KLOI- 17th ANNIVERSARY! Gary Alexander Classic Jazz
Apr 25, 2025
3:00 - 6:00pm
KLOI-LP 102.9 FM
Classic Jazz and the Great American Songbook
Classic Jazz and the Great American
This Week: Today marks the 17th anniversary of this program, launched on Friday, April 25, 2008. In the first hour, we will replicate highlights from that opening program, including three songs by each of late April songbirds (Ella, Barbra and Blossom) singing the music of Rodgers and Hart - since Hart’s birthday also approaches. Then, we’ll feature the music of several late-April-born composers. The second hour will feature three new CDs received recently, the first being the solo album release by Westerlies trumpeter Riley Mulherkar, “Riley,” given a lofty 4-1/2-star (of 5) review in Down Beat magazine, then the second half of Tierney Sutton’s live album at Birdland, “I’m With the Band,” and then “Suspended in Time,” the new song cycle by pianist/composer Fred Hersch, with lyrics by Rondi Charleston, sung by Late McGarry, and Garbrielle Stravelli (who was on the recent Jazz Cruise). In the final hour, we return to our climate-controlled crypt of vinyl LPs for some late albums by saxophonist Dexter Gordon, focusing on his dramatic Homecoming to America LPs in the late 1970s after 15+ years in Europe.
Classic Jazz and the Great American
This Week: Today marks the 17th anniversary of this program, launched on Friday, April 25, 2008. In the first hour, we will replicate highlights from that opening program, including three songs by each of late April songbirds (Ella, Barbra and Blossom) singing the music of Rodgers and Hart - since Hart’s birthday also approaches. Then, we’ll feature the music of several late-April-born composers. The second hour will feature three new CDs received recently, the first being the solo album release by Westerlies trumpeter Riley Mulherkar, “Riley,” given a lofty 4-1/2-star (of 5) review in Down Beat magazine, then the second half of Tierney Sutton’s live album at Birdland, “I’m With the Band,” and then “Suspended in Time,” the new song cycle by pianist/composer Fred Hersch, with lyrics by Rondi Charleston, sung by Late McGarry, and Garbrielle Stravelli (who was on the recent Jazz Cruise). In the final hour, we return to our climate-controlled crypt of vinyl LPs for some late albums by saxophonist Dexter Gordon, focusing on his dramatic Homecoming to America LPs in the late 1970s after 15+ years in Europe.