Discovering Jazz

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Episode 7, LMJC – Inspiring our Youth, Part 2 Oct 24, 2017

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We celebrate youth, and Peterborough’s youth jazz group, LMJC, because it is youth taking up the art of jazz who are going to keep it as a living and growing thing. And also because they are good musicians. We’ll hear jazz (and one classical piece that influenced the group). A couple Bill Evans recordings (one with bassist Scott Lafaro), Christian McBride, Peterborough guitarist Mike Graham, Canadian drummer Terry Clark (backing up super-guitarist Jim Hall), and Art Blakey.

Episode 6: Youth Discover Jazz, LMJC Group, Part 1 Oct 17, 2017

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This episode and the next one are about keeping alive this form of music that we love. Its about youth. I interview five of them from a Peterborough group of mostly high school age, asking them what sparked their interest in jazz. Then I play some of those *sparks* on the program. The goal is to reverse the downward movement in popularity that jazz has experienced over the years…….so that it once again becomes a young person’s genre…..as well as catering to us older, more experienced listeners.

We’ll hear from each of the members of LMJC (The Luxury Mammals Jazz Collective) and play music by Vince Guaraldi, Steve Holt, Blood Sweat & Tears, Steely Dan, Mark Guiliana, Miles Davis, LMJC live at Hot Belly Mama’s, and one Canadian rock group that inspired the group’s drummer.

Episode 5, Jarret on Jarrett Part 2 Oct 10, 2017

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Jarret Prescott talks more about Keith Jarret, and we play music associated with him…..including the last time he played electric piano, before he decided to carry on an anti-electric music crusade. We’ll hear him with bassist Charlie Haden…..and you can compare his version of Goodbye with Diana Krall’s…. using the same bassist. Ending off with the full Paris Concert 1988, which Jarret describes as Keith’s masterpiece–one of the “outer regions of jazz”: the “distillation of walking through Paris in 1988, November”, “taking things from the composers he knows in the area and makes a sentence out of them”.

Episode 4, Jarret on Jarrett Part 1 Oct 03, 2017

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The first of two programs where Peterborough composer of works for the Piano-forté, Jarret Prescott, takes us on a journey exploring the works of pianist Keith Jarrett. I start out with a composition that Jarret says “sums up what I like to say about Jarrett being a conduit between Eastern and Western musical traditions, and also speaks to him as a bridge between jazz and the greater world itself”. Also a ‘blindfold test’ of a Keith Jarrett related recording that will surprise many listeners. And lots more! I even get to throw in a touch of Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, and Oscar Peterson.

Episode 3, September 25, 2017 Sep 26, 2017

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Starting with an amazing Toronto pianist…..one who is as fine a composer as he is an instrumentalist. Then an explanation as to why Frank Sinatra is considered so great (at least sometimes). You’ll also hear an obscure Swedish jazz singer name Lindha Svantesson (Delicious), some Bill Evans and Jim Hall, Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz switching instruments, a terrific jazz singer from Vancouver, the Sean Hully Jazz Group from Peterborough, and finishing off with a couple tracks from Benny Carter.

Episode 2, Sept 15, 2017 Sep 20, 2017

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This program starts out with Peterborough bassist, Wesley Collett-Taylor, and a recent project where he and some Toronto musicians recorded some of his own compositions, based on stories and poems. This particular selection is inspired by a poem by W.H. Auden.

Also on the program you`ll hear two versions of Blue Skies–one by the underrated singer/pianist Nellie Lutcher followed by an interpretation by Art Tatum. Also you’ll hear two versions of a more recent Eddie Gomez composition–including a beautiful vocal by Eugene McDaniels.

Then a tribute to Johnny Hodges.

There’s a gypsy jazz composition by Toronto Group Sultans of String, and lastly, two versions of one of Django Reinhardt’s most famous compositions—one of them being blues/heavy metal/and surf.

Episode 1, Introduction to 2017-2018 Season. Sep 08, 2017

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I’m Larry the Radio Guy, and this is an introduction program to the Discovering Jazz podcast. Last year this program, as aired on CFFF Trent Radio, 92.7 on your dial, received an award at the National Campus and Community Radio Conference for Best in Music Shows……..for all of Canada. Judge’s comments included “What a great show! It was a pleasure to listen to!

Thank you to the NCRA (National Campus and Community Radio Association) for giving me this prestigious award.

This week’s episode introduces you to the program and features more than one version of two jazz standards: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most, and There Is No Greater Love. This gives you an idea of some of the different ways that jazz performers might interpret the same song. I also feature two different tunes based on exactly the same chord sequence.

And you’ll hear great performances by Bob Dorough, Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry, Jane Bunnett with Don Pullen, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charlie Parker All Stars (with Miles Davis and Bud Powell), Bill Coon and Ron Peters, Isham Jones with Woody Herman, Billie Holiday, a touch of Amy Winehouse, The Sam Jones 12 Piece Band, and The Sean Hully Band from Peterborough.

Discovering Jazz, Special Episode, NCRA Award Winning Program Jun 28, 2017

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This episode won the award for Best Musical Program in Canada, from submissions from community and campus stations across Canada at the National Campus and Community Conference, 2017.

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