jazz
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 – Dec. 13: All Sorts Of Good Stuff
If we may be so bold, yesterday's Sunday Jazz Show was an absolute killer. Three glorious hours of heavy stacks of wax. As usual, we brought in a mountain of vinyl and played everything from Benny Carter to Ornette Coleman. And while we could write about everything we...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Dec. 6th (Second Set): Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra
On the second set of the Sunday Jazz Show, DJ Achim reached deep into the archives and pulled out a legendary, if under-appreciated, classic jazz album from bassist Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse! Records, 1969). Here's a typically apt description...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Dec. 6th (First Set): Special Guest FAT TONY
Yesterday we broke new ground on the Jazz Show, with a very special in-studio guest, Houston indie-rapper Fat Tony. It was an fantastic twist for the show as we connected the dots between Jazz and Rap, talked influences and even got a live on-air performance! Between...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Nov. 29th (Second Set): In-Studio Interview with Tatsuya Nakatani and Michel Doneda
For the second set, DJ Achim interviewed the improvisational artistic duo of Tatsuya Nakatani and Michel Doneda, live in the KTRU studio. The Houston Press' Steve Jansen describes the duo as such: "In the hit-and-miss realm of improvised music, the unusual pairing of...