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Jazz Now!

No Apocalypse for Jazz can be seen in the near future, so we will have a look at how Jazz is doing these days—it may be doing it quietly and in the background for the mainstream listener, but it’s there, it’s alive, and it’s kickin’!

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

132R Chicago part II

Covering the period from their recovery from the death of Terry Kath onwards, there were a lot of changes to go through and some lacklustre albums too.    Hugh had selected the best tracks, and we updated the show with two tracks from the latest album Chicago XXXVIII: Born For This Moment, released in 2022.

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Chicago Part II

This week, we will continue the saga of Chicago: what happened after their fatal hit.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

258 The Sky’s the Limit

A great set of tracks put together by Hugh around the subject of the sky.   Lots of slower stuff and a wide variety of styles, but all great music and well liked by our audience, which grew to 31 at one point and stayed at 28 for a long while.   Very happy with that.

The Michael Feinstein track Skywriting was cut short in the main show, and the full track was added to the postshow.  My fault, a bad reformatting of the wma original by Audacity.

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The Sky

After our look at the sea a couple of weeks ago, we will turn our eyes upwards this time and enjoy the sky for a change.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

130R Chicago part 1

A selection of tracks from the celebrated jazz-rock-pop band Chicago, going up to the eleventh studio album just before the death of Terry Kath.  I’m a big fan of early Chicago, no surprise as I’m a jazz fan from way back, and I had a lot of input to this show – the second show is mostly Hugh.  23 listeners peak, a good number, for which we thank you.

Since I talked a lot about the covers, I’ve linked images of them to the album names.  The ones we missed out are Chicago at Carnegie Hall, which is number 4 in the sequence (White Tile), and Chicago IX – Chicago’s Greatest Hits (Painted Billboard)

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Chicago. The Full Brass.

This week, we will have a look at the early years of Chicago. Not the Southside thereof—we won’t meet Leroy Brown—but the Rock band that has some real brass.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

Will Big Bands Ever Come Back?

This week’s show will have a look at what happened to the Big Band—not why, in particular, it went into a corner to sulk (that was due to Swing going out of style), but whether there are any recent signs of life.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse