Tonight on the show...
- Jazz 88 Playlist Archive for Monday, April 27, 2015 - Check out 6-8PM PT for what's happening on the air!
- Jazz88.org Website Highlights For The Week of 2015.04.27
- Jazz 88.3 On-Air Highlights For The Week of 2015.04.27
- Jazz 88.3 Jazz and Blues Calendar Preview Week of April 27, 2015
- Artist of the Week / Jazz Birthday’s / On This Day In Jazz at Jazz88.org, and
- DEBUTING NEW JAZZ MUSIC! Jazz Appreciation Month 2015 Goes Out Strong With These New Jazz Releases To The Jazz 88 Music Library: Jazz 88.3 wraps up our Jazz Appreciation Month 2015 celebration with new releases for the week of April 27, 2015 that include the latest from guitarist Pat Martino ("Nexus"), saxophonist and Jazz entrepreneur (Cellar Live records / club) Cory Weeds ("Condition Blue"), and vocalist Mary Stallings ("Feelin' Good"). Your Jazz 88.3 hosts will be introducing you to these new releases all week, so Listen Long, Often, and LIVE at 88.3 FM San Diego and Worldwide at Jazz88.org!
READ THE FULL ARTICLE for more details on EVERYTHING from tonight's show!
Jazz88.org Website Highlights For The Week of 2015.04.27
- Jazz 88 Blog: Jazz An American Art Form Swings Harder in San Diego Thanks To Ella Fitzgerald - Last Saturday was Ella Fitzgerald’s 98th Birthday. Read about the gift from the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation that will enable Jazz An American Art Form outreach, along with the history of Ella in San Diego, and Jazz 88.3 Hosts salute to Ella Fitzgerald
- Jazz 88 Blog - Jazz Appreciation Month 2015 Goes Out Strong With These New Jazz Releases To The Jazz 88 Music Library
- Jazz 88 Speakeasy Giveaways
- Saturday 5/2 Benny Golson Show - ENTRIES CLOSE WEDNESDAY 4/29
- Sunday 5/3 Romeo and Juliet- Maladanian Ballet Biarritz prsented by La Jolla Music Society - ENTRIES CLOSE Wednesday 4/29
- Saturday 5/16 Arturo Sandoval and Pancho Sanchez at Balboa Theater
- COMING SOON - Gator By The Bay and Tony Bennett!
- Social - Connect with Jazz 88 and The New Jazz Thing via our Social Media Channels
Jazz 88.3 On-Air Highlights For The Week of 2015.04.27
- Drummer Freddie Waits, who recorded with McCoy Tyner among others, celebrates a birthday on April 27 and gets the Percussive Profiles (Thursday 8-10pm PT) treatment from host Barry Farrar Jr....who also hosts the re-booted Jazz 88.3 Sunday Jazz Jam at Old Venice Restaurant in Point Loma this week!
- Gator By The Bay 2015 Music Preview during San Diego Sessions (Sunday, 5-6pm PT) with Sue Palmer. Gator By The Bay hits San Diego May 7 through 10 and Jazz 88.3 presents the Festival Stage on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Sue performs at Gator...will she play her own music on SD Sessions?!
- Portraits in Jazz (Mon-Fri, Noon-1PM PT)…
- 4/27 - Teddy Edwards
- 4/28 - Toots Thielemans
- 4/29 - Duke Ellington
- 4/30 - Ray Barretto
- 5/1 - Richard "Groove" Holmes
Jazz 88.3 Jazz and Blues Calendar Preview Week of April 27, 2015
- Sponsored by Del Mar Village Association and Pop-Up Culture shows every Saturday 5-7pm PT at L'Auberge Amphitheater in Del Mar through May.
- Wednesday Night Blues Jam at Proud Mary’s 6:30-9:30pm - J Otis host
- Thursday, 4/30 INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY - Paris and LOTS OF GREAT SAN DIEGO EVENTS!
- Saturday, 5/2 The Oceanside Jazz Festival Band Competition kicks off at 9 at Miracosta College and then it wraps up with a concert by the great Benny Golson at 7:30 pm
- JAZZ 88 SPEAKEASY GIVEAWAY! Deadline To Enter Wednesday!
- Benny Golson played Jazz Live San Diego, Tuesday, November 13, 2007...here's the Jazz Live Interview...
- Sunday Blues Brunch at Proud Mary’s 11am to 3pm - Sue Palmer
- Sunday Jazz Jam RETURNS at Old Venice Restaurant in Point Loma 6-8pm PT
- Concerts, Weeklies, Jam sessions...they are all on the Jazz 88.3 San Diego Jazz and Blues Calendar at Jazz88.org/calendar.
Artist of the Week / Jazz Birthday’s / On This Day In Jazz at Jazz88.org
- Artist of the Week:Modern Jazz Quartet
- Jazz Birthday’s
- Monday 4/27 Connie Kay, Drums, Tuckahoe, NY - MJQ
- Tuesday 4/28 - Steve Khan, 1947, Guitar, Los Angeles
- Blossom Dearie, 1926, Piano / Vocal, East Durham, NY
- Wed 4/29 - Dave Valentine, ‘52, Flute, NTC - Jazz Live perfomer 10/9/2007, Jazz Live Video
- Duke Ellington, 1899, Washington DC
- Thurs 4/30 - Percy Heath, ‘23, Bass, Wilmington NC, MJQ
- Fri 5/1 - Ambrose Akinmusire, ‘82, Trumpet, Oakland CA
- Shirley Horn, ‘34, Vocal / Piano, Washington, D-2005
- Sat 5/2 - Richard Groove Holmes, ‘31, Organ, Camden NJ
- Lorenz Hart, 1895, Lyricist (w Richard Rodgers) “My Funny Valentine”, “Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered”, “The Lady Is A Tramp”, “This Can’t Be Love”
- Sun 5/3 - James Brown, ‘33, Vocal, Barnwell SC
- Bing Crosby, ‘03, Vocal, Tacoma WA
- On This Day In Jazz Highlights
- 4/27 Bud Powell records "Piano Interpretations" for Norgran records in 1955. (REFERENCE POW-BU-16)
- 4/28 Jack Teagarden records "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" in 1939 for the Brunswick label.
- Singer Anita O'Day joins the Kenton band in 1944.
- 4/29 Miles Davis and his sextet first records “Blue ‘N’ Boogie” and “Walkin’ for Prestige Records in Hackensack , NJ, 1954.
- Trombonist Miff Mole died in New York City in 1961. He was 63.
- 4/30 Frank Sinatra cuts his first date with Capitol records in 1953. The session produced "I've Got The World on a String". Sinatra and Nelson Riddle would go on to do 14 lp's together over the next 9 years for capitol.
- 5/1 Bud Powell recorded "A Night in Tunisia", "It Could Happen To You" and "Parisian Thoroughfare" in 1951 at WOR studios in New York City.
- 5/2 Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb's band records "A-tisket a-tasket" for Decca records in 1938.
- 5/3 Gene Ammons records "Preachin'" for Prestige in 1962.
