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Patrick Wolff has been a professional jazz musician for 20 years, and he takes great pleasure in exploring the endless avenues and narrow alleys through the world of jazz. There's a wealth of classic sounds out there, and new music being made every day, but it can be daunting to stay in the loop! So each segment, he'll focus in on the work of one single artist who deserves your attention. It might be a fresh face turning ears in a distant land, it might be a forgotten master buried in the stacks of LP's, or it might end up being the cat playing at that place around the corner from your house. He'll play all of it- the abstract, the swinging, the outrageous and the courageous. Tune in, take a deep breath and get ready for some of the most stimulating and creative sounds in jazz.

Patrick Wolff has been a professional jazz musician for 20 years, and although he likes Duke and Pops and Bird as much as anybody else in these parts, he takes great pleasure in exploring the endless avenues and narrow alleys through the world of jazz. There's a wealth of classic sounds out there, and new music being made every day, but it can be daunting to stay in the loop! So each week, he'll focus in on the work of one single artist who deserves your attention. It might be a fresh face turning ears in a distant land, it might be a forgotten master buried in the stacks of LP's, or it might end up being the cat playing at that place around the corner from your house. He'll play all of it- the abstract, the swinging, the outrageous and the courageous. Tune in, take a deep breath and get ready for some of the most stimulating and creative sounds in jazz. Hide full description

Patrick Wolff has been a professional jazz musician for 20 years, and although he likes Duke and Pops and Bird as much as anybody else in these parts, he takes great pleasure in exploring the endless avenues and narrow alleys through the world of jazz. There's a wealth of classic sounds out there, and new music being made every day, but it can be daunting to stay in the loop! So each week, he'll focus in on the work of one single artist who deserves your attention. It might be a fresh face turning ears in a distant land, it might be a forgotten master buried in the stacks of LP's, or it might end up being the cat playing at that place around the corner from your house. He'll play all of it- the abstract, the swinging, the outrageous and the courageous. Tune in, take a deep breath and... Show full description


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As much a great thought experiment as a successful band, the Anachronic Jazz Band is a formation of French jazz musicians that play classic bebop r...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Alan Silva The consummate free jazz bass player, Alan Silva was a part of the dawn of the "new thing" in the early 60's, and has been an intergral...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Andrew Cyrille From his early work with Cecil Taylor in the 1960s through his current appearances lighting up the performances and recordings of ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Bobby Bradford One of the great brass players of the free jazz world, Bobby Bradford was an early compatriot of Ornette Coleman, with whom he reco...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Carla Bley NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley is an enormously prolific and influential composer, as well as a creative bandleader and pianist. She was a ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Eric Revis Eric Revis established himself as a powerful and engaging sideman with Betty Carter and Branford Marsalis, with whom he has played for...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:44
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Erik Jekabson Erik Jekabson is one of the reasons the Bay Area is a great place to see jazz. He leads groups covering everything from bebop to N...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:46
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Ernie Henry One of the few bebop alto saxophonists who didn't sound like Charlie Parker, Henry was a favorite of Thelonious Monk and Kenny Dorham...

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Grant Stewart Tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart has been playing and recording classic jazz in NY for twenty years. He is celebrated by multiple ge...

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The Instant Composers Pool One of the longest-running large groups in jazz history, and one of the best-kept secrets of European jazz, the ICP vir...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Kenneth Terroade Largely forgotten tenor saxophonist Kenneth Terroade put forth a powerful series of appearances as a sideman in Paris in the lat...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
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Lucky Thompson In the 1940's, tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson drew sounds from Don Byas and Coleman Hawkins to shape a highly personal approach ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
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Louis Smith Trumpeter Louis Smith was one of the most bebop-oriented payers in the wave of superb jazz musicians coming from Memphis in the 1950s ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Marco Eneidi A student of Jimmy Lyons and Sonny Simmons, Marco Eneidi was one of the more compelling alto saxophonists in the post-bop free jazz t...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Stephen Riley Although his associations are with top-shelf names in modern jazz, including regular work with Wynton Marsalis and Marcus Roberts, S...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
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Masahiko Togashi Masahiko Togashi was one of the most heavily recorded Japanese jazz musicians, a percussionist with an idiosyncratic sound who w...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
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Martial Solal Piano player Martial Solal is one of the most significant French jazz artists after Django Reinhardt. A technical genius, his inven...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Tomasz Stanko Trumpet player and composer Tomasz Stanko has been an anchor of the jazz scene in Eastern Europe since the 1960's. His career has h...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Trudy Pitts An underrated, hard swinging organist who sprung from the fertile jazz scene in Philadelphia, Pitts went from classical training at Te...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
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Wardell Gray Through a series of epic tenor saxophone battles with Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray rose to prominence in Los Angeles in the mid-40's ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1