The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz

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• Louis Armstrong 4

  September 29, 2026 · 3 hr 6 min

  From the August 4, 2026 Louis Armstrong WKCR special on his baptismal birth date, here’s a show with two separate  features, about an hour each -- Pops in duets (with Duke, Ella, Bing, Carmen, Billie and Lotte Lenya); and another focusing…

• Miles Davis-John Coltrane Collaborations

  September 16, 2026 · 4 hr 53 min

  This program presents the masterwork collaborations of John Coltrane with Miles Davis, in context.  It can serve as a history primer “Jazz 101" for the jazz lay person; for the aficionado, it can simply be an opportunity to submerge…

• Lester Young 4

  September 9, 2026 · 2 hr 58 min

  The "Bird-Prez Birthday Broadcast", a 72 hour (and some years longer) marathon celebrating Lester Young and Charlie Parker around their birthday anniversaries, August 27 and August 29, is a long standing tradition at WKCR, and it is among…

• Bennie Green

  September 3, 2026 · 4 hr 57 min

  While lesser-remembered today, Bennie Green was one of the great trombone players in the post war jazz years, a period when the otherwise cumbersome instrument developed into a persuasive and interpretive soloist’s vehicle. Green had a…

• Cedar Walton

  August 7, 2026 · 4 hr 58 min

  Cedar Walton is one of the leading “hard bop” pianists to come of age in the late 1950's and 1960's.  In addition to his great lyrical skill at the piano, Walton is well-known as a composer and arranger, and this radio show focuses on his…

• Coltrane On Atlantic

  August 2, 2026 · 2 hr 59 min

  John Coltrane’s 1959-1960 recordings for the Atlantic record label are surveyed during this three hour program. Having finally left the Miles Davis group, John Coltrane had the opportunity to explore his own developing sounds and lead his…

• Some Americans In Paris

  July 23, 2026 · 4 hr 58 min

  There is a long history of American jazz musicians making the scene in Europe,  and there are many expatriate stories of note.  For this program I’ve selected three significant aspects of Americans in Paris to comprise a five hour package…

• Miles Davis Centennial 2

  July 16, 2026 · 4 hr 53 min

  For the Miles Davis Centennial (May 26, 1926) WKCR presented a series of marathon programming over several days. To kick things off, I presented this five hour "Introduction to Miles Davis".