WBGO Jazz From the Archives

[ghost of miles]

Bill Kirchner & I are on each other's radio-show e-mail lists, & I thought I'd pass along the info for his program tonight on WBGO:

Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the "Jazz From the Archives" series. Presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies, the series runs every Sunday on WBGO-FM (88.3).

During the 1960s and early '70s, pianist Herbie Hancock (b. 1940) was much in demand for recordings--not only with Miles Davis and as a leader, but for an enormous variety of other sessions. A few years ago, musician/producer Bob Belden suggested to me that a fascinating survey could be done of "Hancock--

The Sideman".

So, voilå: Hancock in a multiplicity of settings, on albums by Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Paul Desmond, Norman Connors, and Bennie Maupin.

The show will air this Sunday, February 18, from 11 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Standard Time.

NOTE: If you live outside the New York City metropolitan area, WBGO also broadcasts on the Internet at www.wbgo.org.

Best,

Bill Kirchner

www.jazzsuite.com

Good concept... I'm doing something similar for Monk this October. Link for WBGO is here (also looks like they've wrapped up their fund-drive).

Edited March 16, 2007 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

Been listening to this, and it's a nice variety of Herbie-as-sideman picks--with Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams, a cut from the live Dolphy on Blue Note, "Round Midnight" with Sonny Rollins, a couple of cuts w/Desmond on the Paul Simon album... very enjoyable, interesting late-night mix.

Edited February 19, 2007 by ghost of miles

[JSngry]

...a couple of cuts w/Desmond on the Paul Simon album...

That's one I've long wondered about (got rave reviews in its day) but have never heard. What sayest thou?

[ghost of miles]

...a couple of cuts w/Desmond on the Paul Simon album...

That's one I've long wondered about (got rave reviews in its day) but have never heard. What sayest thou?

I really dug 'em. I think he played "Feelin' Groovy" and "Scarborough Fair," though it was late & the coffee was beginning to lose its hold... seemed to be more improvisatory action going on than I'm accustomed to in some of those late 1960s/early 1970s pop covers.

[ghost of miles]

Up for this coming Sunday:

Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the "Jazz From the Archives"

series. Presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies, the series runs every

Sunday on WBGO-FM (88.3).

In her prime, Anita O'Day (1919-2006) was as good as it gets among jazz singers.

She was a daredevil improviser with one of the hippest rhythmic conceptions of

any singer or instrumentalist. (I experienced this firsthand when I worked with her

for a week in 1982.)

We'll hear examples of O'Day's 1952-62 work (perhaps her best recording years) for

the Clef and Verve labels, with such arrangers as Russell Garcia, Jimmy Giuffre, Bill

Holman, Quincy Jones, Johnny Mandel, Billy May, and Gary McFarland, plus small

groups led by Gene Harris, Roy Kral, Oscar Peterson, and Cal Tjader.

The show will air this Sunday, March 18, from 11 p.m. to midnight, Eastern

Daylight Time.

NOTE: If you live outside the New York City metropolitan area, WBGO also

broadcasts on the Internet at www.wbgo.org.