A shortlist of some of the master musicians who passed in 2025
A Jazz on the Tube playlist
1. Bunky Green (1933-2025) – Tension & Release (00:00)
2. Al Foster (1943-2025) – Aloysius (07:42)
3. Roy Ayers (1940-2025) – Vibrations (15:04)
4. Andy Bey (1939-2025) – Celestial Blues (18:01)
5. George Freeman (1927-2025) – Jungle Strut (21:13)
6. Cleo Laine (1927-2025) – Crazy Rhythm (28:31)
7. Hal Galper (1938-2025) – Waiting for Chet (32:12)
8. Chuck Mangione (1940-2025) – Feels so Good (40:17)
9. Nancy King (1940-2025) – Cheek to Cheek (43:44)
10. Eddie Palmieri (1936-2025) – La Libertad/Comparsa (52:27)
11. Lalo Schifrin (1932-2025) – Toccata from Gillespiana (01:04:03)
12. Sheila Jordan (1928-2025) – Dat Dere (01:08:55)
13. Alan Bergman (1925-2025) – The Way We Were (01:11:37)
14. Hermeto Pascoal (1936-2025) – Sâo Jorge (01:16:10)
15. Akiko Tsuruga (1967-2025) – So Cute, So Bad (01:18:46)
16. Anthony Jackson (1952-2025) – Not Yet (01:25:33)
17. Mike Wofford (1938-2025) – Speedball (01:31:36)
18. Jack DeJohnette (1942-2025) – Silver Hollow (01:38:48)
19. Herb Gardner (1938-2025) – Slow Boat to China (01:45:09)
20. Phil Upchurch (1941-2025) – All I want from you (01:44:58)
21. Gordon Goodwin (1954–2025) – Hit the Ground Running (01:50:20)
22. Jim McNeely (1949-2025) – In This Moment (01:55:15)
23. Ray Drummond (1946-2025) – Things ain’t what they used to be (02:02:44)
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“Instead of staying three or four days in New Orleans, I ended up staying almost three weeks. And yeah, I started hanging out with the musicians, jamming, and yes, that’s how I fell in love with this city. I remember I went to Austin just to take a flight back.
I moved to New Orleans and a year later I went to Europe for a tour with my band. As soon as I started playing, everybody looked at me and said, “You changed, completely.” I didn’t see that actually, but I feel like when I moved to New Orleans, I removed a lot of chains. I became more free. I don’t calculate my music as much. I grew up in a culture that calculated music, and calculated notes. But here, everything is free. Everything is easy. I gained confidence. I began writing music here. Musicians are amazing here. There’s so, so much talent. And I’m so happy to be here, surrounded by these artists. Everything I write, it sounds beautiful, and that’s because of the generosity and the love and dedication that the musicians have here.
It’s an interesting thing because I don’t play jazz. I’m not a jazz musician. I’m a composer and most of my music, it’s a mixture of many influences, like North African and Middle Eastern, Spanish, Latin, and now there’s jazz. It became a part of my music. It gives my music a lot of breathing room. Freedom.”
– Mahmoud Chouki
– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube
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Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
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This book is a model for jazz biography (and really for a biography of any creative person.) It not only documents the striving of an individual artist, in this case, William Parker, but also the dynamic communities that are essential for the development of artists.
I strongly recommend this book for music educators, music students, and anyone who wants to get “under the hood” of what goes into making an artist who succeeds in expanding the boundaries of the art.
Anyone interested in (or nostalgic for) the stunning flowering of creative music that took place in the 1970s when, believe it or not, rents in the East Village and Soho of Manhattan were low and musician-operated venues were abundant will also love this book.
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Music credit: The Jazz on the Tube podcast theme song is “Mambo Inferno” performed by The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Bobby Sanabria from the CD ¡Que Viva Harlem!
