Wednesday is Jazz Day

I like all kinds of music. This morning I was listening to a Northern Soul compilation, and recently I’ve been playing a lot of jazz. Jazz seems to have a small, loyal audience. I’m not sure why it isn’t more popular – there are many different types of jazz that people could find a style that they would enjoy. There’s vocal jazz for people who likes songs with lyrics – I’ve been listening to Abbey Lincoln quite a bit. There’s straight ahead jazz, which has choruses that are easily followed to go with the solos, and many other genres within jazz that have analogs to whatever style of music one might like.

Two movies are coming out about jazz artists – Don Cheadle is doing a Miles Davis movie and Ethan Hawke is releasing a Chet Baker biography. Neither movie will probably be mainstream hits, although I hope that it will spark interest in jazz for some – let’s start by listening to my latest jazz podcast.

On today’s jazzcast I play a few different styles of jazz, from fusion to soul jazz to straight ahead music. So let’s listen to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Young, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jim Rotondi, Stan Getz, Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orkest, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Thelonious Monk, and Eddie Harris.

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