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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 – Nov. 29th (First Set): Chico Freeman
In the first set of the Sunday Jazz Show, we played an underrated gem of the post-Coltrane, post-bop era: Chico Freeman's 1977 LP Beyond The Rain. The son of Chicago jazz saxophonist Von Freeman, Beyond The Rain finds the then young tenorman playing in a quartet...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Nov. 22nd (Second Set): Wayne Shorter
Towards the end of a phenomenal evening set on Sunday, Achim pulled out a monster. One of the legendary Blue Note Records' most critically acclaimed albums, Wayne Shorter's 1966 LP, Speak No Evil. Clearly influenced by his concurrent work with the Miles Davis Quintet,...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Nov. 22nd (First Set): Alice Coltrane
About an hour into the first set of the show on Sunday we spun an epic string of spiritual jazz; Houston's Billy Harper, Marion Brown, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, and it all started with this one. The second track from Alice Coltrane's stunning 1970...
On The Sunday Jazz Show – Nov. 15th (Second Set): Kamasi Washington
On the second set, Achim spun the cut "Isabelle" from saxophonist Kamasi Washington's stunning debut album, aptly titled, "The Epic;" a three-LP/double CD effort that can almost certainly be considered not only the jazz album of the year, but perhaps the album of the...