Listen in for the next edition of All This Jazz, right here on Public Radio 89.5 (KWGS-FM). Our show begins at 10pm on Saturday the 9th, and it's also conveyed via live stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org.
For those unfamiliar: ATJ airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5, from 10pm till midnight. We always thereafter offer a 7pm re-airing of the program the following Sunday evening, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our station's jazz-24/7 HD Radio channel.
Each week, we spin modern jazz, both recent and classic, across a range of styles -- from Mose Allison and Nat Adderley to John Zorn and Joe Zawinul. Plus, the second half of our two-hour show, beginning at 11pm, invariably carries a theme.
This time out, that latter-hour theme will be Live at the Village Vanguard. The "greatest jazz club in New York and possibly anywhere" -- as The New York Times tagged it back in February -- first opened its doors 80 years ago, in 1935; the Vanguard switched to a jazz-and-only-jazz programming approach in 1957. The club was founded by -- and for so many years booked and run by -- the late Max Gordon, whose autobiography is entitled, rightly enough, "Live at the Village Vanguard." This same title has also, of course, graced the covers of scores of different jazz albums over the years, and we'll hear from several such albums in the second part of our next program. (The club is now owned and operated, by the way, by Lorraine Gordon, Max's widow.)
And in the first hour of ATJ, tune in for the likes of Stan Kenton, Anat Cohen, Oscar Peterson, and Wayne Shorter.
Join us, jazz advocates. All This Jazz is "all you" and then some.
PS: The latest playlist data for our radio show can be found here...and the ever-likable ATJ Facebook page is situated hereabouts. Thank you.
