October 2019 I'M TALKIN' JAZZ Sunday at 8 am
I10/6 Saxophonist Azar Lawrence with Michael Burman
Known for his contributions as sideman to Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis and Woody Shaw, Lawrence was the tenor saxophonist McCoy Tyner used following John Coltrane’s death.
10/13 Baseball Great Dusty Baker
Major League Baseball Manager and retired player who managed the SF Giants for 10 years discusses his rich musical upbringing with KCSM’s Harry Duncan.
10/20 Saxophonist Zoot Sims and Drummer Shelly Manne
An interview from the KJAZ archive with principal contributors of the 1950’s West Coast Jazz scene with KCSM’s Dick Conte.
10/27 Renowned Bass icons and producers Victor Wooten & Marcus Miller with Chuy Varela
Multiple Grammy Award winning purveyors of funk jazz and fusion Victor Wooten and Marcus Miller discuss their super band project SMV.
JAZZ Night in America with christian mcbride 10/7 Turning the Tables
Monday at 9 pm
This week on Jazz Night in America, we examine five women: Bessie, Billie, Marian, Mary Lou and, of course, Ella. The annual series Turning the Tables – an annual collaboration between NPR Music and Lincoln Center dedicated to recalibrating music history so that underrepresented, overlooked and hidden-in-plain-sight pioneers get their due – it opened up a set of possibilities as wide as a whole mountain range. This year, Turning the Tables focused on music’s “founding mothers,” women without whose contributions jazz, blues, and myriad other musical styles would be unrecognizable.
10/14 Origin Stories
From three performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center, how some of today’s best vocalists got started. We hear music from Quiana Lynell, Jeremy Bosch, and the vocal group—Duchess.
10/21 Charles Lloyd
Lloyd, a coolly venerable tenor saxophonist, flutist and composer, has famously been here and gone and back again. Fifty years ago, around the time he was named Jazzman of the Year by DownBeat magazine, he abruptly dropped off the scene, in search of equilibrium. He found it along the rugged California coast, where he established a new life, full of healing and contemplation, before rekindling his relationship with the spotlight. And we’ll join Jazz Night producer and writer Alex Ariff as he pays a visit to Lloyd’s home and sanctum in the mountains near Santa Barbara, Calif. They'll touch on ancestral legacies and present realities. “I’m an elder now,” Lloyd says almost tentatively, as if still making peace with the idea.
10/28 Andy Bey
To help celebrate his 80th Birthday, Jazz Night in America revisits vocalist Andy Bey’s shining moment in the late 1990s through rarely heard interviews and archived concerts from Jazz at Lincoln Center.