"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.
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SPEAKER_08And welcome into hour number two, Jazz and Ram here. Celebrating a very wing and drummer, Dr. Jerry Miracle, leader, drummer of the Diva Jazz Orchestra. So well. You know, we were talking earlier in the first hour about uh women saxophonists and trumpeters, you know, not being all that prominent in the music in decades. In the decades prior. Same true, obviously, of women drummers. And now one of the most dynamic big band drummers is Sherry Miracle. From the Diva Jazz Orchestra. Her birthday coming up this uh Tuesday. This Tuesday, the Buffalo, New York native. Happy birthday to Sherry this week. Also turning 60, believe it or not, the once young phenom on the gypsy guitar, gypsy jazz master Birali Lagrande, but you know, that's what I'm gonna do. Still just as hot a guitarist as he ever was. From his Gypsy Project album from a couple of years back. Happy birthday to Berelli LeGrand, a once a child prodigy at uh I think he hit the big time at age 11 or 12, something like that. A fully formed, fully formed mature guitarist. Uh and and now still just even more so. So happy birthday, happy 60th birthday to Berrelli Legrand. This is David J, you and I jazzing around here and uh got so much. We talked about so much activity on the Jazz Week chart. This one, it's first week on the chart, drummer Jay Sinnett with his 49th parallel album, and it is at number 49 this week. He and the band with a review of the Spiral Staircase hits more today than yesterday. Pop hit for the Chicago band Spiral Staircase, but it became an enduring signature piece for Charlie Erlin for decades afterward. Drummer Jay Sennett with his band from the Parallel 49 album, at right at 49, its first week on. Here's an album that's been on for five months. Rhea Scounberg focusing on her trumpet artistry and craft from the album simply titled Brass at 44 this week. Definitely not just her looks and vocals that make her a serious artist. She's a deep, deep trumpeter. From the brass album, a little brotherhood of man there from that album, sitting at the 44. The other album 44, a former number one album on the charts earlier. Drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his Gen Y band. From the album Around the World With You. Maybe it's last week on at 44 this week. Coming at album 42, another newcomer to the charts. The Smithsonian. Smithsonian Masterworks. Orchestra. A new album of all Ellington Masterworks, mostly lesser known Ellington gems, like Jack the Bear. Ellington Masterworks. That is the title of that album, The Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra. Doing Jack the Bear. Only I think I remember one other version, maybe two other versions of that, in our long, long time on radio here as well. At 42, though. Coming in at album number 41, it is Jerry Allen and Kurt Rosenwinkel together. Recorded live in Paris back in 2012 and just recently released. Musically so well. That is a Jerry Allen composition, Open Handed Creach by Loveson Thing is the name of the album at 41. Coming in a tie at album 39, a former number one album on the chart. Jeremy Peltz. That's called The Sand Man. Our community will not be erased. This past Friday, celebrating the anniversary of the massive March on Washington, 1963. My friends, we can only hope that there can be some changes made. It's gonna take a lot of time and a lot of effort and a lot of pain, probably, in redoing, undoing, and then redoing things. Trying. Trying to make them right. Don't know if we can get them all right again, but I'm gonna try. Anyway, that is part of album number 39. The other album number 39, a brand new one. Rare that an artist has two albums on the top 50 album chart. It is now Bria Skouldberg with her new Indigo album, focusing on her vocals as well as her trumpet work. And no, this is not all blues. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.
SPEAKER_05No, no, no. You I've been blue till you've heard that go. That feeling goes. Steven down to my shoe. And said Go.
SPEAKER_08I gotta tell you, I am so impressed with that arrangement. It is a complete reinvention of Mood Indigo. A la, of course, Miles Davis's kind of blue album and all blues. Wow. Ray Scooby, the new album Indigo, early on the charts at 39. I'm sure that's gonna be in the top ten shortly. Coming at album 37 tie at number 37. Music off the lake, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective. From their no wind, no rain album, this. There's a light somewhere. There's a light somewhere, the title from the Chicago Jazz Soul Jazz Collective, from their No Wind, No Rain album. The other album, number 37, the latest, a very personalized album for the most part, from Mark Winkler. The album Love Comes First. More than you know.
SPEAKER_12More than you know. Girl of my heart, I love you so lately. I find you're on my mind more than you know. Whether you're right, whether you're wrong, girl of my heart, I'll string along. You need me so more than you'll ever.
SPEAKER_08No. Usually very witty and wry. Mark Winkler, really sincere from the heart there, on more than you know. From his album Love Comes First at 30 the other 37. Coming at album 35, the suit yourself album of Judith Owen.
SPEAKER_14My man didn't show it on the outside. My man likes to keep it on the inside. I know don't go for all those lengths of it. When it hill all it is it all, and that's why I love my favorites. I feel that's why I love my face. He don't buy the cotton flowers. No diamonds done off the head on the style. Don't go thinking that he's gotta eat it. Baby aims to please me. That's why I love my baby. I tell that's why I love my baby. I tell that's why I love my baby.
SPEAKER_08Why I love my man, Judith Owen from her suit yourself album. Really well done, I'll take that. Coming in at number 34 this week, it is saxophonist Steve Wilson from his album The Enduring Sonants. A piece called Quiet Girls. 15 weeks of the charts top five album at its peak earlier. Coming in at album 33, the multi-instrumentalist Hendrik Mirkins. With the mallets on vibes here on the tune called Herbs Samba. Coming in at 33. Coming in at album number 30, right here on its ninth week on the chart. Barry Saxist Leah Pilzer. Her newest album, keep hanging on. Good advice there. Strong player on that very sax, Leah Pilzer. Her albums keep hanging on. That is called Swingin' at the Station at number 30. Coming out at album number 28, the absolutely always thrilling, entertaining, enjoyable Cat Russell from her latest album, recorded live at Lincoln Center. You know, you ain't living right, honey, if you don't got it right.
SPEAKER_11Bless you, children. Your faces show. Your life is bankrupt and you don't know it. You ain't living alright, that's plain to see. Come on now, take a tip from me. Well now, brothers, sisters, sure as last both. You ain't living alright if you ain't in love. Take heed to my wanting love. Listen to all I say. You ain't living alright if your love it ain't okay. You don't have to be your Romeo or Juliet. Learn baby sing some love and stop riding the pet. I'd say brothers, sisters, sure as dies, but you ain't living right if you ain't in love.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, listening to cat russell music ought to be a prescription for happiness. Anytime you're down, uh easily pick you up there. From live at Lincoln Center album at 28, a former top ten album peaking at Lucky 7 earlier. Here now Brian Lynch from his latest album, The Torch Bearers, alongside of Charles McPherson on Alto at his side. Also, that's Orin Evans, by the way, on piano backing him up there on album 25. The other album 25, lots of ties on this week's chart. Carlos Enriquez and his monk conclave album. Oh, monk tunes spiced up a little like this one. The Ugly Beauty.
SPEAKER_13Vida Ike Los Caminos que traspasa. Tran risas. Dime como fue. Al pasar los sal. Al cumplir. Irrealiza.
SPEAKER_08Mi sueño. It is kind of interesting how well suited Monk's tunes are to the Latin beats, whether Afro-Cuban or Brazilian. They really, they really had a versatility to them. Ugly beauty there. One of Monk's lesser known tunes. From the Monk Conclave album of Carlos Enriquez. Halfway up the chart at 25. A couple more before we take a quick step aside for some jazz festivals that are on our watch. This one, the hottest big release on the album on the chart. First week on at twenty-two already. This is Vibist Stefan Harris. Legacy Dances, Harris and his Blackout Quintet on Echoes of the Lion from the Legacy Dances album, brand new first week out. It has already shot up to number 21 on the chart. Support a Ray Obiero from the Slight Accent album to take on footprints with a mincer, by the way. The number two, TWO2020. This is John Clayton with a vocalist Renee Marie on some really interesting arrangements like this.
SPEAKER_06I'm going back someday. And the word is my own blue bag. We're the fairly actually kind of a trio, but two together is kind of a two-o.
SPEAKER_08Roy Orbison redoing? Coming up its third week on number 20 already. Let's do one, maybe two more. One more. Let's do one more before we take a quick step aside for Jazz Festivals on our watch. Cecile McLaurin Salvant from her remarkable new album with every breath I take.
SPEAKER_04They say into your 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.
SPEAKER_08Well, that could only make you feel good inside, right? With one of Europe's finest, the Metropole Orchestra backing her up on Ellington's Sophisticated Lady, Cecile McLaurin Salvat, from her latest album at 18. It's only its third or fourth week on the chart here. David J. Jazz and Rodwith here will have the rest of the top 20 on the Jazz Week chart all the way up to number one. But first it's time for us to take a look at some jazz festivals to kind of put on your two visit lists in the upcoming month. Alright. Well, today, actually wrapping up today. You gotta be nearby already because you can't kind of get there too easily. But wrapping up today, the Sidka Jazz Week in Sidka, Alaska. It's been a week-long series of classes, seminars, workshops, and super performances. From Ron Carter, Bernard Hurdy, and Phillips Christian Fabian, Cleve Guyton Jr., Austin Hayes, Matt King, and others. If you're, again, can be in the area to get there, go to SidkaJazzweek.org for more information. Here's maybe one that's easier for it to get to. The biggest free outdoor jazz fest in the U.S. September 4 through 7 Labor Day weekend. The Miles Electric Fan will be there. Robbie Coltrane, Kurt Elling, and the Yellow Jackets together. Tia Fuller, TK Blue, and a Randy Weston tribute as well. Plus Bob James. Artemis. Take six. Cyrilla Mead, Didi Bridgewater, Cindy Blackman, Joe Lavano. Oh man. Rod Carter's Insight and just so much more. Good reason why. That's one of the biggest and one of the best. Labor Day Weekend. Also, also the DC Jazz Festival, September 2nd through 6th. 20 different venues in and around DC. Special Centennial Year salute to Randy Weston, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. The full schedule of artists go to DC Jazzfest.org. Another major Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival. The 2026 Chicago Jazz Fest, September 3 through 6. At the uh Millennium Park for its major, major activity. Artists there include Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robert Glasberg, Dee Alexander Paquito di Rivera, Isaiah Collier with a tribute to Coltrane, the Miles Electric Band, and a lot more. For details there, go to jazz in Chicago.org. Coming up a few weeks after Labor Day, right here in Pittsburgh, in the downtown streets once again, the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, September 17 through 20. Featured artists there so far include Terry Lynn Carrington, Orin Evans, Sean Jones with a Miles tribute, Bernard Purdy, Nate Smith, Layla Hathaway, and much more. All right. And don't forget the Legacy Monterey Jazz Festival out of the West Coast, September 25, 6, and 7. This year the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and all-star Eddie Palmeri tribute. Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter doing a salute to Miles. Charles Lloyd celebrating the 60th anniversary of his landmark Forest Flower album. The Bad Plus will be there on their farewell tour. Cecil McLaurin, Solvant, Robbie Coltrane, Joey Alexander, Alexa Tarantino, Melissa Albana, and so many more. For the tales there, go to Monterey Jazz.org. Yeah, pick one anyone. I'm sure you'll have the jazz experience of a lifetime. Woo, yeah. You owe it to yourself, really. Coming up, what's on the rest of the top 20 on the Jazz Week chart, all the way up to number one? So just hang in there, take a walk past, another walk past through the trade table. And sample a few seconds if you don't want. Stay with us though. We'll be back in just a moment with more.
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SPEAKER_08Celebrating his 70th birthday year with a national tour, who will be in Pittsburgh at the Manchester Craftsman's Guild later. Award-winning pianist Billy Childs from his latest album, Trium Veritz, which spent a month in the top three earlier, still sixteen this week. Coming at album 15, also appearing at the MCG Jazz series this year, trumpeter, flugalhorn artist on this project mostly, Rick Braun, as he plays the music of Chuck Man Joe. Of course, which I'm sure you recognize. From the Rick Braun plays Chuck Man Joe's album at 16, only its third week of the chart still moving up strongly, strongly. Also coming to Pittsburgh very soon as part of the Pit Jazz Seminar, its 56th edition. Guitarist Bobby Broom. With his note to Sonny Rollins, the album is called Notes So Thanks. That's Alfie's theme. Notes of Thanks, guitarist Bobby Broom from album number 13, one of two, one of a tie at album 13. And it's more guitar at the other 13. Howard Paul from the honoring Pat Martino album by the Alternative Guitar Collective. This Pat Martino tune called the Lean Years, one of the burners. Maybe not a familiar name, but a highly respected guitarist. Howard Paul. From the Guitar Heavy. A dozen or more guitarists paying homage to Pat Martino on the Volume 2 Honoring Pat Martino album. Coming in this week at the other 13. Coming at album number 12. It's a sixth week on the chart so far. Flutist Allie Ryerson from her Allie Ryerson Quartet release. Three and one. The Allie Ryerson Quartet. Doesn't record often and doesn't record uh, you know, fancy. It's very simple, very straightforward, but very tastefully done. Allie Ryerson. Album 12. Looking at the top 10 this week coming in at number 10, drummer, producer Richie Barata. His salute to Charlie Parker, another kind of bird. Some real different approaches to some Charlie Parker associated pieces. Like this bird composition, Aluchain, and the Bible. Yeah, Charlie Parker's tune Alucha from another kind of bird, the Richie Barata, latest album at number 10 this week. Coming in, moving up to number nine, by the way. The Reed Hoysen project, their latest. Doing this rarely done Tom Harrell tune called The Upswing. Tony Deballas. Keith Bishop, there on the saxophones and winds, the Reed Hoys and Project latest. The album is called Home at number nine. Coming at album eight this week, the irrepressible piano work of Eliana Elias. Her most recent album, Ow Vivo. Eliana Elias from the Ao Vivo album recorded live at SF Jazz a couple of years ago. Album number eight. Coming in album number seven this week, Lucky Seven from Brazilian pianist arranger, band leader Antonio Adolfo. His Balayos album. And Lucky Seven this week moving up rapidly and solidly. Here's a former number one album slipping into number six still this week. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval from his Sangu album. For her serious new album, we dream. A couple of weeks running. Coming in at number three, it's fourth week in the top three. Pianist Helen sung and her big band. From the Oracle's album, this is her composition, Pianism Two. Couldn't read the Romanumo there. That should be three. Pianism three from the Oracle's album, still at number three this week. Coming into number two strongly still. Only six weeks on the chart. It's half of its time in the top three. Trump is Conrad Irwig with his Latin side of Chick Korea. The runner-up album this week again at number two. Holding steady at number one for five weeks in a row. The irrepressible pianist Emmett Cohen. How about going? Well made it all the way to the top once again, and in pretty good shape. Thanks again for your company and your attention this hour. If you enjoyed it anywhere near as much as we've enjoyed doing it for you, come on back in next week and bring a friend with you too. Program's been podcast. Well the program's been around since, oh, like 2001 or two. Been podcast since 2005 for you. Available on Buzz Sprouts and Live 365. Let your friends know. Also, thanks to our partner radio stations, WNJR, WSPR, KWLC, Boston Free Radio, and WWFM, Jazz On 2. Wrapping up August, heading straight into September. Labor Day Weekend. Best of you all. Keep swinging. Keep on smiling. Absolutely, my friend. We'll see you again soon.