Category: Featured guest

After Hours featuring Ron Carter, air date Feb. 3, 2020

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Join me for the Feb. 3, 2020, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio as I’m joined in conversation with the great American jazz double bassist, Ron Carter.

His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most recorded jazz bassist in history. Ron is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument. He was a member of the Miles Davis Quintet in the mid 1960s, which also included pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Tony Williams.

He was elected to the Downbeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2012. In 1993, Ron won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group and another Grammy in 1998 for an instrumental composition for the film “Round Midnight.” Be sure to tune into this incredible and unforgettable conversation.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Ron Carter, originally broadcast on Feb. 3, 2020. Click here to visit Ron’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Sinne Eeg, air date Jan. 27, 2020

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Join me for the Jan. 27, 2020, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio as  I’m joined in conversation with Danish jazz vocalist Sinne Eeg.

Sinne has received a number of recognitions and positive reviews both nationally and internationally and is considered among the best female jazz vocalists currently in Scandinavia. She has composed many of her own songs, and although she usually sings in English, she has also performed and recorded songs in Danish.

Sinne has won the Danish Music Awards prize in the category Best Danish Vocal Jazz Album of the Year four times. The Webster Foundation describes her as “‘a true jazz singer, who both shows sensitivity, improvisational skills, maturity, broad range and timing in her singing.’”

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Sinne Eeg, originally broadcast on Jan. 27, 2020. Click here to visit Sinne’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Anne Phillips, air date Jan. 20, 2020

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Join me for the Jan. 20, 2020, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio (and later broadcast on KRBD Rainbird Radio and KSTK) as I’m joined in conversation with American singer, songwriter, pianist and producer Anne Phillips.

Anne’s career has covered almost every area of the music business. In addition to recording several solo albums, from the classic Born To Be Blue, to her most recent release, Ballet Time on which she sings with such old friends as Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, she  has worked  as a singer, choral arranger and conductor with many of the music world’s leading artists and is  widely known in the industry as the writer-arranger-producer of many national commercials.

Anne has worked with Burt Bacharach, Carole King, Mahalia Jackson and has arranged and produced jingles for the Four Tops and Martha and the Vandellas. She started working in demo recordings for songwriters in the 1950s. She was also a member of the Ray Charles Singers on the Perry Como Show.

Join me on this odyssey into the musical heart and soul into this fabulous artist.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Anne Phillips, originally broadcast on Jan. 20, 2020. Click here to visit Anne’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Monty Alexander, air date Jan. 13, 2020

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Join me for the Jan. 13, 2020, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio as I’m joined in conversation with Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander.

Monty’s playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues-rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson and Frank Sinatra. Monty also sings and plays the melodica. He’s known for his surprising musical twists, bright rhythmic sense and intense dramatic musical climaxed.

Monty is married to jazz vocalist Caterina Zapponi, who was interviewed on the After Hours show broadcast on March 9, 2020.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Monty Alexander, originally broadcast on Jan. 13, 2020. Click here to visit Monty’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Lori Williams, air date Dec. 30, 2019

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Join me for the Dec. 30, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, when I was joined in conversation with “out-of-the-box” jazz vocalist Lori Williams

Lori blends straight ahead, contemporary, soul, inspirational, and urban, creating a truly unique smooth mix of sound. She also is an educator, songwriter, producer, support vocalist, and musical theater actress with five well-received CDs to her credit (a sixth is scheduled for release in 2020) — all of which she self-produced.

As an educator for more than 25 years, Lori has received many honors including Outstanding Music Teacher in the October 2000 issue of Teaching Music, the 2007 Superintendent’s Arts Teacher of the Year Award, and the 2010 Vincent E. Reed Teacher of the Year. As a performing artist, Lori was nominated for a 2014 Helen Hayes Award as an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Musical for her role as Ella Fitzgerald in “Ladies Swing the Blues: A Jazz Fable” (directed by Thomas W. Jones). Lori has received letters of recognition for her performances by Vice President Joseph Biden, former Speaker of the House John Boehner, and Maryland Senator C. Anthony Muse.

Click this link to listen to the KCAW After Hours show featuring Lori Williams, originally broadcast on Dec. 30, 2019. Click here to visit Lori’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Tierney Sutton, air date Dec. 23, 2019

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Join me for the Dec. 23, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, when I was joined in conversation with American jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton.

For more than 20 years, Tierney has led the Tierney Sutton Band with pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker. The band is an incorporated unit and makes all musical and business decisions together. They tour throughout the world and have headlined at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.

This year the band is nominated for a Grammy for best jazz vocal album. It’s their ninth nomination.

Click this link to listen to the KCAW After Hours show featuring Tierney Sutton, originally broadcast on Dec. 23, 2019. Click here to visit Tierney’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Benny Green, air date Dec. 9, 2019

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Join me for the Dec. 9, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio as I’m joined in conversation with the great American hard bop jazz pianist Benny Green.

He has been compared to Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson in style and counts them as influences. Benny joined Betty Carter’s band in 1983, and since 1991 he has led his own trio. He’s recorded for Blue Note Records, Telarc and Criss Cross Jazz.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Benny Green, originally broadcast on Dec. 9, 2019. Click here to visit Benny’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Sharón Clark, air date Nov. 25, 2019

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Join me for the Nov. 25, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, when I was joined in conversation with Washington, D.C., standout Sharón Clark.

Sharón has brought festival and concert audiences to their feet across the U.S. and Europe. Her New York run drew raves from the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, and she won New York’s Bistro Award for Best Vocalist. Ms. Clark has made multiple international tours in recent years, making her debut in Israel and returning to Russia, where she has developed a major following. Her most recent release, “Do it Again — My Tribute to Shirley Horn,” is on its third printing, and she grabs top honors wherever she goes.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Sharón Clark, originally broadcast on Nov. 25, 2019. Click here to visit Sharón’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Christian Fabian, air date Nov. 18, 2019

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Join me for the Nov. 18, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio as I’m joined in conversation with jazz bassist Christian Fabian.

Christian was born in Sweden and moved to the U.S in the 90’s to attend Berklee College. He is currently active in the New York scene, playing with Mike Longo’s NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble and around the metro area. He is a co-leader of the New Lionel Hampton Band featuring Jason Marsalis.

Christian has become one of the best-regraded bassists on the U.S jazz scene today. When not in New York or out on tour, Christian can be found in Sitka, where he frequently teaches at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. He also is a member of the Native Jazz Quartet with Ed Littlefield of Sitka, Jason Marsalis and Reuel Lubag.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Christian Fabian, originally broadcast on Nov. 18, 2019. Click here to visit Christian’s personal website.

After Hours featuring Ray Brown Jr., air date Oct. 21, 2019

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Join me for the Oct. 21, 2019, edition of After Hours on KCAW Raven Radio in Sitka, Alaska, when I was joined in an exclusive musical conversation with Ray Brown Jr.

Ray is an American jazz, blues, and smooth jazz pianist and singer. He was born in New York City and is the adopted son of master bassist Ray Brown and world renowned singer Ella Fitzgerald. Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and many others were regular visitors during his childhood.

Click this link to listen to the After Hours show featuring Ray Brown Jr., originally broadcast on Oct. 21, 2019. Click here to visit Ray’s page on the SRI Records website.