songbook and jazzes it up all the way through. Playing Dylan music on its latest album, The Little Times They were Changin. From album 37. Still holding up well after 16 weeks of the Jazz Week chart here. It is just the two of them, Jerry Allen and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel together, recorded in Paris. The album is called A Love Something. Jerry Allen composition Open Handed Weach. Jerry Allen with Kurt Rosenwinkel from The Lovesome Faith. Coming in at album thirty-five this week. Some new jazz cats, man. These are the new Jazz Underground. Just a trio. Saxophone bass drums. Yeah. Make it happen. That is called Atonement from their new album, Hooties. The new Jazz Underground. Cool stuff there, huh? Coming in at a tie at number 33 this week. Saxophonist Leah Pilzer from her album Keep Hangin' On. Saxophonist in the Biva Jazz Orchestra. And if I'm not mistaken, I think she was in the Navy Commodore's jazz band, too. Saxophonist Leah Pilzer. That's called Swin't Swingin' at the Station. From her album, Keep Hangin' On at number 33. Only it's third week on. Coming at album number 33, it's second week on the chart. Allie Ryerson with her fine flute work on a Carlos Lira composition. Not a como te amore. From the other album, number 33 this week. Can we get an album 29? Whoa, what a great run this has had. Kurt Elling and the WDR Big Band in the Brass Palace album.
SPEAKER_05They never sing. They never sing. There's stones to the root but live in the what's to be They never speak. They never knew. Fee pool to the void for face it without a face. Dance a line and fine.
SPEAKER_12Wayne Shorter's tune Speak No Evil with Kurt Elling with Bob Minzer leading the WDR Big Band. Five months on the Jazz Week charts. What a run. Peeking at number one earlier, too, for that matter. Oh, that's good. They are just so, so good these days. Coming at album number 27, Judith Owen. Repursuit album.
SPEAKER_16Show it on the outside. My man likes to keep it on the inside. I know. Don't go for all those lengthy phone calls when it's here. Oh, he says it all, and that's why I love my baby. You know that's why I love my baby. I tell you that's why I love my baby. And I do. My man, he don't buy me cotton flowers. No diamonds, none of that Hallmark star. Don't go thinking that he's got it easy, cause every day, baby aims to please me, and that's why I love my baby.
SPEAKER_12Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_16I see that's why I love my baby.
SPEAKER_12Kinda wonder what the Hallmark people think about that. That's a pretty hip tune, though. Why I love my man, Judith Owen from her suit yourself album of 27. Coming in halfway up on the chart this week. The Blue Moons band. From their Directions and Expressions album. Celebrating the legacy. Centennial legacy of Miles Davis. This is a Miles Rare Miles to the Circle. Celebrating the legacy of Miles Davis. With a rarely played, rarely recognized circle for the directions and expressions album at 25. Moving updated number 24 this week from the Windy City. This is the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective. Oh, it's so good. The whole loop thing. Oh, yeah. That's called The Laughing Heart from the No Wind, No Rain album, Chicago's Soul Jazz Collective. Coming at album 23 this week. Mark Winkler's latest from Love comes first.
SPEAKER_13You're kinda hip, your look is rad. You're wearing shades just this side of bad. And when you smile, my poor heart flips. Cause you got rhythm and your finger tips. Stapping on the two and four. You got a groove I can't ignore. Stapping on the two and four. And when I clap on one and three, I see the way you look at me. I'm out of step, but I adore the way you're snapping. Two and four. Snapping on the two and four.
SPEAKER_12From an otherwise real, personal and very different kind of approach for Mark Winkler. That's a little more of his typical style there. Snapping on two and four. From Love Comes First, 23. Moving up into number 22 rapidly, it's seventh week on the chart. The Monk Conclave album. With bassist Carlos Enriquez leading his band on green chimneys. Carlos Enriquez leading the band on green chimneys from his album Monk Conclave at twenty-two. Man, she's pretty good there. That's called Dolly Jones from the brass album of Bria Sconbird. Peaked in the top three earlier. Still up there at 21. Moving into album number 19 this week, Hendrik Mirken's latest album, The Samba Tanto. I don't know who Herb is, but he's got a nice samba written for him. Herb Samba, Hendrik Mirkins from the Samba Tonto album. Another album that peaked at number three earlier, too, in the top ten. Coming into album number 18, the newest from Reed Hoysen and his project. It's called Home. Doing a Tom Harrell composition, that's a rarity, but it certainly is well deserved. It's a piece called The Upswing. Tony DePaulis on the bass there. Keith Bishop on Soprano Sacks, Dan Wilson on guitar. From the Reed Hoyson Project, doing a little upswing from the home album at number 18. Coming in 17, it is trumpeter Brian Lynch alongside of Charles McPherson. From the luck of the draw. Steve Wilson with Reedy Rosness on the enduring Stonench album. Slipped out of the top 10, 16, though, still this week. Ulysses Owens and his Gen Y band former number one album. Really hot stuff there. Playing seriously. We'll have the rest of what's on the top 15 of the Jazz Week chart all the way up to number one, having so much fun we almost forgot. Take a look at the festivals that are on our watch for you. That's right, we got a whole batch of good festivals coming up here this weekend. Today, wrapping up the granddaddy of all jazz festivals, the Newport Jazz Festival. Still on the build sometime today, Kirby Hancock. The bad plots on their farewell tour, pianist Sullivan Fortner, Marquise Hill, Charlie Hunter, and more. For details on the schedule, left go to Newport Jazz.org. Also wrapping up today the Erie Blues and Jazz Festival in Frontier Park up in Erie, Duke Sherman, Dylan Triplett, with the Erie Jazz Ensemble and the Lau Tizer Band. Info there, go to ErieBluesandJazz.com. Coming up in a couple of weeks, it's the Sidka Jazz Week in Sidka, Alaska. You heard that right. August 23rd through 30th. A week-long series of classes, seminars, workshops, and performances. More information on that one, go to sidka jazzweek.org. 2026 DC Jazz Festival coming up September 2 through 6th. 20 venues in and around D.C. Special Centennial Year salute to Randy Crawford. I'm sorry, Randy Weston. Randy Weston, Miles Davis, and John Colfray. The full schedule at DCJazzfest.org. The Chicago Jazz Festival coming up Labor Day weekend as well, September 3rd through 6th. With major performances outdoors at Millennium Park, including Didi Bridgewater, Robert Glasberg D. Alexander, Aquita D. Rivera, Isaiah Collier doing a Coltrane salute, and a lot more. Info there go to jazzinschicago.org. And don't forget the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival returning to the streets of downtown Pittsburgh September 17 through 20. Featured artists include Terry Lynn Carrington, Orin Evans from the Jazz Train, John Jones of the new band, Bernard Purdy, Late Smith, Layla Hathaway, and much, much more there. For all the info on that one, go to PittsburghJazzfest.org. Any item off of that menu should make yourself a jazz experience of a lifetime for sure. Coming back in a moment, the top 15 Melbourne Jazz Week chart all the way to the number one. So stay with us, we've got more to come for you.
SPEAKER_10The Lewis Armstrong Foundation. This July 4th weekend, as America celebrates 250 years of independence, listeners can also honor a man whose music helped tell America's story, Lewis Pops Armstrong, celebrating his 125th birthday. From the streets of New Orleans to stages around the world, Armstrong's trumpet and his unmistakable voice transformed music that made him an American icon. The Lewis Armstrong Foundation invites listeners to celebrate the life, legacy, and music of Lewis Armstrong at Lewis Armstrong Foundation.org.org to find free and supportive adult education centers near you.
SPEAKER_12Album 14 this week on the Jazz Week chart is just four months prior to his untimely passing. Chick Korea's farewell concert is final solo concert, the new album forever yourself. From his forever yours recording, his last concert at number 14. Coming in 13 this week, former number one album, running for two months at number one, Jeremy Pelt's latest. His statement, our community will not be erased. Album 13 this week. Album number 12 moving up rapidly, only its second week on the chart. Trombonist Conrad Herwig and his Latin side of Chick Korea. I think you're recognizing Spain already, right? From the Latin side of Chick Korea, a little Spain from album 12, coming at album number 11 slipping out of the top ten here this week. Drummer Richie Barrata is another kind of bird album featuring some real different approaches to some Charlie Parker music. Adding a little touch of Afro-Cuban flavor there to Charlie Parker's Little Suede Shoes. Richie Barada and Company from another kind of bird at 11. Still in the top ten here, just celebrating the birthday of Nina Freelong this past week. Lois Delatch, Nina Freelong, Lenora Zenzele Helm, and Kate McGuerry from the Sister Ring album.
SPEAKER_06It had to be you. It had to be you.
SPEAKER_16I wandered around and finally found the somebody who could make me be true and make me feel blue.
SPEAKER_02And even be glad just to be sad. Thinking of you.
SPEAKER_12All four of 'em. Taking turns on It Had Be You from the Sistering album, still singing strong at number ten this week. An album that spent three weeks in the runner-up spot at number two earlier. From his triumvirate album as he celebrates his 70th birthday year. Coming at album number eight this week, slipping from its position last week, just a notch, Cat Russell, and her septette live at Lincoln Center, just swinging away.
SPEAKER_14You said something when you said love. Our little conversation drifted just like the tide. Thought I had passed my station, you were just taking me for a ride. But now, you we getting somewhere.
SPEAKER_12Sweeping it. Number seven, his notes of thanks album, honoring Sonny Rollins. Moving up to album number six this week, it is Ileana Elias from her Aur Vivo album, proving she can play some still pretty hot piano. Yeah, check this out. It is Lakeia Benjamin. Coming in moving up, I should say, to number four this week. Pianist Helen sung with her big band, an album dedicated to many of her heroes in jazz called Oracles. Pianist Helen Sung leading her big band from the Oracles album moved up steadily to number four here this week. In fact, here's an album that surprisingly moved into number three this week. Guitarist Ray Obiero from his slight accent album. Really, really, really nice. The right move, that's called, from the slight accent album of Ray Obieto. Moving into number three. Sliding down to number two. Yeah, there's a hint there. Sliding down to number two, Arturo Sandoval. From his latest album, Sun Doo, which has been a number one for three weeks prior. This is called Scott. Spoiler alert here, so number one this week. Emmett Collins moved up to number one with his universal truth album. Taking on the blue trade. From Universal Truth. Number one. This week. How about that? Number one. This week. David J been jazzing around here with you. I certainly appreciate your company. Enjoy you being here each and every week with us. Hey, you make the show worthwhile. Hey, that's a good thing. Inspiring us to do our best for you. If you enjoyed the show, even a fraction as much as we enjoy doing it for you, bring a friend next time or two. Got plenty of space for them. And lots of provisions as well for us. Have yourself a good week. Stay safe, stay warm, stay cool if you get. And certainly stay out of trouble. Thanks to the folks at uh all our partner radio stations over the years, WNJR, WSPR, KWC Boston Free Radio, and WWFM Jazz On 2. Program podcast in 2005. Available on Bugs and Sprout and also on Live 365. Check it out and let your friends know. And see you again when we go jazz around next time.