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KTRU SUNDAY JAZZ: UNHEARD THELONIOUS MONK ALBUM BROUGHT TO LIGHT FOR RSD 2017

SamB — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:06:08 +0000

Jazz icon Thelonious Monk once said “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Sometimes the music’s so good, you can’t help but dance. On April 22, for Record Store Day 2017, Resonance Records will release for the first time ever, Thelonious Monk’s complete 1959 studio recordings made for the French film “Les Liaisons […]

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KTRU SUNDAY JAZZ: JAZZ (DOC) FOR A THURSDAY – JACKIE McLEAN ON MARS (1979)

SamB — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:56:48 +0000

The Jazz Documentary. Sometimes, there’s nothing more glorious to a jazzhead. There’s so many to choose from. Essentials that come to mind include the Clint Eastwood produced, absolute classic, “Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser,” the mellow and avant-garde black and white beauty of Bruce Weber’s “Let’s Get Lost” on Chet Baker, “A Joyful Noise,” Robert Mugge’s […]

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KTRU Jazz: What Amiri Baraka Taught Me About Thelonious Monk (by Robin D. G. Kelley)

SamB — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:27:35 +0000

(Amiri Baraka: poet, author, historian and music critic) The essay below was found in a blogpost from Open Sky Jazz. We are unsure of where it was originally published. In an attempt to share exciting and thought-provoking content furthering discussions on this music we love, the KTRU Sunday Jazz team will continue to share the […]

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KTRU JAZZ: THE Legend of Pee Wee Marquette

SamB — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:37:05 +0000

Standing With Giants (L-R: Horace Silver, Pee Wee Marquette, Curly Russell, Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson and Clifford Brown) Mosaic Record’s Daily Jazz Gazette consistently has some great content for jazz head’s in need of a good read. This blogpost was taken in full from their site, which appears to have originally appeard on a blog called […]

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KTRU JAZZ: Avant-Garde Legend Ran Blake Comes To Houston

SamB — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:00:35 +0000

Pianist Ran Blake is coming to Houston. The avant-garde/Third Stream legend, whose name has been well known in jazz circles since the mid-50’s, will be performing this Saturday, January 7 at the Live Oak Friends Meeting House, at 1318 West 26th St, HTX. Doors open at 4:30pm. Concert begins at 5pm (on time) in order […]

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KTRU JAZZ: Lee Morgan Documentary Coming – Life is a Little Better

SamB — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:31:30 +0000

Jazzheads everywhere rejoice – a Lee Morgan documentary is here. The life and death of the prodigious trumpeter who never made a bad album is chronicled in the new documentary “I Called Him Morgan” (2016), directed by Kasper Collin. Some may have seen Collin’s last documentary, “My Name Is Albert Ayler” (2006) (though a quick […]

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JAZZ FOR A TUESDAY: HBD ART BLAKEY

SamB — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:26:06 +0000

Happy Birthday to Art Blakey! “The guru of hard bop, whose famous technique — frequent, high volume snare with bass drum accents — made him one of jazz’s all-time best messengers.” As the leader of the Jazz Messengers, Blakey earned a reputation as a mentor for some of the greatest talent in the history […]

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KTRU JAZZ: MILES MONDAYS – UNRELEASED MILES COMING THIS MONTH

SamB — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:06:45 +0000

(Miles’ 2nd Great Quintet, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) It’s MilesMonday. The KTRU Sunday Jazz Team are certified Miles fanatics. And we’ve been bumping a lot of the great live 60’s recordings on Columbia lately. People tend to gloss over this period for Miles. Don’t make the same mistake. Miles’ […]

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WEDNESDAY NIGHTS: YOU SHOULD BE HERE

SamB — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:22:00 +0000

If you’re not tuned into KTRU on Wednesday nights; you’re doing it wrong. Have you checked out our WEDNESDAY NIGHT LINEUP?? From 7pm to Midnight, we have a ridiculous block of killer sets, every Wednesday. 7pm: Treasures of the 60s. 9pm: KTRU Americana 10pm: KTRU BLUES Here’s a taste of what we played this past […]

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KTRU JAZZ: “Jaco”, Richie Kamuca & Detroit Spiritual Jazz Classics

SamB — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:10:59 +0000

The YouTube playlist for our 7/3 show is up! Get it HERE. “Twelve voices, 30-instrument big band from Detroit in modernist, self-determining stance. Notables include vocalist Kim Weston; saxophonists Lou Barnett, Ted Buckner, Ted Harris Jr, Ernie Rodgers, Charlie Gabriel, and Miller Brisker; trumpeters Herbie Williams and Eddie Jones; trombonists Jimmy Wilkins […]

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