I have a personal mission statement in mind for Jazz Theater. That is, to really celebrate the fact that Jazz Is Alive and Thriving. Now! \n\nIn recent years, jazz has been cast in an unfortunate historical context -- as something that already happened, and is now over. Or, individual "experts" are too willing to narrowly define jazz - like; it sounds like this, and like that, and like this -- and if it doesn't, it isn't jazz. \n\nI think instead, that jazz, like any vibrant art form, has a mandate to expand and recreate itself -- to try new things, to get better, or at least to be different today than it was yesterday. Certainly jazz has a rich history. But part of that history is expansion and progression. Jazz never has stood still for long, there's no reason to think is should now. \n\nIn programming Jazz Theater I look for compelling work by artists who have been willing to blaze new trails. Clearly they have all studied the history of jazz, and thankfully they are not willing to be confined by it. Some of Jazz Theater will be familiar and, hopefully, some of it will be like nothing you've ever heard before. \n\n-John Gilbreath
Next on
- Mon Oct 12, 1:00 am PDT
- Mon Oct 19, 1:00 am PDT
- Mon Oct 26, 1:00 am PDT
- Mon Nov 2, 1:00 am PDT
Recent songs
- 2:56 am Toumani Diabaté – Ya Fama
- 2:51 am Alice Coltrane – Om Shanti
- 2:47 am Albert Ayler – The Truth Is Marching In
- 2:37 am Zim Ngqawana – Umzi Watcha
- 2:35 am Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow – Isom Dart Was
- 2:32 am Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
- 2:19 am Miles Davis – Walkin'
- 2:15 am Jason Moran – Ringing in My Phone
- 2:09 am Don Byron – If 6 Was 9
- 2:07 am Meshell Ndegeocello – Nu-Min
- 2:01 am Denis Colin – Crosstown Traffic
- 1:53 am Russell Gunn – Mr. Hurt
- 1:44 am Charles Mingus – Better Get Hit in Yo Soul
- 1:37 am Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Donna Lee
- 1:32 am Roy Campbell – Ethnic Stew and Brew
- 1:08 am John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
- 1:06 am Don Byron – In a Silent Way
- 1:01 am Rodney Kendrick – Last Chance for Common Sense