Two Blue Note Releases by this guitarist featuring fellow guitarist, Bill Frisell!

This young man is making waves on the scene. Deep, rich sound! Check it out!
In our WHFR library!

Bill Mays (piano)
Jorge Sylvester (alto sax)
Vinnie Colaiuta (drums)

Dave Young (bass)
Derek Bailey (guitar)
Jeanne Lee (voice)
Bobby Scott (piano)
Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
Don Shirley (piano)

Alan Silva (bass)
Eberhard Weber (bass)
JJ Johnson (trombone)
Juan Tizol (trombone)
Lizz Wright (vocals)

Baikida Carroll (trumpet)
Gene Krupa (drums)
Gerry Gibbs(drums)

Tune in Sunday, January 8th as I attempt to play as much music in our station library of Mack Avenue recordings as a tribute to the record company's founder Getchen Valade.

Bill Goodwin (drums)
Dave Weckl (drums)
Pamela Wise (keyboards)
Thurman Barker (drums)
Bobby Battle (drums)

Al McKibbon (bass)
Charlie Apicella (guitar)
Chris Potter (sax)
Daniel Carter (reeds)
Manny Oquendo (percussion)
Milt Jackson (vibraphone)

This gentleman has a debut recording out called "Romance in Formosa" featuring Bob Shepard is nice!! We played some tracks from it last week and expect to hear more next week.

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Over the next couple of Sundays, you will be hearing music from this recording.
Two suites from this recording.

"Despedida" which takes inspiration from Jorge Luis Borge's poem about the ending of a relationship. The other suite is "Dreaming in Lions" which is inspired by Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"

This all is to celebrate his upcoming performance in Detroit on Friday, November 18th at the DSO Orchestra Hall.

Tune in as I interview leader of the MONK'estra band John Beasley on this week's show.

He is a Grammy award winning artist and he will participate in the 2022 Detroit JazzFest with Chucho Valdes and the Yoruban Orchestra.

On Saturday, July 23rd in the Detroit Institute of Arts Film Theatre, I was treated to a wonderful show by Detroit's own bassist Marion Hayden and her Ensemble bringing back to life the music of Alice Coltrane.

Like her husband, John Coltrane, her music was very spiritual. Brandee Younger was a special guest on the harp (an instrument rarely heard in jazz).

Trombonist was a legend in the post-bop and avant garde jazz realm.
Worked with Archie Shepp, Dave Burrell, Joe Henderson, Sunny Murray, Jackie McLean, Cassandra Wilson, and others.
Sad story too that he passed on his 85th Birthday!

I am deeply saddened to hear of the sudden passing of bassist Charnett Moffett at the age of 54 due to a heart attack. He was one of just a few bassists that I enjoyed either on upright bass or electric bass.

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Although known as a smooth jazz group, they were one of the biggest bands in the jazz fusion revolution.

He appears with Spike Wilner and the Smalls Live All Stars

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