Steph Johnson chatting with us and playing LIVE IN STUDIO around 7:20 PM PT. She's got a new disc coming out and a gig Thursday, June 14 at Tango Del Ray, so we'll talk about that and a whole lot more!
2012-06-11 Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library -
a great set of NEW this week including Jazz Live San Diego alum Joe Chambers, Sara Gazarek, Al Jarreau, Mintzer Big Band, Eric Reed (doing Monk!), Mike Stern, and a trombone duo...YES!
Preview of Playboy Jazz Festival 2012coming up this Saturday and Sunday, June 16-17, 2012 at the Hollywood Bowl. One of the premier music events in the So Cal calendar and TNJT has featured interviews with performers Terri Lyne Carrington, Gretchen Parlato, Carmen Lundy, David Weiss (The Cookers).
Here's the playlist for tonight's festivities...
7 PM Hour, June 11, 2012
7:55 PM
Bob Mintzer Big Band
“Aha” — For The Moment
7:46 PM
TromBari
“Diva” — Devil's Hopyard
7:39 PM
Steph Johnson
“The Man I Love” — Live On The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw
7:34 PM
Steph Johnson
“Interview Part 2” — The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw
7:30 PM
Steph Johnson
“Chocolate” — Live On The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw
7:24 PM
Steph Johnson
“Interview Part 1” — The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw
7:20 PM
Steph Johnson
“Anything Goes” — Live On The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw
7:14 PM
Johannes Mössinger
“Splanshy Squeeze” — The New Jersey Session
7:10 PM
Sylvia Herold and the Rhythm Bugs
“Mohair Sam” — The Spider and the Fly
7:07 PM
Sara Gazarek
“Everything I've Got” — Blossom & Bee
7:00 PM
Eric Reed
“Epistrophy” — The Baddest Monk
6 PM Hour, June 11, 2012
6:52 PM
Joe Chambers
“Power To The People” — Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra
6:43 PM
The Cookers
“Believe, For It Is True” — Believe
6:31 PM
Bobby Streng's House Big Band
“Streng Theory” — Getting Housed, Live
6:24 PM
Rick Davies
“Bembe Swing” — Salsa Norteña
6:13 PM
Matt Garrison
“Mom's Song” — Blood Songs
6:08 PM
Al Jarreau
“Cold Duck” — Al Jarreau and the Metropole Orkest - Live [Live From Theater aan de Parade, Den Bosch, Netherlands/2011]
6:01 PM
Roberto Magris Quintet
“Hocus Pocus” — Morgan Rewind: A Tribute To Lee Morgan
UPDATE: INTERVIEW ONLINE ON THE TNJT SHOW PAGE. David Weiss of The Cookers (Billy Harper: Tenor Sax, Eddie Henderson and David Weiss: Trumpets, Craig Handy: Alto Sax, George Cables: Piano, Cecil McBee: Bass, Billy Hart: Drums) hangs with us in Hour 2 of The New as the band celebrate their 5th year working together with their new disc "Believe" and a performance at Day 2 of the June 16-17, 2012 Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. We'll chat about that, dig music from the New, and chat about some of David's other projects including his Point of Departure band.
LATE UPDATE: Steve Smith jazz fusion drummer extraordinaire will be chatting with me about his new disc "LIVE! One Great Night", his upcoming 5/31 Anthology SD gig, and his Jazz 88 Profile on Barry Farrar's Percussive Profiles this week.
Gretchen Parlato (@GretchenParlato, 6:40 PM PT): Gretchen continued working toward her vision on her 2011 release "The Lost and Found", with a slight side-trip participating in Terri Lyne Carrington's Mosaic Project...which won the 2012 Best Vocal Album Grammy...which will be reprised at the 2012 Playboy Jazz Festival. We will chat about all that and MORE!
2012-05-21 Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library: A full spectrum of New Jazz Music being added to the Jazz 88 Music
Library and Playlist this week, including Brian Bromberg (feature TNJT
5/21/12 guest Jeff Lorber), Grammy-nominated vocalist Melody Gardot,
Arturo Sandoval's new tribute to Dizzy, and a couple new San Diego disc
from The Mission Bay Preservationists (leader JP Balmat recently on
TNJT) and the Styletones (funk it up!)!
Plucking out some Jazz News, Jazz Charts, and more!!
Coming up next week, Monday 5/28/12 on TNJT, Eric Person will be chatting about his 6/2 gig with TrioKinesis here in San Diego
Carmen Lundy (@CarmenLundy) "Changes" Interview (7:20 PM PT): Chatting with vocalist about her 2012 release "Changes"and her upcoming performance as June 17, 2012 at the Playboy Jazz Festival as part of Terri Lyne Carrington's Mosaic Project!
2012-05-14 Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library: Lots of great New being added to the Jazz 88 Playlist this week,
including guitarist Broom, a killer large ensemble from Budman / Levy
Orchestra, Ted Nash, and international Jazz from Jazz 88 friend Cheryl Pyle with
Kazhargan World!
More to come, including links to interview audio and items of note during the show!
Wayne Riker, San Diego Jazz Guitar slinger, has a new album, "Guitar Decathlon", featuring collaborations with 10 different guitarists and supporting players, and we'll be sampling and chatting about it LIVE on The New Jazz Thing Monday, March 26, 2012, 6-8 PM PT!
Here's Wayne making a personal delivery of the new disc last week before he headed to one of his many teaching gigs!