Discover: The Night Beat
The Night Beat—Piano Duets
Join us for the Wednesday Night Beat as we celebrate National Piano Month by featuring some stellar piano duet recordings. We’ll hear from Cyrus Chestnut with Eric Reed, Bill Charlap…
The Night Beat - The Bill Evans Album
September is National Piano Month. And 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “The Bill Evans Album” by the Bill Evans Trio. Recorded in the spring of 1971,…
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…
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