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Tuesday Morning Jazz - Out Here & Beyond Playlist

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Show: Out Here & Beyond
Announcer: Chuck Obuchowski
Date Artist Song Album Record Label
6/17/2025
12:01 pm
Tom Varner (Happy 68th birthday to a brilliant French horn player & composer!) How Does Power Work? The Mystery of Compassion (1993) Soul Note
6/17/2025
11:59 am
Gaia Wilmer & Ra Kalam Bob Moses Jellyfish Lake Dancing with Elephants Sunnyside
6/17/2025
11:41 am
Patricia Brennan (her trio is at thesidedoor.com in Old Lyme this Fri at 8pm) Sizigia (Syzygy) More Touch (2022) Pyroclastic Records
6/17/2025
11:32 am
Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet Traveling with Gregg Catalyst (The Music of Gregg Hill) Cold Plunge
6/17/2025
11:25 am
Stafano Bollani Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) Piano Solo (2007) ECM
6/17/2025
11:24 am
Jamie Cullum & unidentified Gospel choir Sail On, Sailor (co-written by BW & Van Dyke Parks) Musicares Tribute to Brian Wilson (2005) video of live performance
6/17/2025
11:20 am
Remembering Brian Wilson, an extraordinary pop composer, singer & Beach Boy . .  
6/17/2025
11:19 am
Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran God Only Knows Hagar's Song (2013) ECM
6/17/2025
10:58 am
Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra (remembering the euphoric funk, rock & soul master Sly Stone) You Can Make It if You Try / Stand MTO Plays Sly (2012) Royal Potato Family
6/17/2025
10:53 am
Mark Masters Ensemble, featuring Billy Harper Was It Here...Is It There? Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! Capri
6/17/2025
10:34 am
Dan Weiss Quartet (ft. Patricia Brennan, whose trio is at thesidedoorjazz.com in Old Lyme this Fri at 8pm) Plusgood Unclassified Affections Pi Recordings
6/17/2025
10:31 am
Marina Pacowski Feels Like Home New Standards Vol. 7: The Music of Carl Saunders Summit
6/17/2025
10:30 am
Eric Scott Reed Delightful Daddy Out Late Smoke Sessions
6/17/2025
10:11 am
John Sturino PLG (Prophets Lefferts Gardens) Blow Globe Outside In Music
6/17/2025
10:10 am
Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band One Of A Kind Like a Tree It Grows Soulspazm
6/17/2025
10:04 am
Kris Allen (his quartet performs 7:30 tonight at Carmines in East Hartford: 860-206-4580) I Have A Dream June (2023) Truth Revolution
6/17/2025
9:56 am
Carnegie Hall NYO Jazz, directed by Sean Jones Rejoice Live in Johannesburg Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute
6/17/2025
9:27 am
Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus with George Garzone The Child & The Warlock The Children & The Warlock Cellar Music
6/17/2025
9:26 am
Michael Dease Blues for Herb City Life Origin
6/17/2025
9:04 am
Herbie Hancock Cantaloupe Island / One Finger Snap Empyrean Isles (recorded June 17, 1964) Blue Note
6/10/2025
12:04 pm
Tom Teasley with Charles Williams The Blues (Langston Hughes poem) Wisdom (Remembering Charles Williams) self released
6/10/2025
12:03 pm
Dave Douglas title track (ft. Guy Klucevsek, Greg Cohen, Mark Feldman) Charms of the Night Sky (1998) Winter & Winter
6/10/2025
12:01 pm
Guy Klucevsek Spin Cycle (ft. Phillip Johnston: soprano sax) My Choice (2021) Winter & Winter
6/10/2025
11:58 am
Guy Klucevsek Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse (ft. violinist Todd Reynolds) Hope Dies Last (2023) Starkland
6/10/2025
11:44 am
Freedom Art Quartet U.S. Blues Inc. First Dance Freedom Art Records
6/10/2025
11:43 am
DIVA Jazz Orchestra It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' thru Life DIVAjazz.com
6/10/2025
11:35 am
Jim Self Wabashed (mashup of Wabash Cannonball & Orange Blossom Special) My America 3: My Country Basset Hound Records
6/10/2025
11:30 am
Ben Sidran Ever Since The World Ended Are We There Yet, Live at the Sunside Bonsai / Nardis
6/10/2025
11:22 am
Samuel Hallkvist Aphelion Song For Mimi: The Hass Co. vol. 3 Psychiatric Records
6/10/2025
11:07 am
Alyn Cosker Downtown A Y R (Lullaby for Finlay) Onta Calligram
6/10/2025
11:06 am
Danny Grissett Here's That Rainy Day Travelogue Savant
6/10/2025
10:51 am
Jose' Luiz Martins Yatra-ta' Odyssey Mixtape Origin
6/10/2025
10:46 am
Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet Rue de Royal Catalyst (The Music of Gregg Hill) Cold Plunge Records
6/10/2025
10:45 am
Dan Weiss Quartet (at firehouse12.com in New Haven this Fri: 8:30 & 10 pm) title track Unclassified Affections Pi Recordings
6/10/2025
10:25 am
Atlantic Jazz Collective, feat. Norma Winstone Distant Star (composed by Maria Schneider as Potter's Song) Seascape ALMA Records
6/10/2025
10:17 am
Gillian Margot and Geoffrey Keezer A Timeless Place (The Peacocks) Gillian Margot & Geoffrey Keezer MarKeez Records
6/10/2025
10:14 am
George Colligan (w Linda May Han Oh & Jack DeJohnette) If The Mountain Was Smooth, You Couldn't Climb It Live at the Jazz Standard Whirlwind Recordings
6/10/2025
10:05 am
John Coltrane Welcome (rec. June 10, 1965) Kulu Se' Mama Impuluse!
6/10/2025
9:57 am
Jimmy Greene (his quintet performs @ ArtistsCollective.org in Hartford Thurs, 6/12, 8pm) 26-2 (J. Coltrane) Gifts & Givers (2007) Criss Cross
6/10/2025
9:43 am
The Empress Mr. Syms (J. Coltrane) Square One Cellar Music
6/10/2025
9:35 am
John Sturino Bonafides Blow Globe Outside In Music
6/10/2025
9:34 am
Buell Neidlinger & Cecil Taylor Jumpin' Punkins (Mercer Ellington) ft. Steve Lacy, Clark Terry, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp, & Billy Higgins) NYC R&B (rec. Jan. 10, 1961)  
6/10/2025
9:21 am
Jazz Artists Guild Mysterious Blues (composed by & ft. Charles Mingus - players included Eric Dolphy, Roy Eldridge, Tommy Flanagan, & Jo Jones) Newport Rebels (rec. Nov. 11, 1960) Candid
6/10/2025
9:18 am
Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln Freedom Day We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (rec. Aug. 1960) Candid (a small but mighty label Hentoff helped to found & run)
6/10/2025
9:10 am
Honoring writer/producer/civil rights & jazz advocate Nat Hentoff Hentoff was born on June 10, 1925 in Boston, MA. .  
Show: Thursday Morning Jazz
Announcer: Chuck Obuchowski (for Pedro)
Date Artist Song Album Record Label
6/5/2025
12:02 pm
Miki Yamanaka (performs free concert at Butler-McCook House & Garden, 396 Main St, Hartford June 6, 6pm) That Ain't Betty Shades of Rainbow (2023) Cellar Music
6/5/2025
11:52 am
Billy Parker's Fourth World Get With It (Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals) Strata-East 2025 Radio Sampler Mack Avenue
6/5/2025
11:47 am
Lorraine Feather Splat! The Green World Relarion Inc.
6/5/2025
11:37 am
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner 23c (composed by Braxton) The Music of Anthony Braxton Pi Recordings
6/5/2025
11:31 am
Anthony Braxton (Happy 80th Birthday to a one-of-a-kind creative spirit!) with Muhal Richard Abrams Miss Ann Duets 1976 Arista
6/5/2025
11:28 am
Eric Dolphy South Street Exit (ft. pianist Misha Mengelberg, born 6/5/1935 in Kiev, Ukraine) Last Date (6/2/64 at The Hilversum, Holland) Fontana
6/5/2025
11:23 am
Altin Sencalar 17 West (composed by Eric Dolphy) Unleashed Posi-Tone
6/5/2025
11:22 am
Nnenna Freelon Dark and Lovely Beneath The Skin Origin
6/5/2025
11:06 am
Neff Irizarry Vitamina R Cambio (Change) Blue Canoe
6/5/2025
11:01 am
Behn Gillece title track Pivot Point Posi-Tone
6/5/2025
10:56 am
James Zito Time Zone Zito's Jump! self released
6/5/2025
10:55 am
Mark Masters Ensemble featuring Billy Harper Credence Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! Capri
6/5/2025
10:51 am
Ali Bello & The Charanga Syndicate Emiliando Ali Bello & The Charanga Syndicate Circle 9 Records
6/5/2025
10:50 am
The Hemphill Stringtet Mingus Gold: Nostalgia in Times Square Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill Out of Your Head Records
6/5/2025
10:32 am
Jerry Gonzalez (today is his 76th birth anniversary) & Fort Apache Band United (ft. the late Joe Ford on sax) Rumba Buhaina (2005) Random Chance
6/5/2025
10:28 am
McCoy Tyner (ft. 2 recently-deceased jazz greats: saxist Joe Ford & drummer Al Foster) Motherland (composed by violinist John Blake) Horizon (1979) Milestone
6/5/2025
10:07 am
Dena DeRose Stairway to the Stars Mellow Tones HighNote
6/5/2025
10:03 am
Atlantic Jazz Collective, feat. Norma Winstone & Joe LaBarbara Turn Again Seascape ALMA
6/5/2025
9:56 am
Brad Turner Spring Peeper Trio +1, It's All So Cellar Music
6/5/2025
9:55 am
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner Trinkle Tinkle The Music of Anthony Braxton Pi Recordings
6/5/2025
9:42 am
Anthony Braxton / Muhal Richard Abrams Maple Leaf Rag Duets 1976 Arista
6/5/2025
9:40 am
Anthony Braxton (Happy 80th Birthday to a one-of-a-kind creative spirit!) Joy Spring Seven Standards 1985, Vol. 1 Magenta
6/5/2025
9:21 am
Entre Amigos Heaven on Seven Magpie self released
6/5/2025
9:19 am
Emmett Goods (his quintet performs a free concert in Hartford's Bushnell Park tonight at 6pm) Bennett Street Blues Another Level (2023) Truth Revolution
6/5/2025
9:17 am
Ray Blue (remembering the tenor saxophonist, who died on May 21 at 75) Dark Berries (ft. trumpeter Eddie Allen) # People (2023) Jazzheads
Show: Out Here & Beyond
Announcer: Chuck Obuchowski
Date Artist Song Album Record Label
6/3/2025
11:59 am
Wes Lewis Quartet (performing tomorrow at Black Eyed Sallys in Hartford at 7pm) Ray Run live recording  
6/3/2025
11:58 am
Artemis What The World Needs Now Is Love Arboresque Blue Note
6/3/2025
11:57 am
Ray Blue (remembering the tenor saxophonist, who died on May 21 at 75) Our Day Will Come Work (2019) Jazzheads
6/3/2025
11:43 am
Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation Black Arthur This Time Sunnyside
6/3/2025
11:42 am
Emmett Goods (his quintet performs a free concert in Hartford's Bushnell Park this Thurs at 6pm) Triedstone Another Level (2023) Truth Revolution Recording Collective
6/3/2025
11:22 am
Marianne Solivan Open the Door (Betty Carter) Break's Over Imani Records
6/3/2025
11:12 am
BeatleJazz Hey Jude Reunion Yama Records
6/3/2025
11:11 am
Ravita Jazz Fool in the Rain / Sunny Side of the Street Alice Blue Ravita Music
6/3/2025
11:02 am
Brad Turner Wondertramp Trio Plus One, It's All So Cellar Music
6/3/2025
10:53 am
Mark Masters Ensemble featuring Billy Harper If One Could Only See Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! Capri Records
6/3/2025
10:53 am
Atlantic Jazz Collective, feat. Norma Winstone Trying To Recall Seascape ALMA Records
6/3/2025
10:51 am
Jimmy Greene Anhelando (Spanish for "longing") As We Are Now Greene Music Works
6/3/2025
10:22 am
Jimmy Greene Impatient As We Are Now (will be officially released next month) Greene Music Works
6/3/2025
10:21 am
JIMMY GREENE His quintet premiers music from As We Are Now at Artists Collective in Hartford Thurs, 6/12 @ 8pm. INTERVIEW  
6/3/2025
10:19 am
Jimmy Greene Praises As We Are Now (will be officially released next month) Greene Music Works
6/3/2025
10:16 am
Nancy Kelly Besame Mucho (ft. Houston Person) Be Cool Origin
6/3/2025
9:55 am
Isaiah J. Thompson The Cakewalk Dilemma The Book of Isaiah: Modern Jazz Ministry Mack Avenue
6/3/2025
9:39 am
Dena DeRose My Frame for the Blues Mellow Tones HighNote
6/3/2025
9:30 am
Billy Hart Quartet (w Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, Ben Street) Billy's Waltz Just ECM
6/3/2025
9:29 am
Bill O'Connell 85th Street Touch JoJo Records
6/3/2025
9:16 am
Sean Nelson's New London Big Band Don't Min-Us Don't Stop Now: The Lost Music of Thad Jones All In Records
6/3/2025
9:11 am
Jordan VanHemert Tread Lightly Survival of the Fittest Origin
6/3/2025
9:10 am
Jimmy Greene (stay tuned for my interview with Jimmy at 10 a.m.) Thirty-Two Flowers: Beautiful Life Vol. 2 (2017) Mack Avenue/jimmygreen.com
Show: Friday Morning Jazz
Announcer: Chuck Obuchowski (for Ron)
Date Artist Song Album Record Label
5/30/2025
12:06 pm
George Adams Quintet (ft. Al Foster; RIP) Intentions Paradise Space Shuttle (1979) Muse
5/30/2025
11:53 am
James Brandon Lewis Trio Apple Cores #1 Apple Cores Anti-
5/30/2025
11:52 am
Alexa Tarantino (The one-time West Hartford resident celebrates her 33rd birthday today) Move of the Spirit Firefly (2021) Posi-Tone
5/30/2025
11:41 am
Joe Marcinek Band So Many Chords The Groove Session Vintage League Music
5/30/2025
11:37 am
Joel Harrison D.C. (ft. Mike Stern) Guitar Talk: Vol 2 - Jazz Duos AGS Recordings
5/30/2025
11:26 am
Ed Palermo Big Band On the Milky Way Express / Take a Pepple / One Word / The Fish / Fred Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages Sky Cat
5/30/2025
11:25 am
Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra What'll I Do Chronography (Then & Now) Un-Gyve Records
5/30/2025
11:06 am
Mark Masters Ensemble featuring Billy Harper title track Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! Capri Records
5/30/2025
10:56 am
BeatleJazz Here Comes the Sun Reunion Yama Records
5/30/2025
10:55 am
Chet Baker The Song Is You (ft. David Friedman, Buster Williams, Joe Chambers) Peace (recorded 2/23/1982) ENJA
5/30/2025
10:52 am
June Bisantz & Gordon Merrell I Wish You Love It's Been a Long, Long Time (2023) self released
5/30/2025
10:39 am
June Bisantz & Alex Nakhimovsky Ocean Dream Love's Tango (2018) EH2U
5/30/2025
10:34 am
June Bisantz Sings Chet Baker Like Someone in Love / I've Never Been in Love Before Let's Fall in Love (2005) self released
5/30/2025
10:31 am
June Bisantz & Alex Nakhimovsky 11 Note Samba Love's Tango (2018) EH2U
5/30/2025
10:27 am
JUNE BISANTZ INTERVIEW Her quartet performs at The River Room, 50 Riverside Dr, Willimantic tomorrow @ 8pm: riverroomwilli.com  
5/30/2025
9:55 am
Rob Clearfield title track (part 1) Voice in the Wilderness Jazz & People
5/30/2025
9:51 am
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol One Melancholic Montuno 7 Shades of Melancholia Dunya
5/30/2025
9:50 am
Greg Murphy Geneva Snap Happy Whaling City Sound
5/30/2025
9:47 am
Behn Gillece Haymaker Pivot Point Posi-Tone
5/30/2025
9:46 am
Branford Marsalis Quartet Long As You Know You're Living Yours Belonging Blue Note
5/30/2025
9:45 am
Steve Kuhn Trio Mr. Calypso Kuhn Life's Magic (rec. at The Village Vanguard in March 1986) Sunnyside
5/30/2025
9:37 am
McCoy Tyner & Jackie McLean You Taught My Heart to Sing It's About Time (1985) Blue Note
5/30/2025
9:20 am
Al Foster Quintet Half Nelson Reflections (2022) Smoke Sessions
5/30/2025
9:17 am
Remembering Al Foster - The terrific drummer died on Wednesday at 82. . .  
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