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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.
KTRU JAZZ: THE Legend of Pee Wee Marquette
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...
KTRU JAZZ: Avant-Garde Legend Ran Blake Comes To Houston
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...
KTRU JAZZ: Lee Morgan Documentary Coming – Life is a Little Better
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...
JAZZ FOR A TUESDAY: HBD ART BLAKEY
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...
