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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.
The Life Saxophonic: From KTRU Sunday Jazz
A little bit of Sonny to get you through the week. From KTRU Sunday Jazz.
KTRU Sunday Jazz 4/3: RIP GATO BARBIERI
(One from the KTRU Archives: Gato's stunner, "Chapter One: Latin America (Impulse!) ) This weekend’s Sunday Jazz Show had a rain cloud hanging over it, as we mourned the loss of Saxophone legend Gato Barbieri, who died Saturday at the age of 83. Leandro...
KTRU Sunday Jazz: We Miss Wilton Felder
(Wilton Felder, Houston Jazz Icon, with The Crusaders) Check out guitar legend Larry Carlton (Steely Dan, The Crusaders) reminisce on Houston's own jazz legend Wilton Felder, whom we lost last year. The article was published by The Jazz Times and you can check it out...
Sunday Jazz 3/27: Catchin' The Trane // Noah Howard's Black Ark
(The Greatest Front Line in the History of Jazz: Miles, Cannonball & Trane - Probably 1959) The Sunday Jazz Show was hittin' yesterday; smokin', heavy stacks jack. You can't catch us. Most of the show was all vinyl, with some minor exceptions - like the new Larry...