On this edition of Jazz After Hours...
we celebrate the holidays with a hand-picked selection of brand new 2023 holiday jazz releases plus our regular programming. Four hours of the newest jazz music on public radio, covering jazz scenes from coast to coast and around the world.
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Hour 1
George Gee Swing Orchestra – Baby It`s Cold Outside – Winter Wonderland – self released
Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y – Until I See You Again – A New Beat – Cellar Music
Joshua Redman – By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Where are we – Blue Note
Eunmi Lee – Azure – Introspection – You&Me Music
Affinity Trio – Parisian Poet – Hindsight – OA2 Records
Antoine Drye – The Peacocks – Retreat To Beauty – Cellar Music
Pablo Masis – Anticipation – Thought and Memory – Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
David Hazeltine – Christmas Time Is Here – Christmas Cards from David Hazeltine – HighNote Records
Kavita Shah – Amor di mundo – Cape Verdean Blues – Folkalist Records
Sebastian Rochford – Even Now I Think of Her – A Short Diary – ECM Records
Hour 2
Ted Piltzecker – New Orleans – Vibes on a Breath – OA2 Records
Sean Mason – Sean`s Theme – The Southern Suite – Blue Engine
Nitai Hershkovits – Single Petal Of A Rose – Call On The Old Wise – ECM
George Gee Swing Orchestra – Jingle bells – Winter Wonderland – self released
Gerald Cannon – Home – Live at Dizzy`s Club The Music of Elvin & McCoy – Woodneck Records
Ambrose Akinmusire – Grace – Owl Song – Nonesuch Records
Mike DiRubbo – Campania – Inner Light – TRR Collective
Jae Sinnett Zero to Sixty Quartet – Winter Mumbo – A Swinging Christmas Live At WHRO – self released
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto – Midnight Sugar – A Shade Of Blue – Evosound
Jakob Manz Project – Voyage Sureel – The Answer – Act Records
Hour 3
Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra – This Christmas – Big Band Holidays III – Blue Engine Records
Michael Weiss – Skylark – Homage – Cellar Music
Atley King – Naima – Unconditional – Cellar Music
Imani Jazz All Stars – Blue Christmas – Holiday Extravaganza – Imani Records
Cory Weeds – Home Cookin` – Home Cookin – Cellar Music
JBQ – Gumbo Necessity – Revolution Blues – Jazz Dimensions Records
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra – Carol of the Bells – Carol of the Bells – Patois Records
Philippe Cote and Francois Bourassa – 1190 Chemin de la Montagne – Confluence – Odd Sound
Stacey Kent – La Valse Des Lilas (The Lilac Waltz) – Summer Me, Winter Me – Naive Records
Sinne Eeg & Thomas Fonnesbaek – `Round Midnight – Staying in Touch – Stunt Records
Hour 4
Christian Sands – Christmas Hymn – Christmas Stories – Mack Avenue
Robert Edwards – Healing The Heart – Upswing – La Reserve
Nils Landgren – Still Crazy After All These Years – 4 Wheel Drive II – ACT
Eddie Henderson – I Am Going to Miss You, My Darling – Witness To History – Smoke Sessions Records
Ray Brown`s Great Big Band – A Christmas Love Song – Jazz Notes for Christmas – Summit
Sam Newsome and Jean-Michel Pilc – Solitude – Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged – Self Released
Mareike Wiening – Balada – Reveal – Greenleaf Music
Jennifer Wharton`s Bonegasm – Anita – Grit and Grace – Sunnyside Records
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra – Let it Snow – Carol of the Bells – Patois Records
Hays Street Hart – Butterfly – Bridges – Smoke Sessions Records
Esperanza Spalding and Fred Hersch – Some Other Time – Live at The Village Vanguard – Palmetto Records