Christian McBride hosts another in a series of " Crate Digging " episodes on NPR's Jazz Night in America . This episode features drummer and composer Jeff "Tain" Watts. For 40 years, "Tain" has remained a supremely consequential drummer in the music - evolving the language of jazz drumming during his time as sideman to both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and as a bandleader, as we'll hear in this 2002 concert. Musicians: Jeff "Tain" Watts - Drums, vocals;...
Topics: Jeff "Tain" Watts, Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America, NPR, crate digging, live...
NPR's Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride explores the history of Joe Zawinul, whose first claim to fame came with Cannonball Adderley and " Mercy, Mercy, Mercy ". Zawinul led jazz through successive waves of fusion: with Miles Davis on the groundbreaking 1969 album In a Silent Way ; in Weather Report, the group he co-led with saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter in the '70s and '80s; and in his international band, The Zawinul Syndicate , until he passed away in 2007. This...
Topics: Joe Zawinul, Zawinul Syndicate, Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America, NPR, crate digging, live...
Mulgrew Miller and Wingspan recorded in 2007 at Dizzy's Club in New York City, broadcast on NPR's Jazz Night in America . In this episode, Mulgrew Miller and his quintet Wingspan play a soaring set, recorded in 2007 at Dizzy's Club. Jazz Night in America host Christian McBride also recalls his early days hanging with Miller as both a close friend and mentee — and dusts off a 1992 cassette recording of himself, Miller and drummer Lewis Nash. As McBride notes, emphatically: "We...
Topics: Mulgrew Miller, Wingspan, Jazz Night in America, NPR, Christian McBride, FM broadcast, live...
Jazz Night in America on NPR, with Christian McBride in a " Crate Digging " episode featuring the History of Latin Bass. Live concert performance by Arturo O'Farill and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra . Set List: "Mas Bajo" (Tito Puente) feat. Rubén Rodríguez "Caravan" (Juan Tizol) feat. Cachao "Asia Minor" (Machito) feat. Andy González "Vieques" (Andy Gonzalez) feat. Andy González "Tricotism" (Oscar Pettiford) feat. Charnett Moffett...
Topics: Crate Digging, Christian McBride, NPR, Jazz Night in America, Arturo O'Farill, Afro-Latin Jazz...
On this episode of NPR Jazz Night in America, host Christian McBride focuses on pianist Cedar Walton, who passed away in 2013. This broadcast includes a set from the Jazz at Lincoln Center vaults, a 2008 Cedar Walton Quintet performance at Dizzy's Club . Musicians: Cedar Walton - piano; Buster Williams - bass; Steve Turre - trombone; Vincent Herring - alto saxophone; Joe Farnsworth - drums. Set List: 1. Bolivia (Cedar Walton) 2. Underground Memoirs (Cedar Walton) 3. Lament (J.J. Johnson)...
Topics: Cedar Walton, jazz quintet, Jazz Night in America, NPR, Christian McBride, Jazz at Lincoln Center,...
NPR's Jazz Night in America, hosted by Christian McBride in Jan. 2022. This episode of Crate Digging highlights McCoy Tyner's progression from his time with John Coltrane, and features McCoy performing at The Village Vanguard in New York City on 9/23/1997, which would have been John Coltrane's 71st birthday. A portion of that concert made it into a commercial release on Impulse . But this episode features other gems that didn't make the album – music that has never been heard outside...
Topics: McCoy Tyner, Christian McBride, Jazz Night in America, NPR, The Villiage Vanguard, New York City,...
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Radio Thrift Shop is an homage to the "underground" era of broadcasting & freeform radio stations of the 1960's and 1970's. RTS features a homegrown mix of old time radio shows and documentaries, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade cds. Each broadcast of Radio Thrift Shop features an improvised playlist from DJ Frederick's record library. Explore the treasures, castoffs & curiosities from the past century of recorded sound.
Topics: radio, crate digging
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Radio Thrift Shop is an homage to the "underground" era of broadcasting & freeform radio stations of the 1960's and 1970's. RTS features a homegrown mix of old time radio shows and documentaries, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade cds. Each broadcast of Radio Thrift Shop features an improvised playlist from DJ Frederick's record library. Explore the treasures, castoffs & curiosities from the past century of recorded sound.
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Radio Thrift Shop is an homage to the "underground" era of broadcasting & freeform radio stations of the 1960's and 1970's. RTS features a homegrown mix of old time radio shows and documentaries, 78s, 45's, LPs, private press releases, and a variety of cassette tapes and homemade cds. Each broadcast of Radio Thrift Shop features an improvised playlist from DJ Frederick's record library. Explore the treasures, castoffs & curiosities from the past century of recorded sound.
Topics: 45 rpm, vinyl, crate digging
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Artform Beat Diggin Documentary
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The Neverland Ballroom 10/03/21
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