Jazz Unlimited for February 21, 2016 will present the third part of a five-part series on “Jazz Families: Blood Relatives.” There are an amazing number of jazz musicians who have blood relatives (mothers, fathers, siblings) who are also jazz musicians. This show will have music from our own Singleton Palmer Dixie Six with Ben Thigpen, Ben’s son Ed Thigpen, our own Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France with the Reinhardt brothers, the Marsala brothers, the Montgomery brothers, Red and Whitey Mitchell, Bud and Richie Powell, Stu and Claude Williamson, Charlie and Joe Byrd, Phineas Newborn, Jr. and his brother Calvin, the Turrentine brothers, Lee and Lester Young, Thelonious Monk and his son T.S., Jackie and Rene McLean, Wayne and Allen Shorter, Randy and Azedin Weston, the Roney brothers, Charles and Charnett Moffett and Dewey Redman and his son Joshua.
The Slide show contains photographs of some of the musicians heard on this show.
The Audio Archive of this show will be available until the morning of February 29, 2016.
This is a video of Bud Powell (p) Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (b) Jorn Elniff (d) playing "Anthropology" at the Club Monmarte in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1962.
