Discover: The Night Beat
The Night Beat—Big Band Theory
Join Doug Crane for an evening of contemporary big band recordings on the Night Beat this Wednesday, September 8, beginning at 8pm. With apologies to Carla Bley for appropriating the…
The Night Beat—September 1 Jazz Birthdays
Join Doug Crane this Wednesday evening as he plays music from a variety of jazz musicians, both legendary and with their stars rising that all share September 1st as their…
The Night Beat—Jazz on Bourbon Street, Toronto
Guitarist Jim Hall, saxophonist Paul Desmond and trombonist Frank Rosolino recorded live (on separate occasions) at Bourbon Street in Toronto on The Night Beat for Wednesday, August 18 and 25.…
The Night Beat—Film Songs of Louis Armstrong
Join Doug Crane this Wednesday, August 4, at 8 pm for a Jazz Goes to the Movies featurette: The Film Songs of Louis Armstrong. To note the 120th anniversary of…
The Night Beat features Freddie Hubbard's "Straight Life"
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios in November of 1970 and released in early 1971, “Straight Life” was the second recording by trumpet/flugelhorn player Freddie Hubbard for Creed Taylor’s newly-independent…
The Night Beat—A Remembrance of Don Ellis
Trumpet player and big band leader Don Ellis is largely forgotten today. But beginning in the mid-1960s until his passing in late 1978, his big bands were something unique. Incorporating…
New Music on The Night Beat
It’s a mid-year review of recently released jazz recordings by up-and-coming musicians on the next Night Beat. We’ll hear new music from Alexa Tarantino, Evan Arntzen, Florian Ross with the…
The Night Beat—Joe Zawinul, Hank Mobley, & Frank Rehak
Tune in to The Night Beat as your host Doug Crane notes the birth dates of Joe Zawinul, Hank Mobley, and Frank Rehak. Pianist Joe Zawinul was born in Austria…
Vinyl Vault—"Rotations"
This week the Vinyl Vault will feature a 1978 album from flutist Tim Weisberg entitled “Rotations.” The album was released in the midst of Weisberg’s busiest time which was during…
The Night Beat—Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” at 50, the Jazz Covers
As anyone who was alive in 1971 knows (and has probably told those who weren’t yet born on too many occasions), 1971 was a year unlike any other in the…
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