Strictly Jazz Sounds
Madison Area Music Awards Finalist Party!
On March 31 the top finalists for 2019 MAMA Awards will be revealed. Be the first to know at the Announcement Party at the Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave from 5-9 pm. General admission and VIP tickets are available online and at the door. You’ll get to hear live performances by Katie Scullin, Angela Puerta, […]
Nasty NYE at Alchemy with Nuggernaut
Join Nuggernaut to ring in the new year and help benefit the greatest radio station in the land, WORT FM!!! The party starts at 11pm (music at 11:30), with a complimentary champagne toast at Midnight! Special guests scheduled to perform with Nugg: – Anitra Hovelson from H2 – Hannah Larson from Bird’s Eye – Robin […]
Strictly Jazz Sounds Hosts UW Artist in Residence Linda Oh
Born in Malaysia to Chinese parents and raised in Perth, Australia, Linda May Han Oh trained first on bassoon. Linda May Han Oh will be in Madison, WI during the week of April 24 as an artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the leadership of jazz pianist and Endowed Jazz Studies Director […]
‘Emily’s D+Evolution’: WORT Airs Exclusive Interview with Esper...
Esperanza Spalding’s ‘Emily’s D+Evolution’ defies definition, and explores the intersection of jazz, funk, rock with performance art at the Wisconsin Memorial Union Theater-Shannon Hall. Story by Steve Braunginn The Wisconsin Union Theater presents Esperanza Spalding’s visionary stage performance art, ‘Emily’s D+Evolution’ (read D plus Evolution), Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 7:30pm! Tickets are available at […]
A Tribute to Jazz Great Bobby Hutcherson
Jazz vibraphonist supreme Bobby Hutcherson died yesterday at the age of 75 due to complications from emphysema. Though ailing from this horrid disease (that’s what second-hand smoke did in the clubs, though he was also a smoker), Bobby continued to tour and work with the SF Jazz Collective, the inaugural group, and record with his […]
Live Interview with Richard Davis
On this Thursday’s edition of “Strictly Jazz Sounds,” I’m interviewing the great Richard Davis. Why? April 15, is the birthday of this renowned bassist and NEA Jazz Master. I’m interviewing during the 3:00pm hour CDT. He turns 86. Davis continues to be a professor of jazz at the University of WI-Madison, performs and pours his […]
