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:

May 15th at 6 PM Hour
6:57 PM Chicago Jazz Orchestra with Bobby Broom “Fried Pies” — More Amor BUY
6:50 PM Eddie Harris “Listen Here” — The Electrifying Eddie Harris BUY
6:43 PM Organissimo “Randiculous” — Dedicated BUY
6:39 PM Kurt Elling & SuperBlue “Sharp Dressed Man” — Guilty Pleasures vol. 2 BUY
6:35 PM Elaine Dame “Sing Child” — Reminiscing BUY
6:29 PM Brian Charette “Late Night TV” — Music for Organ Sextette BUY
6:23 PM Vanisha Gould “Demure” — She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth BUY
6:18 PM Christian McBride “Too Close For Comfort” — Gettin' To It BUY
6:13 PM Jimmy Heath “Nutty” — Swamp Seed BUY
6:02 PM Keith Jarrett “Southern Smiles” — Shades BUY
May 15th at 5 PM Hour
5:58 PM Esthesis Quartet “Where I Begin” — Sound and Fury BUY
5:53 PM Larry Coryell “Equinox” — Tributaries BUY
5:32 PM Arturo O'Farrill “Blue Palestine pt. 1” — Mundoagua BUY
5:30 PM Chico O'Farrill “Lamento” — Cuban Blues BUY
5:22 PM Atlantic Jazz Collective “Turn Again” — Seascape BUY
5:17 PM Freddie Hubbard “Latina” — High Blues Pressure BUY
5:11 PM Atlantic Road Trip “Cacuvela” — One BUY
5:00 PM James Davis' Beveled “Long Road Home” — Arc and Edge BUY
May 8th at 6 PM Hour
6:54 PM Artemis “Little Cranberry” — Arboresque BUY
6:40 PM Mehmet Ali Sanlikol “Hüseyni Jam” — 7 Shades of Melancholia BUY
6:40 PM Don Ellis Orchestra “Turkish Bath” — Electric Bath BUY
6:33 PM Burak Bedikyan “Deluded” — Introspection BUY
6:33 PM Mehmet Ali Sanlikol “Hüseyni Jam” — 7 Shades of Melancholia BUY
6:26 PM Joe Lovano “Love in the Garden” — Homage BUY
6:18 PM Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet “Insertion Four” — Hear the Light Singing BUY
6:13 PM Sun Ra Sextet “Theme of the Stargazers” — At the Village Vanguard BUY
6:01 PM Jimmy Farace “Signs of Spring” — Hours Fly, Flowers Die BUY
May 8th at 5 PM Hour
5:57 PM Mose Allison “Fires Of Spring” — Gimcracks And Gewgaws BUY
5:51 PM Joe Roccisano “Springsville” — Nonet BUY
5:44 PM Miles Davis Nonet “Jeru” — The Complete Birth of the Cool BUY

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