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Jazz Cafe - 10-10-2024 - Jazz Ascona Festival( 0:51:34)
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Ascona Jazz Festival, or Jazz Ascona, is an annual jazz festival held in Ascona, Switzerland. The 10-day festival takes place from late June to early July on the Swiss shores of Lake Maggiore and is devoted to historical styles of jazz, particularly New Orleans jazz.
Under the direction of Nicolas Gilliet, Jazz Ascona features more than 200 concerts, 300 musicians, and events such as gospel choirs, jam sessions, exhibits, conferences, and films.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 10/10/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 03-10-2024 - Dr John( 0:55:34)
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Dr John - Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, R&B, soul and funk.
Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of his album Gris-Gris (1968) and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music (1970). He typically performed a lively, theatrical stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes, and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack recorded thirty studio albums and nine live albums, as well as contributing to thousands of other musicians' recordings. In 1973, he achieved a top-10 hit single with "Right Place, Wrong Time".
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 3/10/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Jazz Cafe - 19-09-2024 - Acker Bilk( 0:55:6)
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Acker Bilk - Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, MBE (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 19/09/2024 11:00:00 a.m.
Jazz Cafe - 29-08-2024 - Bobby Hackett( 0:56:7)
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Bobby Hackett - Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played Dixieland music from the 1930s into the 1970s in a variety of groups with many of the major figures in the field, and he was a featured soloist on the first ten of the numerous Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 29/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 22-08-2024 - Gene Harris( 0:55:14)
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Gene Harris (born Eugene Haire, September 1, 1933 – January 16, 2000) was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.
From 1956 to 1970, he played in The Three Sounds trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy. During this time, The Three Sounds recorded regularly for Blue Note and Verve.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 22/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 15-08-2024 - Billy May( 0:52:0)
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Billy May - Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman (with Batgirl theme, 1967), and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.
May wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Yma Sumac, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews Sisters and Ella Mae Morse. He also collaborated with satirist Stan Freberg on several classic 1950s and 1960s comedy music albums.
As a trumpet player in the 1940s Big Band era, May recorded such songs as "Measure for Measure", "Long Tall Mama", and "Boom Shot", with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, and "The Wrong Idea", "Lumby", and "Wings Over Manhattan" with Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra. With his own band, he had a hit single, "Charmaine". In the 1950s he released several successful albums of his unique orchestral arrangements and compositions, including Sorta-May and Sorta-Dixie.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 15/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 08-08-2024 - Jazz Ascona Festival( 0:55:8)
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Ascona Jazz Festival, or Jazz Ascona, is an annual jazz festival held in Ascona, Switzerland. The 10-day festival takes place from late June to early July on the Swiss shores of Lake Maggiore and is devoted to historical styles of jazz, particularly New Orleans jazz.
Under the direction of Nicolas Gilliet, Jazz Ascona features more than 200 concerts, 300 musicians, and events such as gospel choirs, jam sessions, exhibits, conferences, and films.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 8/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 23-05-2024 - Matty Matlock( 0:54:10)
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Matty Matlock. - Julian Clifton "Matty" Matlock (April 27, 1907 – June 14, 1978) was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger.
Matty replaced Benny Goodman in the Ben Pollack band doing arrangements and performing on clarinet.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 23/05/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Jazz Cafe - 12-10-2023 - Cleo Laine( 0:55:17)
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Cleo Laine - Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth DBE (born Clementine Dinah Campbell; 28 October 1927) is an English jazz and pop singer and an actress, known for her scat singing and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a contralto, she is able to produce a G above high C, giving her an overall compass of well over three octaves. Laine is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular and classical music categories. She is the widow of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth.
This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz
Published: 12/10/2023 12:00:00 p.m.