Jazz After Dinner

4-27-12 Guitarist Charlie Christian - Jazz After Dinner

This weeks show features songs from "The Genius of the Electric Guitar" guitarist Charlie Christian. Recording featuring Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet and His Orchestra and a few others mixed in.

4-20-12 Saxophonist Eric Alexander - Jazz After Dinner

In this weeks show we feature two recordings by tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander and some originals and standards from the American Songbook.

4-13-12 Jazz Pianist David Kikoski - Jazz After Dinner

This week's show features jazz pianist David Kikoski and his trio on his Criss Cross recording "Inner Trust" with Ed Howard on bass and Leon Parker
on drums.

4-06-12 Keith Jarrett - Jazz After Dinner

Jazz After Dinner features the solo piano work of pianist Keith Jarrett from his "Dark Intervals" recording.

3-30-12 Charlie Parker - Jazz After Dinner

This week show features Be-bop, Alto Saxophonist Charlie Parker from his recordings, Bird and Diz, The Cole Porter Song Book and South of the Border.

3-23-12 George Shearing - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program is on Jazz Piano Legend - George Shearing

3-16-12 Paul Desmond - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program is on Alto Saxophonist - Paul Desmond Featuring standards and his original "Take 10." The rumor is Paul contractually could only play his tune "Take Five" with Dave Brubeck so.... "Take 10" is in five/four time an uses the chord progression from "Take Five" with a new melody.

3-09-12 Ray Bryant Trio - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program features the Ray Bryant Trio.

3-02-12 Warne Marsh and More - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program features Warne Marsh and more.

2-24-12 Sarah Vaughan - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program features Sarah Vaughan.

2-17-12 George Masso Quintet - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner program features the George Masso Quintet.

2-10-12 Gerry Mulligan - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Show features two recordings from Baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. "The Gerry Mulligan Songbook" from 1957 this Mulligan recording demonstrates the Cool Jazz Style with a stellar group of musicians and arrangements by Bill Holman. The second feature is the recording "Reunion" with Gerry Mulligan and trumpeter Chet Baker with Henry Grimes on bass and Dave Bailey on drums.

2-03-12 Benny Carter & John Coltrane - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's Jazz After Dinner Features Saxophonists Benny Carter from his "Jazz Giant' recording and John Coltrane from his recording "Lush Life". These two fine musicians are backed up by a quite a variety of Who's Who in the Jazz World from 1957 and 1958.

1-27-12 Bill Evans Trio - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's show features the Bill Evans Trio recording from 1961, Live at the Village Vanguard. This classic recording features Bill Evans on Piano, Scott LaFaro on Bass and Paul Motian on drums collaborating on a new musical direction in the contrapuntal improvisations of the traditional jazz trio.

1-20-12 Esperanza Spalding - Jazz After Dinner

Tonight's show features Bassist and Vocalist Esperanza Spalding from her self titled recording "Esperanza". This Grammy Award Winning Artist from 2011 has "wowed" audiences with her jazz and latin american influenced jazz standards arrangements and originals.

1-13-12 Sax and Piano - Jazz After Dinner

A duo bill from two generations of jazz musicians with saxophone great Dexter Gordon from his "Go" album and pianist Fred Hersch from his recording Trio + 2.

1-06-12 Meditative Music - Jazz After Dinner

In this episode of Jazz After Dinner host Joe Parillo plays the Bobo Stenson Trio with Bobo Stenson on Piano; Anders Jormin on Bass and the late PaulMotian on Drums. Paul recently passed away on November 22, 2011. This is only a very small example to the vast amount of music Paul Motian made from playing with the Bill Evans Trio to Keith Jarrett, Thelonius Monk, Paul Bley and many, many others. Paul was born in Philadelphia and raised in Providence Rhode Island until he moved to New York City to start his jazz career. This is a somewhat meditative evening with subtle trance-like musical musings of the Bobo Stenson Trio with improvisations and interpretations on tunes by Ornette Coleman, Stephen Sondheim and even Henry Purcell as well as from the bassist Anders Jormin.

12-30-11 Jazz Variety - Jazz After Dinner

In this episode of Jazz After Dinner host Joe Parillo plays variety of jazz featuring vocalist Nancy Wilson, pianist, Tommy Flanagan from his Something Borrowed, Something Blue recording, latin jazz with Tito Puente from his Sensacion recording and finishing the evening with a New Years Eve classic sung by that classy lady Nancy Wilson.

12-23-11 Jazz Xmas Countdown - Jazz After Dinner

In this episode of Jazz After Dinner host Joe Parillo plays another hour of Holiday Jazz.

12-16-11 Holiday Jazz III - Jazz After Dinner

In this episode of Jazz After Dinner host Joe Parillo plays another hour of Holiday Jazz.