Greetings from KRFY – This week on “Treasure Chest” we will continue our holiday theme for the month of December. Join us while we enjoy a JAZZY slice of holiday tunes.
The New Jazz Archive is a weekly series exploring jazz’s place in the story of America.
The New Jazz Archive is a weekly series exploring jazz’s place in the story of America. Each hour-long episode is a collection of stories, interviews, and music that relates the past, present and future of jazz to the things that shape our daily lives—from movies, television and pop culture, to important social issues, to the economy, technology, and even other forms of music.
This week on the show, it’s A Very Merry Jazz Christmas with an hour of some of the best holiday jazz. We’ll talk with jazz historian Bill Sears about some of the off-the-beaten path jazz takes on your favorite holiday classics, and chat with our producer Lou Blouin about the Christmas duet that brought jazz icon Bing Crosby and rocker David Bowie together. That plus a conversation with pianist Eugene Marlow about his recent jazz reworking of some classic Hanukkah music, and tunes from Duke Ellington, Hammond B3 pioneer Jimmy Smith, Vince Guaraldi, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers, are all coming up this week..