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Besides being World Radio Day, this is Socan Reporting Week which is a perfect reason to feature great Canadian Music on this (almost) All-Canadian edition of The A-Trane Radio Program!  Keith Hartshorn-Walton took in a low-brass flavoured version of the theme. Our first Canadian feature is a rundown of the Jazz Juno Nominees for this year: Anthony D'Alessandro, Aretha Tillotson, Justin Gray, Rene...

Pretty wide variety of great music on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with a Grammy wrapup that includes John Coltrane's first recordings with Miles Davis from Miles '55, Samara Joy, Sullivan Fortner , Mavis Staples , Nate Smith with both Marquis Hill and the vocal ensemble säje , Caetano Veloso And Maria Bethânia, the Christian McBride Big Band, Gonzalo Rubalcaba with Yainer...

On this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program , the first half of the show will be handed over to a retrospective of the late Richie Beirach who passed away earlier this week. We'll hear him in many contexts across his career including with his long-time collaborator Dave Liebman (Richie's visits to Vancouver were mostly in the context of their working quartet Quest), in all-star trios...

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program largely handed off to a retrospective of the great guitarist, pianist and composer Ralph Towner who passed away earlier this week. We'll hear him in multiple contexts including his solo recordings, with the Paul Winter Consort, the long-standing quartet Oregon, a guest appearance with Weather Report and collaborations with Jan Garbarek, Gary Bu...

Fresh sounds on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program - I think we finally have all the technical difficulties ironed out! Feature sets this afternoon for the Sunnyside archival release of the Thelonious Monk quartet in Bremen 1965, a feature for the Pyroclastic Records label which includes the new release from Kris Davis with the Lutosławski Quartet and recent releases from Trio o...

Repeat from Jan 12 2024 -- Special program for the first new A-Trane of 2024, celebrating the Centenary of the great Max Roach today with the broadcast of a performance by the Max Roach Quartet at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre on Mar 18 1988 originally presented by Coastal Jazz. Along with more looking back and forward with great music, the A-Trane is the place to be! Check it out at 100.5FM...

Looking forward and looking back, kicking off 2026 in style on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! A new release from Carsten Dahl takes in the theme and then a nod to Milt Jackson's birthday yesterday leads into a survey of some great contemporary vibes players with Joel Ross , Patricia Brennan , Sasha Berliner , and Steve Nelson . Of course Nelson is part of the all-star ense...

Seasonal fun on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program - an extended feature for Carla's Christmas Carols, Carla Bley's brass quintet arrangements of some traditional tunes and a couple of her own compositions taken from both the official ECM Records 2009 release and an unofficial live contemporaneous concert. The first part of the show will be a retrospective of the late percussion...

A musical pot-pourri on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! A short feature on the late Gordon Goodwin and the Big Phat Band (his arrangement of Take the A Train also takes in the theme), the RSD release of Pre-Rahsaan Roland Kirk live at the Village Gate in 1963 (with 3 different outstanding pianists), previews for Winter Morning Walks: musica intima & Triology at the Blue...

Celebrating December 5th Birthdays on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! Bumper crop of birthdays including bassist Art Davis, Italian pianists Stefano Bollani & Enrico Pieranunzi, cellist Tomeka Reid , South African alto Gwigwi Mrwebi, Ellington vocalist Kay Davis, trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, Little Richard, and the centenary of the New Orleans saxophonist Alvin "Red" Tyle...

Having lots of fun on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! The first part of the show will be dedicated to the Centenary today of the great composer, arranger and alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce! Then we'll have a number of previews - The Nightcrawler and  Ale Avery Nunez at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts tonight, Paul Pigat at Frankie's Jazz Club tonight and next weekend Doug Web...

Building tributes to three great musicians around live performances on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! The legendary Coleman Hawkins celebrates his birthday today and we'll hear a number of live performances including the 1940 performance of Body and Soul from the Savory Collection. Sheila Jordan 's Celebration of Life took place earlier this week on what would have been he...

Special Autumn Airlift Membership Drive edition of The A-Trane Radio Program featuring the music of Pharoah Sanders this afternoon. The last few years have seen a number of reissues and archival releases featuring the music of "Little Rock" and we're going to do a bit of a survey across them. We'll hear from Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on Strata-East Records , the Alice Coltrane 1971 Carnegie Hall Conce...

Special Edition of The A-Trane Radio Program this Friday Oct 31st to kick off this year's Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO Fall Membership Drive! I'll be joined in the studio by fellow broadcasters John Orysik , Rob McGregor and Marc Lindy to reflect on the Jazz that Made Us - the players and performances that got us into the music and kept us there! Of course, we'll do some previews, classics and defin...

Vancouver Jazz audiences are lucky to have three of Canada's finest saxophonists in town this weekend - Ryan Oliver at Tyrant Studios tonight and La Fabrique tomorrow, Phil Dwyer with his trio at Frankie's Jazz Club tonight and tomorrow and Chet Doxas with the Capilano University Jazz students at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University tonight! We'll have feat...

Mixing it up on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program : Previews for Pj Perry , Rudresh Mahanthappa , Madeleine Elkins , Chet Doxas , Rachael & Vilray , and Jocelyn Gould with the VJO; new releases from Mike LeDonne , Jerry Weldon , Kate Wyatt , Saku Mantere , and the west coast all-star group Motivation; sad passages of Will Scarlett and D'Angelo; birthdays for Ray Anderson ,...

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program is mainly split into 3 parts - first we'll celebrate the birthday today of the great Thelonious Monk with a sampling of his performances at the Newport Jazz Festival between 1958 and 1975 including his guest appearance with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1962 and his final public performance at Newport in New York in 1975. I was spurred to inc...

Two principal features on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program , first up is the great Gary Bartz who turns 85 years old today and we'll hear him in a number of settings from Max Roach's group, Miles Davis, & Ntu Troop through to Maisha & Jazz is Dead. Then an extended feature for the late British double bass player Danny Thompson who brought a jazz sensibility to each of...

On this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program saying goodbye to two stellar musicians who both passed on the same day this week: the Hammond B3 player Akiko Tsuruga and the Brazilian wizard multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal! Also a preview for George Garzone 's sold-out Tribute to John Coltrane performance at Tyrant Studios on Tuesday Sept 23rd to celebrate their shared birthdays -...

Mostly previews and birthdays on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program . Oliver Jones takes in the theme - he turned 91 yesterday and is still participating in some of the Oscar Peterson centenary celebrations happening across the country. Other birthdays observed today are Leo Kottke, Mel Torme, Texas Alexander (I don't know what the hell is that!), Cat Anderson and Baby Face Will...

The focus is on Saxophones on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program ! Vancouver is celebrating this weekend's birthday of Sonny Rollins with a series of concerts recreating albums from his amazing career culminating in a screening of Robert Mugge 's documentary at the VIFF Theatre this Sunday (Sonny's actual 95th birthday!) We'll sample from the albums in that tribute series and in...

In these waning days of summer just taking it easy on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with preview features and birthdays! An extended feature for the great Esperanza Spalding will take a sweep across her multi-faceted career, collaborations and recordings to preview her highly anticipated performance at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts tonight! Other previews include...

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program is completely in celebration of the Centenary of the great Oscar Peterson born 100 years ago today. We'll celebrate Oscar the pianist, the accompanist and collaborator and the composer with a mix of requests, career highlights and rarities spanning his 60+ year career! Solo, in duo and his many working trios as well as collaborations with Leste...

A few extended features on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program starring with an early celebration of Art Pepper's Centenary with a 1980 weekend starting at Ronnie Scott's going into An Afternoon in Norway at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival released earlier this year. It seems as though every day brings bad news about great musicians we have lost and we'll have tributes to two wonderf...

Kicking off this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with an overdue celebration of the centenary of the great James Moody with a sweep across his varied career of over 60 years. He takes in the theme with one of his last Grammy-winning recordings and we'll hear him with Renee Rosnes doing Giant Steps (!), Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Jefferson, Roberta Gambarini , Cheryl Bentyne , and a st...