Discovering Jazz

Today’s program starts with B.B. King and Kenny Burrell playing together…..along with organist Jimmy Smith and a host of other great musicians. Then Emilie-Claire Barlow rhythmically transforms a Donovan tune into …what’s the time

An illustration of how some people learn and learn about jazz.  We hear the perspective of Peterborough jazz saxophonist, Sean Hully.  Sean tracks the development of jazz, from King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker.   He then m

Live from Trent Radio Studios (92.7 fm in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), more 2nd hand vinyl records I bought this fall.  You’ll hear some great vibes from a 1962 British film about jazz, Mel Torme with Janis Ian, an incredible trumpet blowout wit

Today….from a live feed from Trent Radio in Peterborough….I play some 2nd hand jazz lp’s I bought at a pawn shop recently just to see which ones I’ll put in with my collection and which ones I’ll give away.  I’ll try o

There is a great jazz instruction blog and podcast called LearnJazzStandards.com, hosted by a guitarist named Brent Vaarstra.  One of his posts was called “92 Modern Jazz Albums You Need to Listen To”, with ‘modern’ being anything

Special guest for this episode is jazz bassist and ethnomusicologist, Michael Morse, talking about the great pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk, in honour of the 100th year of his birth.  He addresses why people who don’t think he’s a grea

We celebrate youth, and Peterborough’s youth jazz group, LMJC, because it is youth taking up the art of jazz who are going to keep it as a living and growing thing.  And also because they are good musicians.  We’ll hear jazz (and one classica

This episode and the next one are about keeping alive this form of music that we love.  Its about youth.  I interview five of them from a Peterborough group of mostly high school age, asking them what sparked their interest in jazz.  Then I play some of

Jarret Prescott talks more about Keith Jarret, and we play music associated with him.....including the last time he played electric piano, before he decided to carry on an anti-electric music crusade. Well hear him with bassist Charlie Haden.....and you

The first of two programs where Peterborough  composer of works for the Piano-forté, Jarret Prescott, takes us on a journey exploring the works of pianist Keith Jarrett.   I start out with a composition that Jarret says “sums up what I like to say

Starting with an amazing Toronto pianist…..one who is as fine a composer as he is an instrumentalist.  Then an explanation as to why Frank Sinatra is considered so great (at least sometimes).  You’ll also hear an obscure Swedish jazz singer n

This program starts out with Peterborough bassist, Wesley Collett-Taylor, and a recent project where he and some Toronto musicians recorded some of his own compositions, based on stories and poems.  This particular selection is inspired by a poem by W.H.

I’m Larry the Radio Guy, and this is an introduction program to the Discovering Jazz podcast.  Last year this program, as aired on CFFF Trent Radio, 92.7 on your dial, received an award at the National Campus and Community Radio Conference for Best

This episode won the award for Best Musical Program in Canada, from submissions from community and campus stations across Canada at the National Campus and Community Conference, 2017.