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Wycliffe Gordon
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Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. His trombone playing, hailed as "mixing powerful, intricate runs with sweet notes extended over clean melodies," has been universally hailed by jazz critics. Gordon received the Jazz Journalists Association 2002 and 2001 Award for Trombonist of the Year, the Jazz Journalists Association 2000 Critics' Choice Award for Best Trombone and has been nominated for the Jazzpar Award. In addition to a thriving solo career, he tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues throughout the world
Steps Taken
By Eli Howell
Label: D Clef
Released: 2026
Track listing: One For Steve; I Remember Al; For Garrison; A Clear Sky; One For Steve; Reimagined;
Alone Together; Say When; Dear Helen; A Vontade Mesmo
One For Steve
Album: Steps Taken
By Eli Howell
Label: D Clef
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:49
The Legacy of Billy Strayhorn, part III: Such Sweet Thunder and The Far East Suite
by Larry Slater
Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington recorded a number of musical suites in the 50s and 60s. The Shakespearean Suite “Such Suite Thunder" ranks up there with the greatest Ellington recordings. “The Far East Suite" was another important collaboration and highpoint in the Ellington discography. The band's famous reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, was all Strayhorn. Ellington's last ...
Plays Duke, Part III: More contemporary covers of Ellington's best loved tunes.
by Larry Slater
Duke Ellington's legacy lives on today largely through his compositions, and musicians from around the globe continue to embrace his music, finding new ways to re-interpret his songs.In this hour, you'll hear some immortal selections from the Ellington canon, including “Cotton Tail," “Solitude," “In A Sentimental Mood," “Come Sunday," “Reflections in D," and “The ...
Holiday Fun!
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; Joy to the World; Winter Wonderland; Green
Chimneys; Do You Hear What I Hear?/Little Drummer Boy; The Christmas Song; What Child
Is This?; Frosty the Snowman; Silent Night; The Christmas Blues; Baby, It’s Cold Outside; The
Mistletoe Blues; Auld Lang Syne.
It's About Time
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Song for Wycliffe; Summertime; Julia; Free Flight; Fake News; For Those We’ve Lost; Computer
Says No; Pamela; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Irish Goodbye.
Deborah Silver with the Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Rocks!
Label: Green Hill Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Paint It, Black – feat. Arturo Sandoval & Pedrito Martinez; Bennie and the Jets; Baby, I Love Your Way – feat. Peter Frampton; Tainted Love – feat. Kurt Elling (duet), Steve Jordan, John Clayton; Band On The Run; A Hard Day’s Night – feat. Monte Croft; Joy To The World – feat. Trombone Shorty (duet); Fly Like An Eagle – feat. Bill Frisell; Every Breath You Take – feat. George Coleman; Old Time Rock & Roll – feat. Wycliffe Gordon (duet) & Herlin Riley; Life’s Been Good – feat. Scotty Barnhart of The Count Basie Orchestra.
Holiday Music By Nicole Zuraitis, Darius de Haas, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Maud Hixson, New Releases From Jeff Dingler, Sacha Boutros & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast celebrates Winter Solstice with holiday music from Nicole Zuraitis, Darius de Haas, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Maud Hixson and new releases from Jeff Dingler and Sacha Boutros, plus birthday shoutouts to Edith Piaf, Susie Arioli, Jamile and Kerry Politzer, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy their music so ...
Wycliffe Gordon, Benny Benack III, Anais Reno & Tim Whitmer
by Joe Dimino
Welcome to the annual Christmas hour of Neon Jazz--a tradition carefully culled and curated each year to celebrate the season through the language of jazz. We kick off this year's holiday journey with Kansas City veterans Tim Whitmer and Rod Fleeman, bringing a hometown glow with Plaza Tidings from their 2025 album Happy Holidays. These seasonal ...
