Join us for the next edition of All This Jazz, right here on Public Radio 89.5, airing at 9pm on Saturday the 12th -- or online via live stream at publicradiotulsa.org. (We'll also rebroadcast the show on Sunday the 13th at 7pm on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our station's all-jazz HD Radio channel.)
From Dave Brubeck to Dave Holland to Dave Douglas, and from Charlie Parker to Charlie Christian to Charlie Mariano, ATJ delivers three hours of modern jazz -- across a range of styles -- each and every Saturday night, from 9 till midnight.
And in the theme-driven, 11-to-midnight hour of our next program, we'll celebrate the Frank Sinatra Centennial. Francis Albert Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, in (as probably everyone already knows) Hoboken, New Jersey. His super-stardom in radio, television, movies, LP recordings, and so forth is well-known and well-documented, his lasting impact on American popular culture is unsurpassed, and his music will be the third-hour theme for the next All This Jazz. While not specifically a "jazz singer" as such -- although certainly a singer whose long and diverse career influenced countless jazz vocalists and musicians everywhere, and who was himself inspired by a host of jazz performers -- Sinatra (who died in 1998) recorded over the years with Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, and Jobim, to name just a few. We'll thus hear jazz-inclined numbers by Ol' Blue Eyes from throughout the decades in Hour 3 of our forthcoming show, as well as various jazz greats doing his tunes.
Join us, fellow jazz buffs! And fellow Francophiles! We've got the goods and then some. (And the skinny kid from Hoboken lives on....)
Two final points: ATJ playlist information can be found here -- and we also maintain a Facebook page for our show. Thank you.
