Notes from the Jazz Underground

Series produced by WDCB

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Notes from the Jazz Underground is where Jazz gets a little weirder, a little louder, and a little more on the edge.

Notes from the Jazz Underground is produced by Paul Abella at WDCB in Chicago. A show that focuses on the fringes of Jazz, Notes From the Jazz Underground is where you'll hear avant-garde Jazz, Fusion, Modern Jazz and Jazz that's outside the mainstream.


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272 Pieces

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This week on Notes From the Jazz Underground, your host, Paul Abella explores the music of the Beatles, classic Jazz from the 70's with Keith Jarre...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Notes From the Jazz Underground, it's a show heavy on modern fusion, with songs from Donny McCaslin, Jeff Parker, Marcus Strickland, a...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's show features Jazz folks rocking out, Rock guys playing Jazz, plus new music from Marquis Hill.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:15
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Notes from the Jazz Underground gets a little weird this week, with new releases from Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, and some left of center jam...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Heavy Jazz and Heady Jazz: music from Dave Holland, Frank Zappa, The Aristocrats and brand new music from Angel Bat Dawid, Ben Lamar Gay and Dayram...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we take a look at the fun side of the avant-garde, with songs from Colin Stetson, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, DJ Logic and more!

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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New music from Greg Ward and the Gil Evans Orchestra, plus Miles from the 90's, Maceo from the 70's and more!

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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this week, we head back to the 90's with jams from Medeski, Martin and Wood, Zony Mash, we get weird with Joel Harrison and Jim Black's AlasNoAxis ...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we'll hear new music from Nik Bartsh, Chris Greene and New York United, classics from Santana and Elis Regina, and some off the wall stu...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2019
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, the big bands are coming back, and this time, they're gonna rock...Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra, Mari...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, it's a bonanza of off-kilter saxophones, with superb music from Albert Ayler, Eddie Harris, Tim Berne, Seamus Blake and more!

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, Paul drops the "F" bomb. FUSION! Music from Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Frank Zappa, The Tony Williams Lifetime, Dixie Dregs, ...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Notes From the Jazz Underground, Jazz gets re-mixed with Bill Laswell, Jazz gets re-imagined with Dave Liebman, and GangStarr gives us...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 1
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this week, we'll listen to some chicken pickin', some out of this world music, some down to earth funk, and a whole set of some of the new guys sha...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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this week, Notes from the Jazz Underground goes on an intergalactic journey with music from Sun Ra, multiple Coltranes, John McLaughlin, Bjork and ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:20
  • Purchases: 1
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this week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, we'll take a listen to some new music from Kendrick Scott's Oracle, Michael Gregory Jackson and Greg ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 58:05
  • Purchases: 1
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this week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, it's a dance party! New music from Bonerama and Snarky Puppy, classics from Herbie Hancock, Grant Gre...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, Notes from the Jazz Underground gets wild and woolly, with jams from Dave King's Happy Apple, Tim Berne's Science Friction, and a musica...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we take a listen to Jazz Fusion old and new, with recent releases from James Francies, Andrew Synowiec and Kamasi Washington, a classic ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, we go back in time, and we look to the present. We head to India and wrap up in Chicago. We hear cutt...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 58:20
  • Purchases: 1