Please tune in for the forthcoming edition of All This Jazz, beginning at 10pm on Saturday the 13th -- right here on Public Radio 89.5 (KWGS-FM)...and online via live stream at PublicRadioTulsa.org.
Lots of outstanding classical music can be enjoyed "in person" here in our community these days, as the Signature Symphony, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Tulsa Camerata, and Chamber Music Tulsa -- along with certain other notable series of local vintage, such as the Evenings at the Bernsen program -- have recently begun (or else will soon begin) their new performance seasons. Which is great -- wonderfully great, actually -- and which is also the collective inspiration for the second-hour theme of our next show.
"Jazz Performers, Classical Works" will be that theme (in the eleven-till-midnight half of our program). And thus we'll hear -- for example -- jazz greats like Wayne Shorter and Toots Thielemans performing, respectively, Sibelius and Satie. We'll also hear cuts from newly released jazz albums that take on the music of Ives and Stravinsky. And we'll even hear pianist Kenny Barron (shown herewith) fronting a quartet on a movement from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor -- a landmark classical-piano work which the aforesaid Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will be performing in concert this very weekend.
And in the first part of ATJ, we'll dig sounds by (to name just a few) J.J. Johnson, Ali Jackson, and Grant Green. Hope you can join us. It'll surely be a hoot, a lark, a gas, and so on.
(The fine print: All This Jazz -- for which playlist data can be accessed here [please scroll down] -- airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5, from 10pm until midnight. We always thereafter offer a 7pm re-airing 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 second half of our program, beginning at 11pm, invariably carries a theme. Also, for those so inclined: All This Jazz now has a Facebook page. And lastly, we were sorry to learn of the death earlier this week of Gerald Wilson, the brilliant conductor/composer/arranger/bandleader who died on Monday at 96. We'll be sure to feature music by Wilson on our very next program, which will air on the 20th.)
Postscript: The legendary jazz pianist and composer Joe Sample, whose career in music lasted more than 50 years, has died. He was 75. He died yesterday, Friday the 12th, in Houston. His music will also, of course, be highlighted on the next edition of our show.
