"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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A "guitar" themed birthday salute to significant players: Kenny Burrell & Stanley Jordan + the 'father' of jazz guitar Charlie Christian! A look at upcoming jazz festivals + the latest JazzWeek Top-50 album chart.
The Louis 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, made him an American icon. The Lewis Armstrong Foundation invites listeners to celebrate the life, legacy, and music of Lewis Armstrong at Lewis ArmstrongFoundation.org.
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SPEAKER_08Starting out our number two with a guitar theme here. Celebrating the birthday of the great NDA jazz master, one of the greats from the Detroit jazz scene, Kenny Burrell. As one of his own compositions, Bass Face from his uh from his 2010, 2010 album, Be Yourself. Here's somebody who kind of changed the scene on the jazz guitar world. The technically very brilliant and innovative Stanley Jordan from his remarkable debut album from nineteen eighty-four, Magic Touch. Groundbreaking and just a remarkable talent. Stanley Jordan, innovator, from his 1984 debut album Magic Touch. Stanley Jordan's birthday, also same day as uh Kenny Burrell's. And also this guy's birthday, who's pretty much looked upon as the father of jazz guitar, the great Charlie Christian. From an informal jam session in nineteen thirty-six, I believe. Check out the guitar lines in this one. That's a Charlie Christian recording I don't think I'd heard before until this week. What a forward. Way ahead of his time solo on that one. Charlie Christian uh jamming on the uh I Got Rhythm Chords changes there from 35 or 36, if I'm not mistaken, there, with uh Jerry Jerome on the Tetter Sacks opening that up. From Cecile McLaurin Salvant. This may be a little bit of a sneak preview. I don't know this is released uh officially quite yet, maybe this week. First time we're playing it for you, though. The album with every breath I take.
SPEAKER_02They 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_08What a mature musical statement. Coming of age of Cecile McLaurin Sulvot. Wow, just a powerful, powerful statement on a sophisticated lady. Moving along to the Jazz Week chart. Man, there's so much activity going on in the Jazz Week chart. A few significant albums have dropped off. Some uh new ones, exciting ones have popped up, and a couple have really taken their hold on it. Coming at an album 50 this week. Gabrielle Cavaza.
SPEAKER_03He calls me his angel when I the abolition the abolis the angels of heaven also He calls me his baby when I Diabola.
SPEAKER_08Gabriel Cavasa from Turtle Piece from her album Diabola. So, so striking. Gabriel Cavas. Name to be remembered. I think she was the winner of uh was it the Elephant's Gerald or the Sarah Vaughn uh jazz vocal competition, and uh off to quite uh quite a good strong start. Coming in a tie at album number 44 this week from Detroit. Dave Wilson and his quartet when even goes east, jazz it up a little Jimi Hendrix. Pretty funky. Not quite as flashy as the original Hendrix version, of course. That's called Fire, as you may recognize. When Even Goes East, says Dave Wilson and his quartet from album 44.
SPEAKER_05Coming into the other album 44, Javier Neto and his orchestra from the El Cabulon album, along with special guests.
SPEAKER_04As in a morning sunrise, the light of love comes stealing into a newborn with all the glow of sunrise, a burning kiss is stealing the bow that all being trending For the pounds on the two are to heaven Are the mountain that you go to As in an evening the sun the light I gave you cloth we'll take it up?
SPEAKER_08And then Veronica Swift sounding very, very strong, and a great arrangement too from Javier Nero and his jazz orchestra. Strong at 44 still this week. Coming at album 43 and its own strong showing Percussion Master Bobby Sanabria and his multiverse big band from the album Marcenio and beyond the stuff. A de Sanabria with his multiverse big band Tito Puentes Mumbo Diablo from the Arsenio and Beyond album 43 this week. Coming in at album number 35 this week, Joe Syrian and his motor city jazz octet from his album A Blue Tide. Joe Syrian and his Motor City Jazz Octet from a Blue Time album at 35. Coming at album 34, moving up several spots this week. Playing mostly Barry Sox here, Leah Pilzer from her new album Keep Hangin' On. Barry Sacks with the B3 there. Leah Pilzer on Barry, East Coast Andy from her new album, Keep Hangin' On. Only second week on the chart. It's up to 34. Coming at album 33. After a nice big run in the top three.
SPEAKER_12Now I lost the track of my friend. So a list on my hand of the gate of screen. Figure out where it is that I stand on my night already. They put no signing in new. And then the top of the list was getting screwed. On every little detail, it's almost as if you thought who I was born on my day before T Brilliant dreams and snoop my name's teams on the rush to open the gun, open it, like a money, dump in it, I'm in it, too.
SPEAKER_08Oh, to new heights. My very own ride from the album In the Brass Palace. Former number one album, actually, earlier. Ooh! Yeah. Yeah, three uh five months of the Jazz Week chart so far, still holding at 33. Coming at album number 32, only its first week on the chart. Album we premiered for you a couple of weeks back. Trombonist Conrad Herwig with his Latin side band exploring the music of Chick Korea. Bill O'Connell at the piano, his arrangements, Conrad Herwig and his Latin Psy band, explore the Chick Korea songbook. And album 32, its first week on the chart. Coming in album 31, its uh fourth week on the chart. Jerry Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel, the jewel. Just the two of them recorded in Paris. Jerry Allen with guitarist Kurt Rosenmickel recorded back in 2012 and just released on the album A Lonesome Thing. Here's a new young upstanding band. They call themselves the New Jazz Underground. Their album's called Hoodies. You can tell which generation they're from, right? They are the new Jazz Underground from the Hoodies album. That's the hoodie jig there. Have we got an album number 30 this week? It's fifth week on the Jazz Week chart. Have we got album number 28 this week? It's first week showing up on the Jazz Week chart. Included Allie Ryerson with her quartet album. Allie Ryerson. The Allie Ryerson quartet. And a somewhat familiar tune. I I think I may have heard that before. Nada como terra mor. Carlos Lira music. For the first week on of the album from Allie Ryerson in at 28. Album 25 this week. We heard last hour. Josh Harris, Joel Harrison playing a little Dylan music. Here is Javon Jackson with his entire Bob Dylan jazz album. Yes, the times they are changing. And not always for the better at this point. Huh? Bob Dylan, such foresight. Sex Man Javon Jackson. Entire album of Jazzin' Up Bob Dylan. Jackson plays Dylan. Still strong. Former top ten album coming in still this week at 25. Here is Chick Corea, the real deal, the pianist himself. Excerpt from his Arondo's rumba from the Forever Yours, his final concert performance. The supremely, supremely, supremely focused music of Chick Carrie. Inspiring work. Moving in at album 22 this week. Trumpeter Brian Lynch from his Torchbearers album. A Barry Harris tune called Luminescence. Yeah, with Brian Lynch and company. From the album The Torch Bearers at 22 this week. Coming at album 21 off of the Windy City. Jazzin' up the loop. Right? From No Wind, No Rain, their latest album. The Chicago Soul Jazz Collective. It's called There Is Light Somewhere. The Chicago Soul Jazz Collective from No Wind, No Rain at 21. Can we get an album 20 this week? More typical from the Mark Winkler latest set, Love Comes First album.
SPEAKER_09You're kind of hip, your look is rad. You're wearing shades just this side of bad. And when you smile, my poor heart flips. Tapping on the two and four. 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. Oh, zapping on the two and four.
SPEAKER_08A little bit sly, a little bit wry. The music of Mark Winkler had to sneak one or two of those kind of real typical Mark Winkler tunes on the new album Love Comes First, sitting in at number 20 this week. Coming at number 19 this week. Judith Owen.
SPEAKER_13My mind likes to keep it on the inside. I know, don't go for all those lengthy phones 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 Mama, he don't buy me cotton flowers. No diamonds done off the heart. 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. I see that's why I love my baby.
SPEAKER_08The bottom line is the bottom line, right? I see that's why. Digging it, you dig it. Judith Owen from her album Suit Yourself. That's why she loves a man. Their album Nature 819 this week. Come again at album number 18 and the rest of the top 20 on the Jazz Week chart for you. But first it's time for us to take a look at some jazz festivals that are on our watch. Wrapping up today the Litchfield Jazz Festival in Connecticut. Featuring Don Braden, Jimmy Green, Steve Davis, Paul Bolinbeck, the Curtis Brothers, Steve Cortica, 610, and more. Go to LichfieldJazzfest.com to find out what's still going on. Coming up next weekend, August 1 and 2, the Erie Blues and Jazz Festival, Duke Sherman, Dylan Triplett, the Erie Jazz Ensemble, and the Lautier Band. More info there, go to Erie BluesandJazz.com. The Grand Daddy of the Mall, the tabled Newport Jazz Festival, July 31, August 1 and 2. Wow, what another knockout lineup. Herbie Hancock, Leon Thomas, Charles Lloyd's Sky Quartet, Jonathan Batiste, the Snarky Puppies, Terry Lynn Carrington, Maynard, or Bernard Purdy, Sullivan Fortner, John Schofield with Dave Holland. The final tour of the Bad Plus Band, the Hundred Years of Miles and Coltrain salutes, and more. For the info there, go to Newportjazz.org. Been telling you about this for a few weeks now. There's actually a Jazz Week in Alaska coming up. Naturally, it would be in August. Best time to do it. August 23rd through August 30, a week-long series of concerts, classes, seminars, workshops, and all kinds of jam sessions, performances, and so on. This year's faculty featuring Ron Carter, Bernard Curdy, and Phillips Christian Fabian, Cleve Guyton, Jr., Austin Hayes, Matt Keen, and more. For the info on that one, go to Sidka, Sidka Jazzweek.org. Labor Day Weekend, 2026 D.C. Jazz Festival, September 2 through 6th. 20 different venues in and around DC. Special Centennial Year salutes to Randy Weston. Miles Davis of John Fortrade as well. For the full schedule there, go to DC Jazzfest.org. And the same weekend, Labor Day weekend at Chicago Jazz Festival, September 3 through 6. With major free performances outdoors at Millennium Park on the lakefront, there artists include Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robert Glasper, D. Alexander McKinney Rivera, Isaiah Collier, a Coltrain salute to Miles Davis in Electric Band. And a lot more for details there. Go to jazz in Chicago.org. And one more, one more big one, one more big, big one, the Legacy Monterey Jazz Festival, September 25, 6th and 7, this year. With the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, an all-star Eddie Paul Mary tribute. Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter salute Miles Davis. How about that? Also Charles Lloyd and his 60th anniversary Forest Flower performance. Oh man, wow. What's the final bad plus tour? Steele McLaurin, Stalvant, Robbie Coltrane, Joey Alexander, Alex, Alexa Tarantina, and so much more. Details there, go to moderate jazz.org. Yeah, pick any one of those for a jazz experience of a lifetime for sure. Coming back, the rest of the top 20 on the Jazz Week chart when we return.
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SPEAKER_08Coming in at album 18 this week. Carlos Enriquez and his band from the Monk Conclave album. With a little monk con clave. Green chimneys in the tune from album number sixteen, eighteen. Number eighteen this week. Coming at album 17. Bria Stockenberg got her brass horn out there and really playing it well on the brass album. Audaciously on the entire album called Brass. That's the Brotherhood of Man from her latest album, Oh Brass there. Boy, that's 17. Coming at album number 16 this week. Discover Reed Hoyson and his Reed Hoysen project. The album is home, third week on the Jazz Week chart. Picking up a Tom Harold tune called Upswing. Drummer Reed Hoysen and his Reed Hoysen project from the home album, his newest three weeks on the chart moved up to 16 this week. Doing a Tom Harrell piece called The Upswing there. Coming in album 15, it is Hendrik Mirkins on his latest. Playing both harmonica and later on, a little bit of vibes in here as well. From the album Sant Sambatanto, Hendrik Mirkins with a real nice turn-on flute from Laura Dreyer there, helping him out on the cherry choro. Sorry, the Choro Concasa from Hendrik Mirkin's latest album, the Samba Tanto album 15. Happy birthday to Nina Freelon this week, this Tuesday, from Cambridge, Massachusetts originally. Her own composition, a brother from the Sistering collaborative album, 14 this week.
SPEAKER_11Wild is the wind up and over rainbows begin the beginning. Shall see bridges swinging. Creole love song calling you. I'll remember April and a brother. Just like you.
SPEAKER_08Genuinely happy birthday to Nina Freelon this week. One more here from Ulysses Owens and his Gen Y band. This is from his current album that's been riding the charts so high. Former number one album, actually. Around the world to you. At Lucky 13 this week. Coming in album number 12, another former number one album, trumpeter Jeremy Peltz from his album of musical political statements, social statements outlook, our community will not be erased. Earlier, Jeremy Pellet. Coming at album number eleven just out of the top ten this week. On Soprano Sack, Steve Wilson from his latest album, Enduring Sonons. Former top five earlier. It's called Quiet Girl from the Enduring Sonos album. Kind of a tough title to remember, I guess. Steve Wilson, though, remember that at album eleven. Coming at album number ten, a former seven album earlier, Eliana Elias, her new album. Ow. Ow vivo, mm-hmm. Turning up the heat on that one. Eliana Elias from the album Owl Vivo at album number 10 this week. Coming at album number nine this week here. Drummer Richie Barata from his album Saluting Charlie Parker. It's another kind of bird on the album. Check out this arrangement of a Charlie Parker favorite. Oh man. Ah, yeah. That is so much fun. Drummer Richie Barata with Vincent Herring playing the Charlie Parker Pete. A little little suede shoes from another kind of bird up to number nine this week. Slipping down to number eight this week. From three weeks running in the runner-up spot at number two earlier. Still in the top ten for Billy Childs, his triumvirate album. Coming at album number six this week, moving up. Guitarist Ray Obiero from his slight accent album. Doing Wayne Shorter's footprints. Moving into the strongly into the top ten. They're at number seven, number eight this week. Coming at album number six. Lakisha Benjamin to the new album We Dream with Shaq and at the uh other album number five, by the way, tie number five. Pianist Helen Sung and her big band, a tribute album to her heroes. It's called Oracles. A piece she wrote for one of her heroes, Clark Carey, called Positively CT. Ellen Sung with a big band from Oracle's the other five. Coming in album number four this week, Bobby Broom saluting his old boss, Sonny Rollins, on the Notes of Thanks album. Hent up House. Bobby Brown, one-time member of Sonny Rollins touring band for some years, offering notes of thanks, the name of his latest album, offering that to, of course, the late Sonny Rollins. Coming at album number three and moving up strong here this week, showing up strong. It is Cat Russell for her album recorded live at Lincoln Center. Oh man, now you're talking my language, she says.
SPEAKER_10But now you getting somewhere. You said something with you said love.
SPEAKER_08Thoroughly delightful and enjoyable. Kat Russell with her super swinging subtlet live at Lincoln Center. The album moved up to a strong number three this week. Sitting in the runner-up spot again this week. Three weeks in a row at number two, pianist Emmett Cohen. His latest album is Universal Truth. Wow, yeah, with his quintet on that particular piece, Universal. From the Universal Truth album at number two again this week. Making way for number one for three weeks in a row now. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval of his latest. The album is Sungu. From the Sangu album. It's our Duro Sand of all number one. Once again, three weeks run in form. Well, a good run at the top. And we've made it all the way to the top once again. With your help and assistance and enthusiasm, we've made it to the top again. Hope you've enjoyed things here. We've certainly had a lot of fun doing the program for you and with you. So spread the word, bring your friend next time as well, and we will all go jazzing around together. Thanks to our folks for the long time partner radio stations WNPR, WSPR, KWLC, Boston Free Radio, and WWFM Jazz On Two. Have yourself a good week. Stay safe. Don't eat any of that.