Here's hoping you can tune in for the next installment of All This Jazz, airing here on Public Radio 89.5 KWGS-FM on Saturday the 13th, from 10pm till midnight. We'll also convey the program via "live stream" at PublicRadioTulsa.org.
On our forthcoming show, we'll remember the iconic (and decidedly iconoclastic) saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman, who died earlier this week at 85. As the writer Taylor Ho Bynum noted recently at The New Yorker Magazine's website: "Coleman posited that the infinite improvisational possibilities of a melody could thrive outside of a predetermined structure, that musical ideas could flow and expand in the moment as naturally as breath or speech or thought. [This was] a simple idea that shook the world of twentieth-century music.... Coleman was always an outsider. While others fixated on the fluid virtuosity and harmonic sophistication of Charlie Parker, Coleman heard the bluesy cry in Parker's tone and the rhythmic unrest just beneath the surface.... [Coleman's] music was deceptively simple and implacably radical. [He] ignored the boundaries between high art and folk music, between modernism and tradition; he recognized that the most human impulse is to explore and search for beauty. It is to all of our benefit that his own search was so fruitful."
So, in the first hour of ATJ, we'll hear cuts from such masterful Coleman albums as THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME, BROKEN SHADOWS, and AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE: VOLUME ONE. We'll also hear interpretations of Ornette's tunes from the likes of pianist Fred Hersch and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson.
And in the latter half of our two-hour program, the theme will be Great Jazz Albums of 2015, So Far...as we dig several fine releases that have come out thus far this year. These would include, for example, the latest offerings from Joe Locke, Charlie Hunter, and The H2 Big Band (to name but a few).
Join us, jazz fans! All This Jazz is "all you" and then some. And there's never a cover or a minimum.
(The fine print: ATJ airs each and every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5, beginning at 10pm. We always thereafter offer a 7pm re-broadcast of the program on Sunday evening, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our station's all-jazz HD Radio channel. Each week, we spin modern jazz, both recent and classic, across a range of styles. And the latter half of our two-hour program, beginning at 11pm, invariably carries a theme of some kind. Also, for those so inclined: ATJ has a Facebook page. And the latest playlist data is posted here. Cheers.)
