Dec. 2009 The Jazz Center

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I'M TALKIN' JAZZ Sunday at 8 am

12/6 Pianist/Composer Mulgrew Miller with Lee Thomas 12/13 Jazzwest.com Editor & Webmaster Wayne Saroyan with Chris Cortez 12/20 Vocalist Kalil Wilson with Melanie Berzon 12/27 Pianist Michael Wolff with Michael Burman

RIVERWALK JAZZ Sunday at 6 pm

12/6 Jim Cullum’s Jazz Cabaret — Live at Pearl Stable Classic American jazz is a goldmine of great music. The Jim Cullum (pictured) Jazz Band and their guests dig up some personal favorites and flex their creative muscle on tunes never before performed on Riverwalk Jazz. It’s ‘the best of what you’ve never heard’ in a rollicking concert performance.

12/13 Showboat: An Original Jazz Transcription In honor of the 20th Anniversary of Riverwalk Jazz, in an encore presentation recorded in 1995, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band offers their original jazz transcription of Jerome Kern’s majestic score from Showboat (pictured), with theater legend William Warfield reading excerpts from the Edna Ferber novel that inspired Kern’s musical.

12/20 Home for the Holidays Holiday favorites performed by The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guests, along with excerpts from Louis Armstrong’s historic reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas. Break out the ornaments and turn up the volume.

Riverwalk Jazz puts listeners in the mood for trimming the tree, stuffing stockings, and sharing the holiday spirit.

12/27 ‘Ride, Red, Ride’:

New Orleans Trumpeter Henry ‘Red’ Allen Jr. New Orleans trumpeter Henry ‘Red’ Allen Jr., (pictured) made a name for himself on the 1930’s New York jazz scene as a hot trumpet soloist, singer, and entertainer. He later went on to hold a long residency as bandleader at Manhattan’s famed Metropole Café in Times Square. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guests tell the story and perform tunes from Allen’s long career.

THE ANNALS OF JAZZ WITH RICHARD HADLOCK Sundays at 7 pm

The sound of surprise describes both jazz itself and the enduring premise of "The Annals of Jazz." Since 1959, host Richard Hadlock has been improvising on historical themes and bringing forth worthy performers—from Armstrong to Zorn. Each Sunday, we may find Annals in Europe, Asia, Latin America or Back of Town anywhere.

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in the moment with jim bennett Sunday at 8 pm

12/6 The Anthony Wilson/Chico Pinheiro

Quartet Nova The Anthony Wilson/Chico Pinheiro (pictured) Quartet Nova, recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland on September 2, 2008, with Hamilton Price, Edu Ribeiro, and guest vocalist Luciana Alves.

12/13 Guitarist Terrence Brewer "Groovin Wes"- Guitarist Terrence Brewer (pictured) pays tribute to the legendary Wes Montgomery recorded on October 11th, 2009 at the Jazzschool with Dave Ellis, Will Blades and Micah McClain.

12/20 The Billy Higgins Legacy Band Part 2 of our June 2nd, 2009 recording of The Billy Higgins (pictured) Legacy Band, featuring Azar Lawrence, Henry “the Skipper” Franklin with Craig Handy, Kito Gamble, Myron Cohen, Billy and Lorca Hart, Edwin Livingston and Josh Nelson at the 11th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival.

Thanks to Artistic Director Jessica Felix and recording engineer Lee Brenkman.

12/27 The Maria Volonte Tango Passions Band

Photo credit: jose manuel

The Maria Volonte (pictured) Tango Passions Band, recorded at the Jazzschool in Berkeley on August 29th, 2009. With Murray Low, John Wiitala, Myron Cohen, Seth Asarnow and Kevin Footer.

THE JAZZ DECADES WITH RAY SMITH Sunday at 11 pm

12/6 Bring Back Those 'Chins Up' Songs Of The Depression 1930—1940.

12/13 Woody Herman at the Hotel New Yorker

Muggsy Spanier at the Hangover Club 12/20 Turk Murphy "Georgia Bo Bo"

Benny Carter In London

New Orleans Owls in Atlanta 12/27 Jimmy Lunceford "Uptown Blues"

Triangle Jazz Band of Princeton

Purple Pirates Jazz Band of Williams

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Holiday Specials

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Wild Women Never Have The Blues Friday, December 18| 9pm — Midnight

Almost-Christmas, almost-Hanukah, almost-Solstice, almost-Kwanza, almost here: the annual gathering of Wild Women that KCSM hosts every year during the dark, dark nights of December. With the little ones tucked in their beds and the big ones popping their fake-champagne corks, it’s time for the cackling and hilarity, interruptions and embarrassing gifts, searing confessions and shocking revelations that have become an annual KCSM rite: Wild Women Never Have the Blues.

Join Alisa Clancy, Jayne Sanchez and Kathleen Lawton for KCSM Radio’s seventeenth annual celebration of the season on Friday night, December 18th, at 9pm.

Grab your own favorite wild woman, join the fun, break the rules, win a gift and prepare for the eggnog season with JAZZ 91’s trio of seasonal merrymakers in this on-air bash.

And prepare to show your ID at the door!

A Paul Winter Solstice Concert Monday December 21 at 10pm

The holiday tradition continues with Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration. A dynamic musical celebration in the extraordinary acoustics of the world’s largest Gothic cathedral—New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine—highlight the music of the Winter Consort with Gospel singer Theresa Thomason, Brazilian singer/ guitarist Renato Braz, and woodwind master Paul McCandless.

Toast Of The Nation Thursday December 31 5pm-2am Count down to 2010 this New Year's Eve with live jazz on Toast of the Nation. Party with live music from coast to coast and celebrate the New Year with four midnights!

Raise a glass with listeners coast to coast and revelers at five live jazz locations across the continent. After midnights in New York and the Twin Cities, our West Coast artists give a Happy New Year shout-out to Mountain Timers. Then an hour later it's "Auld Lang Syne" (or something hipper) in Pacific Time, with a "here’s to Alaska and Hawaii" in advance of their midnight hours.

Featuring Anat Cohen at Berklee Performance Center in Boston, John Pizzarelli’s "Dear Mr. Sinatra" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, The Bad Plus at the Village Vanguard in New York and much more!

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Holiday Specials Friday, December 25th

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Christmas Music: The Jazz Feeling with Dr. Billy Taylor and Hank O'neill 6am

Jazz Piano Christmas XX 7am

On this ever-popular program we’ll hear solo performances and duo combos playing original interpretations of our favorite holiday classics. Artists include Dr. Billy Taylor, Ramsey Lewis, Patricia Barber, Eldar, and Robert Glasper.

Felix Contreas hosts.

A Herb Wong Christmas The Swinging Joys Of Yuletide Jazz 8am-12noon

The winter holidays bring another joyful jazzride on a popular Bay Area tradition... the wonderful sounds of Christmas swing and bebop with Dr. Herb Wong.

Celebrate with Herb on his 45th year of Yuletide Jazz! You'll hear a rich brew of traditional and modern, evergreen and fresh new holiday jazz...solos to big bands from dozens of great jazz makers: Dave Brubeck, Maynard Ferguson, Ella Fitzgerald, McCoy Tyner, Louis Bellson, Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, Fats Waller, Stanley Turrentine, Christian McBride, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dianne Reeves, the MJQ, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington, June Christy, Terence Blanchard, Bill Evans, Joe Williams and many more!

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JAZZ PROFILES WITH NANCY WILSON Monday at 9 pm

12/7 Bud Powell After being brutally beaten by police at age 21, Bud Powell (pictured) spent the rest of his short life fighting mental illness until his death in 1966. His music revealed his constant state of struggle. Known to improvise like one possessed, Powell's right hand could race through the upper registers of the keyboard with astounding clarity while his left hand grounded the lines with irregularly spaced dissonant bass chords. Bud Powell created a ferocious body of music that shattered the limits of bebop and influenced all that followed him.

12/14 Saxophonist/Composer/Arranger Gerry Mulligan 12/21 Charles Mingus, Part 1 Charles Mingus (pictured) was a big man and he played an instrument made for him, the bass, and in the process, remade it. Moving the bass down front, he conducted small groups and the occasional big band, playing hundreds of his own tunes—music that expanded jazz and the musicians who played it. On this show, part one of a two-part tribute to this triple threat—bassist, composer, and bandleader.

12/28 Charles Mingus, Part 2

By the time Charles Mingus' groundbreaking 1956 composition, "Pithecanthropus Erectus" came out, Charles Mingus had grown out of Watts, out of Los Angeles and the west coast, to establish himself as an innovative bassist and challenging composer. He moved east to New York, jazz central, and established his legacy as one of jazz's finest writers and most provocative bandleaders.

Photo: Tom Copi, © Jazz Workshop, Inc.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH WENDELL PIERCE Tuesday at 9 pm

12/1 Gershwin Rhapsody:

Feinstein, Austin, Roberts & Orchestras Unite The Jazz at Lincoln Center and American Composers' Orchestras join in a Gershwin Rhapsody. George and Ira are well remembered when singers Michael Feinstein and Patti Austin (pictured) dig into Nice Work, Embraceable You and Lady Be Good. Marcus Roberts re-imagines Rhapsody in Blue.

12/8 From the Heart of Steeltown:

Jeff "Tain" Watts and Steve Nelson 12/15 In This House, On This Morning (1992/2007) 12/22 Soul Jazz Summit: 12/29 Benny Goodman Centennial Finish the Year in Style. Shine those shoes to a high polish —you won’t be able to sit down for this one. Join us on the bandstand as The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra celebrates the enduring legacy of Benny Goodman (pictured.) Guest clarinetists Bob Wilbur, Ken Peplowski and Buddy DeFranco blow out the Goodman classics from his historic Carnegie Hall concert. Join us for high stepping swing.

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PIANO JAZZ WITH MARIAN MCPARTLAND Wednesday at 9 pm

12/2 Sheila Jordan with guest host Jon Weber Sheila Jordan's (pictured) unique singing style lights up Piano Jazz with guest host Jon Weber. Jordan reflects on her early inspirations in Detroit and chasing the great Charlie Parker, who later became a close friend. Along with brilliant pianist and collaborator Steve Kuhn, Jordan sets flame to Hum Drum Blues and The Touch of Your Lips.

12/9 Bassist Christian McBride

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12/16 Beegie Adair Pianist Beegie Adair (pictured) is known for an impeccable sense of swing and her smooth but intricate playing. The Nashville resident has been an in-demand pianist for the town's best country musicians, but her heart belongs to those classic tunes from the Great American Songbook.

Adair performs a graceful version of I Wished on the Moon and teams up with McPartland for her signature closer, We'll Be Together Again.

12/23 Piano Jazz Christmas Special 12/30 Marian Petrescu with guest host Renee Rosnes Photo credit: russ harrington

JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Thursday at 9 pm

12/3 New from the Kennedy Center 12/10 The Dave Brubeck Quartet Coming up to his 89th birthday on December 6th, Brubeck (pictured) is a revered jazz elder who still loves to perform.

His music elicits adoration and big cheers at Newport.

Photo Credit: Wiqan Ang

12/17 Pink Martini Rings in the New Year This little orchestra (Pink Martini lead singer, pictured) from Portland creates a fantasy of global style so seductive that a song in Arabic segues into Gershwin and then some, at Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA.

12/24 Steve Turre's

Sanctified Shells Meet the Millennium 12/31 Pre-Empted For Toast Of The Nation

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DESERT ISLAND JAZZ

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JAZZ WITH BOB PARLOCHA

THE JAZZ DECADES WITH RAY SMITH

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SONNY BUXTON

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KEITH HINES

A MORNING CUP OF JAZZ

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BOB PARLOCHA

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CRAZY 'BOUT THE BLUES

P IANO J AZZ WITH MARIAN MCPARTLAND

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH WENDELL PIERCE

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GREG BRIDGES (T/TH), KATHLEEN LAWTON (F)

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THE ANNALS OF JAZZ WITH RICHARD HADLOCK IN THE MOMENT WITH JIM BENNETT

RIVERWALK

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON WITH JESSE "CHUY" VARELA (M/T), MELANIE BERZON (W/TH/F)

(M/W/F), CLIFFORD BROWN JR. (T/TH)

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A MORNING CUP OF JAZZ WITH ALISA CLANCY (M-F)

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WITH CHRIS CORTEZ

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LATIN JAZZ WITH JESSE "CHUY" VARELA

AMERICAN JAZZ COUNTDOWN WITH CLIFFORD BROWN JR.

A MORNING CUP OF JAZZ WITH KEITH HINES

I'M TALKIN' JAZZ

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