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.
Sept 26: The Second Acts of Art Pepper, Dexter Gordon, & Johnny Griffin
Oct 3: Art Blakey and the Young Lions
Oct 10: Whither Freedom?
Oct 17: David Murray & the World Saxophone Quartet
Oct 24: Music from the Black Saint Label
Oct 31: John Zorn and The Downtown Scene
Nov 7: Highlights of Jazz in the Early 1990s
Nov 14: Highlights of Jazz in the Late 1990s
Nov 21: Highlights of Jazz in the Early 2000s
Nov 28: Highlights of Jazz in the Late 2000s
Dec 5: Highlights of the Current Decade.
