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This week on Afterglow, we celebrate the Fourth of July with an All-American Road Trip. We’ll hear Afterglow favorites like Ella Fitzgerald and Fra...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We’re living life among the jet set this week on Afterglow, as we explore songs about traveling from the Great American Songbook, including “Come F...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We explore wants and desires this week, hearing “I want” songs from the American Songbook, including “I Want To Be Happy,” “Whatever Lola Wants,” a...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Our 1920s retrospective concludes this week with a look at songs from 100 years ago: 1924. We’ll hear some songs from this year that have resonated...
- Added: May 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome vocalist Leslie Beukelman and pianist Jeremy Kahn in a quartet setting with Larry Kohut (bass) and Jon De...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
This week, we’re continuing our exploration of songs from the Roaring 20s with a look at 1921, a year that spawned songs like “Ain’t We Got Fun,” “...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On Afterglow, we’re spending the month of May turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties, a time when the Great American Songbook was in its in...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome the Chris Greene Quartet, led by saxophonist Chris Greene. The group has been together with effectively t...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
Singer Blossom Dearie could be coy, cute, heartbreaking funny, and intimate, and she exhibited all of it on her six albums for Verve Records in the...
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We continue our 100th birthday celebration of Sarah Vaughan, exploring her work for Roulette Records label in the 1960s.
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 59:00
With a total solar eclipse just days away, we’re looking up at the sun for inspiration. We’ll hear songs of sunshine from the songbook, including “...
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome back vocalist Paul Marinaro in an ensemble totaling 15 stellar musicians led by guitarist and arranger Mi...
- Added: Mar 12, 2024
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 2
First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...
- Added: Feb 07, 2024
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
Jazz standards like “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and “A Sunday Kind of Love” are not just for singers like Frank Sinatra. This week, we’ll hear the Gr...
- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Lee Morgan's hardbop hit "The Sidewinder," the avant-garde October Revolution movement, and the impact of the Beatles are some of the highlights we...
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 59:01
E.Y. “Yip” Harburg wrote words to some of the most memorable songs in American culture, including “Over The Rainbow” and “It’s Only A Paper Moon” a...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
We’re looking up at the moon this week, exploring jazz standards all about our lunar companion, like “Fly Me To The Moon,” “Moon River,” and many m...
- Added: Dec 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Raíces, a formidable quintet founded by the late legendary percussionist Ruben Alvarez, now led by vibrap...
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 57:02
- Purchases: 2
We take a listen to some recent releases for the second half of the year, including new music from singers Laufey, Veronica Swift, Caity Gyorgy, an...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 59:00
We pay tribute to jazz guitarist Barney Kessel and his work with notable singers like Billie Holiday, Dean Martin, Anita O’Day and many more.
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 59:00
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we time-travel to 1927 with the hot jazz of the Chicago Cellar Boys in a one-night only “live in-person” version of ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 57:01
- Purchases: 3
This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE, would you like to guess who just got inducted into the Hammond B-3 Organ Hall of Fame? That’s right, our featured a...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 3
Disney. The soundtrack of our childhood. This week on Afterglow, in honor of Disney's 100th anniversary, I’ll explore the jazz side of Disney songs...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 59:00
Vernon Duke immigrated to America as a classical composer, and became one of the finest songwriters in popular music. This week, we’ll explore his ...
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 59:00
What do Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Perry Como, and Louis Prima all have in common? Their Italian-American heritage, of course! This week on After...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
