CiTR -- Sweet and Hot: Recent Episodes
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Sweet & Hot's farewell broadcast. Thanks for listening, friends and music lovers. I will miss bringing the music to you. Keep a song in your heart and remember, It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got Swing.
The second hour is a tribute to the great Freddy Green, who played rhythm guitar in the finest of rhythm sections, that of the Count Basie Orchestra.
This week's show is a tribute to the multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and leading jazz educator Benny Carter, who enjoyed a career spanning 7 decades.
Local fashion historian Ivan Sayers drops in to share his deep and all-encompassing understanding of the fashions of the 1920's, 30's and 40's.
The usual offerings, plus a impromptu "mini feature" on women of 1930's & 40's jazz and swing.
Swingin' the blues with Count Basie 1938-1952 era; Walter Page, Jo Jones, Freddy Greene, Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Jimmy Rushing, Helen Humes, Count Basie, Herschel Evans, Dickie Wells, Buddy Tate, Sweets Edison and the whole gang.
Selections from the Hot 5's and 7's through to the late 1940's, and the Fleischmann's Yeast Radio Program
Local Rockabilly and Jazz guitar player Paul Pigat joins me in the studio with some rare, never before heard guitar tracks.
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the legends of the swing era - clarinetist, composer, arranger and author Artie Shaw.
Saxophone is the instrument of the day. Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Earl Bostic, Big Jay McNeely and others.
April Fool's Day - a whimsical musical offering of The Hoosier Hotshots, Six Jumping Jacks, Stan Freberg, Spike Jones and others.
I am joined in the studio by stride piano player Reese Gray of the Firecracker Jazz Band and Jen Hodges, bass player of Company B.
Featured recording: "One Night Stand: Lester Young And Sarah Vaughan, Town Hall Concert; New York 1947".
Music linked to the experience of the stock market crash of 1929- eighty years ago today, and of the Great Depression that followed.
This year's tribute show features selections from "The Complete Decca Recordings", "America's #1 Band" and others. There is also a radio transcription of the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival which has some amazing solo work by Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet and Roy Eldridge.
This week's show features a 90 minute tribute to "The Pres" with recordings of Lester Young with Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and others.
I am joined in the studio by the talented and lively Shannon Scott, Juhli Conlinn and Jen "Hudge" Hudgins. We talk about their new cd, and we play some music.
Retrospective of the Benny Goodman orchestra and small groups; 1935-1941. Featured recording: Carnegie Hall Concert of January, 1939
The annual Artie Shaw tribute show, featuring the 1936-1937, 1938/39 & 1944 orchestras. Snippets and sound bites from the Oscar-winning Brigitte Berman documentary, "Time Is All You've Got"
Rounding up the final day of The 2008 Fund Drive. Many thanks to the listeners who were instrumental in reaching CiTR's fundraising goal for this year.
We love you, madly!
Bassist and bandleader Jennifer Hodge of Company B joins me in the studio for a feature on the history, evolution and the great exponents of the sting bass.
Steve Brown, Thelma Terry, Slam Stewart, John Kirby, Walter Page, Jimmy Blanton and Bill Johnson
This week's show is a feature on the Tenor Saxophone. Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Chu Berry, Big Jay McNeely and others.
This week's show is a tribute to the great William "Count" Basie and his great orchestras of 1936 - 1945.
Vocals by Jimmie Rushing, Helen Humes, Paul Robeson and Anita O'Day.
Feature on the songwriters and lyricists of Tin Pan Alley continues this week with Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
Pre-1935: Hot Jazz, novelties and some repartee between Marlene Dietrich and Tallulah Bankhead.
Fill in for "Caught In The Red"; I play the R&B masters of the 1940's & 50's. Honkin' saxes and the Blues Shouters.
A retrospective of the career of Artie Shaw; with excerpts from the NPR interview by Renee Montagne.
By request; a special on the great clarinetists of the Hot Jazz and Swing eras: Johnny Dodds, Wilton Crawley, Barney Bigard, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and others.
A yearly tradition, the last show of April is a celebration of the enduring artistic legacy of the greatest jazz composer of all time - Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington. 2 hours of The Duke.
We love you madly!
The Kansas City Sound - Bennie Moten, Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams, Alphonso Trent, Jay McShann, Albert Ammons and, of course, Count Basie.
Extended Broadcast, with special guests Juhli Conlinn, Emily Lyall & Shannon Scott from the local band "Company B".
Fill in for "Caught In The Red"; a mix of screaming sax and rockabilly. Variety is good.
The second hour of the show features a tribute to Jeff Healey, who regretably left us on March 2nd, 2008.
Paul Mercer Ellington, son of Mercer Ellington and Grandson of Edward Kennedy Ellington, joins me in the studio for a brief retrospective of the Duke's early career and for an hour of the present-day Duke Ellington Orchestra's book.
I am joined in the studio by my guests Jennifer Hodge and Shannon Scott from "Company B".
Vancouver LIVING entertainment legend Mr. Dal Richards, Vancouver's elder statesman of swing, pops into the studio to share his reminisces of the Big Band Era, and to tell us about his current working band and to tell us about his 90th birthday celebrations and concerts this weekend.
Very special guest, Bria Skonberg joins me for the show! A talented and award winning Trumpet player, She leads "Bria's Hot Five, co-leads Mighty Aphrodite, and plays with Dal Richards, Simon Stribling and many others. A celebration of some of our favorite trumpet players of yesteryear.
A mix of different things; finishing up with a trio of sets from Duke Ellington, Count Basie & Artie Shaw.
My feature on the orchestra led by Tommy And Jimmy Dorsey, which recorded from 1928-1935. Bunny Berigan, Adrian Rollini and others are also there.
Enjoy!
My tribute to the World War veterans, the home front and featuring music from Glenn Miller, George Formby, Vera Lynn, Grace Fields, John McCormack and others.
Lest We Forget.
Filling in for my friend and colleague Jason Colantonio: "Shake A Tail Feather"; I play R&B from 1947-1960.
Featured artists included Hadda Brooks, Big Jay McNeely and others.
4-hour podcast with B-day Anniversary tributes for Charlie Barnet, Eddie Lang & Tony Pastor.
The first show after my return to the 10am time slot.
A mix of things, with some Hoagy Carmichael.
Blended broadcast: Jason, who hosts "Shake A Tail Feather" drops in, and we co-host our combined shows for a (very nearly)definitive history of Rhythm and Blues; with recordings ranging from 1928 to 1960.
The entire show dedicated to Count Basie, the pride of Red Bank, N.J. and his incredible band. Jimmie Rushing, Helen Humes, Lester Young, Joe Jones, Freddie Green, Walter Page and many others. The years of 1936-1941 are featured, with a little early 50's stuff. Billie Holiday also included.
Some vinyl I picked up some time ago- a wonderful series of recordings made between Sept. 1938 and Feb. 1939 by Artie Shaw that were broadcast on NBC live from NYC, The Hotel Lincoln and The Hotel Pennsylvania (now known as the Hotel Statler).
I hope you enjoy these wonderful recordings.
A mix of things, including a set of Kansas City Bands. Playlist found on the blog at http://www.myspace.com/citrjazz
A variety of the sounds of the jazz age - Lee Morse, Bix Beiderbecke, Bennie Moten, The Rhythm Boys, Ben Bernie and others.
Sweet & Hot's Artie Shaw anniversary tribute, and my extended broadcast goes into the 1950's R & B, and some solid 1950's Rockabilly.
Today's show is a Duke Ellington anniversary show- two whole hours of the Duke's magic. Enjoy!
Standard fare, followed by and hour of "The Devil's Music": hot jazz from the likes of Benny Moten, Mr. Jelly Roll and more...
"Oh, play that thing!"
Extended broadcast: four hours of the best of the 1920's,30's & 40's: Hour four is a Count Basie feature.
Today's show includes a half-hour of Chick Webb's orchestra, with some vocals by a teenage Ella Fitzgerald.
Fill-in for Jason's show "Shake a Tail Feather": R&B hits from the early 40s to around 1960.
A bonus hour of today's show - including a listener-sanctioned "1920's" extravaganza.
Oh, You Kid!
My fill-in show for The End Of The World News - a variety of tunes, and a 15 min. Hawaiian set.
Various little Christmas ditties thrown into the mix, and the last hour are a tribute to the three recent passages in the swing/jazz world: Jay McShann, Georgia Gibbs and Martha Tilton