Full Moon Hacksaw
December 13, 2018
That Memphis man gone to New York, Harold Mabern, opens our remote broadcast from a local eatery, we negotiate thru Canadian bassist Dave Young thru Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and Bobby Blue Bland as our blue men before a couple co-hosts join the broadcast. With a music director well hear JJ Johnson’s trombone, Irene Kralls voice, and with an anchor keeping things together a plug for some of our radio stations and/or a few radio trivia notes along the way. Just a hint at Christmas is the percussion with Manfredo Fests piano, Mary Stallings is sassy with her voice, Oscar Peterson is prodigious on piano and John Fedchock keeps the trombones tromping. For our second hours variety enjoy Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis and Ruben Blades as quite the combination. Wynton Kelly goes on tour to play piano with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, a brief oldie from pianist Gene Harris then Pete Escovedo joins Claudio Medeiros. A new release is played by the Humanity Quartet, Brazilian Oscar Castro Neves welcomes Paul Winters soprano sax, and Oscar Peterson returns for an encore, providing a nightcap to a most spectacular jazz social. Whether swinging with salsa, or boogieing with bop, we are bearers of blues, Hacksaw Jazz.