UPDATE: Interviews Online! In addition to debuting the New Adds To The Jazz 88 Music Library this week, I will be chatting with pianist Eric Reed about his new disc "The Baddest Monk" (#3 Jazzweek Charts 6/25/12) and pianist Anne Sajdera (who grew up in San Diego) about her new release "Azul", checking out the newly revamped Jazzweek Jazz Charts of the tops in Jazz Radio Airplay, and our usual review of what's happening in the world of Jazz News!
Information about Eric and Anne, along with links mentioned during the show after the jump...
Adding some great New Jazz from some big names (legend and Jazz Live San Diego alum Curtis Fuller, Branford Marsalis, Bela Fleck with Marcus Roberts, local crooner Gregory Page with a Big Band) and new names alike. We will be debuting some of these on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw on Monday, June 25, 2012 6-8 PM PT!
Coming down from The Bowl...the Hollywood Bowl and The Playboy Jazz Festival 2012, so we'll be chatting about that some, posting some pictures, talking Jazz, and digging lots of NEW on the show tonight...
Talking 2012 Playboy Jazz Festival: Pat Metheny's new one added this week has Ben Williams playing bass...he played with Christian McBride Big Band who did a tribute to Bill Cosby (his last year, after 30+, hosting PBJF)...although I don't think he played on this tune (so tenuous connection to The New this week!)...LA Times Article Recap with Ben Williams, Cosby, Lionel Loueke and more.
Jazzweek.com Jazz Chart June 18 2012: Arturo's New One at #1, Eric Reed's new Monk disc (TNJT interview?) most added...should be in Top 10 next week, PBJF 2012 The Cookers band "Believe" at #15, and lots of other stories. Going to one big Top 10 list this week, with a tune from it somewhere in there...
Dig all the NEW in the Jazz 88 Music Library this week, which we will debut on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday, June 18, 2012, 6 to 8 PM PT!
RUTH AGUILAR – “AN INVITATION” (Female vocalist, doing a collection of standards and Billie
Holiday tunes).
MIKE ALLEN QUARTET – “A HIP COSMOS” (Saxophonist, leading a quartet, doing straight-ahead
originals).
PETER APPLEYARD – “SOPHISTICATED LADIES” (Vibraphonist, heading a session featuring female
Canadian vocalists, doing standards and jazz tunes).
RALPH BOWEN – “TOTAL ECLIPSE” (Saxophonist, backed by an organ trio, doing all straight-ahead
originals).
RAVI COLTRANE – “SPIRIT FICTION” (Saxophonist, leading a mostly progressive session of
originals).
BILL EVANS – “LIVE AT ART D’LUGOFF’S TOP OF THE GATE” (Legendary pianist, in a previously
unreleased live session).
TOWNER GALAHER – “UPTOWN!” (Drummer, leading an all-star quintet, in a collection of jazz tunes
and originals).
GUILLERMO KLEIN/LOS GUACHOS – “CARRERA” (Keyboardist, leading an eclectic, Latin-tinged
session with some vocals).
PAT METHENY – “UNITY BAND” (Guitarist, leading a quartet, doing all originals, with some very edgy
tracks and some very melodic tracks).
OSCAR PENAS – “FROM NOW ON” (Guitarist, with a Latin-tinged collection of originals. Some tracks
with accordion).
RALPH PETERSON – “THE DUALITY PERSPECTIVE” (Drummer, leading a quartet and sextet in a
collection of originals. Quartet tracks are on the edgy side).
KELLY POWERS – “PROJECT” (Pianist/vocalist, doing a straight-ahead mix of originals and new
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
Wow...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! And we will be debuting as many of these as we can spin on The New Jazz Thing with Vince Outlaw, Monday, June 11, 2012, 6 to 8 PM PT!
JOE CHAMBERS – “MOVING PICTURES ORCHESTRA” (Legendary percussionist, leading an all-star big band, recorded live, doing straight-ahead originals and jazz tunes).
RICK DAVIES – “SALSA NORTENA” (Latin grooves, with a mix of vocals and instrumentals).
MATT GARRISON – “BLOOD SONGS” (Sax player, leading a sextet, with some others, doing mostly straight-ahead originals).
SARA GAZAREK – “BLOSSOM & BEE” (Female vocalist, with a mix of the Great American Songbook and originals).
SYLVIA HARROLD AND THE RHYTHM KINGS – “THE SPIDER AND THE FLY” (Female vocalist, swinging old-school, on standards and obscure tunes).
AL JARREAU – “AND THE METROPOLE ORKEST” (Legendary singer, doing many of his familiar songs, backed by an orchestra, recorded live).
ROBERT MAGARIS QUINTET – “MORGAN REWIND” (Pianist, leading a quintet, doing some Lee’s better and lesser known tunes, with a couple of originals).
BOB MINTZER BIG BAND – “FOR THE MOMENT” (Straight-ahead big band, doing originals, standards and Brazilian tunes).
MOSSINGER – “THE NEW JERSEY SESSION” (Pianist, in a solo/trio/quartet setting, doing a collection of edgy originals).
SUE RANEY – “LISTEN HERE” (Female vocalist, still in good voice, backed by Alan Broadbent, doing a collection of standards).
ERIC REED – “THE BADDEST MONK” (Pianist, leading a quintet, in a collection of Monk tunes, plus 2 originals).
MIKE STERN – “ALL OVER THE PLACE” (Guitarist, with an edgy set of straight- ahead, contemporary and vocal tracks).
BOBBY STRENG’S HOUSE BIG BAND – “GETTING HOUSED, LIVE” (A mix of straight-ahead and contemporary big band tracks).
TROMBARI – “THE DEVIL’S HOPYARD” (Progressive session, with Glenn Wilson and Jim Pugh, doing all Thomas Chapin originals).
Pat Launer's Center Stage
