Mostly Jazz

09/21/2021

12/28/2019

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Abbey Lincoln is the soundtrack for another Great Black Music Monday at The Icehouse this coming Monday.
Curator Mankwe Ndosi and her guests will join us on Mostly Jazz this Saturday to talk about the series.
Listen Here!
Mostly Jazz this Saturday from 9 to 11am(cst) at www.kfai.org/mostlyjazz & 90.3fm in Minneapolis.
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Carol Friedman's feature-length documentary film, Abbey Lincoln: The Music Is The Magic, is being edited for a spring 2020 release.📽
To view a preview clip, track the film's
progress, or participate as a sponsor, click the link below..

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04/14/2019

💥 Don Pullen & George Adams

04/06/2019

04/05/2019

🎼 “new” Betty Carter and some José James on Mostly Jazz tomorrow morning. 9-11am cst at www.kfai.org/mostlyjazz. 90.3fm

04/02/2016

© 1999 Elmar Romain for Mostly Jazz.

Spring Membership Drive has begun. Invest online at www.KFAI.org or 612.375.9030.

11/28/2015

:> today's Mostly Jazz, guest hosted by Todd Harper is available here until Dec 12th: http://kfai.org/sites/default/stream/player.php?url=http://uno.kfai.org/MostlyJazz/MostlyJazz_2015-11-28.mp3

10/10/2015

:> Artists & Activists striving for racial equality...
Listen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9KCisQTmGYdblc5bTRjZUMyVkk/view?usp=sharing

09/06/2015

:> when it gets better than both my grandchildren hosting Mostly Jazz... Call Me!

09/04/2015

09/01/2015

Having lived in New York for more than five decades, artist Jack Whitten knew many of the 20th century’s great jazz musicians, including John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham and especially Miles Davis.

Like Davis, Whitten didn’t like to stand still; he was intent on trying new things. But when the young African-American artist gained attention in the mid-’70s after the Whitney Museum of American Art held a solo exhibition of his art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art added his paintings to their permanent collections, art dealers started encouraging him to stay with what was selling.

“It’s unfortunate for a lot of artists,” said Whitten at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego as an exhibit devoted to his work took shape around him. “Dealer comes up and says, ‘Hey, man, you know, we sold those paintings at $200,0000 apiece; you give me 10 more like that, we can sell them for $300,000 apiece.’ It poses a dilemma when money gets involved.”

Whitten still remembers Davis’ advice: “Miles told me, ‘I don’t do that (stuff) anymore.’ ”
Eduardo Contreras

Artist Jack Whitten on Mostly Jazz Saturday September 8th at 9am(CST) www.kfai.org/mostlyjazz

Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting opens at the Walker Art Center on September 13th