May 30 #1103 Buried deep in my stacks of vinyl is a 1964 recording by English singer Cleo Laine with her exploration of the works of William Shakespeare, but Duke Ellington’s “Such Sweet Thunder” preceded that and remains one of the most popular works with old Willie and jazz. (There’s Continue Reading
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April 2019 Playlists
April 25 #1098 There’s a heavy European flavour to this episode as we mine the current scene in eleven different countries. Two albums on the Hungarian BMC label introduce BMC’s latest round of releases: pianist Aki Takase(Germany) & her band, Japanic, and saxophonist Istvan Grensco & his Collective Special 5 Continue Reading
MAY 2, 2019 PLAYLIST # 1099 – 20th Anniversary Show
This week’s One Man’s Jazz celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the program. It hit the air waves at CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg on May 1, 1999. To celebrate, I decided not to take the easy way out and play my “favourite” recording of each year, but rather just plucked Continue Reading