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 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
5:41 PM Jon De Lucia Octet “The Way You Look Tonight” — The Brubeck Octet Project BUY
5:34 PM Dave Brubeck Quartet “When the Saints Go Marching in” — Live from the Northwest, 1959 BUY
5:29 PM Hampton Hawes “Sweet Sue” — Four! BUY
5:20 PM Monty Alexander “Restoration” — D-Day BUY
5:14 PM Jarod Bufe “Midnight” — Brighter Days BUY
5:09 PM Nnenna Freelon “Changed” — Beneath the Skin BUY
5:00 PM Miles Davis “So Near, So Far” — Seven Steps To Heaven BUY
May 1st at 6 PM Hour
6:58 PM Tierney Sutton w/ San Gabriel 7 “Happy Goodbye” — Good People BUY
6:49 PM TERUMASA HINO “Big Ce” — May Dance BUY
6:46 PM Matt Ulery “Bucking the Bull” — Mother Harp BUY
6:41 PM Hearts & Minds “Turbulence” — Illuminescence BUY
6:36 PM Avishai Cohen “Moonlight Sonata” — Big Vicious BUY
6:23 PM Jon Irabagon “Graceful Exit” — Server Farm BUY
6:16 PM Charles Mingus “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” — In Argentina BUY
6:07 PM Andy Bey “Saidas E Bandeiras” — Tuesdays In Chinatown BUY
6:02 PM Entre Amigos “Matsuri” — Entre Amigos BUY
May 1st at 5 PM Hour
5:56 PM Kenny Barron “Tragic Magic” — Beyond This Place BUY
5:45 PM Jake Hertzog “Part 3” — Ozark Concerto BUY

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