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Jazz, from the masters of Hard-Bop to emerging new artists performing jazz, fusion and funk. Primary Format : Jazz Language : English Also Listed as: Jazz Radio City : Vernon State/Province : CT Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Radio | Jazz | laster | FUNK | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of In The Groove Podcasts Methings.com listings of In The Groove Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Art Blakey Tribute Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was one of the most influential bands in the evolution of jazz. He is often credited with pioneering the hard-bop movement, taking the be-bop form and placing greater emphasis on the rhythm, giving the music a hard driving swing. We saw a Blakey tribute band in concert last night in Hartford that was the impetus for this playlist. We follow that set with a World-Jazz set in honor of International Jazz Day, May 23. Playlist Track * Artist * Album One By One * ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jackie McLean birthday tribute This podcast pays tribute to the great alto sax player Jackie McLean on what would have been his 78th birthday on May 17. A protege of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, McLean had a wide ranging influence on the jazz idiom. To those of us in the Hartford Connecticut area, where Jackie made his home in his later years, his influence is even deeper. He is responsible for mentoring many young jazz artists in the area and has created this great jazz scene in our city. In addition to being the Ja ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Star Trek and Beyond Yes, I am jumping on the Star Trek bandwagon. Saw the movie opening night and loved it. I was inspired to create this playlist of Star Trek related tracks for the opening set. I particularly like this Larry Willis interpretation of the Theme from Star Trek with Willis' great piano chops and Eric Alexander's powerful horn. That is followed by Chick Corea and the RTF fusion classic Vulcan Worlds. Joe Diorio's 'Theme for Space Cadets' may not have been written for Star Fleet Academy students, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2 May 2009 A hard-bop set of mostly new music, and some other stuff I've been listening to lately. I especially dig the two Monk tunes as covered by Branford Marsalis and Benny Golson. Playlist Track * Artist * Album - Click on album title to download The Outlaw * The Blue Note 7 * Mosaic Family Extension * Albert Rivera * Re-Introduction In Nelba's Eyes * Jimmy Greene * Mission Statement Line of Flight * Steve Davis * Outlook Rhythm-A-Ning * Branford Marsalis Quartet * Metamorphosen Epistro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Goldstein's new guitar This week, we welcome guitarist Rich Goldstein into our WHUS studio for a live interview and performance. Rich plays in the classic hard bop style of Wes Montgomery. If you are in the Hartford area this week, I urge you to come down to Black Eyed Sally's, Thursday evening April 30 to see and here Rich's annual tribute to Wes. If you can't make that, Rich will be back at Sally's on May 11 with pianist Andrew LaVerne for another great jazz jam. Here, Rich shows off his new Gibson L4 on a beau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Goldstein's new guitar This week, we welcome guitarist Rich Goldstein into our WHUS studio for a live interview and performance. Rich plays in the classic hard bop style of Wes Montgomery. If you are in the Hartford area this week, I urge you to come down to Black Eyed Sally's, Thursday evening April 30 to see and here Rich's annual tribute to Wes. If you can't make that, Rich will be back at Sally's on May 11 with pianist Andrew LaVerne for another great jazz jam. Here, Rich shows off his new Gibson L4 on a beau ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18 April 2009 Here are some tunes I've been listening to lately. Most of these groups have been giggin' in and around town lately. No real theme for this show, just some groovin' good music. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Act of Disguise * Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece * Full View Isabel The Liberator * Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band * Fire Dance Trials * Jimmy Greene * Mission Statement The Day You Said Goodbye * Steve Davis Quartet * Alone Together Poem/The Sun and the Moon * Wynton Marsalis * H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 18 April 2009 Here are some tunes I've been listening to lately. Most of these groups have been giggin' in and around town lately. No real theme for this show, just some groovin' good music. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Act of Disguise * Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece * Full View Isabel The Liberator * Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band * Fire Dance Trials * Jimmy Greene * Mission Statement The Day You Said Goodbye * Steve Davis Quartet * Alone Together Poem/The Sun and the Moon * Wynton Marsalis * H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trios This show features jazz trios in many different combinations. One usually thinks of piano, bass and drums as your traditional jazz trio, and indeed much of this show is with that format. Beyond that are piano-less trios led by sax, guitar, organ-guitar-drum trios, and other formats represented here. Of particular interest is the unique sound of Rudresh Mahanthappa's new trio Indo-Pak coalition with alto sax, guitar and tabla. It is a very interesting fusion of jazz and mid-eastern sounds th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trios This show features jazz trios in many different combinations. One usually thinks of piano, bass and drums as your traditional jazz trio, and indeed much of this show is with that format. Beyond that are piano-less trios led by sax, guitar, organ-guitar-drum trios, and other formats represented here. Of particular interest is the unique sound of Rudresh Mahanthappa's new trio Indo-Pak coalition with alto sax, guitar and tabla. It is a very interesting fusion of jazz and mid-eastern sounds th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot New Music Lots of new jazz releases have hit the shelves at WHUS, and we will feature them here today. I especially like the Indian/Jazz Fusion on Fareed Haque's new album Flat Planet. Another guitarist Julian Lage has a very interesting new release with a unique sound. Playlist Track * Artist * Album The Return of Jitney Man * Branford Marsalis * Metamorphosen Cultural Survival * David Sanchez * Cultural Survival The Ambitious Violet * Sean Jones * The Ambitious Violet Mission Statement * Jimy Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot New Music Lots of new jazz releases have hit the shelves at WHUS, and we will feature them here today. I especially like the Indian/Jazz Fusion on Fareed Haque's new album Flat Planet. Another guitarist Julian Lage has a very interesting new release with a unique sound. Playlist Track * Artist * Album The Return of Jitney Man * Branford Marsalis * Metamorphosen Cultural Survival * David Sanchez * Cultural Survival The Ambitious Violet * Sean Jones * The Ambitious Violet Mission Statement * Jimy Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joyous Spring This show begins with a celebration of Spring starting with one of my favorite standards that is sure to put you in a joyous mood, Joy Spring. We keep in the Spring theme and segue to our featured artist Jimmy Greene who performed Friday evening in New Haven's Firehouse12. Jimmy is becoming one of the premier tenor players on the scene today. We feature Jimmy Greene from 3 different albums including 2 from a soon to be released CD entitled Mission Statement. We also hear from Ralph Peterson ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joyous Spring This show begins with a celebration of Spring starting with one of my favorite standards that is sure to put you in a joyous mood, Joy Spring. We keep in the Spring theme and segue to our featured artist Jimmy Greene who performed Friday evening in New Haven's Firehouse12. Jimmy is becoming one of the premier tenor players on the scene today. We feature Jimmy Greene from 3 different albums including 2 from a soon to be released CD entitled Mission Statement. We also hear from Ralph Peterson ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Post Radiothon Radiothon is over and its back to just playing some great jazz music. Thanks to all that supported this program and WHUS. I will give more formal thanks on next weeks show. I had been away for this Saturday's broadcast and this is a show I did as a fill-in on March 11. I carefully edited out any mention of Radiothon as I have grown tired of pleaing for donations. No real theme here, though as I listen, most of this program features guitar and bass as leaders. Playlist Track * Artist * Albu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Post Radiothon Radiothon is over and its back to just playing some great jazz music. Thanks to all that supported this program and WHUS. I will give more formal thanks on next weeks show. I had been away for this Saturday's broadcast and this is a show I did as a fill-in on March 11. I carefully edited out any mention of Radiothon as I have grown tired of pleaing for donations. No real theme here, though as I listen, most of this program features guitar and bass as leaders. Playlist Track * Artist * Albu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2009 Continued This is the official WHUS Radiothon week. I really appreciate the great support shown by our podcast listeners last week. We received pledges from all over the world. However, the station has a long way to go to meet its fund raising goal, and showing your support lets WHUS know that you appreciate jazz programing and this podcast. We have a special gift for our supporters. It is a CD called Private Tracks that is a compilation of rare jazz tracks that is unavailable or difficult to obtain ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2009 Continued This is the official WHUS Radiothon week. I really appreciate the great support shown by our podcast listeners last week. We received pledges from all over the world. However, the station has a long way to go to meet its fund raising goal, and showing your support lets WHUS know that you appreciate jazz programing and this podcast. We have a special gift for our supporters. It is a CD called Private Tracks that is a compilation of rare jazz tracks that is unavailable or difficult to obtain ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2009 - Support Jazz Programing This show is a reprise of one of my favorite shows from July 2008. It is also a plea to support WHUS, this podcast and Jazz radio programming. WHUS FM is the broadcast home of In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond. Without this great, listener supported radio station, this show and Podcast would not be possible. I am asking our listeners to please show your support for this station, this Podcast and Jazz programming by making a donation. This year I am offering as a gift for your donation a specia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2009 - Support Jazz Programing This show is a reprise of one of my favorite shows from July 2008. It is also a plea to support WHUS, this podcast and Jazz radio programming. WHUS FM is the broadcast home of In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond. Without this great, listener supported radio station, this show and Podcast would not be possible. I am asking our listeners to please show your support for this station, this Podcast and Jazz programming by making a donation. This year I am offering as a gift for your donation a specia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New CD's Usually, the playlists from my show are mostly programmed on my laptop before I go on-air. This night, I forgot my power-supply and my battery was spent, so I had to wing it. Fortunately, there are a lot of new releases that hit the jazz shelf at WHUS. Many of the tracks I had not previewed prior to airing, but was pleasantly surprised by these hot new tunes. For something completely different for In The Groove, dig the new Bad Plus CD with covers of Nirvana's Kirk Cobain, and the Bee Gees. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New CD's Usually, the playlists from my show are mostly programmed on my laptop before I go on-air. This night, I forgot my power-supply and my battery was spent, so I had to wing it. Fortunately, there are a lot of new releases that hit the jazz shelf at WHUS. Many of the tracks I had not previewed prior to airing, but was pleasantly surprised by these hot new tunes. For something completely different for In The Groove, dig the new Bad Plus CD with covers of Nirvana's Kirk Cobain, and the Bee Gees. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mellow and Meditative My playlists are often a reflection of my emotional state state of mind, and this is certainly one of those shows. This set is mellow and meditative, yet intense with emotion and heartfelt playing as should be the case when any great artist creates in his or her art-form. In this case, we hear some great jazz compositions and a few beautiful ballads. Of note is Branford Marsalis' cover of the Coltrane classic A Love Supreme and Pharoah Sanders' Body and Soul. The show concludes with the fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fusion Fill-in My regular show this week was preempted for sports, so I have a posted a broadcast from a December fill-in I did for DJ Slammin' Sammy on WHUS FM. We start with a cookin funky track from Boston based Akashic Record. We continue on with a wide range of electric Jazz-Rock fusion that shows the breadth of this genre. Perhaps the most outrageous track is from Miles from India. From the website; A Cross-Cultural Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis by India's Foremost Musicians Collaborating ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fusion Fill-in My regular show this week was preempted for sports, so I have a posted a broadcast from a December fill-in I did for DJ Slammin' Sammy on WHUS FM. We start with a cookin funky track from Boston based Akashic Record. We continue on with a wide range of electric Jazz-Rock fusion that shows the breadth of this genre. Perhaps the most outrageous track is from Miles from India. From the website; A Cross-Cultural Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis by India's Foremost Musicians Collaborating ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some New Stuff Some great new music has come my way recently that I am featuring on tonight's abbreviated show. I really dig Steve Davis's new album Outlook. Listen to bassist Dezron Douglas solid walkin' bass lines. Also, a great track from Tenor Sax player Seamus Blake is included from his latest effort. We saw Seamus at a recent gig in New York City recently, and this cat not only can play, but his compositions are outstanding. His album Live in Italy is very much recommended. A photo from his recent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Masters and Proteges Jazz is a generational art form. It is like an extended family. This was very evident to me at a recent performance in Hartford by the young talented musicians that make up the Albert Rivera Quintet. In the Hartford area, we are fortunate to have some very accomplished jazz artists that have made their mark on the jazz scene. The Grandfather of them all was Jackie McLean, who adopted our community and brought jazz to the area in a profound way that has touched the lives of many. J-Mac has p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama Inauguration Special This show is my tribute to the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. I have edited excerpts of Obama's historic inaugural speech with Sonny Rollins' landmark recording "Freedom Suite". Recorded in 1958 this was Rollins' musical protest of the state of race relations during the height of our segregation era. Fifty years later, we have elected an African American to the highest office in the land, in what is possibly the beginning of the final chapter in the history of race relations in Am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More review of 2008 We continue from last weeks show with our 2008 in review featuring the highlights of my year in jazz. We saw some great performances in Hartford and New York City, and there were some fine jazz releases. One of those was from Jimmy Greene on Nu Jazz Records. This record label, is a new concept in jazz music distribution, one that represents the future of the recording industry, in my opinion. This is a fine, fine album that I would highly recommend for you to purchase for your jazz library ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Review of 2008 in music These tracks were chosen from some of our favorite releases in 2008. Many are also a reminder of some of the great musical performances we had a chance to experience this past year. Claire and I took many trips to NYC, as well as catching some great jazz acts at local venues. Some of the highlights for us were Monday night jazz jams at Black Eyed Sally's, Hartford International Jazz Festival, Porkpie Hat Series, and Firehouse 12. The JVC Jazz Festival at Newport was a big highlight and is r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freddie Hubbard Tribute Sadly, Freddie Hubbard is latest of jazz masters to have passed on. This great trumpet player made his mark on the history of jazz greats with his incredible chops and fiery trumpet solos. I have tried to showcase his playing and compositional skills on this show. I have also presented Hubbard with the great contributions he made as a sideman as well as a leader of his own jazz ensembles. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Red Clay * Freddie Hubbard * Red Clay Jessica * The Quintet * V.S.O.P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz And Beyond TV This show was broadcast live over the airwaves, streaming Internet, and Live Streaming Video. It was all captured for future viewing on my website. OK, so maybe it is not all that interesting as TV, but it was a cool experiment, that I will try again in another upcoming show. As far as the music, we will end 2008 with mostly party music. The show starts off in a Latin groove with Tito Puente. I took several requests through Facebook, so if there is something you'd like to hear, post it on m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice 2008 Our Winter Solstice special with some great holiday classics in tonights mix. As I look at the playlist, I see some outstanding sax work from Greg Abate, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins and Chris Potter. Also we have some really wonderful solo piano tracks from Marian McPartland and Cyrus Chestnut. So enjoy the music and I wish you all a very happy holiday season.Playlist Track * Artist * Album God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen * Greg Abate * It's Christmastime Forest Flower * Greg Abate * Live A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After the Rain A show inspired by the rains that fell in the North East this week. It begins with one of the finest versions I have heard of After the Rain as arranged and performed by Anat Cohen on her recent CD. Another track I am particularly fond of is Dave Holland's Equality and the beautiful soulful alto solo by Antonio Hart. The Miles from India track should please a lot of listeners that write to me digging the Indian fusion sets that I do, but contrasted with Milestones from Mile's sextet from 19 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lauren Sevian-LSQ on ITG This show features an interview with Baritone Saxophonist Lauren Sevian. This talented player, nominated 2008 Rising Star (Baritone Sax) by Downbeat Magazine is set to release her first CD as a leader this week. The event will take place at the Smoke Jazz Club, Wednesday Dec 10. The CD showcases Lauren's considerable abilities as a leader, player and composer. The album is available as a digital download or physical CD from Greg Osby's new record label, Inner Circle Music. Also, the show ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanksgiving Weekend To me, Thanksgiving day brings thoughts of family, food, friends, and hopes and desires for a peaceful world. This show begins with songs that evoke these messages. It also features some great powerful Tenor sax players. Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Family Extension * Albert Rivera * Re-Introduction Stuffy Turkey * Arthur Blythe * Focus Soul Food * Cyrus Chestnut * Soul Food Circle of Friends * Ernie Watts * Spirit Song Search for Peace * Eric Ale ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Hour Fill-in Once again my regular broadcast is preempted by UCONN Sports. I was able to satisfy my "radio habit" with a one hour time slot fill-in. Although we have no particular theme, I would like to draw your attention to the incredible, 16 plus minutes, Chico Freeeman/Arthur Blythe track Footprints (Wayne Shorter composition). This and several other tracks I have played on recent shows were brought to my attention from Ken Blanchard's excellent blog Jazz Note SDP. Check out his blog for some very v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Appearing Nearby We are fortunate to live in the Hartford area, half way between New York and Boston, to be able to catch some great acts live. Whether it be right here in Hartford or New Haven or a two hour train ride to NYC, there is lots of jazz to be heard live. Most of tonight's program are from artists who have made the journey through Connecticut to delight the small but enthusiastic jazz fans at dinner clubs, bars and small venues nearby. Playlist Track * Artist * Album To Know Yaweh * Salim Wahsin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All FrankZ By request, this is an all Zappa show. Mostly some of my favorite FZ tunes with a few other Zappa inspired tracks. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Peaches En Regalia * Frank Zappa * Hot Rats Cosmik Debris * Frank Zappa * Apostrophe Waka / Jawaka * Frank Zappa * Waka / Jawaka Yellow Pages * Alex Machacek * [ Sic ] Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? * Frank Zappa * Roxy And Elsewhere Blessed Relief * Frank Zappa * The Grand Wazoo Montana * Frank Zappa * Overnight Sensation Echidna's Arf * Ed Pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tween Halloween and the Vote A post Halloween and pre-Election day special. This set list features mostly tunes that are inspired by witches, ghosts, monsters and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention! We will finish up the show with the hope for Change and Peace that comes with a Presidential election and a new administration for America. Go 'O'. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Boogie Stop Shuffle * Chris Potter * Pure Witch Doctor * Dr. Lonnie Smith * Jungle Soul Witch Hunt * Wayne Shorter * Speak No Evil Jackie' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Show Another eclectic mix with no real theme. This show is the remaining tracks of a broadcast from October 4 of this year. Since I only had 4 tracks, I added a bonus recording of the great Charles McPherson whom we saw this weekend performing at the Jazz Standard with Tom Harrell. I just tacked it on to the end of the radio broadcast so it is not announced, but this track shows McPherson's strong bebop style in the tradition of Charlie Parker. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Hotel * Garaj Mah ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October 18 Show This week my show was supposed to be preempted by a sports broadcast, but due to a change in schedule, I was able to regain one hour of my program. Thus, a hastily put together playlist. Of special note is a new release entitled King Mystery from a group called New York Electric Piano. The group is led by Pat Daugherty, pianist and composer. Enjoy! Playlist Track * Artist * Album I Shot the Deputy * New York Electric Piano * King Mystery Why Are We Here * New York Electric Piano * King Mys ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Claire's Mix We start out this show with Claire's excellent selections of jazz and fusion tracks, followed by music inspired from some recent live performances we attended in Hartford and NYC. We caught Mike Stern at one of our favorite NYC venues, 55 Bar. This is a tiny, intimate venue, and we were seated at the bar, literally two feet from this great guitarist, as you can see from the video I captured that evening. Badal Roy came to Hartford as part of the International Jazz Festival. In addition to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hartford International Jazz Festival After the opening track, from Anat Cohen, we feature some of the jazz artist from this years Hartford International Jazz Festival. Wallace Roney, Steve Davis and Dave Liebman (to appear with Badal Roy's Full Moon Quartet), are just some of the great performers in this years festival. The festival which takes place on Columbus Day weekend each year, brings great live jazz to many different Hartford venues. The Main Stages have world renowned artists, and encore stages, various bars and resta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pork Pie Hat Jazz Series We open tonight's show featuring the Pork Pie Hat Jazz series. This series of five jazz shows is sponsored by the Hartford Office of Cultural Affairs, and produced by friend of this show, Andres Chaparro. Insight performed last week, and it was a great scene to see the community turn out to support live jazz in downtown Hartford. We finish the show with a birthday tribute to John Coltrane, who would have been 82 last week. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Hilton's Rumba * Insight * A Genes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Varela Music Joining us live from WHUS is Frank and Deva Varela, jazz guitarist and vocalist in the Hartford area. Frank is one of the best guitarists in the area. We will feature some tunes from the Mystery Feet CD's, and Frank and Deva's So Real. There is also some amazing footage of Frank playing guitar and base simultaneously on YouTube. If you are looking for professional instruction on guitar or other instrument there is no better place than Varela Music in Vernon, CT. Playlist Track * Artist * A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eclectic mix - part 2 This is the second hour of my Eclectic Mix. Starting with harmonica master Toots Thielmans. Thanks to Ken Blanchard of Jazz Note SDP for turning me on to that one. Next, dig this sixteen minute track from newcomer Empirical. I am introduced to a brand new CD from Kenny Garrett. It is quite a different sound from one of my favorite alto players. We end the show with some great grooves from a new CD by Philly's Organissimo and multi-reed player James Carter. Playlist Track * Artist * Album S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eclectic mix - part 1 All I can say about tonight's show is that it is thematically all over the place. Lots of new releases played. Tenor sax player Ernie Watts, pianist Aaron Parks, fusion group Garaj Mahal are all represented with new CD's. I'll present the full 2 hour show in two parts, this week and next since I am off the air next week. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Togo * Chris Potter * Follow the Red Line Reaching Up * Earnie Watts Quartet * To The Point Harvesting Dance * Aaron Parks * Invisible Cine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Parker Tribute Yesterday would have been the 88th birthday of Charlie "Bird" Parker. This great alto player is often considered the founder of Be-Bop music. Before Bird in the 1940's, Jazz was primarily big-band music, dance music that was perhaps the most popular genre of it's time. Bird featured a hard driving quartet and quintet format with an emphasis on improvisation, freeing the soloist to stretch out. As I listen to the 2 Bird originals on this set, each under 3 minutes, it amazes me how much music ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heard only here This show will start out with a set of tracks that can only be heard on In The Groove. Bassist Rob Duguay, Trumpeter Josh Evans, and Alto player Greg Abate have all recently layed us on to some tracks they have recorded, and are not published on any commercially available CD.  After listeneing to those tunes, I've got a few tunes I had queued up from last weeks show, but never got to play, from Empirical and Esperanza Spaulding. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Ketch Yo Last Metro * Rob Du ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Jazz Part 2 Last Sunday I attended the Newport Jazz Festival for first time. It was an incredible experience. Three stages, with jazz artists performing simultaneously throughout the day. This show features those artists that we got the chance to see at the Festival. They run the gamut from jazz legends, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins to newcomers Esperanza Spaulding and Lionel Loueke. Perhaps that best performance for me was the Chris Potter Underground. The amazing tenor sax player was seen all day ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Jazz Fest We will be attending the Newport Jazz Festival this Sunday. To celebrate, this show features artist performing at this years event. This is a small sampling of the artists that will be appearing on the weekend long show. There are three stages and 5 sets on each stage. Over the weekend, that brings 30 different performances by some of todays greatest jazz artists. Go to www.jazzandbeyond.com for playlist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Something Old, Something New (reprise) Due to a technical problem, my August 2 show was not recorded (like I forgot to hit the Start button on the CD-R). So, I resurrected a recording of an old show, that I thought was interesting. This is the first hour of a show that was originally broadcast in July of 2006. I may post the second hour of the show in the near future. Another eclectic mix of old and new. Starting off with an old classic from the 70's from Les McCann (Dig the relevant lyrics), to new releases from Joey DeFrances ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Guitar and Beyond Some great new releases from guitar bands, both new and old. It's always exciting for me to unwrap new releases from John McLaughlin and Mike Stern. Rich Goldstien is one of Hartford area's best guitarists that can groove in the style of Wes Montgomery. McLaughlin's new CD Floating Point proves that we all can get along when Eastern culture meets the Western fusion for a new creative musical sound. Also threw in Bonerama, a powerful musical force featuring 4 trombones, tuba, guitar and dru ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karen Frisk Picks New England based singer Karen Frisk joins me in Studio A at WHUS to do this weeks show. Besides Karen's vocal stylings from her album How Little We Know, we play several other great jazz singers and players, selected by Karen, like Freddie Cole, Amanda Carr, David Fathead Newman, Huston Person and others. If you reside in New England, check out Karen Frisk upcoming performance at Chan's in Woonsocket Rhode Ishand next Sunday June 8, 8 PM.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Trane As the first weekend of the unofficial summer season, we just gotta start the show off with Summertime. We will also do a set of Trane tributes, tracks not by the master himself, but other artists inspired to play his works. From there, we'll just go off to do a free form show, tracks that just have a summer feel.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kitchen Sink We are really going to mix it up tonight. Some new fusion from Eldar and a brand new release from John McLaughlin, some jazzy arrangements of originals by Bjork from Travis Sullivan, some latin, hard-bop and more.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz-Latin Maybe I should be calling this show Latin-Jazz, but to me this is Jazz, performed by musicians surrounded by Latin culture and influences. I am not an expert in latin music by any means. In the 70's, Carlos Santana introduced the Latin sound to rock fans. Gato Barbieri was fusing jazz music with his Argentinan latin roots. More recently Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache band began playing jazz standards and originals with distinct latin arrangements. New artists like Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Sounds of Jazz This show features the modern sounds of jazz music. These musicians are grounded in the tradition of be-bop and jazz, but have fused their sound with electronics, sampling and funky rhythms. They have pushed the envelope beyond traditional jazz forms as the great ones like Miles and Trane have in the past. This is the future of the Jazz idiom. Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hartford-NYC Connection Many of our local Jazz artists have made the leap to playing in prestigious New York City venues. Some have moved there in hopes of pursuing the dream of making a steady living, and playing jazz with the greats. This show is all about that Hartford area connection to the City. We are indeed lucky to be only a couple hours train ride and cab fare to places like the Village Vanguard, Jazz Standard, Blue Note Cafe and more. There are also many jazz mentors to give these kids their big break in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What I've been listening to Just some music I've been listening to. Another couple of days hitting the jazz clubs in NYC this week. Got to see some great acts such as Steve Turre, EJ Strickland and others. Locally caught a great jazz jam led by Steve Davis. The music just keeps coming. If you are in the area, don't forget Dave Holland's band coming to UCONN's Jorgensen Auditorium this Thursday. We've got them all represented here.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just Play Jazz Radiothon has ended, so we'll go back to just playing jazz. This week was the final push for donations to WHUS, and with the support of our podcast listeners, this show met its fundraising goals. I've edited out most of the pleas for donations, so there are some abrupt edits in my mic breaks. As for the music, there is a wide variety of jazz styles represented here. A couple of albums of note are Frain/Dunlop and a new release from Bobby Watson. I really dig both of these CD's and you will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJQ live from Studio A The Rob DeSesa Quintet performed live at WHUS Studio A this Saturday morning, and we recorded it live for this podcast. These wonderful dedicated musicians played great compositions by the likes of Coltrane, Rollins, Shorter and more. We were fortunate to have the WHUS engineer on-hand, so the audio quality is fantastic, and I ripped it at a much higher bit-rate than usual. I hope you enjoy this special live performance by these talented artists.Playlists and more music are available at: In ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CT Jazz Scene The Hartford area jazz scene has become a beautiful thing to behold. Last night's event at Firehouse 12 in New Haven with the Dezron Douglas Quintet is a testament to that fact. These great artists that we have been following for years, have grown from kids learning the craft of jazz music to accomplished performers, leaders and mentors to a new crop of jazz students. This show celebrates the Hartford area jazz scene. Dig it, some day these guys will be jazz legends like their mentor Jackie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NYC Jaunt Another trip to NYC, another great couple of days hitting the jazz clubs and hearing great new and established jazz artists. Our first night was spent at one of our favorite West Village venues, 55Bar to see bassist Janek Gwizdala with his septet, including the great Randy Brecker. The following night we went to the Jazz Standard to catch Jeff Tain Watts and Ebonix featuring the great young sax player Marcus Strickland. We'll hear from these fantastic musicians, and others that appeared at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gritty Guitar, and more We start tonight's show with some unique guitar tracks from some relatively new artists on the scene. We saw Kurt Rosenwinkel live last weekend, and it inspired this show. Following Kurt are some fine new guitarists on the scene such as Mikkel Ploug, and Alex Machacek. We round out the show with a couple of talented pianists from New England, Miro Sprague and Christopher Bakriges. Also take note of the final track in tonight's podcast. A couple of months ago, I met with the Matre' De at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rest of the Show Once again, our radio broadcast has been preempted for sports programing. Not to worry, the weekly podcast remains uninterrupted! This weeks show is the final hour of last weeks program. We start off with a great track from Steps Ahead and a kickin' sax solo by Michael Brecker. Following that is Freddie Hubbard live playing one of my favorite Train compositions. Than we have Zawinul with the WDR Big Band, reminiscent of Weather Report... and more.Playlists and more music are available at: I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monterey Festival This show celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival. Last night we attended a concert by an all-star cast featuring James Moody and Terence Blanchard representing the Festival, at the Jorgensen Auditorium in Storrs, CT. We will play several selections from this group as well as some live tracks from a recently released Miles recording from Monterey in 1963.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot tunes for cold nights Nothing better to warm you up on a cold winter's night than some hot jazz tunes. That is what we have for you tonight. Starting with some great Trombone work from Steve Davis and Curtis Fuller. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, kicks it with some crazed tenor sax, and Chris Potter shows off his chops with new jazz music. Check out some cool jazz by local artist Rob DeSesa Quartet, who will be performing right here next Saturday Morning on WHUS FM.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Courtesy of JR These tunes were laid on to me by a friend and young musician. Couldn't think of a theme for this show, so why not base the show on these tunes that JR turned me on to. The show starts off with Hartford's own Steve Davis and Jimmy Greene. Also included are jazz legends Trane, Monk and McCoy Tyner.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live At 55 This show is inspired by last evenings performance by Bob Reynolds at 55Bar in NYC. We'll hear not only from Bob, but bassist Janek Gwizdala and Oli Rockberger from their own recordings. 55Bar is a great venue in New York city that hosts some of the finest new jazz cats on the scene. You can usually find the great guitarist Mike Stern there on Monday nights when he is not on the road. Also featured on this show is Ingrid Jensen, a fine trumpeter and composer who we first discovered at this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Superbowl Sax-day Tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday, but today is Super sax-day on In The Groove. We are featuring some of the best new jazz saxophonists on the scene. Perhaps this is the first time you have heard from some of these great young players like Ken Gioffre, Tim Armacost, Mark Turner or Bob Reynolds. Stay tuned to In The Groove... it won't be your last Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007 Retrospective pt2 As promised, here is Part 2 of the years retrospective originally broadcast January 5. As I look back on this show, I see there were so many albums that I did not play that perhaps I should have included. It just goes to show that with this many great jazz cats still producing great creative music... jazz is alive and well.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treasured Trumpets Tonight's trumpet special will feature, as usual, not only the great masters you have known to love, but also some young lions on the scene you may not have heardPlaylists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Standards and Locals After a night out at a local club seeing a jazz group perform some of my favorite standards, I decided to feature some of those standards, and some local musicians that performed them.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007 Retrospective This show features some of the best Jazz recordings released in 2007. Also highlighted are some great releases by female artists including Barbara Dennerline, Joan Stiles, Ingrid and Christine Jensen and our friend Karen Frisk. It was a great 2007 for In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. I wish everyone a great swingin' 2008. Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tribute This podcast is a tribute to the fallen Jazz artists of 2007. These musicians and composers are all ground-breakers, and have stretched the boundries of the Jazz art form. Each of their contributions to music will be sorely missed.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice Holiday Show The Christmas holiday does not have much meaning to me in any religious sense. However it is a holiday season, and, in that spirit, I'll sprinkle some holiday tunes along with a smokin' jazz set. I hope you dig this holiday mix.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Funkified Jazz Funk and fusion is the theme for tonight's show. Can you call this jazz? I certainly do. I hope I am not offending the purists that are steady listeners to my show and podcast. Last week was pure be-bop. This week we go electric. What's your pleasure; Fusion or Bop? I'd like to know. Please leave your comments below. Help me to shape the direction of future In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Funkified Jazz Funk and fusion is the theme for tonight's show. Can you call this jazz? I certainly do. I hope I am not offending the purists that are steady listeners to my show and podcast. Last week was pure be-bop. This week we go electric. What's your pleasure; Fusion or Bop? I'd like to know. Please leave your comments below. Help me to shape the direction of future In The Groove, Jazz and Beyond.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Groovin' with Greg One of the best alto sax players on the jazz scene today, Greg Abate, appeared live in the WHUS studio for this show. We talked about jazz, performing on the road, and some of Greg's recent projects and upcoming gigs. Greg also performed solo on the alto sax for us live. Check out Greg's website for more information on his schedule, and his recordings. Thanks to Greg and Kerry for making the trip to Storrs Connecticut for this special show.Playlists and more music are available at: In The G ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hot Jazz Hot Jazz to warm you up on a cold December evening. No common theme that ties these tunes together. Just some stuff I wanted to play. I hope you dig this set the way I do.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cool We feature a cool groove this week. We'll begin the set where we left off last week with some great piano work by Kelley, Evans and Brubeck, than slide into those artists that you associate with the cool jazz movement like Getz and Miles. Of course, I sprinkle in some local talent that can groove with the masters.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creative Keys This show features great keyboard artists. Some of these musicians and composers you have heard before, such as Hanckock and Tyner, others are probably new to your ears, like Zack Ferris or Chris Taylor. Known or unknown these cats are great on the 88's.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reincarnation Live! We have a special edition of In The Groove this week. Reincarnation, a talented group of young jazz artists from Western Massachusettes journeyed down to the WHUS studios to perform live on our show. Reincarnation is Dia Silverstein (as, ss, fl), Rick Tutunjian (ts), Jason Schwartz (b), Ben Kohn (p), Tom Parker (d). It was a thrill for me to host this live broadcast. This was a joy for me to do. I had a lot of fun, as did these great musicians. I hope we can do more of this. Any interested ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New England Jazz Last night we journeyed to Woonsocket, Rhode Island to see sax great Greg Abate play a gig at Chans Egg Roll and Jazz. We had a great evening, and it reminded me how fortunate we are here in New England. It's not NYC, where you can catch a dozen big name jazz artists on any given Saturday evening. But if you look hard enough, you can find some great, if not well known cats blowin' some modern jazz at a supper club, high school gym, or theater. Tonights show features some of those hard worki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old bop, New bop It seems I always keep coming back to bop. I can dig fusion, modern jazz, classic rock and soul. But I always seem to come home to bebop. Here are some of my favorites. I especially dig this new Jackie McLean album I picked up called New Wine in Old Bottles. What a great title. Tonight's show features some of the great old masters, Cannonball, Parker, Jackie, as well as some modern players like Abate, Herring, Alexander.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website October Jam A jazz jam for an October evening. Lots of new music for the show tonight including Rudresh Mahanthappa's Codebook, Chris Potter live, a new release from Miles and Herbie's tribute to Joni. This show has something for all lovers of jazz music. Podcast concludes with Reincarnation which soon will be performing live (Nov 10) in studio A at WHUS.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz on Fire Featured on this show are modern jazz cats that are on fire. These great artists are building upon the legacy of jazz immortals (Trane, Miles, Coleman) and taken the art form in their own direction. I'd like to note that these great musicians have all recently played in the Hartford/New Haven area recently. Who would ever think that this fair city would become the hotbed of live jazz? Kenny Garret performed here at the Artists Collective last evening. The Artists Collective was founded in 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Htfd Intl Jazz Fest This podcast was created as the Hartford International Jazz Fest kicks off. Last night we attended two great venues to see Hartford's own Dezron Douglas with his quartet, and many walk-ons for a great jam session. Dezron is doing his part to give young jazz prospects stage time at a great festival. We also met pianist Christopher Bakriges, and heard his group Disiples of Cool. Christopher's album is represented here. Tonight we see Francois Moutin Quartet with Joel Frahm, followed by local ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India Fusion Indian influenced jazz fusion is featured in tonight's show. After seeing Garaj Mahal live at a local club last night, I was inspired to do a show with one of my favorite jazz sub-genres. Shakti, Mahavishnu John M., and newcomers Mynta and Nabil will thrill you with their virtuosity and innovative sounds that fuse classical Indian rhythms and scales, with jazzy improvisations. Also in this podcast are new releases from some great artists, new and old.Playlists and more music are available a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sing in Autumn We welcome in Autumn with a few tracks that were written for the fall season, and then transition to a great vocal set. It was great to have Karen Frisk in the studio to present her new CD, How Little We Know. Karen is a fixture on the jazz scene in the Hartford, CT area. She always surrounds herself with the best musicians from New England, as she has for this album. The podcast also features other great female vocal artists like Karrin Allyson, Rebecca Parris and others. Its a different s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josef and Max A tribute to a couple of my Jazz heroes who sadly passed away recently. Joe Zawinul and Max Roach were both innovators and artists as well as giants to the jazz community. Max Roach set the standard for be-bop drumming as he forged new territory in jazz with Charlie Parker. His collaborations with greats like Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus pushed jazz music to new creative musical forms. This NPR Podcast chronicles the art of Max Roach. Joe Zawinul was one of the driving for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Land of the Pharoah No one embodies the spirit of John Coltrane more than Pharoah Sanders.He projects an incredible amount of emotion the tenor soxophone, and has the ability to coax the most amazing sounds from his horn. I had the honor of attending a live performance of Pharoah Sanders at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on Friday evening. The Pharoah was in fine form on tenor sax with his quartet. This show features some of Pharoah's most recent recordings.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women Can Be-bop This show features some incredible women of modern jazz. You won't hear any sappy vocals, or R&B that claims to be smooth jazz. Just hard be-boppers that happen to be of the feminine sex. These are some great compositions and arrangements by women artists and ensembles lead by women. Featuring great new artists like Christene Jensen, Joan Stiles and some that have been around for awhile like Jessica Williams and Barbara Dennerlein.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Web ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Vacation Shuffle Just as important as packing your suitcase, is loading up your iPod with some fine Jazz tunes before heading out on vacation. Load em' up, and put it on shuffle. The tunes presented on tonights show, are the ones that I enjoyed while kickin' back on the beach, or cruising around Cape Cod MA last week. The tunes enhanced the joy of a relaxing week off of work and taking in the sun, reading a book and watching the waves roll in. Of course while at the Cape, we checked out some live music, The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coltrane Redux Since I will be on vacation this week, I have re-posted a Coltrane special (part 1 only) that was aired September 2006 to commemorate Trane's 80th birthday. It was a particularly popular podcast. I'll be back on the air next week with a brand new show and podcast.Playlists and more music are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Digs From our brand new modern studios at the University of Connecticut Student Union Building. No theme tonight, just getting used to the new control board and equipment is enough for me. Featuring jazz artists that I have had the pleasure of seeing in and around the Hartford area in the last week or two; Rufus Reid, Greg Abate, Red Holloway.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz Lives! This show just makes me feel that Jazz Lives! We've got new artists, local hartford jazz musicians, and a special guest. Greg Abate joins us in an interview after just returning from a european tour. On Thursday, August 2, Greg will be playing at Boston's Scullers Jazz club. He talks to us about traveling, the state of Jazz and composing music. I've split the interview into two parts. I'll air one part in each of the two podcast segments.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Post-Modern Bop A sub-genre of jazz as practiced by modern era jazz musicians rooted in the bebop tradition. It draws on many different influences (e.g. latin, classical, soul) that expands the music beyond the traditional be-bop form. This show features some great modern jazz artists. The show is partly inspired by Hartford area musicians, Steve Davis and Jimmy Greene who performed friday evening at the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz. As usual, you will hear many great modern jazz artitsts both well kn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kind of Blue Podcast Tonights broadcast is based on the Miles Davis landmark LP, Kind of Blue. Many consider this as perhaps the greatest Jazz album ever, and I certainly would rank it at least in the top five. I was inspired to do this feature after listening to this wonderful NPR Podcast on the making of Kind of Blue. I was tempted to play the podcast on air, but I am not sure of the legality of doing so. I would highly recommend clicking the link to get some incitleful background on this recording session. Y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Old, New and Indie I received a bunch of interesting CD's from Independent jazz artists that I want to feature. We love to promote these great artists that never seem to get the recognition they deserve. Giving these folks airplay is what community and college radio, like WHUS, is all about. In addition, a couple of new releases from artists you know (Chick, Bela, Ponty, Zawinul). In Part 2, I play some great old bebop albums from the 60's from the likes of Hank Mobley, Red Garland and others. New, Old and In ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Themeless Usually I try to put together a theme for each show, but this week, I just did not have the time to prepare. So, I am just making it up as I go along. Sometimes those shows turn out the best. Hope you think so. Be sure to head over to the website to pick up part 2. It's a very hot set, I am sure you will enjoy.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summertime 2007 Music for those hot summer nights. We'll play many many versions of the Gershwin classic composition Summertime along with other great tracks to put you in that summer heat wave. Props go to Pablo from Sao Paulo Brazil for suggesting tonight's Summertime theme.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Our Fathers On the eve of Fathers Day, we dedicate this set to our Dads. These are tunes inspired by fathers, or in some cases tunes that bring back recollections of musical experiences with my father. This is a wild mix of latin, hard-bop, R&B, fusion, and even 70's rock from Emerson Lake & Palmer. To Fathers everywhere, I hope you enjoy these tunes on Father's day... Mother's and Daughters too.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bebop and Beyond Part 1 of tonight's show sticks to straight ahead bebop by new and old artists. Greats like early Trane, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland are represented here, along with more recent artists Abate, Farrell and Wynton Marsalis. Part two branches out into more modern forms with Pulitzer Prize winning Ornette Coleman followed by electronic infused jazz from Pete Carney. We finish the show with an on-air guest Tom Monaghan, percussionist and composer with Probe called Gnomes, talking music and playing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Mixed Up No theme for tonights show. I'll just mix it all up. Lots of new CD's, and other tunes I've been wanting to hear. Featuring new releases by Metheny-Mehldau, Michael Brecker, Joe Zawinu, Fathead Newman and more. Sit back, relax and just enjoy the tunes.Playlists and Part 2 are available at:In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Island Shuffle This podcast is inspired by the songs on my iPod Shuffle (tm) that kept me In the Groove while on vacation at Sanibel Island in Florida last week. Its an eclectic mix to be sure, but that is what the shuffle is all about. The music ranges from modern and 60's hard bop, latin, fusion, rock and even jazz influenced bluegrass... but it all swings hard. .Playlists more music are available at:In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Groovin' on the B-3 Nothing identifies with In the Groove more than the Hammond B-3 organ. This is groove music the way it was meant to be. Jimmy Smith started it all in the 1950's, and we've been groovin' ever since. Warning! This set is smokin!.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secret Sax Some of the best kept secrets in Jazz are the relatively unknown group of great sax players on the scene today. These cats deserve greater recognition and this show is dedicated to doing just that. Its not likely that you will hear these great sax players anywhere on commercial radio. So take note of these awesome musicians. If there is something here you like, look them up on the Net, buy their CD's. If you see them playing in your local area, check them out, tell them you heard them on In ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bonin' To be honest, I never really dug the trombone as a jazz axe until recently. Some very hip podcast listeners of this program began suggesting I do a jazz trombone theme, and turned me on to some great cats like Conrad Herwig. A couple weeks ago I made mention of the idea on the air, and then I got flooded with emails with lots of ideas on who to play (e.g. Watrous, Priester, Fuller, and more). I also caught Brian Thomas, a bone player out of Boston, playing at a local jazz club, that was ama ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joy Spring Spring has sprung, and its put me into a joyous mood. These hip tracks were inspired by Joy, Spring, and Happiness. Hope you dig tonights' playlist, and that it will put a spring in your step.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artists Submit Independent artists deserve to be heard, and In The Groove loves to give them the air time. Tonights show is devoted almost entirely to this effort. You will hear from the best of music recently submitted to this program. I invite all you struggling jazz cats to send in your CD's to the address above. If you can are good and your music fits our format, I'll be more than happy to give you the air (podcast) time.Playlists and Part 2 are available at:In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanks for your support! This is the last night of Radiothon. I've gotta say, I'm glad its over. Thanks to all of you Podcast and broadcast listeners that pledged donations, and showed support in such great numbers. Because of you In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond has exceeded its fundraising goal. Many, many thanks from the bottom of my heart. Since Radiothon is over, I have done my best to edit out the mic breaks pleading for donations. Next week its back to our regular show.Playlists and more music are available at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psychedelic 70's Jazz This show celebrates those psychedelic 70's; the years of experimentation. The jazz scene was no exception. This was the birth of fusion, the influence of Indian musical forms, synthisizers and electronics, post production mixing and editing of strange mystical sounds. This music stretched the boundaries of what was considered jazz. The musicians you hear in tonights shows were surely pioneers and their music had a profound effect on the music from that point forward.Playlists and Part 2 ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website straight-ahead We've been playing a lot of theme shows lately. Tonight lets get back to some straight-ahead hard bop jazz. Nothing's better in jazz than the quintet of Sax, Trumpet, Piano, Bass and Drums. No rock, fusion or electronics tonight.Playlists and Part 2 are available at: In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live in NYC Another cool night in NYC. Here are some of the acts we caught at the Jazz Standard and the Village Vanguard a couple of nights ago. It is wonderful and inspiring to see such a great number of fresh new jazz artists on the scene. These aren't just great musicians showing off their chops, but artist with their own voices, taking the music in new directions. Very hip. The first half ofthis show features some of these artists, and part two highlights some of the grand masters that have played ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary and Chick I had the pleasure of attending a performance by Gary Burton and Chick Corea recently at University of Connecticut Jorgenson Auditorium. Together they created a hauntingly beautiful tone, and an incredible empathy with each others playing. At times it seemed as if they were as one artist with four arms playing two instruments. Burton and Corea have been playing together for over 30 years. This show highlights them as a duet, and as leaders of their own bands over a span of many years. Enjoy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friends of ITG These are our friends. Jazz artists that have submitted music to In the Groove. Often self-published, self-promoted. They have sent us their music, and if its good, I am happy to put it on the air and in this podcast. So if you like this music, track these great jazz cats down on the Internet and pick up their CD's.Playlists and more music available at:In The Groove Website. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mellow and Meditative My playlists are often a reflection of my emotional state state of mind, and this is certainly one of those shows. This set is mellow and meditative, yet intense with emotion and heartfelt playing as should be the case when any great artist creates in his or her art-form. In this case, we hear some great jazz compositions and a few beautiful ballads. Of note is Branford Marsalis' cover of the Coltrane classic A Love Supreme and Pharoah Sanders' Body and Soul. The show concludes with the fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website