Tune in to Strictly Jazz Sounds from 2-5p Thursday April 15 as host Chuck France celebrates the 91st birthday of NEA Jazz Master and Professor Richard Davis. Music and interview clips from the Richard Davis archives, covering his 7 decades of performance on the double bass. Born in Chicago April 15, 1930, Richard Davis began […]
Double Feature on Strictly Jazz Sounds!
This week’s edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds celebrates Women’s History Month, spotlighting Asian women jazz artists including pianist and NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi, Linda May Han Oh, Miki Yamanaka, Yasuko Hayakawa and Junko Onishi. Also featured is drummer Rodrigo Villanueva-Conroy, a professor of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University who teaches jazz drumset and […]
Strictly Jazz Sounds Plays “Live at the Village Vanguard”
The Thursday March 11 pledge drive edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds features recordings from the iconic New York jazz club the Village Vanguard. This sonic adventure into NYC’s longest existing jazz club includes historical recordings from John Coltrane, Betty Carter, Bill Evans, Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, Dexter Gordon and Art Pepper and others. We will […]
Black History Month Pt. 2 on Strictly Jazz Sounds
Jazz suites are the main feature for this Thursday’s edition of Strictly Jazz Sounds. Celebrate Black History Month with “Freedom Suite” by Sonny Rollins, “Freedom Now Suite” selections by Max Roach and Terence Blanchard’s Oscar nominated “Malcolm X Jazz Suite” from Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. Opening with Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” hear […]
Strictly Jazz Sounds Celebrates Black History Month
This week’s jazz offering on Strictly Jazz Sounds celebrates Black History Month through jazz, poetry and spoken word. The show opens with Geri Allen’s version of the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” as should every presentation this honored month. Other highlights include Christian McBride’s noted album, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait […]
2020 Jazz Retrospective Part 2 on Strictly Jazz Sounds
This week Strictly Jazz Sounds continues its exploration of some of the hottest jazz and jazz musicians of 2020 with historical recordings from John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Ella Fitzgerald. Solo Flight: State of the Baritone, Vol. 4, the latest work from Madison-based baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator Anders Svanoe, was recognized […]
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