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 – Nov. 15th (First Set): John Lewis & Sacha Distel
To open the first set this past Sunday, we played the title cut from a team effort LP by pianist John Lewis and French guitarist Sacha Distel, "Afternoon In Paris" on Atlantic Records. The twenty-two year-old Distel plays alongside his compatriots, tenor saxophonist...
On The Sunday Jazz Show - Nov. 8th (Second Set): Masabumi Kikuchi with Paul Motion
For the evening set Achim played “Ballad II” from Kikuchi’s 2012 album “Sunrise” on ECM Records. Thom Jurek of Allmusic.com writes of Kikuchi’s playing on the album: “[He] showcases an approach to the form that is mysterious, intuitive, and purposely unsystematic. Key...
On The Sunday Jazz Show - Nov. 8th (First Set): Bluegrass With Dave Holland?
Too often the lines drawn between different genres of music are used as walls. And surely a jazz show can’t play country music, right? We disagree, and a record like this one shows why. Just as in jazz, truly great bluegrass musicians are almost always truly great...
On The Sunday Jazz Show - Nov. 1: Eric Dolphy & Booker Little, 1961
Yesterday on the Sunday Jazz Show we spun an epic burner from volume two of the legendary recordings by the Eric Dolphy-Booker Little Quintet; a band that "set the jazz world on it's collective ear" in 1961. The 17-minute workout "Aggression" is a fantastic example of...