In early 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recording. Over the next 100 years we have heard transcendent leaps of creativity and staggering virtuosity; we have experienced the music of crushing pain, breathless romance, anger, exhilaration and humor. “Jazz at 100” is that story – one hundred years of jazz recordings – in 100 one-hour programs that will present representative music from a century of recorded jazz history. The series will explore the broad sweep of that narrative; its representative and its idiosyncratic players; its durable movements and dead ends; its popular recordings and rarities.
Mar 30: Jazz and Bossa Nova
Apr 6: The Jazz Messengers Continued
Apr 13: Horace Silver Continued
Apr 20: Hard Bop Tenor, Part 1
Apr 27: Hard Bop Tenor, Part 2
