The funky drum withdrawals have hit me... I had to break out some of the late 60's/early 70's grooves for this show. Easily at home in the church or Harry Callahan's 8-track, these are some of the juiciest food for your soul I have in my collec
Back to some classic sounds this week including the great clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, and a very special recording of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band recorded live right down the street from me at the original Tyrone Guthrie Theater in 1964, a
We start off the show with a protagonist who's optimistic, maybe even naive, with no idea what's about to happen to him. Then the villain is introduced in The Fox Stalker. We move to a border town where there's even a fight scene in Oscalypso.
I've been in and out of the doctor's over the last week and I wanted to do a show that would help me rest and recuperate. We start off as cool as you can get with Chet Baker and Jimmy Giuffre, and by the end we are warmed up with two 70's soul
Another week...It's getting a little warmer in the Twin Cities, so it gets a little hotter in the mix this weekend. I get right to it with some serious percussion with the all-star Jazz Messenger percussion ensemble, led by the incomparable A
Once you listen to this one, you'll notice that I bring out some of my soul jazz roots. And soul jazz itself has it's roots deep down in the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, and the brick and steel of the Chicago streets. The mother of all mode
Past the greeting card aisles and the chocolate boxes, love is still as complex and ethereal as when most of these songs were written almost 80 years ago. For centuries we've been trying to express this emotion with song and art and language. S
This week features a tribute to a man who influenced me greatly in getting into the funk and soul jazz when I was growing up. The first time I heard of him I was standing at a Virgin Megastore kiosk in Chicago listening to a cover of Think Twic
This first show I just simply wanted to evoke the mood I'll be exploring throughout this show, that of a night's drive home through the city. One of those melancholy nights you spend alone. I stay classic this week except for the last track, fr