Artist - Tune - Album
Buckshot Lefonque - Music Evolution - Music Evolution
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - The Return of the 5000 lb. Man
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Show Stopper - Show Stopper
Kevin Eubanks - Who Knows - Sundance
Airto Moreira - Parana - Fingers
Bennie Maupin - It Remains To Be Seen - Slow Traffic to the Right
Jill Scott - A Long Walk - Words & Music: Volume 1
Chick Corea - Quartet No. 2 - to John Coltrane - Three Quartets
Michel Camilo - Caribe - Michel Camilo
Baird Hersey - Lookin’ for that Groove - Lookin’ for that Groove
& The Year of the Ear
Osibisa - Adwoa - Happy Children
Horace Silver - Sanctimonious Sam - Sterling Silver
Billy Cobham-George Duke Band - Do What Cha Wanna - “Live” On Tour in Europe
Earth, Wind & Fire - You Can't Hide Love - Gratitude
Bill Frisell - Cadillac 1959 - Good Dog, Happy Man
John McLaughlin - Do You Hear the Voices that You Left Behind? - Electric Guitarist
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Good News - Good News
McCoy Tyner - For Tomorrow - Inner Voices
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised - Pieces of a Man
Crusaders - Put It Where You Want It - Crusaders 1
Jazz Gumbo just had a birthday. We launched almost exactly six years ago, in May of 2012. And the show and podcast have become one of the great joys of my life. I thank Adonis Huggins, the executive director at Radio Regent for suggesting a show to me. He knew that I’d been spinning vinyl once a week at the nearby jazz bar and restaurant, The Dominion on Queen (thanks to you also Sean Duranovich, for inviting me to that gig!), and said that they were interested in new programmers for Radio Regent!
Not only has this opportunity allowed me to introduce the music I love to listeners in more than 40 countries – many of whom I know are hearing much of it for the first time. It’s also pushed me to get more deeply into the music – Yes! The music I already knew and loved. Because I soon realized that I couldn’t just play my favorite tracks over and over. I began to listen more often and more closely to those flip sides of my favorite albums, and the albums I considered the lesser works of favorite artists, and to the albums of the supporting players to those artists. All of which reminded me of great work I’d loved but had forgotten, and got me listening with fresh ears to tunes I’d over-looked.
It also got me exploring again, something I hadn’t done in years the way I once had. I’m spending more time in used record shops again, listening to some of my fellow podcasters for classics and for new artists that had escaped me, I’m passing on exciting new talent I’m hearing on my local jazz station, Toronto’s Jazz FM, and I’m even getting out into the clubs a bit more often than I have in awhile.
And my hope is that this show is playing a role in keeping the jazz community vibrant, by keeping great, sometimes overlooked music in circulation, by reminding old members and newcomers alike of the great breadth and depth of this communal, improvisational, dynamic and all-embracing music. It’s a music that has never turned away a single cultural influence or source of inspiration. And that’s truly worthy of sharing.
So Thanks again for Being here on this listening journey with me. Enjoy this Set from 2012. And come back for another fresh Set in just few days!
Thrive!
Kirby
