Thursday, January 26, 2006

1/26/06 8:55 pm PT - Charlie Shoemake - Vibes Master - Blue Shoe Revisited Closing the interview and the show tonight with something from Charlie, again featuring Red Holloway on sax...love the way this one worked out... ...look forward to hearing more from these guys live and on record...get something out Charlie!! And as Jean Bach signed off with me tonight...Night Night!! Go Miff Mole...Freetime at 10:00!! 10:28:48 PM

1/26/06 8:45 pm PT - Charlie Shoemake Interview with Guest Red Holloway Charlie chats (with Red Holloway at first in the background practicing "Salt Peanuts") about the 2/1/06 SD Museum of Art date, what he's up to in Cambria with neighbors Red and Ernie (Watts)...and then we are treated to a Live tune from Charlie on piano and Red playing Alto (according to ear-trained Ron Dhanifu)...what a treat! Closing with Charlie's URL and goodbyes... Thanks Charlie and Red!! 10:26:17 PM

1/26/06 8:38 pm PT - Charlie Shoemake - Vibes Master - Creepin' In Getting this next interview segment started with something from Charlie's 2003 disc and a tune featuring is SD Museum of Art Jazz in the Park 2/1/06 Red Holloway...how was I to know that Red would be there when I called Charlie up...here goes... 10:23:08 PM

1/26/06 8:30 pm PT - Thelonious Monk / John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall - Nutty Ending the Jean Bach interview segment with another Monk tune...as Jean would enjoy it, I imagine... 10:20:57 PM

1/26/06 8:13 pm PT - Jean Bach - A Great Day In Harlem DVD Release Jean chats about the DVD release of her documentary A Great Day In Harlem, the day itself, the footage from Milt Hinton's camera...in color, the other extras on the DVD, some special stories, and a brief thought on last year's passing of Bobby Short. Thanks sooo much Jean!! Best of luck on the Gerry Mulligan footage, hopefully it will soon be out..or well baked as Jean metaphorically put it! 10:19:10 PM

1/26/06 8:08 pm PT - Thelonious Monk / John Coltrange - At Carnegie Hall - Crepuscule With Nellie I'm so glad I picked this to lead into the Jean Bach - A Great Day In Harlem interview...Jean seemed to like it and said that everyone back on the day in 1958 were smiling with Monk...I always smile when I hear Monk! 10:16:13 PM

1/26/06 8:01 pm PT - Doug Ellington & New Urban Groove - Life - Billy's Dead Great title! And a nice groove indeed on this one...another spin next week is called for! 10:13:19 PM

1/26/06 7:52 pm PT - The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra East - Diamonds for Nat - Work Song Another Jazz classic, this time by Nat Adderly, from a great sounding new Big Band disc...love the spiritual feeling intro to this version... 10:10:43 PM

1/26/06 7:42 pm PT - Phillip Strange / Larry Marshall - In The Moment - Take Five A lot of music from just the piano - drums duo...taking the familiar Jazz classic to new directions for sure... 10:07:31 PM

1/26/06 7:32 pm PT - Jazzical - Perestroika - Preluda Swinga Samba Nice sounding keys from the classical keyboardist, Joel A. Martin. We'll have to experiment a bit more with this one... 10:04:53 PM

1/26/06 7:28 pm PT - Bobby Matos - Acknowledgement - Motivos De Jazz Nice to get that latin groove back into it...interviews are great and swinging after the interviews is even greater!! 10:02:10 PM

1/26/06 7:21 pm PT - L.Zaide - Planet Chill: Memoirs of a Jazz Band - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To L.Zaide wanted to speed this one up a bit...a bit more urgency to why you want to get home...if you know what I mean... Great interview!! 9:58:31 PM

1/26/06 7:14 pm PT - L.Zaide Interview Chatting with the artist about the tunes, the concept of the album, his introduction to the standards he interprets on the New disc, his time in Vegas, and more...great chat L.Zaide!! 9:55:22 PM

1/26/06 7:08 pm PT - L.Zaide - Planet Chill: Memoir of a Jazz Band - Night & Day Kicking off the interview segment with an artists suggested tune...I love this tune to start with...and the lyrics, as L.Zaide is about to reinforce...totally suggestive. And I like the way it starts out moody and then gets wild!! 9:53:29 PM

1/26/06 7:01 pm PT - Mark Colby - Speaking of Stan - Only Trust Your Heart Beautifully done classic made famous by Stan, but what would you expect from A Tribute to Stan Getz...nicely done Mark! 9:50:24 PM

1/26/06 6:55 pm PT - Ivo Antognini - Feggari Mou - New little light Nice inventive, creative thing moving out of Hour 1 into our next phase, the introspective and further reaching Hour 2...thanks for getting us there Ivo! 9:47:54 PM

1/26/06 6:48 pm PT - Gabriel Weiss - Watering The Seeds - Black Elk Speaks Hoo Ray!! A local San Diego Big Band Album!!! Actually this one is both San Diego ensemble and Big Band...with Jazz 88's Cynthia Hammond on vocal on one of the tunes...cool!!! 9:41:18 PM

1/26/06 6:42 pm PT - Roger Davidson - Ten To Twelve - Meet Me In Paris Some pretty interesting rhythms from the kind of standard piano-bass-drums trio...interesting composition also... 9:36:29 PM

1/26/06 6:37 pm PT - Don Wise - Swingin' Up A Storm - John Friday's Son This is an electric blues swinger! Right on!! 9:24:40 PM

1/26/06 6:31 pm PT - Jack Sheldon - Sunday Afternoons at the Lighthouse - Cherry Nice mid-tempo swinger from our 2005 Jazz Live guest... 9:22:16 PM

1/26/06 6:24 pm PT - Edu Negrao - Tempo Bom - Tempo Bom Nice Brazilian Thing, up tempo for Hour 1...drive away drivers.... 9:19:18 PM

1/26/06 6:13 pm PT - Jae Sinnett - The Sinnett Hearings - Third Potato Right on...Jae's got another killer disc with this one...a great opener for the first set of the show! 9:15:40 PM

1/26/06 6:10 pm PT - STeve Tyrell - Songs of Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon You go Steve...some folks don't dig you too much here, but I kinda like the gravelly Jazz voice thing...it's not the same sweet songbird Thing we are getting lots of these days... ...maybe something a bit more adventurous next time out? 9:13:02 PM

1/26/06 6:05 pm PT - Rodney Jones - Dreams and Stories - Happy Blue Kickin' off the show and Hour 1 with a little blues swinger... lots of great things planned for tonight!!! 9:09:13 PM

1/26/06 6:01 pm PT - NPR News and KSDS Business Report Hamas...work with them if they work with us...please...the people have spoken...what have they said? 9:01:30 PM

2006.01.26 - The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, Thursday evening 6 to 9 pm PT (2-5 UTC) - L.Zaide, Charlie Shoemake, Jean Bach of A Great Day In Harlem The New Jazz Thing is LIVE! Thursday, January 26, 2006 from 6 to 9 pm PT (2-5 UTC) on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM with World Wide Webcast at http://Jazz88Online.org! Jean Bach, documentarian of "A Great Day In Harlem". There's a new DVD reissue, with extra goodies and we're chatting with the maker herself! Buy The DVD from Amazon to support Jazz 88! UPDATE POST-SHOW: MP3s Online! L.Zaide (ZAY-dee). Smooth, jazzy, introspective vocalist from Chicago via Las Vegas chats about his new disc "Planet Chill: Memoirs of a Jazz Band". Come back for MP3 audio after the show. Charlie Shoemake. Vibe Master is in San Diego 2/1/06, so we'll be chatting with him about that and digging his Vibes. UPDATE POSTSHOW: MP3s Online! Collaborate with TNJT! We've got lots of way to play and join fellow TNJT Jazz-heads: The New Jazz Thing Frappr. Put your pin on our Friend Mapper! Dig This Little Widget Flickr Group: The New Jazz Thing Listeners! If you have some Jazz pictures to share while you're digging the show, get into your Flickr account and do it there!! Comment on any posting here and over at the playlist at TNJT - The Tunes UPDATE POST-SHOW: TNJT - The Tunes for Thursday, January 26, 2006: The Complete Playlist, Fully Comment-enabled (so drop your comment off on any tune we play!). Also, check out the archive at TNJT - The Tunes and for what we might have heard tonight, here's a shot of TNJT - The (Potential) Tunes for Thursday, January 26, 2006 (click for a larger pic to see individual CDs more clear)... 5:42:43 PM