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| Monday, May 12, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz with Eric in the Evening
Bassist Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937) burst onto the
New York jazz scene in the 1960s as a member of Miles Davis's
second great quintet. Since that time, Carter has been one
of the most sought-after studio men in jazz. In the past 45
years, Carter has appeared as both a leader and a sideman on
more than 2,000 albums, making him one of the most recorded
jazz musicians in history. Carter's long list of collaborators
includes Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B.
King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and
Bobby Timmons. Carter is a distinguished professor emeritus
of the music department of the City College of New York and
received an honorary doctorate from Boston's Berklee College of
Music in 2004.
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| Friday, May 16, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz from Studio Four
Betty Bebop
By age 16, vocalist Betty Carter
(May 16, 1929–Sept. 26, 1998) had already
performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, and Miles Davis as a singer in the Detroit
club scene. Carter's hornlike vocal style enabled her to become a full, improvising member of the bands with which she shared the stage. Despite recording a series of popular duets with Ray
Charles in the 1960s, most notably "Baby, It's Cold Outside," Carter never enjoyed the same mainstream success as contemporaries Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. In the twilight of her career, Carter received wider acclaim when Verve Records reissued her independently produced Bet-Car albums in 1987.
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| Monday, May 19, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz with Eric in the Evening
Host Eric Jackson shines the Monday night spotlight on saxophonist and flutist David Fathead Newman (born Feb. 24, 1933). Newman began his career on baritone saxophone in 1954
as an original member of Ray Charles's band. He stayed with Charles for 12 years before spending 10 years on tenor saxophone in Herbie Mann's band. Newman has recorded more than 38 albums over the course of his 50-year career, and while he is best known as an influential hard-bop player, he has also appeared on R&B and blues recordings by such artists as Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Aaron Neville, and Queen Latifah.
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| Friday, May 23, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz from Studio Four
Only on 89.7
Host Steve Schwartz (shown) features live music recorded by WGBH 89.7 in our own studios and at clubs and festivals around New England. Performances include pianist Frank Kimbrough's visit to WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio this past January, pianist McCoy Tyner at the
2006 BeanTown Jazz Festival, and vocalist Rebecca Parris and pianist Kenny Werner at the 2007 Marblehead Summer Jazz Festival.
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| Monday, May 26, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz with Eric in the Evening
The Monday night spotlight shines on hard-bop trumpet player Lee Morgan (born July 10, 1938). A teen prodigy, Morgan joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band at age 18, recorded his first session as a leader for Blue Note at age 19, and joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at age 20. In 1961, Morgan left music to kick a longstanding heroin addiction but returned in 1963, recording with avant-garde trombonist Grachan Moncur before cutting The Sidewinder, whose title track became a pop sensation in 1964. Morgan rejoined the Jazz Messengers 1965–1968 and recorded prolifically as both a sideman and a leader throughout his tenure with the band. In the late '60s and early '70s, Morgan began to push the boundaries of hard bop with more modal and free-form compositions. Tragically, he died from a gunshot wound in 1972 at age 33. |
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| Friday, May 30, 8pm on WGBH 89.7 |
 Jazz from Studio Four
Louis and Tootie
Drummers Albert "Tootie" Heath (born May 31, 1935) and Louis Hayes (shown, born May 31, 1937) share an instrument and a birthday, but that's not all. They both swing like crazy. Heath debuted with John Coltrane in 1957 and has played with artists including Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, and Yusef Lateef. Hayes was mentored by Papa Jo Jones and has played with them all, including Coltrane and Lateef, Cannonball
Adderley, Oscar Peterson, and McCoy Tyner.
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WGBH 89.7 Playlists
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Jazz Decades
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Al Davis
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Jazz with Eric in the Evening
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
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