Machito, Toots, Benny and a sneak Weather Report 4/19/2010

On this podcast here, I broke my two to three set format and sneaked in a 2 song Jazz Fusion set of Weather Report. It was a sort of tribute to a great Bass player and to a very unique band. This set is heard in the very beginning, outstanding: Weather Report: Weather Report was ...

“The Cooker” Podcast

This podcast was on Lee Morgan's CD Album, "The Cooker." it features three songs and a preview of another podcast which I am almost done with and will be released shortly. Here's some more information of this great CD Album (All About Jazz): Although Lee Morgan had already made a handful of albums at the age ...

Conversa Cuba: Cuban Baseball History – Jan 27,2008

Cuban Baseball History with Renowned baseball expert Cesar Lopez of Cubanball.com Covered topics ranged from connections In the Negro Leagues to the Mexican League Much More on this super Informative show. Direct link of talk show to the Blogtalkradio post.

The BabaluBlog Radio Hour – Aug 07,2008

An island on the airwaves without a bearded dictator. This week we welcome a very special guest: Christopher S. Simmons, an active-duty Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and a career counterintelligence officer since 1987, is one of America ’s foremost authorities on Cuban Intelligence. He'll be with us for the full ninety minutes.

“The Sweet Sound of Cannonball”

When the CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET finished Hi-Fly - its closing number after a four week engagement at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco in October of 1959~the audience stood and cheered and whistled and clapped for fifteen minutes. In a dozen years of covering jazz events in San Francisco I have never seen anything like this ...

Miles, Coltrane and are you ready for Freddie?

On this Classic Jazz Podcast, I featured two sets. The first set was an introduction to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. So the listener could get to know and begin to understand why these two men are considered to be “the best” by many. I am not a judge of musical talent, in respect ...

“Avante Garde” or “Hard Bop” Part Two: Oliver Nelson, Thad Jones and Freddie Hubbard

Avante Garde? I’m truly not sure. Since I am learning as I listen, I bump into and read about different “Eras” of Jazz. There is much consistently in the early years but when you reach the “Hard Bop Era” which comes right after “Be Bop” one, there are different interpretations as ...

“Chico and Mongo” Part One and Two

It was one of my favorite musical special have done, I really enjoyed putting it together and listening to these two masters of Cuban music. The dates these records were made, especially Chico O’ Farrill’s, ( 1950 to 1954) Cuban Blues, only express and acknowledge the highest quality of music. Mongo ...

“The Mingus Dynasty”

Charles Mingus was and still is considered to be one of the best Jazz Bass player ever. This is for sure but his unknown contribution to Jazz is not recognized by mainstream music listener. His innovative form of improvisation of instruments was his golden contribution. He composed almost all of the ...

Video: Charles Mingus “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”

Charles Mingus grew up in the Watts area of Los Angeles. He first attempted to learn trombone and cello, but after being frustrated by poor teachers he took up double bass in high school, studying with Red Callender and a former bass player with the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, Herman Rheinschagen. ...

Classic 60′s Jazz Part One: Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley

The 60 ‘s was full of pioneering music in all facets of sound but this change took place in the middle of the decade. The most popular of all was the modern Rock n’ Roll sound. But there was a revelation also in the Jazz scene. Although it was more traditional than ...

Musical Special Clifford Brown, Monk, Sonny Rollins and Tony Bennett 2/10/2010

This was my second multiple sets musical special and it featured Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk with sonny Rollins and Tony Bennett. I started the Blogtalkradio show with a little of Clifford Brown’s Biography and played a Four song mellow set of his. Then I played a complete Album CD of Thelonious ...

Tango Jazz and Ella Fitzgerald

This Musical Special was only a two sets and sort of different. It featured a CD Album which concentrated on a sort of experiment by the gifted Argentine Astor Piazolla and outstanding Gary Burton. They combined the “New” Tango with Jazz and came up with a great CD Album named  “Libertango.” ...

Cal Tjader and Elis Regina and 50th Anniversary of Bossa Nova

This, my second podcast featured an musical Jazz Icon from the West Coast and one influential singer from Brazil, Elis Regina. Cal Tjader was very creative and never stopped learning. He was an enormous influence and a great part in the integration of Jazz with the Afro-Cuban beat. It is very ...