All Other Jazz - Jazz Ireland - Results from #525

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 12 April 2017

On this edition I pay tribute to baritone saxophonist, composer and arranger Gerry Mulligan on what would have been his 90th Birthday and you can hear a hand-picked selection of his work from the early days with Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool Nonet via his pianoless Quartet with Chet Baker and his Concert Jazz Band to his final recordings.

Remembering JERU, one of the greatest Jazz musicians ever lived.

Details: Written by: Sean Brophy; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 06 April 2017

In the 100th episode of Jazz Mine you can hear racks from Colette Cassidy & Nigel Clark with their new album “Confetti Falling In The Rain” as well as Al Jarreau, Christine Tobin, John Coltraine, Lou Donaldson and more.

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Jazz Mine is a play on jasmine which is one possible originator in respect of JAZZ as a description of the music being featured on this weekly show. Jazz keeps developing so the intention is to keep the focus on newer stuff with many forays into the Jazz Mines to illustrate past jazz musical triumphs.

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 05 April 2017

On this edition I pay tribute to the late great tenorsaxophonist Michael Brecker on what would have been his 68th Birthday but who sadly lost his fight against cancer 10 years ago, the life and music of one of the leading saxophonists of our time remembered with a selection of his work.

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 29 March 2017

On this edition you can hear the music of Alec Wilder, one of the greatest composers of 20th Century popular music , interpreted by some of the leading Jazz musicians from Roland Hanna to Bob Brookmeyer, from David Liebman to Emilie Conway.

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 22 March 2017

In this edition I pay tribute to the first "officially" Jazz recording by the Original Dixieland Jazz band in January 1917 and I feature some of the group's compositions interpreted and recorded by other musicians on it's way into a new century of Jazz history. You can hear music by Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Arturo Sandoval, Benny Goodman, Humphrey Lyttelton, Art Pepper and the Hot 8 Brass Band.

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 15 March 2017

On this edition you can hear some of the funkiest organ grinders of 1960s Soul Jazz and beyond who ruled and revolutionized the sound of the good old Hammond B 3 Organ, showing that it could be creatively used in a Jazz context. And you can groove along to the music of Jimmy Smith, Big Joe Patton, Babyface Willette, Brother Jack McDuff, Shirley Scott and Dr.Lonnie Smith.

Details: Written by: Werner Lewon; Parent Category: Jazz Ireland Blog; Category: All Other Jazz; Created: 08 March 2017

TALES FROM THE FAR SIDE is live on air on CRC102.9fm and on www.crcfm.ie every Thursday 8-9 pm with a repeat on Saturday 9-10 pm. And there is a podcast of the show available on the web site all through the week. The show has established itself over the years with a small but devoted listenership (even beyond Jazz-fans) and since the introduction on internet the listenership extended nationally and internationally.

Tales from the far Side 06.04.2017 Life and music of Gerry Mulligan

Jazz Mine No. 100 Saturday 25th. March 2017

Tales from the far Side 30.03.2017 The Best in Jazz Remember Michael Brecker

Tales from the far Side 16.03.2017 The Music of Alec Wilder

Tales from the far Side 09.03.2017 the Best in Jazz

Tales from the far Side 02.03.2017 The Best in Jazz- feat. some of the best Organ wizards in Jazz

Tales from the far Side 09.02.2017 Bud Powell and his Influnce