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After Hours featuring Monty Alexander, air date Jan. 25, 2023

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Join me for the Jan. 25, 2023, edition of After Hours on KRBD Rainbird 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 Monty Alexander interview from Jan. 25, 2023. Click this link to listen to our previous After Hours show featuring Monty Alexander, originally broadcast on Jan. 13, 2020. Click here to visit Monty’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 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.