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.
KTRU JAZZ: MILES MONDAYS - UNRELEASED MILES COMING THIS MONTH
(Miles' 2nd Great Quintet, with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams) It's MilesMonday. The KTRU Sunday Jazz Team are certified Miles fanatics. And we've been bumping a lot of the great live 60's recordings on Columbia lately. People tend to...
KTRU JAZZ: "Jaco", Richie Kamuca & Detroit Spiritual Jazz Classics
The YouTube playlist for our 7/3 show is up! Get it HERE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYtJBHhH-s&list=PLgjohzmFfyHxRLT2R_UDRTyq097U0pe18&index=4 "Twelve voices, 30-instrument big band from Detroit in modernist, self-determining...
KTRU JAZZ: Mal Waldron Doc, Sunday Playlists
(We played this gnarly solo-piano Mal Waldron rekkid on Sunday) The Playlist for this past Sunday's Jazz Show is up! You can find it HERE. Last week's (6/19, our Father's Day show) is up now too. Get that one HERE. Yesterday was a goodn' and we got to spin some heavy...
KTRU JAZZ: Priceless Footage From Legendary Mingus '64 Tour
Talk about Jazz For a Tuesday. We should be so lucky each week. The good people at Aquarium Drunkard have posted a real gift for jazzheads today. Two Hours(!) of treasure-trove footage from Charles Mingus' 1964 Tour of Europe. A tour that has since become absolutely...