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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:

View the full archive of In The Groove 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 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 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 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 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