RIP Ahmad Jamal (1930 – 2023)

Welcome to 2025 everyone – and Happy New Year. This week, unfortunately, got away from me a bit as I had some professional obligations that had to take priority so this show – while musically solid – was thrown together last minute. Hopefully, next week will be a bit quieter. Here is the playlist. Don’t…

I am traveling this week to spend some time with family so this will be a quick and dirty post about the show until I have some time to flush things out. Apologies – but please check back in a day or two and I’ll have more info here on some of the music –…

So we’ve nearly made through all of January 2024, and I don’t know about you but it absolutely flew by. It still feels like New Year was just last week. I mention the film Lone Star (1996) during the show – and I’ll just reiterate that it is an absolutely beautiful film and I highly…

This week, we sadly say goodbye to two jazz artists who we recently lost: Jesse Sharps of the the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and legendary jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan. We also have music by Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra, a great track from the Studio Rivbea series by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and we end the…