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In Jazz Mine 143 you will hear from artists such as Jeff Hamilton Trio, Tommy Halferty Trio, Greg Lloyd Group, Trish Clowes, Norma Winstone, Sean Hession with Louis Stewart. and many more..........A wide range of jazz covering many ages & genres. Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie.
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To welcome 2018, The Hot Box presents an all-singing show hosted as usual by former RTE presenter Donald Helme. This is a mix of Irish and American singers, with some special attention paid to the late Jon Hendrix, who also features in Donald’s blog piece recalling Hendrix’s residency in Ashbourne, Co. Meath back in the late 1960s. The show also presents a new singer who hails from the New England area of the US, Allegra Levy, who has, according to those in the know, or at any rate in the publicity business, “taken the jazz world by storm”. She is a real new voice on the scene, and composes much of her own work too.
On this edition I have a look at vibraphonist Gary Burton's life and career to celebrate his 75th Birthday. And I do that with a selection of some of his groundbreaking and most innovative work from the early days with his first Quartet via collaboration with Chick Corea and Pat Metheny to his last incarnation of his New Quartet.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 25.01.18 Celebrating Gary Burton's 75th Birthday
All Irish jazz artists on the show this time incl. Tommy Halferty Trio. Stella Bass, Edel Meade, Truly Divine & Josh Johnson, Grainne Brookfield, Colette Cassidy & Nigel Clark, Christine Tobin, Aoife Doyle, Jack L, Scott Flanigan and many more ..........A wide range of jazz covering many ages & genres. Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie.
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On this edition you can hear the choice and selection of some of the members of the Gisle Myklebust Quartet from Stavanger in Norway, well known at the local and national jazz scene, that has released two excellent albums along the way. And you can hear a couple of track from it as well their selection of music by Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Roy Hayenes and Thelonious Monk.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 18.01.18 The best in Jazz (From Stavanger with Love)
On episode 141 of Jazz Mine you can hear from Oscar Peterson, Max Roach His Chorus & Orchestra, Stan Getz with the Gary McFarland Orchestra Big Band, John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, Nina Simone, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers & Bill Charlap Trio and many more ..........A wide range of jazz covering many ages & genres. Saturdays 5PM on dublincityfm.ie.
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For this edition I picked a selection of "heavenly" tunes and songs expressing the feeling of being "IN HEAVEN", creating some moments of simple and sheer beauty with music by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Scott, Ben Webster, Ray Brown, Gary Smulyan, Bob Wilber and Kenny Davern as well as the Michael Wollny Trio.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 11.01.18 A Celebration of "heavenly" Jazz