playlist 24 December

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