Week 13:: New Year Bags

If the two purposes of WSRP are 1) to provide interesting/education jazz music for curious listeners, and 2) give me a radio outlet now that I'm no longer regularly on-air; then week 13 represents an odd result.

Over the holiday break, I was able to get some time on terrestrial radio at KRTU in San Antonio.  Upon my return to New York, I wrangled my first on-air shift at WKCR.  No hitches in either event, and I was pleasantly surprised both times to find how comfortable the return could be.

So now that I'm back on-air, do I really need a 'surrogate' radio project?

We'll see.  For now, my terrestrial radio is largely dictating my webradio focuses (see week 10's new-jazz, thanks to my KRTU gig, or this week's Milt Jackson feature as per my WKCR show).

Not sure where this is going, but I do hope you enjoy the music of Milt.  Vibraphone is an odd, though not necessarily rare, instrument in jazz, and Milt Jackson is its champion.  I had to really squeeze to fit Milt's career into my 5 hours on WKCR, so you can imagine how truncated it is in this 1-hour show.  

Still, music worth listening to, and as with most of WSRP, designed more as an introduction and springboard for your further musical wanderings.

Best of luck.

Audio

Playlist

1. Milt Jackson - Lover - The Jazz Skyline
2. Dinah Washington - Wise Woman Blues - Rare & Early
3. Dizzy Gillespie - A Night in Tunisia - February 1946
4. Thelonious Monk - I Mean You - Genius of Modern Music
5. Modern Jazz Quartet - Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise - First Recordings 1952
6. Modern Jazz Quartet - Baden-Baden - s/t
7. Milt Jackson - Ignunt Oil - Plenty, Plenty Soul
8. Milt Jackson & John Coltrane - The Night we Called it a Day - Bags & Trane
9. Milt Jackson - Statement - Statements
10. Milt Jackson - Soul Fusion - Soul Fusion
11. Milt Jackson - People Make the World Go Round - Sunflower

::WSRP::  This Concludes Part 2 in our 1,257 Part Series, "Big Names in Jazz"