Jazz Junction

Saturdays, 8pm - 11pm
with Rick Erben

Saturdays nights beginning at 8pm we commence our weekly three hour get-together at the Jazz Junction. The program is in its nineteenth year on KIOS-FM and showcases a wide spectrum of mainstream jazz music embracing primarily the period from the 1950s through recent releases. Our intent is to present a palatable flow of music in a variety of rhythmic and instrumental settings that covers extensive musical territory during our time together. Thus one can expect to hear straight-ahead cookers, gorgeous ballads and soulful blues-based selections that are attractive and challenging in their interpretation and performance.

Jazz music has flourished for nearly a century by virtue of its “big ears” - the capacity of the form to both originate its own genres and to incorporate standard songbook melodies, popular music and classical elements into its fold as well as a variety of influences such as Afro-cuban, Latin, Brazilian, flamenco and blues rhythms. As such, jazz is a vast, continually evolving musical melting pot propelled by artists both advised by tradition and creatively expanding the form. That's a rather diverse and stimulating framework from which to assemble our journey down the jazz tracks every week.

For music from the great names and groups such as Adderley, Davis, Mingus and Silver through contemporary bearers of the perennially vibrant jazz tradition, you are cordially invited to tune in and to enjoy the fine sounds every Saturday night at the Jazz Junction.

 

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April 28, 2012

8:00 PM
Party Time
Artist : Ulysses Owens, Jr.
Album : Unanimous
Catalog : 1342
Label : Criss Cross
8:09 PM
Minor Glide
Artist : Bill Heid
Album : Asian Persuasion
Catalog : 9
Label : Doodlin' Records
8:17 PM
Route 66
Artist : Nat King Cole
Album : The Comp. After Midnight Sessions
Catalog : 48328
Label : Capitol
8:24 PM
Song For Sherin
Artist : Andrew Swift
Album : Swift Kick
Catalog : 155
Label : D Clef Records
8:32 PM
Train Samba
Artist : Michael Benedict & Boptitude
Album : Five And One
Catalog : 301219
Label : Planet Arts
8:43 PM
Cow Cow Boogie
Artist : Ella Fitzgerald
Album : The Best of Ella Fitzgerald Vol.2
Catalog : 4016
Label : MCA
8:46 PM
Tumbling Tubleweeds
Artist : Grant Green
Album : Goin' West
Catalog : 90843
Label : Blue Note
9:00 PM
Shades of Green
Artist : Orrin Evans
Album : Freedom
Catalog : 8083
Label : Positone Records
9:06 PM
Sources Say
Artist : Jimmy Heath Big Band
Album : Turn Up The Heath
Catalog : 100560
Label : Planet Arts
9:13 PM
Otaru Souko
Artist : Juan Galiardo
Album : Juan Galiardo
Catalog : 3011
Label : New Steps
9:22 PM
West Coast Blues
Artist : Wes Montgomery
Album : The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
Catalog : OJCCD 362
Label : Riverside/Orig.Jazz Classics
9:30 PM
Joey
Artist : Bill Henderson
Album : Joey Revisited
Catalog : 807
Label : Monad Records
9:35 PM
Where The Warm Winds Blow
Artist : Mel Martin
Album : WHere The Warm Winds Blow
Catalog : 1043
Label : Jazzed Media
9:43 PM
Outlook
Artist : Steve Davis
Album : Outlook
Catalog : 8041
Label : Positone
9:49 PM
Blues For Jim San
Artist : Jake Langley
Album : Diggin' in
Catalog : 14292
Label : Alma Records
10:00 PM
Prints Tie
Artist : Bobby Hutcherson
Album : San Francisco
Catalog : 28268
Label : Blue Note
10:07 PM
Blue Daniel
Artist : Shelly Manne & His Men
Album : Shelly Manne & His Men At The Blackhawk Vol.1
Catalog : OJCCD 656
Label : Contemporary/Orig.Jazz Classics
10:16 PM
Tres Ritmo
Artist : Brian Ho
Album : Organic
Catalog : n/a
Label : B2B Music
10:23 PM
Be Cool
Artist : Denise Donatelli
Album : What Lies Within
Catalog : 2095
Label : Savant
10:27 PM
Invisible Lady
Artist : Mingus Big Band 93
Album : Nostalgia In Times Square
Catalog : 36559
Label : Dreyfus
10:39 PM
Tetragon
Artist : Luis Perdomo
Album : Universal Mind
Catalog : 1164
Label : Kindred Rhythm
10:47 PM
Desert Moonlight
Artist : Lee Morgan
Album : The Rumproller
Catalog : 46428
Label : Blue Note
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12:01 pm
Wed May 9, 2012

Gil Evans 100th Birthday Celebration on KIOS

This week KIOS celebrates the 100th birthday of Gil Evans, one of jazz music's most celebrated composers and arrangers.  Jazz in the Afternoon will begin the weeklong tribute on Tuesday May 8th with music featuring Evans work as a leader and in collaboration with Miles Davis. NPR's Jazz Profiles will examine his life and career on Thursday May 10th. JazzSet will present a concert tribute to the collaborative efforts between Evans and Miles Davis on Friday May 11th. And Rick Erben and Chris Cooke will have more music from the Evans catalogue on Saturday night the 12th on Jazz Junction and Last Call respectively. Last Call will present a recording Gil Evans made of the music of Jimi Hendrix.

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11:40 am
Tue May 8, 2012

Jazz concerts at NPR

Jazz fans can turn to NPR Music for archived performances with today's leading jazz artists.  This month you can listen to new performances from Steve Coleman and Third World Love. Recently The Checkout: Live From 92Y Tribeca presented a concert with the Ingrid Jensen Quintet. That performance has been archived, along with recent performances from drummer Al Foster and pianist Geri Allen at the Live at the Village Vanguard concert series.  You may listen to these and other concerts anytime at  http://www.npr.org/music 

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11:33 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Jazz Junction Top Ten Picks For 2011

Miles Davis – Live in Europe 1967 – Columbia/Legacy

The great Miles Davis Quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams is documented in several fine studio albums, however, live recordings of this band are rare and isolated to the Live at the Plugged Nickle recordings and a number of privately recorded albums of mediocre quality. Now a series of live recordings from a European tour in the fall of 1967, previously only appearing piecemeal on bootlegs, has been issued by Columbia/Legacy in a three disc CD and one disc DVD collection.

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