Jazz Across America- Chicago

About The Program

Every weekday at 5PM (Pacific), KSDS, San Diego's Jazz 88.3 brings the flavor of a great American Jazz city to your ears. Chicago was the nation’s first records capital, where Louis Armstrong gained fame, Benny Goodman came up, and Lennie Tristano challenged bebop. Gene Ammons, Ramsey Lewis, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and now Marquis Hill and Makaya McCraven-all of them shaped by the city's mix of grit and silk. You'll find them and more, along with new discs from across the spectrum, and unique insights, with GRAMMY-winning writer/broadcaster Neil Tesser.

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Here are the 30 most recent tracks played on this show:

November 5th at 6 PM Hour
6:55 PM Ernest Dawkins “United” — Afro Straight BUY
6:44 PM Monty Alexander “Hope” — A Jamerican in Paris BUY
6:40 PM Christian Finger “Hope and Hope” — Zeit Zirkel BUY
6:34 PM Christian McBride & Ursa Major “Cows” — Points of Light BUY
6:25 PM Planet Flippo “Eleventh Heaven” — Four Chefs BUY
6:21 PM Lary Coryell “Low-Lee-Tah” — Introducing the Eleventh House BUY
6:15 PM Visions Jazz Ensemble “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” — Of the People BUY
6:08 PM Yvonne Rogers “First Attempt” — Button Jar BUY
6:04 PM Jane Ira Bloom “Airspace” — Light from a Person BUY
November 5th at 5 PM Hour
5:58 PM Thelonious Monk “Boo Boo's Birthday” — Underground BUY
5:54 PM Nat Adderley “Rattler's Groove” — To Ive League from Nat BUY
5:49 PM Vanisha Gould “Go-To Girl” — What an Interesting Girl BUY
5:41 PM Harvie S “Yukimi's Song” — Bright Dawn BUY
5:37 PM Sheila Jordan “The Zoo” — Jazz Child BUY
5:32 PM Roni Ben-Hur & Santi Debriano “Isabella” — Our Thing BUY
5:28 PM Monika Ryan “Heed Your Heard” — Delightfully BUY
5:18 PM Kenny Reichert “Colours” — Colours BUY
5:13 PM Orbert Davis “Scourin'” — Priority BUY
5:07 PM Gigy Gryce-Clifford Brown Sextet “Minority” — Gigi Gryce-Clifford Brown BUY
October 29th at 6 PM Hour
6:57 PM Kurt Elling “Gingerbread Boy” — The Messenger BUY
6:49 PM Russell Gunn “Voyage of the Pyramid Builders” — Afrikan-Amerikan Book of the Dead BUY
6:41 PM Jeremy Cunningham “Kobi Shobi” — Passing Fires BUY
6:36 PM Shawn Maxwell “Monster Shoes” — Urban Vigilante BUY
6:29 PM Ryan Keberle “Children Of The Night” — Double Quartet BUY
6:19 PM Wayne Shorter “Juju” — Juju BUY
6:13 PM Arman Sangalang “Writer Agents” — Waypoints BUY
6:10 PM Duke Ellington “In the Hall of the Mountain King” — Three Suies BUY
6:01 PM Hyeson Hong Jazz Orchestra “Dance with Dracula” — Things Will Pass BUY
October 29th at 5 PM Hour
5:56 PM Cassandra Wilson “Children Of The Night” — Blue Light 'Til Dawn BUY
5:50 PM Michael Blake “Halloween” — Halloween Tales BUY

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