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Breaking Jazz is Easy. Breaking New Orleans? Not so Much.

Breaking Jazz is Easy. Breaking New Orleans? Not so Much.

By Matt Silver

This past Sunday evening (Jan. 5), I hosted the first "Breaking Jazz" of the new year, which gave me the opportunity to present KSDS listeners with the music and musicians resonating most acutely with me right now, in this first week of 2025. 

Hours before most of us woke up to a new year last Wednesday morning, a man whom authorities say was “hellbent on destruction” turned an everyday pickup truck into an instrument of warfare, plowing it through a dense crowd of New Year’s party goers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Claiming allegiance to the Islamic fundamentalist terror group ISIS and flying its flag from the back of that pickup truck, this man had seemingly come to believe that he could find spiritual repair for whatever had profoundly broken in his life by killing a bunch of people he didn’t know in a place that’s internationally famous for celebrating everything — and, maybe more meaningfully, nothing at all — to excess.

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BREAKING JAZZ: The Top 10 Albums of 2024

BREAKING JAZZ: The Top 10 Albums of 2024

*Pictured above: Trumpeter Riley Mulherkar. Photo by Zenith Richards.

By Matt Silver

As we approach Thanksgiving, I feel compelled to share my abundant gratitude for all the great new music that’s come out this past year, and especially this past six months since I began hosting Breaking Jazz (Sundays, 6:30 to 8 p.m. PT). In keeping with year-end traditions, this gratitude will take the form of a “best of” list. But this particular list is exciting because it will be starting a new tradition. Behold! The inaugural Breaking Jazz Best Albums of the Year!

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Terence Blanchard and Bill Mays to Guest on INSIDE ART

What happens when one award winner interviews another? Find out when Dave Drexler, host of the award-winning "Inside Art" interviews celebrated trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, this Sunday night at 6 p.m. PT.

 

By Matt Silver

This Sunday evening (Jan. 12), at 6 p.m. PT, host Dave Drexler welcomes back two of his favorite — and most accomplished — guests to the award-winning interview program "Inside Art," pianist Bill Mays and the prolific trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard.

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Today's Birthdays

Born on this day, January 12th

  • Jay McShann (Piano, Vocals-Lead) was born in Muskogee, OK, 1916–2006.
  • Trummy Young (Trombone) was born in Savannah, GA, 1912–1984.
  • George Duke (Piano, Keyboards-Various) was born in San Rafael, CA, 1946–2013.
  • Ronald Shannon-Jackson (Drums and Percussion) was born in Ft. Worth, TX, 1926–2013.
  • Harry Roy (Vocals-Lead, Clarinet) was born in Stamford Hill, London, England, 1900–1971.
  • Guy Lafitte (Tenor Saxophone) was born in France, 1927–1998.
  • Ruth Brown (Vocals-Lead) was born in Portsmouth, VA, 1928–2006.
  • Ingrid Jensen (Trumpet) was born in Cedar-by-the-Sea, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada in 1967.
  • Olu Dara (Trumpet, Guitar, Cornet) was born in Natchez, MS in 1941.
  • Hadley Caliman (Saxophone, Flute) was born in Idabel, OK, 1932–2010.
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On This Day

January 12th in Jazz History…

  • The Modern Jazz Sextet was formed in 1956. Band members included Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt.
  • Lester Young, Roy Eldridge and Teddy Wilson record the "Jazz Giants" for Verve records. The year was 1956.
  • It was a sad day in 2007… Long-time San Diegan, trombonist and educator, Jimmie Cheatham, died in San Diego. He was 82.
  • Pianist/harpist/composer Alice Coltrane died of respiratory failure in West Hills, California. She was 69.
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