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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: Texas Tenors Part One – Illinois Jacquet
If you tuned in to the show this past Sunday (YouTube playlist is up! HERE), you may have heard that we're doing a series of posts this week on Texas Tenors. What is a Texas Tenor? There's a brotherhood of tenor saxophone players from in and around the Lone Star State...
KTRU JAZZ: RIP Joe Temperley
From the BBC News Corp. "The great Scottish jazz musician Joe Temperley has died at the age of 86. One of the most respected jazz saxophonists in the world, Temperley, from Lochgelly in Fife, passed away on Wednesday. He left Scotland for London in the 1950s and...
Jazz For A Tuesday: Harold Land & Dupree Bolton
(Harold Land and Dupree Bolton) It's Tuesday night and you need some good music to get you to Wednesday. Harold Land was one of the great Tenor Saxophonists of his time, born right here in Houston but raised in L.A.- a player who thrived in the late 50s scene of...
KTRU Sunday Jazz: 5/8 – Funky Mama’s Day
(Zoot Sims and German pianist Jutta Hipp recording for Blue Note Records) Why aren't you listening to the KTRU SUNDAY JAZZ SHOW??? You can dig the (mostly) Full Playlist of the show on YouTube by clicking HERE! We'll share some jams we played for Funky Mama's...