The A-Trane Radio Program CFRO

Just enjoying some jazz on a summer's day on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with a bit of a reconstruction of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival as a preview of this weekend's screening of the classic Bert Stern film with an opening concert by Laura Crema at the VIFF Centre this Sunday presented by Infidels Jazz.Some music from the film and some from releases that have come out over the years - The Duke Ellington Orchestra (who take in the theme), Jimmy Giuffre, Dave Brubeck, Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day, Max Roach + 4, Horace Silver and Louis Armstrong!Also a set of Monk tunes built around the recent issue of Monk in Paris in 1967 from the Monk estate along with Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band and new releases from the Carlos Henriquez Big Band and the Charles Ruggiero trio. (Of course, Monk played Newport '58 too!)In honour of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's birthday today, we'll start with his dynamite version of Blue Trane from Germany in 1972 and then feature last year's RSD release of Kirk at the Penthouse in Seattle in 1967. And fill it all out with music from guitarist Lorne Lofsky (who's in town at Frankie's this weekend), and Side A, an old fave from Sharon Minemoto!If you want some Jazz on a Summer's Day, it's hard to do better than the A-Trane at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

I was lucky enough to spend 10 days at this year's Montreal International Jazz Festival (https://montrealjazzfest.com/en/program/artists) and this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program will do a recap of some of the many artists I heard!We'll hear from Diana Krall (who takes in the theme), a Coltrane/Miles Centenary set with Giant Steps from the Tiberi Tapes (thanks to Ken Druker for a great presentation!), Marcus Miller's We Want Miles band, the Headhunters with Craig Handy, Christian McBride & Julian Lage, and Nicholas Payton & Butcher Brown doing their Supreme Blue! A set featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner leads into a mix with pieces by Cymande, Joshua Redman, Hiromi featuring Arturo O'Farrill, Brandee Younger, Immanuel Wilkins, Cassa Overall, Mononeon (I wish you well!), Charles Lloyd, GEORGE with John Hollenbeck, Anna Webber, Chiquita Magic and Sarah Rossy, Craig Taborn, the David Binney Action Trio featuring Louis Cole, Laura Anglade, and Angine de Poitrine with the BEATrio: Bela Fleck, Edmar Castañeda (Colombian harp), Antonio Sanchez capping it all off! Just a taste of a glorious ten days!A great collection of artists on the ground and in the air at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2PM Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

On this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program we're paying tribute to the great Canadian pianist Oliver Jones who passed away this week at the age of 91. Besides taking in the theme, we'll feature an episode of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz that featured Oliver Jones along with some other favourite pieces.The Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival is on this weekend and we'll have a feature set and ticket giveaway for Sunday night's closing concert with Laila Biali which also features some young up-and-coming performer's as special guests.Other fest previews for this weekend include late addition James Byrnes, Honeybear The Band, Ardeshir, and Saul Berson as well as shows from Infidels Jazz: Roberta Gambarini & Tamir Hendelman at the Revue Stage on Sunday afternoon and Gordon Grdina's trio with Tommy Babin & Kenton Loewen at the Revue Stage next Thursday.We'll open with a Jazz Birthdays set for July 24th celebrants - Charles McPherson (87), Barry Romberg (67), Jane Fair (77), Billy Taylor (105) and Jon Faddis (73)! [Faddis is also coming to the Blueshore in November!]Every show is a celebration of great music every Friday afternoon at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific! Bring your own party hats, we'll supply the music!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Bit of an unusual show on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program! We start with a couple of birthdays - Joe Morello takes in the theme and then a feature set to celebrate the centenary of trumpeter Ray Copeland who played with Monk, Lionel Hampton, Randy Weston and more.Then we head to Jericho Park for this weekend's Vancouver Folk Music Festival! A feature set for the great Billy Bragg on the main stage tomorrow night and an eclectic set featuring music from festival artists Kazdoura, Aysanabee, Mitsune (from Japan), Valerie June, Maruja Limón (from Spain), Cousin Harley/Paul Pigat, Sahra Halgan (from Somaliland) and Yagody (from Ukraine)!Finishing with a preview of some music from next weekend's Fort Langley Jazz and Arts Festival! I'll do a ticket giveaway for Laila Biali's show at the Chief Sepass Theatre on Sunday July 26th. And we'll hear music from Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra with special guest vocalist Joanna Wallfisch at the Chief Sepass Theatre on Thursday July 23rd at 1pm!Festival season continues - at the A-Trane, it never ends!Join the celebration at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Rebroadcasting a great show from July 10th 2020 on this afternoon's edition of the A-Trane Radio Program.  Celebrating birthdays for Cootie Williams (who takes in the theme) and Lee Morgan.  Most of the show is handed over to the great composer Ennio Morricone who had passed away shortly before this show originally aired.  Besides featuring a number of his film soundtrack themes, we'll also hear collabortations and interpretations of his music with Tony Foster, Bill Frisell/Petra Haden, Yoyo Ma, Chet Baker, John Zorn & crew, Charlie Haden/Pat Metheny, Oddjob and others.  We have it all - the good, the bad and the ugly!  Check it out!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Between the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the North Shore Jazz Series, presentations by Infidels Jazz, Cory Weeds and others, a lot of great music will be happening in the lower mainland in the next few weeks and the next few editions of The A-Trane Radio Program will be steeped in an eclectic set of previews.This is Part 3 of the 2026 Vancouver International Jazz Festival Plus Preview!Up today lots of great music from the Cory Weeds Little Big Band with Jerry Weldon, a soulful set from Amina Claudine Myers, Dean Thiessen Stranger Friends Orchestra with Fredrik Ljungkvist, Wendy Eisenberg, Louis Moholo's Spriits Rejoice, Gordon Grdina's Qalandar and much more!So get out your scorecards, we've got all winners at 100.5FM or coopradio . org, starting gate opens at 2pm Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Between the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the North Shore Jazz Series, presentations by Infidels Jazz, Cory Weeds and others, a lot of great music will be happening in the lower mainland in the next few weeks and the next few editions of The A-Trane Radio Program will be steeped in an eclectic set of previews.This is Part 2 of the 2026 Vancouver International Jazz Festival Plus Preview!Up today lots of great music Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, Bonnie Northgraves, ADHD (from Iceland), The Rumble ft. Big Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr (from New Orleans), Mike WT Allen's Space Elevator, Ardeshir, Julian Borkowski, Etran de L'Air (from Niger), Keyon Harrold, David Blake, Mary Ancheta, Talking Pictures and much more!So get out your scorecards, we've got all winners at 100.5FM or coopradio . org, starting gate opens at 2pm Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Between the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the North Shore Jazz Series, presentations by Infidels Jazz, Cory Weeds and others, a lot of great music will be happening in the lower mainland in the next few weeks and the next few editions of The A-Trane Radio Program will be steeped in an eclectic set of previews.This is Part 1 of the 2026 Vancouver International Jazz Festival Plus Preview!Up today lots of great music from ES:MO (Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael Occhipinti) at Zameen tonight and Brentwood on Sunday, trumpeter Ron Di Lauro with an outstanding array of Quebec Jazz All-Stars doing Kind of Blue in its entirety at the Blueshore on Monday, The Ostara Project, Brandon Woody, Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray, Kokoroko, Tomoki Sanders, Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra and much more. Vocalist Darynn Dean takes in the theme and then we're off to the races!So get out your scorecards, we've got all winners at 100.5FM or coopradio . org, starting gate opens at 2pm Pacific!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Having some fun on this afternoon's edition of the The A-Trane Radio Program, there's a fabulous new release of the Carla Bley Band in Hamburg in 1984 and that lends itself to a nice feature set that will lead into other musicians doing the music of Carla Bley - Arturo O'Farrill, Gary Burton, Steve Cardenas Ben Allison Music & TheodoreRussell Nash, Norma Winstone & Kit Downes, a new one from the Orchestre National de Jazz in France and Fredrik Ljungkvist & Lina Nyberg! The last two coming to this year's Vancouver International Jazz Festival (and Jennifer Scott, Rene Worst & Bernie Arai playing Carla Bley at the Zameen Art House on June 21st) lead us into other previews.The reunion of Talking Pictures (Ron Samworth, Bill Clark, Peggy Lee & Dylan van der Schyff), ES:MO Elizabeth Shepherd & Michael Occhipinti, Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra, Gergana Velinova, finishing with Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School!Sad passages for James Blood Ulmer and the late Tony Wilson whose music I'll do a more extensive feature for on a future A-Trane.Birthdays today for Geri Allen (with a newly released duo concert with Kurt Rosenwinkel) and Chick Corea who takes in the theme in a duo with Stefano Bollani and takes out the show with Armando's Rhumba from the new release of his very last concert in Florida in 2020.Idiosyncratic? Sure! But made for music lovers from music lovers! Join the team at 100.5FM or coopradio.org starting at 2pm Pacific! If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Continuing our retrospective of the late Sonny Rollins on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program. We'll sketch his interactions and mutual admirations between Sonny & John Coltrane with a rare Sonny performance of a Coltrane composition Naima!Following last week's 1950s highlights, we pickup with recordings with Don Cherry, Coleman Hawkins/Paul Bley, Jim Hall and Oliver Nelson (Alfie's Theme!) through the sixties. And walk through some of his best Milestone recordings in the 1970s along with his Rolling Stones guest spot and some live highlights throughout!Sonny loved to do stream-of-consciousness performances turning tunes inside out, tossing out quotes and producing an amazing free flow of imagination for extended performances! I can only fit in so many of those in a radio show! But I hope that you get a taste of Sonny's genius at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Celebrating the legacy of the great Sonny Rollins on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program!  So much so that this will be part one covering mostly 1950s classic recordings but it will include a great concert that Sonny did for Coastal Jazz back in March of 1992 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in the second half of the show.  We'll even throw in a legacy Name those Tunes from a Sonny cadenza contest!So much goodness amidst so much sadness - check it out at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific! If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Buncha previews on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program with music by Christian McBride and Ursa Major featuring the inestimable Nicole Glover coming to the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University this Wednesday at the behest of our friends over at Infidels Jazz with an opening set from Arvind Ramdas.  The Hard Rubber Orchestra is featuring New Music from Young Composers Anna Webber, Matt Choboter and Noah Franche-Nolan at the SFU Goldcorp Centre - we'll feature music by all 3 with a set dedicated to Anna Webber that includes music from John Hollenbeck's fun quartet GEORGE and performances from the Webber-Morris Big Band.  Birthdays abound - Sun Ra takes in the theme to observe the 114th anniversary of his arrival on the planet and our opening set takes a nod to the Centenary of Miles Davis this week with films & live music at the VIFF Theatre on Sunday & Tuesday (more Infidelism!).We'll have nods to Anthony Stanco and Angela Verbrugge/ Ray Gallon who are at Frankie's this weekend - the latter duo kicking off a Canadian tour.  And finish with a nod to the tragic passing of cellist Cris Derksen.Don't nod off - nod on!  At 100.5FM or coopradio . org - music worth staying up for!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

This afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program is entirely handed over to a celebration of the music and life of musician, educator, and all-round great gal Kate Hammett-Vaughan.  Although she had struggled for some years, she never lost her spirit and positive outlook on life so many of us were surprised to hear that she had passed away last week.The theme is the only track not by Kate - it comes from one of her musical heroes, Ella Fitzgerald recorded live in Berlin in 1961 with Lou Levy on the piano.The bulk of the show comes from two concerts which gives us the opportunity to not only hear her music but also hear her talking about it.  The first comes from a Garbo's Hat concert at Presentation House in North Vancouver featuring her long-time collaborators Graham Ord & Paul Blaney in January of 2017. The second comes from a Vancouver International Jazz Festival concert which closed the Canada Day festivities at Performance Works in 2015.  That features Chris Gestrin, Jon Bentley, André Lachance and Tom Foster.  Those two concerts give a taste of the span of her artistry from straight ahead (but personal) interpretation to some fearless experimentation and vocal artistry.We'll fill it out with some of my personal favorites and unusual gems.  Much love to her family, friends, fans and students particularly her husband Guy Smith who took such good care of her, and the Queens she left behind - Karin Plato and Jennifer Scott.At 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific.If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Although Keith Jarrett is a legendary improviser, he is also a formidable composer and on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program, we'll celebrate his performance of his compositions and other interpretations by Don Byron with Drew Gress, Ariel Pocock with Julian Lage, Branford Marsalis, Chet Atkins (!), Turboprop led by Ernesto Cervini, Chucho Valdés Oficial with Jay Rodriguez, Gary Burton, John Scofield, Noah Haidu and others!Also a feature for harpist Zeena Parkins & percussionist William Winant who bring their tremendous Modesty of the Magic Thing project to the Western Front tomorrow night.Gerry Mulligan takes in the theme and then we dive into an examination of Coltrane changes to give context to the Record Store Day release of the first of Frank Tiberi's recordings of live Coltrane.  Those live tracks - Giant Steps and the reharmonization of How High the Moon known as Satellite - are a preview of the Tiberi Tapes box set to be released in the fall.I heard the sad news of the passing of my old friend Kate Hammett-Vaughan yesterday afternoon and I'm planning an extended feature to commemorate her and her music on next week's show.The A-Trane every Friday afternoon at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at 2pm Pacific and continuing until we run out of music (we'll run out of time first - take my word for it!)If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!

Just some musical fun on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program, lotsa birthdays with nods to Duke's last week (an extended 1949 arrangement of the theme with the orchestra gets us going), Ambrose Akinmusire, Shirley Horn, the late Carlos Ward, Kate Hammett-Vaughan, James Newton and an oblique recognition of the centenary last week of Chicago impresario Joe Segal whose Jazz Showcase archives are being mined by Zev Feldman for a series of Record Store Day releases.  Today's feature is a  tremendous Yusef Lateef quartet which includes Kenny Barron from 1975 - Alight upon the Lake!  A preview of the new project Goodbye Strawberry Hill from Sharon Minemoto that tells her family's story from the incarceration and separation of her family and the Canadians of Japanese heritage in the Second World War to their resilience and optimism of the present day.  Her quartet's performance at the Anvil Theatre in New West tomorrow evening (May 2nd) will also feature a screening of a short documentary about the project - highly recommended!Also kicking off the Miles centenary celebrations this month with the Birth of the Birth of the Cool - the 1948 Miles Davis Tuba Band concerts that preceded Miles legendary collaboration with Gil Evans and others.  A number of Miles Centenary concerts in Vancouver this month (many presented by Infidels Jazz) will touch on some of this great material!We'll also hear from Fred Frith who will do a rare solo performance at the Revue Stage this Sunday (that Infidel certainly gets around!) and Anna Webber whose music will be featured by John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra later this month!We celebrate our own International Jazz Day every Friday at Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at Two Pacific - you should too!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!  (Look for the broadcast date!)And if you like what you hear, consider a donation to Vancouver Cooperative Radio!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org  Check it out!