Bebop and Beyond on a Richmond Jazz Weekend….

Bebop And Beyond With Mr. JazzBebop and Beyond on a Richmond Jazz Weekend….

Bill here, standing in for Mike this week.  Welcome to today's show featuring selections by artists chosen for the program by Mr. Jazz!  

This weekend you can enjoy jazz live at the festival and — as always on Sunday — on your radio here at WRIR.   Thanks for listening!

JAZZ BIRTHDAYS for the week of August 12, 2012: Pat Metheny, George Shearing, Mulgrew Miller, Lorez Alexander, Oscar Peterson, Stix Hooper, Bill Evans, Mal Waldron, George Duvivier, Duke Pearson, Ike Quebec, Oscar Brashear and Alvin Queen

HOUR 1

Horace Silver / We've Got Silver At Six / The Hardbop Grandpop / impulse! – GRP Records / 1996

Brandon Wright / Walk of Shame / Journeyman / Posi-Tone Records / 2012

Bobby Streng's House Big Band / Jen's Prelude / Getting Housed, Live / Bobby Streng / 2011

Brazilian Trio / Luiza / Constelacao / Motema Music / 2012

The Jay Lawrence Quartet / Senor Mouse / Sweet Lime / Jazz Hang Records / 2012

Mike Freeman Zonavibe / Drifting / The Vibesman / VOF Recordings / 2011

Stacey Kent / It Might As Well Be Spring / Dreamer in Concert / Blue Note Records – EMI / 2011

Virginia Mayhew Quartet / 5 For Mary Lou / Mary Lou Williams – The Next 100 Years / Renma Recordings / 2012

HOUR 2

Kris Berg & The Metroplexity Big Band / Games / This Time – Last Year / MAMA Records / 2012

Piero Odorici / Casadias / Cedar Walton Presents Piero Odorici / Savant Records / 2012

Veronneau / Mas Que Nada / Jazz Samba Project / Veronneau Music / 2012

Duke Ellington Legacy / Lotus Blossom / Single Petal of a Rose / Renma Recordings / 2012

Mike Allen Quartet / Oceans Under Europa / A Hip Cosmos / Almus Jazz / 2012

Mary Stallings / Love Me Or Leave Me / Don't Look Back / HighNote Records / 2012

Royce Campbell / I'm A Fool To Want You / all ballads and a bossa / Moon Cycle Records / 2011

Natalie Cressman & Secret Garden / That Kind / Unfolding / Natalie Cressman / 2012