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in the wbgo GALLERY Sounding Off, a mixed media exhibition celebrating the rich history and sounds of musical culture, will be on display in the WBGO Gallery January 3 through March 31, 2013.

Artist Jerry Gant curates this visual anthology to showcase the work of diverse, multi-generational artists and how they are influenced by the common factors of contemporary sound.

WBGO Gallery reception will take place Thursday, March Midnight Jookin’ by Jerry Gant 14, 6–8pm.

AWILDA RIVERA HONORED

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n December 2, City Lore, the nationally acclaimed not-forprofit organization devoted to preserving New York’s urban culture, ushered in a handful of New York City’s most beloved and enduring radio DJs, representing some of the most familiar letters on the radio dial, into the People’s Hall of Fame.

Held in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York, where the ceremony took place, the 12th People’s Hall of Fame awards ceremony and dance party, was a public acknowledgAwilda ment of the important role played by these six New York DJs, Rivera including WBGO’s Awilda Rivera, host of Latin Jazz Cruise joined by (Tuesdays 8–10pm) and Evening Jazz (Weeknights 8pm–1am) Bobby “While we tend to think of radio as a national mediumº, from its Sanabria inception, broadcast radio has maintained a strong local component, one anchored by local personalities who often promoted regional musicians and community events,” notes Ray Allen, from the Hitchcock Institute for American Music at Brooklyn College and host for the award ceremony. “Even here in New York, the capital of commercial music, radio has played a strong role in nourishing local music cultures.”

WBGO congratulates Awilda for this honor, and we are honored she is part of our team!

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If a Tree Falls in the Forest…

WBGO KIDS JAZZ CONCERT SERIES CELEBRATES 20 YEARS ost people have heard the question: if a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there, will it make a sound? That expression is especially poignant for a community public radio station that produces a jazz series for young people.

While WBGO’s Kids Jazz Concert Series includes amazingly talented performers, beautiful venues, informative question and answer sessions and fun times, all at no cost, we wanted to know how we could reach even more kids, so that our “trees” make as much sound as possible!

Enter The Agnes Varis Trust, whose mission is supporting affordable access to the arts, education and healthcare. Through the generous support of the WBGO Kids Jazz Concert by the Varis Trust, plus PNC and the Coleman Family Charities and others, WBGO will be able to celebrate the 20th anniversary season of the Kids Jazz Concert Series with more young people than ever before. How? The grant dollars will support a newly launched program to provide transportation to youth organizations in Essex County to get young people to and from each of the five concerts this April and May. WBGO kicks off the 20th Kids Jazz Concert Series on Saturday, April 6 at Newark Symphony Hall. These free Saturday afternoon concerts will bring jazz culture and performance to five Essex County, New Jersey venues. The interactive, hour-long programs give young people opportunities to learn about the distinct qualities of jazz, and why it is a reflection of our community, nation, and world. The performers produce special programs tailor-made for young people.

All concerts begin at 12:30pm, and are free. Adults must be accompanied by a child.

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WBGO KIDS JAZZ CONCERTS SPRING 2013 April 6

Bobby Sanabria & Ascension at Newark Symphony Hall

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Mimi Jones Qt. at Montclair Art Museum

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Lenny White Qt at Newark Museum

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Laura Hull Qt. at Luna Stage (West Orange, NJ)

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Michael Wolff at NJPAC Victoria Theater

More information can be found at www.wbgo.org/kids

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Lenny White Laura Hull

WBGO would also like to thank NJPAC’s Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens program and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for their continued support of the WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series. www.wbgo.org

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WBGO.org— there’s more to hear, see and experience ou may listen to WBGO in your car, at work, at home, on your cell, but did you know how much there was to explore on the WBGO website? In addition to being able to hear both our Jazz 88.3FM and the jazz bee (WBGO HD2) streams live 24 hours a day, you can hear amazing performances available nowhere else via the WBGO Blog and On-Demand content, plus read the latest news stories produced by WBGO, fresh jazz

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research, and event listings to help you plan your weekend or a visit to the New York/New Jersey region.

For example, more than 5,000 jazz fans packed clubs in New York City for Winter JazzFest in January, and WBGO listeners got to “the front of the line” by logging on to www.wbgo.org/thejazzbee for a special round-the-clock mix of recordings by the more than seventy groups who appeared at the festival. WBGO also

. . . more than 5,000 jazz fans packed clubs in New York City for Winter JazzFest in January, and WBGO listeners got to “the front of the line” by logging on . . .

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offered “sneak peeks” at groups who were premiering new material on the WBGO Blog. Our own Gary Walker hosted a special broadcast of sets by singer Gregory Porter and saxophonist James Carter from the festival as well.

Did you miss it? You’re in luck—the sets by Porter and Carter are on demand via the WBGO blog, or by visiting www.wbgo.org/ondemand.

Do you know where John Coltrane found his inspirations? Dr. Lewis Porter, Coltrane’s biographer and a Rutgers–Newark professor, is a

John Coltrane is the subject of Dr. Lewis Porter’s jazz blog You Don’t Know Jazz!

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James Carter jamescarteronline.com

Winter JazzFest sets by Gregory Porter and James Carter are on demand via the WBGO blog, or by visiting www.wbgo.org/ondemand,

renowned expert on the titan tenor saxophonist, and his new revelations may surprise you. He unveils these in a series of jazz history blogs for WBGO entitled You Don’t Know Jazz! You can find this special series, in which Porter has published his latest Coltrane research, on the WBGO Blog at www.wbgo.org/blog.

While at WBGO.org, don’t forget that you can sign up for jazz-e-news so that you get the latest and greatest on all the amazing programs on WBGO. You can also find a digital, interactive version of Upbeat at www.wbgo.org/upbeat— just in case you misplace your WBGO program guide.

You can sign up for jazz-e-news and also find a digital, interactive version of Upbeat.

hosted by Gary Walker. www.wbgo.org

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Pairings at Porter House WBGO is pleased to present Pairings at Porter House—a three course dinner at Porter House New York followed by a great seat at Jazz at Lincoln Center for a special performance.

PAQUITO D’RIVERA’S “CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS” Date: Friday, March 8 5:30pm dinner | 7:30pm performance All inclusive, three course meal and choice seating at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

On this program, the effervescent Cuban reedist-arranger-composer Paquito D’Rivera will place his lush sound and virtuosic sensibility at the service of this repertoire, imparting a Latin twist to the proceedings.

ELEGANT ELLINGTON Date: Thursday, April 25 7pm dinner | 9pm performance All inclusive, three course meal and choice seating at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Singer-pianist-impresario Michael Feinstein and a cohort of New York’s most talented singing stars will interpret these works on a show that explores both Ellington’s musical roots and the full flowering of his genius.

CELEBRATING DUKE ELLINGTON Date: Saturday April 27 12pm lunch | 2pm performance All inclusive, three course meal and choice seating at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Continuing in this vein, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will draw from its deep well of Ellingtonia, rendering the maestro’s essence and his centrality to American music with a forceful, idiomatic

clarity that reflects the JLCO’s abiding immersion in his language.

CHICK COREA Date: Thursday, May 16 6pm dinner | 8pm performance All inclusive, three course meal and choice seating at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Now in his seventies, the pianist-composer Chick Corea will be celebrated during JALC's 25th Anniversary Season with a multi-venue “festival.” Eat dinner early and attend the pre-concert discussion at 7pm.

SWINGING WITH THE BIG BAND Date: Thursday, June 13 7pm dinner | 9pm performance All inclusive, three course meal and choice seating at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Band singers like Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ivie Anderson, Dan Grissom, and Dick Powell inflamed hearts around the globe. Their music was the soundtrack of the age, and it will be celebrated over two nights as Michael Feinstein and Wynton Marsalis highlight the history and the music of one of the most exciting and crucial crossover movements in the mix of jazz and American popular song.

To purchase your package or for more information, please call Jennifer at 973-624-8880, sext. 269 or email at events@wbgo.org.

Our next WBGO Board of Trustees meeting will be held on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 6pm. The meeting location is to be determined. Check the May/June issue of Upbeat and WBGO.org for details. This meeting is open to the public.

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programs at a glance

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programguide March/April 2013 SUNDAYS 5:00AM LIVING ON EARTH with Steve Curwood A magazine show covering environmental issues.

6:00AM SUNDAY MORNING HARMONY with Dan Karcher 10:00AM SINGERS UNLIMITED with Michael Bourne Singers Unlimited is 4 hours of new and classic singers singing ballads and bossas, blues and be-bop. For more than 25 years, WBGO’s Michael Bourne has turned the spotlight on jazz vocalists with live in-studio performances, interviews and more.

6:00PM JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Re-broadcasts on Wednesdays at 6:30pm March 3 Discovery Artists: Alfredo Rodríguez Trio and Christie Dashiell Quartet at the KC Jazz Club in Washington, DC The late Claude Nobs of the Montreux Jazz Festival introduced Rodríguez to Quincy Jones, who was impressed. Under “the Q’s” wing, the young Cuban pianist is touring for his new album, Sounds of Space. To open, meet Christie Dashiell, alumna of the Kennedy Center/Betty Carter’s Jazz

Ahead program and vocalist in Howard University’s Afro Blue.

March 10 Gregory Porter at The Strings of Autumn in Prague, October, 2013 See sidebar.

March 17 Charles Lloyd 75th Birthday: Sangam at Newport Lloyd’s album Forest Flower from the Monterey Jazz Festival cast him as the essential California musician. “[It] captures the spirit of the sixties without sounding the least bit dated,” writes allaboutjazz.com. At a recent Newport Festival, Lloyd’s open-air, world-friendly saxophone joins Zakir Hussain, tablas, and drummer Eric Harland as “Sangam” (in Sanskrit, confluence).

March 24 Chris Lightcap and Bigmouth at Kuumbwa Jazz: Lost and Found in New York We’re in California for bassist Chris Lightcap and Bigmouth—two saxes, keys, Chris and drums. Lightcap’s Lost and Found New York is a musical guided tour from Arthur Avenue in the Bronx to the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, the Cloisters over the Hudson to Coney Island on the ocean.

Lost and Found in New York by Chris Lightcap has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble

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Development program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Gregory Porter at The Strings of Autumn in Prague, October, 2013 The baritone’s star is rising—by Gregory Porter broadcast time, his song “Real Good Hands” may have won a Grammy®—and he already has a huge fan base in Europe. Here in Prague, the applause between songs can run for over a minute. In March, Porter returns to sing at The Strings of Spring. [Thanks to Radio 1 Prague]

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March 31 Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour—the 55th Anniversary Celebration at the Kennedy Center On a 40-city tour with a stop at the Kennedy Center, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Ambrose Akinmusire, Chris Potter, Benny Green and Lewis Nash celebrate the 55th anniversary of the long-running and much-loved California festival. Early reviews have been great.

April 7 Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts at The Village Vanguard He’s “a timekeeper who exploits all the www.wbgo.org

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All programs subject to change. timbres a snare drum can give him, finding melody in it. And when it’s his gig, he’s also a colorful personality with flailing limbs and goofy joy on his face,” says NPR Music.

Goofy joy! This is Wilson’s first booking at the Vanguard with his quartet Arts & Crafts.

April 14 Umbria Jazz The long-running festival in the artistic haven of Perugia, Italy—100 miles from Rome—is sharing sets with us. Artists’ names to come.

April 21 Terri Lyne Carrington’s Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue at Berklee College of Music Money Jungle is the landmark LP about the tug-of-war between art and commerce from the one-time-only trio: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. On her new album, masterful drummer TLC covers the music from Money Jungle with her own arrangements, Gerald Clayton on piano, and some 21st century enhancements.

Thanks to Berklee College of Music in Boston April 28 Allison Miller and Boom Tic Boom at the Mary Lou Williams Festival, the Kennedy Center Since this set a year ago, drummer Miller has played with Dr. Lonnie Smith, gone to Cuba, released the vinyl LP Live at Willisau (DownBeat Editor’s Pick), showcased The Great Women of Blues & Jazz project, and a lot more. Her Boom Tic Boom Project is Dan Tepfer, piano; Marty Ehrlich, saxophone; Todd Sickafoose, bass.

7:00PM SUNDAY NIGHT MUSIC MIX Grammy™ nominated record producer Eulis Cathey plays an eclectic mixture of jazz, contemporary jazz, fusion, jazz/funk, Latin, classic R&B and so much more. From Grover Washington, Jr. to Weather Report; from James Brown to Eddie Palmieri; from Charles Earland to Incognito, the Sunday Night Music Mix has something for everyone.

11:00PM JAZZ FROM THE ARCHIVES March 3 The Best of Wes To celebrate Wes Montgomery’s 90th birth-

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day, Vincent Pelote surveys Montgomery‘s recording career concentrating on the years 1959 to 1965.

March 10 On the Merrit Host Joe Peterson salutes the career of bassist Jymie Merrit, one of the foremost double bass players of the hard-bop movement and long time associate of drummer Art Blakey.

March 17 Charles the Great: Part 1 Dan Morgenstern’s salute to Charlie Shavers, trumpeter, singer, composer arranger and underrated genius.

March 24 Charles the Great: Part 2 Dan Morgenstern’s salute to Charlie Shavers, trumpeter, singer, composer arranger and underrated genius.

March 31 Larry Ridley’s 75th Birthday: Part 1 Ed Berger’s interview with the bassist/educator Larry Ridley, whose stellar career includes associations with jazz luminaries Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Benny Carter, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and many others.

April 7 Larry Ridley’s 75th Birthday: Part 2 Ed Berger’s interview with the bassist/educator Larry Ridley continues.

April 14 Jazz From the Archivists (and other staff members) Host Vincent Pelote asked the archivists and others at the Institute of Jazz Studies for their favorite jazz pieces and will present the results.

April 21 Place Your Betts!

Bassist Keter Betts, who had a long association with pianist Tommy Flanagan and played with many jazz greats, is surveyed by host Joe Peterson.

April 28 It’s a Blue World Vincent Pelote plays selections from guitarist Joe Puma’s “It’s a Blue World,” and other recordings he made as leader and sideman MONDAYS 6:30PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER WITH WENDELL PIERCE March/April 2013 Upbeat

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programguide March/April 2013 March 4 Deep In The Shed: Marcus Roberts One of our favorite Marcus Roberts shows from the JALC archive. Roberts leads his iconic suite chronicling the blues in all its form and feel. He’s joined by drummer Jason Marsalis, bassist Roland Guerin and others to play the story.

March 11 Joey DeFrancesco Trio Take solace in the blues! Hammond B3 specialist Joey DeFrancesco and his trio are joined by three hard-driving tenor sax players—Vincent Herring, John Nugent and the late David “fathead” Newman, in one of his last performances. They’ll burn up classics like “Deep Blues,” “My One and Only Love” and “Speak Low.” March 18 Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway and Jazz See sidebar.

March 25 Karrin Allyson, Sachal Vasandani and Carla Cook Three modern interpreters of song offer distinctive moods at the House of Swing – Karrin Allyson provides a versatile expressiveness; rising star Sachal Vasandani delivers a cool sophistication; and Detroit native Carla Cook brings her blues-style.

April 1 Intuition: Bill Evans Perpetually sensitive in style and spirit, pianist Bill Evans was driven by a ‘quiet fire’ that has influenced entire generations of pianists. Guest musical director Bill Charlap with guitarist and Evans collaborator Jim Hall and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra pay tribute with classics like “Waltz for Debby,” “Five” and “Peri’s Scope.”

April 8 SF Jazz Collective, The Music of Stevie Wonder See sidebar.

April 15 Jazz and Art II Music is like a painting that exists in time; painting is like music that exists in space.

Bill Frisell, Papo Vazquez, Doug Wamble and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra create musical portraits inspired by the paintings of

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Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Piet Mondrian and more. Join us for this exciting mediation on the art of creation.

April 22 A Joe Henderson Birthday Celebration Joe Henderson’s distinctive lyrical tenor sax could embellish bop, blues, bossa nova and his big band sound. His friends and musical collaborators celebrate the man’s lifetime of invention. We feature pianist Renee Rosnes, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and Chris Potter to mark what would have been Henderson’s 75th birthday.

April 29 Regina Carter with Reverse Thread and Stefon Harris with Blackout Innovative jazz fiddler Regina Carter and vibraphonist Stefon Harris explore their past to create a very contemporary sound. With JALC

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SF Jazz Collective, The Music of Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder’s colorful palette and unforgettable melodies have inspired artists of all genres and generations. The innovating, energizing SF Jazz Collective—takes on the challenge of the Wonder songbook. Miguel Zenon (alto), Mark Turner (tenor), Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Robin Eubanks (trombone), Stefon Harris (vibes), Edward Simon (piano), Matt Penman (bass), Eric Harland (drums), tackle “Mon Cherie,” “Superstition” and “Sir Duke.”

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All programs subject to change. kora player Yacouba Sissoko and accordionist Will Holshouser, Carter explores the music of Africa—from Ugandan Jewish songs to traditional folk music of Madagascar and Mali.

Harris and his band Blackout find inspiration in the funk and soul sound of the seventies.

7:30PM NJ CAPITOL REPORT Emmy Award-winning anchors Steve Adubato and Rafael Pi Roman host New Jersey Capitol Report which examines New Jersey’s most pressing public and policy issues. The program looks at political, social, and cultural issues affecting the people of New Jersey through in-depth conversations with the state’s top legislative leaders, political pundits, and “movers and shakers.”

TUESDAYS 6:30PM THE CHECKOUT This hour-long music magazine, hosted by Josh Jackson, is also available as a podcast, which can be found at the show’s website WBGO.org/thecheckout. The multimedia show features what’s new in the New York jazz scene, including featured new music selections, sessions from the WBGO performance studio, as well as interviews.

7:30PM LATINO USA with Maria Hinojosa Multi award-winning Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only nationally distributed English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective. This program covers the social, cultural and political issues facing today’s Latino community.

Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA, is also urban affairs correspondent for CNN and a former NPR News reporter. In addition to being a broadcaster, Hinojosa is an author, and a frequent lecturer on college campuses.

She has received the Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Associated Press award and the National Council of La Raza’s 1999 Ruben Salazar Award.

8:00PM LATIN JAZZ CRUISE with Awilda Rivera

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WEDNESDAYS 6:30PM JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Re-broadcast of Sunday’s Program; See Listing 7:30PM SPORTSJAM/CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLAN WOLPER These two programs alternate monthly in this time slot.

SportsJam takes a unique peak into the sports scene as WBGO’s News and Sports Director Doug Doyle talks with a wide variety of guests. Bernie Williams, Kareem AbdulJabbar, Jon Faddis, Savion Glover and Jazz 88 host Rhonda Hamilton all agree there’s a strong connection between jazz and sports.

SportsJam recently received the Best Sports Award from the New Jersey Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

Conversations with Allan Wolper features guests whose ideas are on the cutting edge.

Wolper, known as a “journalist’s journalist,” is an interviewer, reporter, documentary producer and ethics columnist, who has been honored by every journalism medium, winning over 50 awards.

THURSDAYS 6:30PM SONG TRAVELS March 7 Wayne Brady Wayne Brady became a household name improvising on the popular TV show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? The singer/actor/dancer/comedian has also appeared in the stage productions Rent and Chicago, and he became host of the game show Let’s Make a Deal in 2009. On this week’s Song Travels, Brady discusses his two major musical influences: Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke. With his musical director Cat Gray at the piano, Brady performs the Cooke classic, “You Send Me,” and Feinstein joins Brady in a duet of “It’s Only a Paper Moon.”

March 14 Jake Shimabukuro Jake Shimabukuro has brought the sound

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programguide March/April 2013 of the ukulele far beyond Hawaii’s shores; with imaginative innovation, he takes the humble “little guitar” everywhere from J.S. Bach to the Beatles. On this Song Travels, Shimabukuro surprises listeners—and host Feinstein—with his unique ability to transform a standard tune.

March 21 Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. See sidebar.

March 28 Catherine Russell As a young girl, vocalist Catherine Russell was bounced on the knee of Louis Armstrong. She started her career as a backup singer for stars including Paul Simon, Steely Dan and David Bowie. Today, Russell is a leading voice in interpreting the Great American Songbook. She joins kindred spirit Feinstein for an hour of pure radio perfection.

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Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. The husband and wife musical team of Marilyn McCoo &: Billy Davis Jr. met as members of the iconic sixties band The 5th Dimension. They went on to perform as a successful duo and host their own television show in the late seventies. Now, over 40 years later, their music and mutual love and respect are still going strong as evident on this Song Travels.

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6:30PM PIANO JAZZ WITH JON WEBER April 4 Laurence Hobgood Pianist Laurence Hobgood is best known for performing with vocalist Kurt Elling, but his own trio and solo work has set him apart as a virtuoso in his own right. His accolades include a Grammy® Award, and he’s played in the most prestigious venues in the world, including the White House and Queen Elizabeth Hall. On this week’s program, he displays his dexterity as a composer, playing his own “One Version of Happiness.” Host Jon Weber joins in on another Hobgood original, “Beyond Words.”

April 11 Cecile McLorin Salvant Radio France describes Cecile McLorin Salvant as “disarmingly musical” with “the class of Sarah Vaughn, the instinct of Betty Carter, and the dark lows of Carmen McCrae.” At twenty-three, she’s already won the Thelonious Monk competition and gained the ear of Wynton Marsalis. On this week’s Piano Jazz, Salvant discusses her journey to discover jazz, and host Weber accompanies her on the 1930’s tunes “I Can’t Dance” and “A Fine Romance.”

April 18 Allan Harris Variety calls singer/songwriter and guitarist Allan Harris a “velvet-voiced singer, with a savvy manner and music in his veins.”

Playing to packed houses around the world, he has also received a Chamber Music America Grant for his musical, “Cross That River,” a story of the Old West as told through the words and music of a black cowboy. Harris joins Jon Weber this week to tell his own story, with music including “Can’t Live My Life” and “Blue Was Angry.

April 25 Stacy Sullivan Winner of the MAC Award for Outstanding Female New York Debut, vocalist Stacy Sullivan lends her smoky alto to cabaret classics and standards, making them her own. Accompanied by Jon Weber, she

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All programs subject to change. brought the music of the legendary Peggy Lee to the stage with her acclaimed show, “A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee.” She reunites with long-time collaborator Weber, now in his role as host, for a conversation about the songs that will never fade, including “I Love Being Here with You.” 7:30PM PEOPLE’S PHARMACY This program examines current issues in medicine, mental health, nutrition and fitness.

FRIDAYS 6:30PM PORTRAITS IN BLUE Re-broadcast of previous Saturday’s Program; See Listing.

7:30PM WBGO JOURNAL This program, produced by the multi-award winning WBGO team, covers issues of importance to the Newark/NY metro area.

SATURDAYS 6:00AM SMILEY & WEST Smiley & West from Public Radio International (PRI) is an energetic radio program that is a fusion of thought provoking, intelligent and JALC

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Ethel Waters: Blues, Broadway and Jazz Vocalist Ethel Waters embodied the blues and brought that soul to every boundary she crossed – black and white, jazz and Broadway, secular and gospel. Now, songmeister Michael Feinstein leads a trio of vocalists—Adriane Lenox, Catherine Russell and Tracie Thomas – to honor Waters’ classics including “Cabin in the Sky,” “Stormy Weather” and “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.”

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stimulating dialogue on every subject from news and politics to entertainment and culture.

The one-hour weekly show attracts a broad spectrum of compelling guests and asks questions that solicit newsworthy discussions.

Listen as Tavis Smiley & Cornel West engage in deep dialogue in the “Hot Stuff” segment where the duo dissects the hottest news topics. The most engaging portion of the show encourages audience interaction in the “Take ‘Em to Task” segment when a caller debates Smiley & West on a political or social issue.

Finally, what would a Smiley & West show be without provocative discussions with A-list newsmakers, celebrities, great thinkers and doers of our time! Get Ready . . . it’s time for Smiley & West!

7:00AM PORTRAITS IN BLUE Re-broadcasts on FRIDAYS at 6:30pm March 2 Chuck Berry, Vol. 3 March 9 Albums of Jimmy Witherspoon, Vol. 10 March 16 Jimmy Reed, Vol. 1 March 23 Sam “The Man” Taylor, Vol.2 March 30 Billy Eckstine, Vol. 2 April 6 Sonny Boy Williamson, Vol. 6 April 13 Dinah Washington— From the Beginning, Vol. 3 April 20 Barbara Lynn, Vol. 4 April 27 James Brown, Vol. 10 8:00AM SATURDAY MORNING FUNCTION WBGO’s Bob Porter plays blues, R&B and classic soul, with an emphasis on the early 1950s to the late 1960s. New artists who perform these styles are also featured.

10:00AM RHYTHM REVUE WITH FELIX HERNANDEZ Rhythm Revue’s blend of classic soul and R&B received the A.I.R. (Achievement in Radio) Award for the Best Weekend Program in New York, and was named Best Radio Show by New York Magazine and the Village Voice.

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Joe Lovano Us Five Cross Culture (Blue Note) Vanessa Rubin & Don Braden Full Circle (Creative Perspective Music) Jed Levy Rain (Steeplechase) Mark Gross Blackside (Jazz Legacy Productions) Kathy Farmer Moondance (Times Square) Kevin Mahogany Old, New, Borrowed & The Blues (Mahogany Jazz) Steve Slagle Evensong (Panorama)

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Duke Ellington Complete Columbia Studio Albums 1951–1958 (Columbia/Legacy)

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The Checkout— Live at Berklee BGO and Berklee College of Music continue with year two of The Checkout—Live at Berklee, a program in which critically acclaimed, New York-based performers return to their Berklee roots and perform for the world from Boston’s Cafe 939. On Thursday, March 7 at 8pm, you can tune in or log on to hear Walter Smith III (Berklee class of 2002) with Taylor Eigsti, Harish Raghavan, and Calrence Penn.

From a young age, Walter Smith III began taking music very seriously: “My first gig was playing at a McDonald’s in Houston with another saxophone player. I took a solo on ‘Blue Bossa.’ It was terrible.

People clapped, and I figured if I could get away with that and get applause, how could I fail?”

Smith began playing the saxophone at the age of seven in his hometown of Houston, Texas. While at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, he received a Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship from IAJE and NFAA; the NFAA Young Talent Award; a full-tuition scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music; and a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts medal. He graduated from Berklee in 2003 with a degree in music education.

Smith has performed all over the world, in numerous national and international festivals and on famed stages in the U.S. such as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy

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Center. He has shared the stage and appeared on recordings with many jazz notables, including Terence Blanchard, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller, Joe Lovano, Bob Hurst, Myron Walden, Walter Beasley, Lewis Nash, Terri Lyne Carrington, and a host of others. To date, he has appeared on more than 75 recordings that are released worldwide.

Over the past few years, besides leading a quintet, Smith has been a member of several recording and touring groups, including the Terence Blanchard Quintet, Eric Harland’s Voyager Band, Ambrose Akinmusire’s Quintet, Christian Scott’s group, the Sean Jones sextet, Jason Moran’s Big Bandwagon, and the Christian McBride Situation band.

You can hear the performance on March 7 at 8pm on WBGO Jazz 88.3FM and also see the performance, streamed live worldwide at 8:00 p.m.

Eastern time, on WBGO’s blog— www.wbgo.org/blog.

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