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Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting - A History of Jazz
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Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
I've had a busy week, and haven't had the time to complete the Herbie Nichols episode that I'm working on. It will be ready for next Wednesday. In the meantime, enjoy a track from Herbie's first album!
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
In light of the orders to stay at home and honor social distancing, I thought it would be appropriate to share come incredible unaccompanied solo performances, and to dwell a bit on the beauty that can be created all alone. This episode features performances by Duke Ellington, Andrew Hill, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Sun Ra, and more. Lots of piano pieces, but some cello, electric piano, trumpet, and trombone performances for variety.
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Questions? Comments? Requests? Send email to WNPMPod@gmail.com, call the show's voicemail box at (424) 704-1666, or as of last week you can find me on twitter: @wednesday_jazz
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
To make up for missing putting out an episode last week, I made an extra long episode this week about the incredible drummer Max Roach.
Max Roach was at the forefront of jazz from the beginning his career in the 1940s to the end of his life, and played in a wide variety of styles. This episode focuses mostly on his music in the late 50s and early 60s, with a little from before and after.
Playlist here:
Questions? Comments? Requests? send me an e-mail at wnpmpod@gmail.com or call the show's voicemail box at (424) 704-1666
Also, I just set up a Twitter account for the show: @wednesday_jazz
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
This week's episode is about the music of trumpeter and flugelhorn player Art Farmer. At a time when nine out of ten trumpeters were trying to sound like Dizzy Gillespie or Miles Davis, Farmer blazed his own path, and developed a soft, thoughtful, beautifully melodic style with a keen sensitivity for dynamic and timbral range. Please forgive the fairly minimal commentary for this episode, I'm fighting a sore throat/cough and so kept things brief
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Questions? Comments? Requests? email me at wnpmpod@gmail.com
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
This week, drummer Roy Haynes turns 95 years old. To celebrate the occasion this episode is about his music. Haynes career started in the middle 1940s and continues to this day. This episode focuses mostly on his early work up until the 1960s.
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Questions? Comments? Requests? email me at wnpmpod@gmail.com
Friday Mar 06, 2020
Friday Mar 06, 2020
Brilliant pianist and last surviving member of John Coltrane's classic quartet, McCoy Tyner, passed away today at the age of 81. On the occasion of this sad news, I wanted to share with you an incredibly beautiful and uplifting piece of music that McCoy created with the Coltrane Quartet.
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
This week's episode is about the music of the incredible pianist and arranger Gil Evans. Gil Evans bridged the divide between prewar big band music and post-war bebop, and is best known for his work with Miles Davis on Miles' incredible, beautiful, groundbreaking orchestral albums, widely known as the best make-out albums ever created.
Featuring songs from his work with Miles, his work arranging for other artists, and from his own albums as a bandleader.
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email me: wnpmpod@gmail.com
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Because my schedule has been packed over the course of this last week, I haven't been able to finish putting together an episode about Gil Evans that I have been working on. It will be ready next Wednesday, but in the meantime, I'd like to share one of Evans' tracks to get you thinking about his music. Evans is one of the most successful arrangers of jazz music in the post-swing era, probably best known for the string of orchestral albums he worked with Miles Davis to create. The song in this week's episode is from one of his albums as a bandleader. Enjoy, and check back next week for the full episode about Gil Evans
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Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
This week's episode of WNPM is about the music of Paul Chambers, an incredibly prolific bassist who recorded on hundreds of albums at the peak of modern jazz in the 50's and 60's, an incredible achievement considering that he only lived to the age of 33. It features songs from his work with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Bud Powell, and many more.
Questions? Comments? Requests? E-mail me at WNPMPod@gmail.com
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
This week's episode is about pianist Elmo Hope, a lesser known friend and contemporary of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.
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