Jazz

Swinging Down the Lane

1pm Wednesday/7pm Saturday

10-2     Top Goy Singers

                        Results of a recent poll among 50 age group.

10-9     Art Tatum Centennial

                        Honoring the daddy of jazz pianists 

10-16   Valentine's Day Revisited

                        More gems from the collection of Bill Valentine.

10-23   Desert Island 43

                        Favorite recordings of a listener from Little Rock, Arkansas.

10-30   1958 Playboy Poll 

                        INstrumentalists judged best by magazine readers.

Piano Jazz

9 p.m. Friday

10-2      Remembering Dave McKenna with guest host Daryl Sherman

Pianno Jazz remember pianist Dave McKenna. McPartland asked pianist and singer Daryl Sherman to guest hose this remembrance of McKenna that includes clips from the two Piano Jazz programs he did with McPartland in 1979 and 1994. Sherman also gives a delightful twist on "Rhode Island is Famous for You" and "Teddy Ballgame."

Jazz Profiles

8pm Saturday

Jazz at the Lincoln Center

9 p.m. Saturday

10-3       McCoy Tyner and Ravi Coltrane

Pianist McCoy Tyner, who helped define the sound of the John Coltrane Quarted, invites tenor saxophonist Ravi Coltrane to join his trio to perform Tyner's own "Fly with the Wind," and "Blues on the Corner" and to revist John Coltrane's "Moment's Notice." 

10-10     The Music of Thelonious Monk

Pianist Marcus Roberts joins the 15 piece Jazz at LIncoln Center Orchestra to re-imagine the work of Thelonious Monk. Band members offer fresh arrangements of Monk's "Epistrophy," "Criss Cross" and "Blue Monk." 

10-17     The Many Moods of Miles Davis Part 1: The Early Years

Ryan Kisor (trumpet) with Serman Irby (alto), Peter zak (piano), John Webber (bass) and Willie Jones III (drums) perform tunes from Miles Davis' early "Half Nelson," "Milestones" and "Move." Terrence Blanchard (trumpet) and his quintet perform "It Never Entered My MInd" and "Four." 

10-24     Seventy Years of Blue Note: Hard Bop and Beyond

The sounds of hard bop - pioneered by Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderly - were all captured in the catalogue of Blue Note Records. Singer Dianne Reeves and saxophonist Joe Lovano join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to honor the seminal label's 70th anniversary.

10-31       Rags, Strides, and Stopms

Put cut in your strut, and take pride in your stride! Virtuoso Marcus Robers and relative newcomers Jonathan Batiste and Aaron Diehl lead trios that honor the giants of the stride piano -- Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith.