JazzSet delivers rhythm... melody...
harmony... improv... every week since 1992.
Each week, host Dee Dee Bridgewater brings you
music in performance, sweet and hot. With her fine,
friendly voice, the 2008 Grammy nominee introduces
sets from coast to coast, and beyond.
JazzSet's quality recordings capture the
legends, today's top bands, and promising new
talent. Occasionally, the program dips into its
archives and Dee Dee shares a moment that's too good
not to share.
Highlights of the 2008-09 season include:
Continued coverage of Kennedy Center
Jazz in Washington, DC, and sets from
Jazz Standard, named by New York
magazine as the Best Jazz Club of 2008.
And these artists:
Herbie Hancock "River of
Possibilities" Tour with Chris
Potter, Lionel Loueke, Dave Holland
at Newport
Luciana Souza with songs from The
New Bossa Nova
SF JAZZ Collective at Chicago
Symphony Center – music by Wayne
Shorter and members of the
Collective
Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette and
Bobby McFerrin –- the only recording
of their Spring '08 three-man,
fully-improvised concert tour
Ron Miles Quartet with Bill Frisell,
Reginald Veal, Matt Wilson playing
Ellington, Monk and Miles
Edmar Castaneda on harp, with Joe
Locke on vibes, at Seiji Ozawa Hall,
Tanglewood '08
The 2008 Grammy winner interprets Brazilian and North
American songs from her album The New Bossa Nova and
makes octave leaps and challenging chord modulations
sound effortless.
This high-profile octet and composers' workshop -- Dave
Douglas, Miguel Zenon, Joe Lovano, Robin Eubanks, Stefon
Harris, Renee Rosnes, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland --
plays new arrangements of Wayne Shorter and original
music. "The SFJAZZ Collective has to be one of the
greatest things going in jazz today," writes a reviewer
on jazzpolice.com.
From the University of Central Florida, this program
presents three-horn harmony from Eric Alexander, Jim
Rotondi and Steve Davis, and a rhythm section to die for
-- Mulgrew Miller, John Webber and Joe Farnsworth.
In reedwoman Cohen's own words, "I like to feel [music]
through dancing, and try to close my eyes and just get
into the mood of a song." The Jazz Journalists
Association named her Clarinetist of the Year in 2008.
The pianist marks a major birthday with a look back at
Art Blakey, Stan Getz and Joe Henderson -- bandleaders
who helped launch her career. Jeremy Pelt and Javon
Jackson play trumpet and tenor.
The tenor man "could play fast and he could play long
and he kept busy doing it up until the last day of his
life," writes Britain's The Independent. This
set from May 7, 2000, shows his mettle. Recording
courtesy of GMN Jazz Plus
Jazzset captures the last
night of the long-awaited tour. Each show presents an
extended improvisation, a film in sound, never to be
heard again except for this program. Wrap yourself in
the many voices of McFerrin, the vast drum kit of
DeJohnette, and Corea's piano provocations. Presented in
surround sound.
The Grammy-nominated vocalist from New Orleans and
Oakland joins the legendary "Greatest Band in the Land"
to open the new Yoshi's San Francisco on New Year's Eve
2007. Presented in surround sound.
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