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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: City : Vernon State/Province : CT Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: 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:

Newport Jazz Fest Preview part2 Here is part 2 of the Newport Jazz Festival Preview show. For those who plan on attending this historic jazz event, here is a taste of what you will be seeing and hearing. For those unable to attend, I hope you dig this selection of tunes. If you are there, make sure to keep an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Jazz Fest Preview Pt 1 This is Part 1 of this year’s Newport Jazz Festival preview (part 2 will be published mid-week). Claire and I will be covering NJF for WHUS next weekend. We will be Tweeting, blogging, Facebooking from the event live. It is a great lineup including Regina Carter, Hiromi, Wynton Marsalis, Esperanza Spalding, James Farm (featuring Joshua [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Too Hot It’s been way TOO DAMN HOT here in Connecticut as well as other parts of the country. This podcast, and a tall iced lemonade will help you to chill out in this heat. Dr. Lonnie Smith brings it on with a slow groove aptly named for tonight’s show. Joshua Redman picks it up with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some new stuff The jazz shelves at WHUS just got restocked with some new stuff. I wanted to feature these CD’s on the show so we will hear new releases from artists like Gretchen Parlato, Karrin Allyson, Ben Williams, Noah Preminger, Sean Jones, and more. These are some great CD’s and I will feature more from these albums [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unknown Cats There are so many great talented jazz artists that don’t get the notoriety of Joshua Redman, Marsalis Family, Chick, and others. We try to feature these musicians on In The Groove as much as possible. This show is comprised entirely of these artists. We start out with some Rochester cats, Mike Melito and Paradigm Shift. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 from last week Traveling in upstate New York for the holiday weekend, so I am publishing the second hour of last weeks show. We feature a new album and new quartet from Joshua Redman and some other tunes I’ve been listening to lately. Featured Album Track ~ Artist ~ Album Polliwog ~ James Farm ~ James Farm Chronos ~ James [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz night NYC This show recaps our Friday night hitting the NYC jazz clubs. We saw Donald Harrison’s Treme show, Joel Holmes Trio and The John Fedchock NY Sextet (featuring Walt Weiskopf). It was a great night and doing this show lets me share some of that music with you. Please note that apparently I was looking at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Father’s Day 2011 Its sort of a tradition on Father’s Day to begin the show with Horace Silver’s classic Song For My Father. Cannonball’s cool One For Daddy-O continues on that theme. Next up is a Curtis Brothers set to get us ready for their live gig that evening. Later in the show we have a set as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out To Lunch Quite an eclectic show. It all starts off with some swinging Joshua Redman, early in his career (1995). It continues with some New Orleans sounds from Skerik and John Ellis. Then we begin our ascent into the avant garde with Greg Osby and then full out (out to lunch) with Eric Dolphy. We then come [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gil Scott-Heron tribute This week’s show begins with a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, who sadly passed away yesterday. Gil was an innovator. His contribution to jazz came with the fusion of his music, spoken word and poetry. He is credited as having a major influence on the Hip-Hop genre. Perhaps the most famous of his writings The Revolution [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Groove This show is dedicated to The Groove. Does anyone signify The Groove better than Tower of Power and James Brown? I don’t think so. That is followed by a classic (but dated) sound of Jimmy McGriff. The rendition of All Blues here is one of the more soulful versions of the Miles Davis composition [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz Roots and more I wouldn’t say that this is a show about the roots of jazz, but I did play many selections from the Jazz Roots CD featured here. We start with a guitar set with Benson, Coryell, Scofield and Cory Christenson. Then we groove to Turrentine and Dirubbo. We follow that with some of the greatest female [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N’alwins Part 2 This podcast comes from the second half of a show recorded two weeks ago. It’s another New Orleans based theme featuring Wynton Marsalis, Galactica, John Ellis, Skerik and more. We really cover a wide range of sounds and styles. Open your minds and ears and enjoy. Featured Album Ya-Ka-May on amazon.com Track ~ Artist ~ Album New Orleans [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Funkify the Groove In the Groove gets down and funky in this set. I’ve been in this state of mind for a few weeks now, and we continue with a funky set featuring some low horns and a big brass sound. We start with Joshua Redman’s Elastic band and then move into some heavy horns with Nomo, Bonerama [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website N’awlins review part 1 Back from N’awlins y’all. We had a great time diggin’ the music scene down there. This podcast reflects the music we heard, and the musicians that were performing throughout the city and particularly in the clubs on Frenchman Street in the French Quarter. We start with the man that started it all, Louis Armstrong, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Before the final four The show title has nothing to do with the music, but this broadcast preceded the UCONN Huskies basketball team drive to the NCAA championship. OK, now that we have that out of the way, we hear from jazz’s greatest artists. Trane, Miles, Holland, Chick. Throw in a recent release from Miles’ alter ego Wallace Roney, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rahsaan This is a listener inspired podcast. From a Facebook wall post, I was turned on to a Roy Haynes album, Out of the Afternoon, featuring an early Rahsaan Roland Kirk appearance. This led to a RRK set as well. All that is sandwiched in between an intense opener with Trombone Shorty, Matt Wilson and Noah [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanks! A great big THANKS to all my podcast listeners who contributed to the WHUS Radiothon 2011. Once again, this radio show was among the top 5 fundraisers from the station. We had contributors from all over the country and all over the world. It was a tough year for fundraising and goals were not necessarily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Music There were a lot of people hanging around WHUS this week while I was doing this show. One person was listening and was intrigued by the music. He hadn’t heard anything like it before and asked me, “What do you call this music?”. I hesitated while thinking about how to answer; post-bop, post-modern jazz, fusion? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2011 Radiothon WHUS FM is the broadcast home to In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. Without this listener supported community radio station, this Podcast would not be possible. One of the ways that WHUS determines listener support for Jazz programming is by the contributions from our audience during this Radiothon. Your support helps to keep my show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Trios We finish out last week’s Trio program with Boston based John Funkhouser and then classics from Bud Powell and McCoy Tyner. Some guitar works ends the show with Hartford’s own Rich Goldstein and Jake Langley. More importantly is my plea for your support. Without WHUS hosting my radio show, this podcast wouldn’t be here. Please support [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Jazz trios This podcast showcases modern jazz trios. This small ensemble format takes many forms. Although one usually thinks of piano based trios in jazz, we also have trios led by drums, guitar, sax and bass represented here. We start with a Monk standard which Larry Coryell rocks out on. We then continue with some very thoughtful [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2011-02-26 While this podcast does not have a central theme, there is a lot of great music here. The set starts off with some great women jazz artists. Regina Carter’s rhythmic African beats and soaring violin begins the program. That is followed by Esperanza Spalding’s unique arrangement fusing jazz and classical music in a unique and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Running the gamut This show definitely runs the gamut through many styles of jazz. Whether its rocking out with Return to Forever and Frank Zappa, vocalizing with Esperanza and Elling, or straight ahead swinging with Joe Lovano Steve Davis and Mike Dirubbo… its all jazz and its all good. By the way, congratulations to Esperanza Spalding for her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentines 2011 A Valentine of jazz is the theme for this podcast. These songs were inspired by the most glorious and intense emotion of love. Love has been the subject and inspiration of so much music and art of all kinds, and jazz is no exception. We hear in this show some of the most revered works [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sax Stuff This weeks show featured some hot sax playing by jazz artists, new and old. Our featured artist is Mike DiRubbo, an alto player with roots in the Connecticut area, but now an accomplished player in the NYC scene. Chronos, his seventh album, is an organ trio sound that rocks, grooves and swings as you will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seasons First and foremost on everyones mind is this harsh Winter. We pay respect to the seasons with tonights playlist. Starting with the Marsalis rendition of Winter Wonderland. Wynton’s version of this classic tune conveys the wonder and beauty of the snowy landscape around us. Gil Scott Heron’s portrays a darker political side of Winter in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New England Winter The temperatures in New England are hovering in the single digits, snow is piled high and there doesn’t seem to be relief in sight. So I can’t think of anything much better than hanging out at home and listening to a great jazz podcast. This one starts with some brilliant playing from John Scofield and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Kitchen Sink There is no theme, not one artist or album featured. There is new music, old music, and some classic jazz in this podcast. You will get a taste of some avant-garde jazz, straight ahead hard bop and even some sweet vocals. This is the kitchen sink of jazz in this podcast. For the last few [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Slow and Mellow Set This is a fill-in for another jazz show on WHUS. Since my regular show was mostly pre-empted for sports broadcasting, its a good thing I recorded this one. It turned out to be a very mellow show, but one that features some of the best artists and their most recent releases. Charles Lloyd’s latest, Mirror, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1111 This show was recorded New Years Day 2011. We brought in the New Year with a killin’ party in Boston featuring Akashic Record, so they are our featured artists on this show. We look back on some great releases in 2010 from Ralph Peterson, Pat Bianchi, Greg Abate, and Sky Steele among others. There was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazzy Christmas 2010 Spiritual means different things to different people. I, for one, would not say I am a spiritual person in the conventional meaning of the word. Yet jazz fans regardless of faith recognize the spiritual nature of John Coltrane’s voice on saxophone. Trane’s spirituality had a major influence on modern jazz music that I tried to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Warmth of Jazz Though I had no preconceived theme for this show, as I listen now, it has a certain warmth to all the selections that hopefully will bring some comfort to the cold winter nights ahead. Listen to the horn arrangements and the vibe from the vibraphones on Noah Bearman’s Know Thyself (listen to the entire suite [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nickle Bag of Funk This isn’t a particularly funky podcast, but we do start off this show with a Nickle Bag from Digable Planets. We continue from there in a fusion vain with a new CD’s from Janek Gwizdala with some hot guitar work from Mike Stern. Ralph Peterson is up next with a great new release with his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shadow Dance While this week’s show covers a lot of great music by new and perhaps lesser known jazz artists, the jewel of the program is Dave Holland’s Shadow Dance from his recent release, Pathways. Dave Holland has had a remarkable career as a band leader, composer, arranger, and bass player. He first came to prominence in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Post-Thanksgiving jazz feast On this Thanksgiving weekend we feast on some great new jazz that has come through the Hartford area recently for us to savor. Sharel Cassity came with her quintet a couple of weeks ago and showed us her amazing talents on alto and soprano sax. Albert Rivera came to town for a pre-thanksgiving show that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Harry Whitaker This show is in memory of Harry Whitaker who passed away last Wednesday. He was a great composer and arranger as well as a jazz pianist. Featured here is a rare and creative composition called Black Renaissance as well as a couple of tracks in a trio setting. According to what I have read, Harry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today’s Jazz This show features some of today’s most talented jazz artists. I wanted to feature John Funkhouser and Ben Allison as they have performed in the area just this weekend. Listen to Dan Arcamone’s originality and modern sound on guitar. I particularly dig the fine saxophone work and compositions from artists like Ravi Coltrane, Noah [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 06 November 2010 We start and end this show with contributions from jazz artists with a Connecticut connection. Dan Arcamone begins the show with some fine guitar work on his own haunting composition. The show then ends with a new release from the Cyrus Chestnut Trio that includes Hartford’s talented bassist Dezron Douglas. In between we hear vintage [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Halloween 2010 A Halloween special to get you in the spirit of the holiday. These tunes either provoke that spooky, erie vibe, or were inspired by the supernatural. Starting out the show is Mwandishi Herbie Hanckock’s Ostinato, followed by a couple from Greg Abate’s ode to early horror movies, Monsters in the Night. Pat Metheny takes us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FB Request Show This playlist is taken from requests off a posting on FaceBook. Thanks to all those that contributed to the show. Not all of the requests made it to the podcast which is only a portion of the over the air broadcast. I start off the show with a track from our featured album from Conrad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk in the Woods Most of tonight’s show was inspired by an autumn walk through the woods in New England. Its a beautiful time of year, and my iPod’s shuffle feature presented me with a great soundtrack during our walk. So take this podcast with you on a walk through the woods of your own, before the harshness of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imagine Had John Lennon not been tragically murdered at age 40, he would have been 70 years old today. This show pays tribute to one of the most influential songwriter, singer, artist and activist of my generation. On this broadcast, I feature Lennon (and Lennon/McCartney) compositions throughout the entire show. Some of these from John Lennon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2oct2010 This program features some great young players that are moving this musical art form forward in a fresh new direction. Cats like Josh Evans, Mike DiRubbo, Fowser & Gillece, and the Curtis Brothers to name a few. Veteran artists Jackie McLean and Donald Harrison are known for mentoring many young musicians including those represented [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coltrane Birthday Tribute John Coltrane’s influence on jazz cannot be overstated. He freed the music from its traditional forms and injected a new (and at times controversial) improvisational approach to the music. His intensity and dedication to moving jazz forward to a new level of the art form is unmatched. Nearly every sax player (and jazz musician in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A freeform show A freeform show with no real theme this week. As I look over the playlist I see some great tenor sax players represented with Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Abraham Burton and Myron Walden. We also have a couple of fine vocalists with Taeko and Lori Carsillo gracing this weeks show. Taeko will be appearing in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nine Eleven We start out this week’s podcast with a 9/11 memorial. My selections of Christian Scott, McCoy Tyner and Dana LeonG all evoke the feelings and memories of the attacks that occurred 9 years ago today. The last part of the show features our in-studio guest and talented vocalist Karen Frisk. She will be appearing at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 15 Albums Going around on Facebook is an interesting “game” called 15 Albums. You make a list of albums that have “stuck in your mind”. Place it in your notes on Facebook and tag 15 friends. Sure enough, I was tagged and proceeded to make my list. I got lots of comments, and others made lists. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katrina plus 5 years This show goes in many musical directions with one set dedicated to the Katrina anniversary with some New Orleans sounds and Terrance Blanchards memorial to the hurricane and the disaster that ensued. A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem For Katrina) is Terrance’s touching tribute and one selection from an entire suite he composed dedicated [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Listens This week’s podcast is introduced by Dave Holland, followed by a track from his Pass It On CD. Then we feature a brand new killin’ album by Chucho Valdez and the Afro-Cuban Messengers. Dig Chucho’s fine arrangements here. His latin roots never overshadow his obvious love of the jazz form. On the two tracks we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dangerous Dane and the Human Race This special podcast is from a live recording at WHUS studios with some of Hartford’s finest young musicians. Recent graduate of University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, Dane Scozzari leads the band on the drums with several of his arrangements and compositions. Another Hartt graduate from the class of ‘10 is accomplished pianist Matt [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Jazz Festival Review 2010 This year’s Newport review features artist that we saw, both relatively unknown and some of the greats that appeared at the festival. The lineup was once again diverse. There were performances in the smaller tents that stretched the boundaries of the genre and there were artists that are living legends of jazz. We will hear [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Short Show At Newport this week covering the Jazz Festival so I didn’t record a show. This podcast is the final 40 minutes of the Groove show from a few weeks back.  It features Miles’ classic So What. It doesn’t matter how many times I hear this, it never looses it’s appeal. Also, dig Cedar Walton’s Bolivia. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mid Summer Jazz Half way through the summer, Monday night jazz series in the park is concluding and Newport Jazz Festival is next weekend. This podcast features both. This show also highlights some fine guitar work from Sinan Bakir and Larry Coryell. Dig the Hammond B3 organ track from Pat Bianchi. Featured Album On My Way at amazon.com Track * Artist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miles Beyond This is a Miles Davis influenced playlist. We dig Miles great 60’s quintet and beyond, as well as those great jazz artists that carried on Miles’ creative genius into their own work. That influence is illustrated here by the works of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland. Featured Album In A Silent Way on amazon.com Track * Artist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Really In The Groove We are really gettin’ our groove on with this podcast. Starting with the godfather of soul, James Brown. That is followed by two jazz greats that brought groove to jazz, Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine. Jimmy McGriff brings us some soul groove next. Then we get into some fusion groove with the likes of Al [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unity Unity is the featured album on this weeks podcast. Larry Young took the Hammond B3 organ sound and brought it to another level from the conventional R&B style attributed to Jimmy Smith. Larry Young’s sound is more of a reflection of the freedom that was emerging during the 60’s with Coltrane’s influence on jazz music. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Week in Music part 2 This is the second hour of last weeks show. We continue to recap a week of live jazz in New York and Boston. This segment features Noah Preminger who we saw at Scullers jazz club in Boston. Lately Noah has been playing with some heavy hitters like Cecil McBee and Billy Hart. He has more [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Week in NYC This show chronicles a couple of days that we spent in New York City catching some great jazz shows. We saw the Bob Reynolds band and Vinson Valega group at 55Bar on Tuesday, and the next evening a free concert in Central Park featuring McCoy Tyner with Ravi Coltrane and Stanley Clarke Trio with special [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pops Day 2010 On this Fathers day, we feature a new album by John McLaughlin. Its always a treat to get in a new release by one of the Founding Fathers of Fusion. This release is titled “To the One” and is inspired by the work of John Coltrane. Although you can’t really point to any of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Myron and more After catching a great live performance from Myron Walden’s Momentum quintet at Firehouse12 on Friday, I wanted to feature the band in this weeks radio show. We play one from his studio album and one from the live CD. Also featured are new CD’s from Hartford’s own Steve Davis, Seth Lewis, Greg Abate and Taeko. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Favs Local favorites in the Hartford area are the focus of this show. Noah Baerman starts the show with a couple of tracks including Playdate, his latest project. We follow with other artists that have mastered their skills in and around central Connecticut including Brian Earl Jenkins, the Curtis brothers, Seth Lewis, Mike DiRubbo and others. Featured [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Orleans Thang We’ve got a great New Orleans groove goin’ on for tonight’s show. We start with Wynton Marsalis’ latest album He and She. Mix in some Terrence Blanchard, Skerik, and Garage A Trois and stir in some Gumbo from Bobby Watson, and we have a great groove goin’ on. Featured Album He And She from amazon.com Track * Artist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Birthday tribute to JMac This show opens with a tribute to Hartford’s favorite jazz son JMac. Jackie McLean would have been 79 years old this past week. Besides being a giant in the jazz world (mentored by Charlie Parker, played with Mingus, Miles, Sonny Rollins and more) Jackie was the founder of the Artists Collective in Hartford’s north end [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Tenor Old Tenor Tenor saxophone is front and center on this show. We’ll hear some jazz artists from today’s generation of tenor players along with some grand masters of the past. Representing players on the scene today are Marcus Strickland, Jimmy Greene and Abraham Burton. Of course there are so many great players out there, that it would [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mom’s Day For all you jazz lovin’ Moms, this one is for you. Our feature album is Jazz in the Garden with Stanley Clark, Hiromi and Lenny White. We also feature two great female jazz artists that have recently released new albums. Clarinetist Anat Cohen and saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen perform works from their latest CD’s. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May Day This show was broadcast on May 1 which is the International Workers day, and Cannonball Adderley new how to work it on alto sax with a rockin’ version of Work Song. Another hard working alto player is Greg Abate, and we continue with two of his tracks. From there I feature a couple from Stan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sing into spring I start the show with some vocal tracks, although this is not your typical jazz vocal show. From their the show winds its way through some surprising changes from experimental to straight ahead hard bop. Some particularly interesting tracks here come from Bobby McFerrin’s new CD Vocabularies, Noah Preminger, Ornette Coleman, and Vijay Iyer Trio. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Play Jazz Date This show was inspired by a recent performance by Playdate in New Haven, CT. We will start off the program with a tune from their debut album, then hear from band members Noah Baerman and Wayne Escoffery leading their own groups. From there, we’ll go off in some very different directions. We will rock out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some Jazz for you This show doesn't have much of a theme. Its just some killin' great jazz tunes I think you'll dig. It's got some new releases by Anat Cohen and Playdate, and some unreleased tracks that you won't find anywhere else by tenor sax phenom Noah Preminger and rising star trumpeter Josh Evans. Featured album Clarinetwork from Amazon.com Song * Artist * Album Sweet Georgia Brown * Anat Cohen * Clarinetwork from Amazon.com Giant Steps * Paquito D'Rivera * Who's Smoking? Forty-Four * One For All ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Some jazz for you This show doesn’t have much of a theme. Its just some killin’ great jazz tunes I think you’ll dig. It’s got some new releases by Anat Cohen and Playdate, and some unreleased tracks that you won’t find anywhere else by tenor sax phenom Noah Preminger and rising star trumpeter Josh Evans. Featured album Clarinetwork from Amazon.com Song * [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Big Band Jazz Not your father's Big Band Music. The tracks we will listen to are modern arrangements for large ensembles. Dig the opening number from Gerald Wilson, with a swinging arrangement of Miles’ So What. Also featured are arrangements from University of Connecticut’s jazz program Earl MacDonald and a beautiful tune from Christine Jensen’s Jazz Orchestra. We finish off the show with a different sound from none other than Frank Zappa. Featured Album Available at CD Baby Playlist Track * Art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Band Jazz Not your father’s Big Band Music. The tracks we will listen to are modern arrangements for large ensembles. Dig the opening number from Gerald Wilson, with a swinging arrangement of Miles’ So What. Also featured are arrangements from University of Connecticut’s jazz program Earl MacDonald and a beautiful tune from Christine Jensen’s Jazz Orchestra. We [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John McLaughlin Feature This show features the great guitarist John McLaughlin. Those that have listened to this show for a long time, know that this was my introduction to jazz music (though many would say that the Mahavishnu Orchestra is not jazz). We will hear JM in many different setting. We will hear him rocking out with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JM Feature This show features the great guitarist John McLaughlin. Those that have listened to this show for a long time, know that this was my introduction to jazz music (though many would say that the Mahavishnu Orchestra is not jazz). We will hear JM in many different setting. We will hear him rocking out with the original MO, a more traditional setting with Joe Farrell, and the Indian Fusion group Shakti. The podcast ends with two extended compositions, one with the London Symphony and his latest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Claire This show is for my wife Claire, and reviews our evening in NYC hitting up the jazz clubs for our anniversary celebration. It also marks the end of 2010 Radiothon. I'd like to thank all my listeners that showed their support for WHUS and this radio show. Because of you, In The Groove exceeded our fundraising goal. Thanks.. and no more annoying begging for money for the rest of the year! Featured Album Apparitions from amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Labyrinth *Adam Rogers * Ap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Claire This show is for my wife Claire, and reviews our evening in NYC hitting up the jazz clubs for our anniversary celebration. It also marks the end of 2010 Radiothon. I’d like to thank all my listeners that showed their support for WHUS and this radio show. Because of you, In The Groove exceeded our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radiothon 2010 WHUS FM is the broadcast home to In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. Without this listener supported community radio station, this Podcast would not be possible. One of the ways that WHUS determines listener support for Jazz programming is by the contributions from our audience during this Radiothon. Your support helps to keep my show on WHUS's schedule. Please show your support by making a donation. As a special THANK YOU for your donation of $25 or more, I am offering a compilation of music ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WHUS Radiothon 2010 WHUS FM is the broadcast home to In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. Without this listener supported community radio station, this Podcast would not be possible. One of the ways that WHUS determines listener support for Jazz programming is by the contributions from our audience during this Radiothon. Your support helps to keep my show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz 'n Soul This weeks podcast is a soulful one, but not in the obvious sense of Jimmy Smith or Ray Charles. It starts out with the classic rock group War and a 13+ minute instrumental called City, Country, City. We follow up with some soulful new jazz from Wayne Escoffery and Noah Baerman followed by jazz masters Charles Mingus and Stan Getz. Featured Album Soul Force from amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album City Country City * War * The World is a Ghetto Soul Force * Noah Baerman * Soul Forc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz ‘n Soul This weeks podcast is a soulful one, but not in the obvious sense of Jimmy Smith or Ray Charles. It starts out with the classic rock group War and a 13+ minute instrumental called City, Country, City. We follow up with some soulful new jazz from Wayne Escoffery and Noah Baerman followed by jazz masters [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back from Florida Returned from Florida, refreshed and renewed to bring you more great jazz. While in Miami, we stopped in at Van Dykes. A fine restaurant and jazz club, serving up live music 7 days a week. While there we were introduced to Silvano Monasterios, a great jazz pianist and composer. His group blew us away. In this podcast we feature along with Silvano, other great artists. The show starts with Ed Thigpen, the great drummer who passed away last month. Later in the show we feature many great young ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back from Fla &subid Returned from Florida, refreshed and renewed to bring you more great jazz. While in Miami, we stopped in at Van Dykes. A fine restaurant and jazz club, serving up live music 7 days a week. While there we were introduced to Silvano Monasterios, a great jazz pianist and composer. His group blew us away. In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentines Day broadcast This show was recorded the day before Valentines day. No real theme to the show, in fact I don't even mention the Hallmark card holiday. The majority of the playlist comes from talented young musicians/composers that are having an impact on the future of jazz music. Hope you enjoy the tunes. Featured Artist Double Booked from amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Back Road * Jeremy Pelt * Men of Honor Fugue * John Funkhauser Trio * Time When Seaguls Fly * Noah Preminger * Dry Brid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentines weekend show This show was recorded the day before Valentines day. No real theme to the show, in fact I don’t even mention the Hallmark card holiday. The majority of the playlist comes from talented young musicians/composers that are having an impact on the future of jazz music. Hope you enjoy the tunes.Featured ArtistDouble Booked from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting for Kenny As we were waiting for the arrival of Kenny Barron for an exclusive WHUS interview (see last weeks podcast), we kicked back and played some great tunes from Rob Garcia 4, Chris Potter, Les McCann and Danillo Perez. This weeks and last weeks podcast can be listened to as a set with this podcast being the first part of the show. Featured Album Follow The Red Line - Live At The Village Vanguard, from Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Vortex * Rob Garcia 4 * Perennial Wongs Way * Gr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waiting for Kenny As we were waiting for the arrival of Kenny Barron for an exclusive WHUS interview (see last weeks podcast), we kicked back and played some great tunes from Rob Garcia 4, Chris Potter, Les McCann and Danillo Perez. This weeks and last weeks podcast can be listened to as a set with this podcast being [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monterey Jazz comes to WHUS We were honored to have Kenny Barron and Regina Carter, currently with the Monterey Jazz Festival Tour, come to the WHUS studios for a live interview. Kenny Barron, a true grand master of jazz piano, and the wonderfully talented Regina Carter speak about music and the jazz scene with me in between concerts held at University of Connecticut. We start out the show with an inspiring recording form John Coltrane and a Connecticut favorite and friend of the show, pianist Craig Hartley. Playlis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monterey Jazz comes to WHUS We were honored to have Kenny Barron and Regina Carter, currently with the Monterey Jazz Festival Tour, come to the WHUS studios for a live interview. Kenny Barron, a true grand master of jazz piano, and the wonderfully talented violinist Regina Carter speak about music and the jazz scene with me in between concerts held [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Hour Last Week This is the first hour of last weeks radio broadcast. It’s an eclectic mix of different styles. Much of it pushes the boundries of traditional jazz music using different instrumentation and creative arrangements. We start out the show with Alice Coltrane’s harp, followed by modern electric guitar, tuba, voice, and electronics. It brings to mind how diverse, modern and creative the jazz experience is. Featured album Ptah The El Daoud from Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Blue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Hour Last Week This is the first hour of last weeks radio broadcast. It’s an eclectic mix of different styles. This is modern jazz music using different instrumentation and creative arrangements. We start out the show with Alice Coltrane’s harp, followed by modern electric guitar, tuba, voice, and electronics. It brings to mind how diverse, modern and creative [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noah Preminger Live I had the pleasure of hosting tenor sax artist and composer Noah Preminger for an interview at WHUS on Saturday evening. Noah is one of the young creative jazz artists based in New York City that is defining the future of jazz music. He spoke with us about his background and influences, his method of composition, and some of his current projects. We get to hear from his critically acclaimed album Dry Bridge Road, and some yet to be released recordings. Noah also plays for us live in the stu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noah Preminger Interview I had the pleasure of hosting tenor sax artist and composer Noah Preminger for an interview at WHUS on Saturday evening. Noah is one of the young creative jazz artists based in New York City that is defining the future of jazz music. He spoke with us about his background and influences, his method of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Parker Tribute Revisited No radio show this week, so I am republishing a podcast originally posted in August of 2008. This tribute was first aired on the anniversary of Bird’s 88th birthday, but its great to hear these tunes any time of the year. 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 emphasi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Worldly Guitar This weeks program features guitarists from around the world. We start tonight's show with some rockin' guitar work from Mike Stern's new album Big Neighborhood. A great title that highlights that through music and the Internet, the world has become one big neighborhood. The second track I play from this album features Richard Bona whose vocals give the tune an African vibe. We hear from Belgium's Django, who perhaps brought the guitar to jazz music in the first place. We also get to hear t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More from '09 We continue last weeks retrospective of 2009 releases. Even after 2 shows dedicated to last years music, I still have a stack of music that I did not have the time to get to. I guess you can say that it was a prolific year for new music. Despite reports that jazz is dead, it is indeed thriving with new music and new artists. Check out young talented players like Jimmy Greene, Mike DiRubbo and Lauren Sevian. They are represented here as well as more established artists like Joe Lovano, Steve ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirit 2009 Tonight's show begins by paying homage to the holiday weekend with Coltrane's Spiritual. From there, I will play some of my favorite releases from 2009 as a retrospective. There were many great albums released, and I found myself not being able to get to them all. I will most likely continue to play these recent CDs in my next broadcast. I try to highlight some of the recordings that were nominated for Grammy Awards, though the grammy organization truly disrespects jazz artists in favor of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Holiday 2009 This years pre-holiday show is designed to warm you up on a cold snowy winter eve and get you in the holiday vibe. We just play a short set of Christmas classics from Chris Potter and Marian McPartland. Those tracks are preceeded by a be-bop set featuring Greg Abate, Kent Hewitt and friends and are followed by a set of new modern jazz featuring the likes of Steve Slaigle, Rob Garcia 4 and Ingrid Jensen. Enjoy! Featured album Birds of a Feather on Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Albu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An edgier show This show ventures into an edgier ground than the usual In The Groove. We will highlight some of the original innovators of the genre like Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor. We will hear some established players that have stretched the boundries of jazz such as Joe Lovano and Mario Pavone. Newer jazz artists on the scene such as Rez Abbazi and Noah Preminger are using this freedom in their compositions and improvisations and are breaking new ground in their music establishing t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Latin Jazz Experience This show is a Latin-Jazz special featuring pianist and band leader David Gonzalez of the Latin Jazz Experience. He is here in our studio to kick-off the release of his new CD Dreams, and a gig this week in Hartford. We start off the show with jazz greats Ray Baretto, Jerry Gonzalez, and Willi Bobo. Featured Album buy Dreams from David Gonzalez website Playlist Track * Artist * Album Mags * Ray Baretto * Time Was-Time Is Earth Dance * Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band * Calle 54 S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thanksgiving 2009 This is my post Thanksgiving show. We'll run through a set that is inspired by my favorite holiday. Food, Family and giving thanks for the all of the wonderful things in our life, and jazz music is one of those for sure. Also in this podcast is a surprising enchanted vocal arrangement of Spain by Manhattan Transfer from a new release entitled the Chick Corea Songbook. Featured Album The Chick Corea Songbook on Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Double Jeaopardy * Joshua Redman El ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Masters - Part 3 This is the final installment of a 3 part series celebrating the Jazz Masters. It was a pleasure to feature greats like Miles, Trane, Ornette, J-Mac, Pepper, Henderson and Blakey for this show. These are Jazz music's Hall of Famers, in my opinion. If you missed any of the previous segments, you just need to scroll down on my web page for the other two shows. Featured Album Miles Smiles on Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Mode for Joe * Joe Henderson * Mode for Joe 26-2 * John Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 11.14.09 A mix of some great music spanning many styles of jazz. Highlights include Pat Metheny, Wynton Marsalis, and Thomas Chapin. Thomas Chapin was a great jazz artist born in Manchester Connecticut. We used to listen to him play at local clubs in the early 80's. He always played with passion and fire. His career was cut short at the prime of his life from leukemia. At the time Chapin was at the top of his creative genius. This podcast contains two tracks and a video below that show Chapin's arti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Masters - Part 2 This podcast is part 2 of a 3 hour radio special I did recently on the Masters of Jazz. This one features Sonny, Miles, Wes, Cannonball, Rashaan and more. Part 3 will show up next time my regular broadcast is pre-empted for sports programing, which happens frequently during this time of year. So, keep downloading these podcasts. Featured Album Download The Bridge from Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Without a Song * Sonny Rollins * The Bridge Four * Miles Davis * Broadcast S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Ghostly Podcast We get into the Halloween spirit with this scary collection of jazz tunes. Voodoo, Black Magic, Zombies, Ghosts and more for this weeks selection of tunes. For an entire CD of music inspired by ghosts and goblins, I would recommend Greg Abate's Monsters of the Night. One of the tunes closes out this weeks podcast, but Greg brews up an entire CD of hard driving compositions inspired by the Halloween theme. Featured Album Monsters In The Night at Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Masters - Part 1 This podcast is part 1 of a 3 hour special I did recently on the Masters of Jazz. This one features John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon. Part 2 and 3 will show up in future weeks (but not consecutive), during those times when my regular broadcast is pre-empted for sports programing, which happens frequently during this time of year. So, keep downloading these podcasts to catch the balance of this series. Featured Album Speak No Evil available fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afternoon Fill-In With my regular Saturday evening show pre-empted for sports, I dig out an afternoon fill-in I did back in March of this year. It is an eclectic mix of fusion, bop, Indian and classic rock. Hope you enjoy the variety of this mix. Featured Album As Is... Live at Blue Note Playlist Track * Artist * Album Sweet and Nasty * Joshua Redman * Elastic Band You the Night and the Music * The Drummonds * Paz De Trois Haunted Heart * The Drummonds * Paz De Trois Blues in the Day * Walt Weiskopf * An ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heard in Hartford Jazz fans in the Hartford area are very fortunate to have access to great live music in such abundance. Lately we have our friend Andres Chapparo to thank for producing many of the concerts here. He has brought us the Pork Pie Hat Jazz series with shows every couple of weeks through the Fall and early Winter. Friday we saw the Avery Sharpe Trio, and in following weeks we will be presented with Ralph Peterson, Antonio Hart and more. Also of note are local jazz heroes Steve Davis and the Luqu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Envelope Back in July, I had the pleasure of filling in for Joel Krut's great show Pushing the Envelope on WHUS. This podcast is a recording of a segment of that broadcast. I play tracks from the Legacy Series honoring the 50th anniversary of some classic LP's from 1959 including Mingus Ah Um and Brubeck's Time Out. Featured Album Ah Um 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition) on Amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * Album Boogie Stop Shuffle * Charles Mingus * Mingus Ah Um Da Drums * George Shuller's Ci ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pork Pie Hat This podcast celebrates tenor sax great Pres, Pork Pie Hat, Lester Young. This year is the Centenial of the Pres' birth. Lester Young was one of the influential jazz artists of the 1940's and 50's. He played with Count Basie and Billy Holiday and many others. His mellow full tone on tenor is featured on this podcast. Pork Pie Hat is also the name of a jazz series of live concerts going on now in the Hartford area. We feature some of the artists performing in that series on this show. Pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Autumnal Equinox This podcast celebrates autumn's equinox (September 22) in jazz music. At the same time, we are honoring what would have been John Coltrane's 83rd birthday (September 23). What better way to achieve both, then by playing Coltrane's classic Equinox. We'll follow this by Steve Kuhn's rendition of Autumn Leaves. The show continues on with a variety of jazz music by some of the jazz masters as well as some newcomers to the scene. Featured album Download 'Coltrane's Sound' from Amazon.com Pla ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Holland Speaks to ITG Prior to his performance at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival in Lennox, MA, I had the opportunity to interview jazz bassist Dave Holland. We spoke about the beginning of his career in jazz, working with Miles, his thoughts on jazz composition and bass playing. The interview, about 20 minutes long is embedded in this podcast along with some of Holland's great music created with a variety of ensembles. The YouTube below is a 6 minute video segment of the interview. Please listen to the podcast fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Jazz Part 2 Labor day weekend marks the end of the summer and this podcast is second half of last weeks summer recap show. It was a great summer for catching live jazz music. Dig these tunes by Seamus Blake and the norwegian organ trio Solid led by guitarist Bjorn Solli. We saw these cats playing at Smalls Jazz Cafe in NYC. Jason Palmer is represented on two tracks in this playlist. A fine trumpet player and composer, he plays every weekend at Wally's Cafe and Jazz club in Boston. The first of these tr ... 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 Summer Jazz Summer is the season of jazz. There are great festivals all over the country, outdoor concerts, and warm summer nights at hip jazz clubs. Its a great time to hang in NYC and go club hopping till the early morning hours. This summer was particularly fine for seeing great live music. Of course, Newport was the highlight, but we saw some great music here at the Monday night Jazz series in the park, at Black Eyed Sally's and in NYC. Next weekend is the Tanglewood Jazz festival in the Berkshires ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mostly Piano This podcast showcases some great pianists. Among those featured are Robert Glasper, with a new CD to be released this week, and Joey Calderazzo, who we were very impressed with at the Newport Jazz Festival two weeks ago. Also in the mix are two smokin' tracks by the incomparable McCoy Tyner. The two recordings are from the 1970's, when Tyner was at the top of his game. featured album Double Booked, available from Amazon Aug 25. Playlist Track * Artist * Album No Worries * Rober Glasper ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Jazz Fest Review show, a written review of the event, photo gallery, and a Post Festival review podcast. They are all presented here for your viewing, reading and listening pleasure. I also included a link to NPR's excellent coverage of the event that includes recorded performances that you can download as a podcast or listen to as streaming audio. Enjoy! - To read the entire review (long), click through to my Blog. - Click here to view my Newport Jazz Fest photo gallery (you can upload your pics into th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fiat Fun I am at Newport Jazz Festival this week, so I didn't do my regular WHUS show. I filled in for another show called Fiat Flux. Kind of rocked out for this show. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Mysterious Traveler * Weather Report * Mysterious Traveler Jazz Crimes * Joshua Redman * Elastic Band Spaces Revisited *Larry Coryell * The Power Trio Round About * Yes * Fragile Fiction * Bob Reynolds * Can't Wait for Perfect Nine Lives * Bob Reynolds * Can't Wait for Perfect Hot n Tot * John Scofie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newport Preview George Wein has put together a creative and artistic lineup for the 55th Newport Jazz Festival. From legendary masters like Tony Bennet and Dave Brubeck, to the lions of jazz like Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, to the avante garde like Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthapa. Even Hip-Hop is represented with Mos Def. This is going to be an exciting festival. A sampling of these artists are here in this podcast for your listening pleasure. A free iTunes download of Newport Samplers, many of whi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Fusion This show features some of the best new fusion going on today. Though Jazz-Fusion does not enjoy the popularity it had during the 70's and 80's, it is still a vibrant creative source of new jazz music today. In fact I predict that the use of electric guitar, keyboards and synths in jazz will help to revive the genre in the years to come. featured album Playlist Track * Artist * Album Softly As In A Morning Sunrise * Hiromi * Beyond Standard Time Out * Hiromi * Hiromi's Sonic Bloom: Time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Walk on the Moon Monday July 20th marks the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 walk on the moon. A pretty amazing feat for 1969. This has little or nothing to do with this weeks jazz program, but I couldn't think of a theme or a name for the show. Actually one tracks on this show is titled "Lunar", from one of our favorite alto sax players, Mike DiRubbo, so we might as well use his fine newly released CD as our featured album of the week. featured album Repercussion from amazon.com Playlist Track * Artist * ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jazz on the River Most of this show features our friend Andres Chaparro from Beatnik Entertainment and his Jazz on the River series. Beginning this Wednesday, July 15 with the Winard Harper Quartet and for six consecutive Wednesday evenings there will be some great performances at a new venue for Jazz. These shows will be hosted at Albert's Riverside on 1530 Palisado Ave., Windsor, CT. For more information see Andres' website at www.beatnik-entertainment.com. Come out to Albert's Riverside for some killer ja ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Part 2 with Monk This podcast is the second hour of my radio show from last week, and it is a good one. We start out with the one and only Trane from a fine album, Coltrane's Sound. We then take it beyond with George Schuller and Ed Palermo. Following that is a set featuring some great Monk composition's as interpreted by others, than Monk and Trane. We settle things down nicely with some Evan's like piano trio music by a great artist, Robert Glasper. Featured album Eddy Loves Frank from Amazon Playlist T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 27 Part 1 Since I will not be broadcasting a show next week (holiday weekend), I will publish this show in two, hour long segments, this week and next. This week features Christian McBride's latest release, Kind of Brown. I also play something from Quincy Jones Back to the Block. Quincy was greatly responsible for the late MJ's sound, and I think you can hear some of that in the way he arranged Zawinal's fusion classic Birdland. Here is the link to download a free track, Rainbow Wheel, from the new C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Songs for All Fathers It's now like a tradition to play Horace Silver's Song for My Father on this particular weekend of the year. This Father's day show has an opening set dedicated to my Dad and all others out there. Cannonball's One For Daddy-O is another great track befitting this theme. It's a rare appearance of Miles Davis as a backup band member. The set ends with a funky rendition of Silver's classic. Following the Father's Day set, we here the new Gary Burton offering featuring Pat Metheny on guitar. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Hart From the Hart, meaning - From Hartford. The music in this podcast is inspired by a couple of the live performances that took place this week in the Hartford area. Jean Caze (trumpet), and Albert Rivera (tenor sax), both from New York City, had previously performed in our area, returned backed by local favorites Zachai and Luques Curtis (Insight) put on a wonderful show. Joel Frahm was in West Hartford for a master class for the benefit of a middle school jazz band, followed that up with a p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website East meets West Indian-jazz Fusion is one of my favorite styles of this music. And while classical indian rhythms and scales have influenced jazz musicians for decades, this particular sound I credit to John McLaughlin's Shakti project. Here we have several examples of Indian Fusion as represented by artists like Mynta, Fareed Haque, Prassana and others. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Mind Ecology * Shakti * Natural Elements Papa's New Groove * Mynta * First Summer The Chant * Fareed Haque + The Flat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Harrell feature plus requests We feature the Tom Harrell Quintet for the first set of tunes, with tracks from his new CD, Prana Dance. That is followed by a couple of tracks from fellow band members Wayne Escoffery and Danny Grissett CD's. I put out a call over the Facebook and Twitter for requests and got plenty of responses. Did my best to fulfill those. Check the sidebar of this website, and you'll find links to my social networking sites. Sign up and keep in touch. If you haven't already, subscribe to this podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Harrell feature plus requests We feature the Tom Harrell Quintet for the first set of tunes, with tracks from his new CD, Prana Dance. That is followed by a couple of tracks from fellow band members Wayne Escoffery and Danny Grissett CD's. I put out a call over the Facebook and Twitter for requests and got plenty of responses. Did my best to fulfill those. Check the sidebar of this website, and you'll find links to my social networking sites. Sign up and keep in touch. If you haven't already, subscribe to this podcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 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 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 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 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