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 the extremely varied projects in which he participated. We'll hear him with Alexis Korner, John McLaughlin, a nascent version of the Brotherhood of Breath, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Pentangle, Stan Tracey,
Richard Thompson - RT and much more!
We'll also have time for some previews from
Jacqui Naylor,
James Danderfer with
Miki Yamanaka,
Sue Foley, Seamus Blake with The Bloomdaddies, The Mad Professor with Sly & Robbie and solo
Keith Jarrett in
Jazz Köln.
The kind of free form programming that you'll only hear on great non-commercial radio like CFRO 100.5FM or coopradio . org every Friday afternoon starting...