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WJZZ Detroit JAZZ RADIO

WJZZ Detroit JAZZ RADIO The worlds oldest jazz station.

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03/23/2022

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08/24/2021
WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment PresentsDetroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel DetroitAugust 26, 2021, ...
08/22/2021
Marcus Elliot's Quintet BROWNIE's TOWN (Marcus Belgrave)

WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment Presents
Detroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel Detroit

August 26, 2021, from 6pm to 8pm at the St. Regis Hotel, Presents Marcus Elliot. Purchase tickets NOW, seats are limited, live and live stream seating available. Click this link to purchase a ticket TODAY! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-radio-entertainment-jazz-legacy-series-tickets-167829746289

Click to listen to the AMAZING sounds of the Marcus Elliot Quintet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUnxN-PiHI

BROWNIE's TOWN (Marcus Belgrave)TUE 10/11/2016 - Cliff Bells* Marcus Elliott Quintet * featuring Kasan Belgrave-asMichael Malis-p, Ben Rolsten-b Stephen Boeg...

WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment PresentsDetroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel DetroitEvery Thursday fr...
08/20/2021

WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio Entertainment Presents
Detroit Legacy Jazz Series at the St. Regis Hotel Detroit

Every Thursday from 6pm to 8pm at the St. Regis Hotel. WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio: Detroit Legacy Jazz Series spotlights a new jazz artist. This Thursday, August 26, 2021, WJZZ Detroit Jazz Radio presents Marcus Elliot.

Marcus Elliot (Marcus Elliot Miller) is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Marcus is a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow, awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit. His compositions and improvisations have been described by the New York Times as "convincing and confident, evolved in touch and tone...", and the Detroit Free Press has said, "Marcus Elliot represents next generation of jazz".

Available Seating: Table for 2, General and Live Stream

Purchase Tickets at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-radio-entertainment-jazz-legacy-series-tickets-167829746289

WJZZ Presents Jazz LegendsMiles Davis 1926-91The Miles I know is Miles Davis in the late 60s, the Bi***es Brew era. I'd ...
08/18/2021
Miles Davis Quintet, Teatro dell'Arte, Milan, Italy, October 11th, 1964 (Colorized)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Miles Davis 1926-91

The Miles I know is Miles Davis in the late 60s, the Bi***es Brew era. I'd heard of Miles via Herbie Hancock. I was 18, reading Jack Kerouac and beat writers who bang on about jazz all the time, and felt I needed to be challenged musically. That psychedelic inaccessible jazz works at an age when you are working stuff out for yourself. It was like a culture shock in my bedroom. I didn't understand the music, I didn't even like it that much , and yes, I knew there was he**in involved but I didn't know in what way. I just knew I should be listening. It mattered that I'd heard it. And that combined experience of sound and literature felt very exotic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBoHkB92SU0

Autumn Leaves 00:00My Funny Valentine 15:07All Blues 26:33All of You 40:13Joshua 50:47The band:Miles Davis (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (sax), Herbie Hancock (pi...

WJZZ Presents Jazz LegendsNat King Cole 1919-65By my late teens I was really getting into the singers. Nat King Cole was...
08/18/2021
THE JAZZ GREATS NAT KING COLE (It's Only a Paper Moon & Sweet Lorraine)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Nat King Cole 1919-65

By my late teens I was really getting into the singers. Nat King Cole was a household name and I adored his voice but wasn't into the big orchestral pieces. At a record shop this guy handed me a record of him doing Gershwin, Cole Porter, that style, with strings and a piano, and I realized this was the Cole I wanted to emulate. He was an immense talent in his own right as a jazz performer, not just with the big band stuff. I guess I was, by then, a music snob and geek and consciously rejecting obvious, accessible jazz. Listening to Cole's alternative side made me think I was right to be a snob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcoUfSAUWs

Nat King Cole (piano & vocals)It's Only a Paper MoonSweet Lorraine

WJZZ Presents Jazz LegendsHerbie Hancock 1940-Herbie Hancock is one of the few jazz pianists who progressed with the tim...
08/18/2021
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Herbie Hancock 1940-

Herbie Hancock is one of the few jazz pianists who progressed with the times. From fusion funk through to electronic music using synthesizers and toys, he's always been way ahead. It was Head Hunters, the record that fused funk and soul with pop, that I fell in love with. I grew up in the west country with little exposure to jazz and although I wasn't rejecting pop, I knew there was more to music. Through Herbie, electro and drum'n'bass, I developed an understanding of improvisation. I aim to operate somewhere between Herbie and Ben Folds at all times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPZvKSdN7g

Herbie Hancock explains how he composed Watermelon Man and how Mongo Santamaria influenced it. He then performs both the original 1962 and the 1973 Headhunt...

WJZZ Presents Jazz LegendsMary Lou Williams 1910-81Mary Lou spanned the entire history of jazz. She started out playing ...
08/18/2021
Mary Lou Williams at Les Mouches, NYC, 1978 Cabaret Show, Carline Ray

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends

Mary Lou Williams 1910-81

Mary Lou spanned the entire history of jazz. She started out playing in a swing band and moved every decade into a new arena of music, doing modal stuff in the 70s, and later playing avant garde. I discovered her on a jazz compilation I found in Oxfam. The song was "Zodiac Suite" and I was staggered that she managed to straddle both jazz and classical music. She was one of the few jazz musicians to be accepted by the classical world, and even played in Carnegie Hall with an orchestra. She was a fantastic composer, pianist and mentor and the most important woman in jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcLwQn9PDE4

Legendary jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams performs a one-hour cabaret show at Les Mouches in NYC, 1978. Carline Ray, one of the original Sweethearts of Rhyth...

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:John Coltrane 1926-67By 19, I was learning the mathematics of jazz, which is hard for someone...
08/18/2021
John Coltrane - Naima (Take 1 / Audio)

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:

John Coltrane 1926-67

By 19, I was learning the mathematics of jazz, which is hard for someone with no grasp of math. Coltrane is the master of well-formulated, perfectly composed music. He also played a very spiritual style of jazz. It was almost religious. You could even say he channeled the divine through his sax. It was A Love Supreme from 1965 which I connected with. It took a while, for some reason getting into Coltrane felt like a slow process, but he taught me the basics, so it's no surprise I got into him when I was taking a year out after school to decide what to do with my life. He was my epiphany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV7RkpFNxmQ

Music video by John Coltrane performing Naima (Take 1 / Audio). © 2019 UMG Recordings, Inc. Check out John Coltrane’s previously unreleased album “Blue World...

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:Charles Mingus 1922-79Most people know Mingus as a pioneering bass player, but to me he's the...
08/18/2021

WJZZ Presents Jazz Legends:

Charles Mingus 1922-79

Most people know Mingus as a pioneering bass player, but to me he's the most raucous and inventive composer of his era. His music has the energy of a revolution and, indeed, sound tracked many revolutions during the 50s and 60s. I was 15, aware of what was in the charts and flitting between dance music, indie rock and pop, and his particular style of free-form spoke to me as a rejection of the mainstream. There's nothing polite about it, but I responded to his style of dirty jazz tinged with violence in a positive way. It seemed to be the epitome of rebellion, yet educational.

08/09/2021
This week's featured Artist at the 2021 Detroit Legacy Jazz Series is Allen Dennard.  Right Here ... In Detroit ... at t...
08/03/2021
Allen Dennard takes jazz into the future

This week's featured Artist at the 2021 Detroit Legacy Jazz Series is Allen Dennard. Right Here ... In Detroit ... at the fabulous, luxurious, historic Hotel Saint Regis Detroit.
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/allen-dennard-takes-jazz-into-the-future/Content?oid=19038380

NOTE: Click the player at the bottom of the article to sample Allen Dennard.



Twenty-four-year-old trumpeter Allen Dennard has one foot firmly planted in the classic jazz canon. The 2016 graduate of the University of Michigan's School of Music,...

Jazz and Soul Concerts Are Making Their Way To St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church!
07/19/2021
Jazz and Soul Concerts Are Making Their Way To St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church!

Jazz and Soul Concerts Are Making Their Way To St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church!

Tickets 🎫 Ticket for 2 🎫 Ticket for 4 Highlights 🕯️ An intimate ambiance in a beautiful venue bathed in candlelight 🎷 Stunning Jazz music performance by the musicians of Soul Spectacular ✔️ A safe and socially-distanced event, ensuring you are comfortable and at ease General Info ....

07/14/2021

We're thrilled to bring back live, in-person audiences to the 2021 !

Here's the partial line-up of artists you'll see on our bandstands!

👉 https://bit.ly/DJF21Lineup

Dee Dee Bridgewater Herbie Hancock Omar Sosa Music

07/14/2021

Y’all got your outfits ready?!?!👀

I am SOOO geeked for this show!!! 9 ARTISTS!!! 9!!!! And I’m a fan of every single one!

Marcel Stewart and Ian Grant did an AMAZING job curating!‼️

It’s going to be a great show! 🌹

Make sure you register at www.UmojaFineArts.com today to secure your space. 🤗

The Masonic Will Host Amazing Live Jazz Performances This Summer
07/14/2021
The Masonic Will Host Amazing Live Jazz Performances This Summer

The Masonic Will Host Amazing Live Jazz Performances This Summer

Tickets 🎫 Zone A ticket for 2: Main floor (great visibility) 🎫 Zone A ticket for 4: Main floor or Balcony (great visibility) 🎫 Zone B ticket for 2, 3, 4: Main floor (good visibility) Tickets sold by groups to ensure socially distant seating. These performances will have very limited capacit...

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TWO great artists, One sax filled night.....GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!
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My favorite radio station coming up in Detroit as an athlete until corporate america.

Now as a bassist & composer, this is what I do: http://Grovgttigueiv.bandcamp.com

Thank you WJZZ

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TONIGHT!! LIVE OR LIVESTREAM!!
This dynamic group of musicians will be lead by Kris Johnson (nephew). Tickets are available through the link below.

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Need a break from the hustle? A getaway from the modern mayhem of our lives? Well, here’s the ticket back in time to the days of speakeasies, gin joints, and blind pigs, when life was simpler and gadget free. Enter, The Satin Doll R***e and become lost in the world of legends brought to life again.

For 20 years Unlimited Sky Productions has been preserving history through the “Out of the Mouth of Jazz” Music Series featuring a group of talented and beautiful Ambassadors that encapsulate the look and style of the artists that inspire and motivate them throughout their careers.

This encore performance at The Aretha Franklin Café on November 11th will feature Thornetta Davis (Bessie Smith), Sky Covington (Billie Holiday), Tosha Owens (Etta James), Faye Bradford (Nina Simone), Kimmie Horne (Sarah Vaughn), Nina Simone Neal (Dinah Washington), and narrator Lady Love as Carmen Mcrae. These Award-Winning songstresses are the heartbeat of the Detroit music scene, not only do they create and perform their own music throughout the state and nation, but they also continually promote the Preservation of Jazz. Fostering the history of music helps build stronger future musicians. Studying and performing the greats is the best school an artist can attend. So come, have a libation, and take in some musical magic.

The 20th Annual “Out of the Mouth of Jazz” Music Series is bringing The Satin Doll R***e back for an encore performance at the illustrious Aretha Franklin Jazz Café on November 11 at 8:30p. Doors open at 7p and tickets are $35 in advance through Event Brite or $45 at the door. Seating is first come first served.

Event Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-satin-doll-revue-tickets-183507434677
TGIF! It's that time of the week when we thank our fans from the top streaming global cities on Apple Music for the prior week. This week, our super fans in Tokyo, Japan are back at #1 followed by Port Huron MI and newcomer to this week listing, Orlando Florida. Thanks to all of our fans streaming our tracks in these cities. And thanks for continuing to cut deep into the album to listen to all the tracks. Remember to purchase our albums on Bandcamp at underthelake.bandcamp.com

A shout out to TOKYO JAZZ BEAT, 東京JAZZ Tokyo Jazz Festival, JazzTokyo, JazzTOKYO RECORDS, The Blue Note Jazz Tokyo, Detroit Jazz Festival, WJZZ Detroit JAZZ RADIO, Detroit Riverwalk Jazz & Soul Concert Series, Orlando Jazz Festival, 102.5 WLOQ, Orlando's Smooth Jazz, Heidi's Jazz Club. Thanks for all you do to support jazz.

August 12th - Micheal Malis

Performing at St. Regis Hotel - Buy your tickets today at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wjzz-detroit-jazz-radio-ent-presents-detroit-legacy-jazz-series-tickets-163145870691?aff=eand ! Limited seating available.

This is a COVID safe entertainment venue!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6qNNpidFQk
As mentioned and discussed, here is the link for the call for art "Let's Zoom: Self Portraits of our Artists Communities" panel installation.

Cut off date to be in the Cheryl Zemke Boutique location is May 21st, accepting entries for the second location (in the works) cuts off June 20th!

Email your submission to: [email protected]

Please veiw the link for details!

Celebrate our past great jazz artists!
Grant Green:
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