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Tuesday is Jazzy on KTRU! Join us every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. central for KTRU Jazz.
Host DJ Lee brings the Heavy Stacks each week as we dig back for everything from the Swingin’ 20s through the Hard Bop 60s to today’s finest ground-breakers.
The Jazz Show is a tradition at KTRU and we’re proud to carry the torch as Houston’s finest weekly Jazz program. Often featuring all-vinyl sets, live in-studio performances, and interviews with local artists, KTRU Jazz is your weekly dose of musical meditation.
On The Sunday Jazz Show - Jan 3rd: (First Set) Highlights!
HAPPY NEW YEAR from the KTRU Sunday Jazz team! We think we started the year off strong with a good, varied playlist in the fist set. Here's some of our favorites from the early portion of the show - click on the links to listen! And here's the whole set list. Just in...
On The Sunday Jazz Show - Dec. 27: Do We Have Time For One More? (Joe McPhee, 1970)
The last cut of the show Sunday was taken from a legendary lost album. Lost twice really. Reissued on the Unheard Music Series as a CD in 2000, saxophonist Joe McPhee's three-song LP Nation Time, originally released on indie label CjRecords in 1971 is a sprawling...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Dec. 27: New Album From Nat Birchall
Yesterday on the Sunday Jazz Show we spun a KTRU premier. Hailed by critics as one of the best jazz albums to come along in years, yet still flying under the radar stateside, Nat Birchall's spiritual-jazz opus Invocations would likely sweep the awards for jazz album...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Dec. 20th (First Set): Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
There's only one time a year when the Jazz Show can pull out Christmas music. And while many listeners, by late December, are completely sick of Rudolph and Jinglin' Bells, it's short-sighted to dismiss the genre entirely because frankly, there is some absolutely...