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A monthly podcast featuring the best in the Detroit Jazz scene Primary Format : Jazz Language : English Also Listed as: City : Orion State/Province : MI 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 Detroit JazzStage Podcasts Methings.com listings of Detroit JazzStage Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Detroit JazzStage DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring Mack Avenue Artist Sachal Vasandani Your guest for this DJS Jazz Spotlite is the New York-based vocalist-songwriter-bandleader and Mack Avenue recording artist Sachal Vasandani. This fresh, young talent displays a singular, deep-brewed voice and possesses an uncanny sensibility to straddle the fine line between jazz and pop. You will hear a cut from his latest CD, Eyes Wide Open. Vasandani is in the company of his established trio comprised of Pianist Jeb Patton, Bassist David Wong and Drummer Quincy Davis. Guests on the CD ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring The Legendary Dr. Yusef Lateef This DJS Jazz Spotlite features the legendary Dr. Yusef Lateef. Known for his innovative blending of "Eastern" music with American jazz, Lateef's main instruments are tenor saxophone and flute, but he is one of few to play oboe or bassoon in jazz, and also plays various world music instruments. Dr. Lateef came up in a very fertile period in Detroit. Some of the Detroit musicians he performed with include vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Elvin Jones, and guitarist ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit Jazz Fest Executive Director Terri Pontremoli visits Detroit JazzStage - 2008 This month on Detroit Jazzstage,Terri Pontremoli, the Executive Director of the Detroit International Jazz Festival, sat down to discuss this year's lineup. For more than a quarter century, the Detroit Jazz Fest has entertained millions of fans with jazz legends ranging from Herbie Hancock to Yusef Lateef and Ron Carter. Today, it ROARS on six stages over four days, with blues, gospel, R&B, and one of the finest jazz lineups on the planet. The festival also offers educational events, dail ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring Trumpeter Sean Jones Mack Avenue Records Recording artist Sean Jones has revealed himself as among the most immensely expressive, versatile and gifted players of his generation. With each new project, the Warren, Ohio native has peeled back another layer to show us a fresh peek at his soul. His 2004 solo debut, Eternal Journey (recorded when he was 25) introduced Sean as a deft expressor of modern bop for the 21st century via originals and standards in a quintet format. Saxophonist/Composer Tia Fuller's composi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band Jim needs little introduction in the jazz world. Professor of Music at the University of Michigan for over 40 years, he has led his Grammy-nominated Chicago Jazz Band for over 31 years, touring across North America and releasing numerous acclaimed records and C.D.s, including a project backing up the legendary Maria Muldaur in an album of early blues classics. He is the author of Jelly Roll Morton- The Collected Piano Music and in late 2002 took on the task of reconstructing the great jazz ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring Pianist Rick Roe This DJS Jazz Spotlite features multi-award winning pianist Rick Roe. He is a respected educator and one of the Professors of Jazz at Michigan State University. Rick has served as an educator/clinician at the University of Arizona, North Texas University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the University of Michigan, and the Montreaux/Detroit Jazz Festival. He has performed with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden, Rodney Whitaker, Frank Foster, Gerald Cleaver, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A DJS Jazz Spotlite Featuring Pianist Hal Galper We are thrilled to present to you an original composition, plus commentary from Hal Galper. With over 82 recordings to his credit, 20 as a leader in his own right, pianist, composer, publisher, educator, author and touring artist, Hal Galper is best known for his work with Chet Baker, Cannonball Adderley, John Scofield and the Phil Woods Quintet. His recordings as a leader with Mike and Randy Brecker are considered among the best. Listen in as Hal talks about the development of his recently ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A DJS Jazz Spotlite Presenting Pianist Steve Richko Pianist Steve Richko lives in Dearborn, MI. He is a 27-year-old prodigy who fell in love with the music of Oscar Peterson at the age of 12. Since then, Steve has made a thorough study of Oscar's piano artistry and career. Today, Steve Richko is regarded as one the finest young pianists on the Detroit jazz scene. Steve's virtuosic piano technique is astounding and his understanding of ensemble playing and trio arranging makes for a spectacular presentation. He plays with great feeling and ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Presents Saxophonist Alex Graham Alto Saxophonist, and Origin Records recording artist Alex Graham has performed with several of todayâs top jazz artists including Wessell Anderson, Nnenna Freelon, Louis Smith, Diane Schuur, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Mark Levine, Peter Bernstein, Steve Davis, Joe Magnarelli, Michael Weiss, Aaron Goldberg, Rodney Whitaker, Jim Rotundi, Sam Yahel and Dena Derose. He has performed at festivals and clubs in the United States, Europe and Japan and has appeared ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage with Trumpeter/Composer Walt Szymanski This month we are featuring trumpeter/composer/arranger Walt Szymanski. Walt began his musical journey from a small home on the east side of Detroit that was constantly resonating with the sound of music. Listening to his mother play and sing the Broadway standards on the family piano and hearing the records of Nat Cole, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Al Hirt as well as the constant refrains of the ever present Motown sound presented him a tremendous musical foundation upon which to bui ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Jazz Spotlite and Jazz Extras Podcasts Hello Detroit Jazzstage Listeners, Did you know that we have two other podcasts that feature great jazz? Check out the Detroit JazzStage Jazz Spotlite Channel, a weekly short featuring great music from local, national, and international jazz musicians. Go to Detroit JazzStage - Jazz Extras to learn about Bennie Maupin, Frank Zappa, Jaco Pastorius, Mose Allison, and many more. You can subscribe through Itunes or go to http://www.jazzstageproductions.com for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Welcomes Pianist Rick Roe What do Wynton Marsalis, Jon Faddis, Rodney Whitaker, Greg Hutchinson, Bobby Watson, have in common? They have all had our May guest in their piano chair. Your featured artist this month is the great pianist, Rick Roe. Featured music is taken from his recordings The Changeover (1997) where he is joined by bassist Rodney Whitaker and the fiery drummer Karriem Riggins. Roe/Keller/Cleaver - The Late, Late Show (2001) featured our December guest Paul Keller on bass along with d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Welcomes Poet M.L. Liebler and Guitarist/Poet Ron English This month on Detroit JazzStage, we welcome poet M.L. Liebler and jazz guitarist/poet Ron English. M.L. fronts the group, M. L. Liebler & The Magic Poetry Band. By day, he is a Wayne State University professor (and St. Clair Shores, Michigan's first Poet Laureate). Over the last twenty plus years, M.L. has combined his insightful, urban poetry with the funky tones of modern jazz, resulting in a perfect elision of sound and vision. M.L. and Ron share their views of how poetry and jazz ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Featuring DSO Trumpeter Bill Lucas Detroit JazzStage is pleased to announce it's continued partnership with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Max M Fisher Music Center. "The Max" is a state of the art performing arts complex built in 2003. They are home to the world famous Detroit Symphony Orchestra as well as to jazz, pops, family concerts and more. This episode is the second of three live Detroit JazzStage podcasts from their Jazz Club @ The Max series recorded by JazzStage Productions Sound Engineer/Producer Mark By ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two new DJS Jazz Spotlite Channel features Hello Detroit JazzStage Listeners,We have two new Spotlites available for download at jazzspotlite.com featuring Pianist Steve Richko, and Saxophonist/Poet Faruq Z. Bey. Go to http://www.jazzspotlite.com for more information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band on the DJS Jazz Spotlite Channel Hello Detroit JazzStage listeners. We have a new spotlite on the Detroit JazzStage Jazz Spotlite Channel featuring James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band recorded live at the 2006 Detroit International Jazz Festival performing Way Down Yonder In New Orleans. You can learn more about Jim and hear the song at jazzspotlite.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trumpeter Sean Jones on the DJS Jazz Spotlite Channel Hello Detroit JazzStage listeners. I'm Dean Sahutske, Executive Producer of Detroit JazzStage. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for subscribing to Detroit JazzStage and invite you to also subscribe to the Detroit JazzStage Jazz Spotlite Channel at jazzspotlite.com. We just posted a new spotlite featuring Mack Avenue Records recording artist, Sean Jones. The spotlite features Tia Fuller's composition "Gullyism" from Sean's 2004 solo debut, Eternal Journey. If y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit Jazz Fest Executive/Artistic Director Terri Pontremoli visits Detroit JazzStage This month on Detroit JazzStage, we interview Terri Pontremoli, Executive/Artistic Director of the the Detroit International Jazz Festival. Pontremoli joined the Detroit Jazz Fest in 2005 as managing director. In 2007, she is thrilled to serve as artistic and executive director for "one of the best jazz festivals in the world in a city with an incredibly rich jazz legacy." She cites the urban landscape and the informed audience in Detroit as unique and exciting attributes. Her amb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Update Hello Detroit JazzStage listeners.  Iâm Dean Sahutske, Executive Producer of Detroit JazzStage.  I want to take this moment to let you know that we are still in business.  Rodney, Mark, Jim, and I are still committed to bringing you  the finest jazz from Detroit.  In the coming months, we will bring you live recordings from the Jazz Club at The Max, interviews and music from well established artists, plus highlights from past Detroit International Jazz Festivals in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Detroit JazzStage Welcomes Calrinetist/Saxophonist Wendell Harrison Clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, and educator,Wendell Harrison , has been a creative powerhouse in Detroit forseveral decades now.  Artists he has worked with include Jack McDuff,Elvin Jones, Sonny Stitt, Grant Green, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris and Hank Crawford. Along with the Wenha and Rebirth labels, Wendell is also the creator of Tribe records.  Recordings from the Tribe label are highlysought after by both jazz and electronic collectors.  In his highlyacclaimed and successful ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website