Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

This summer, our vocalists show their chords - from ballads to Bossa Nova and troubadours to vocalese. 

Kick off Independence Day with Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis celebrating Hoagy Carmichael.  Nelson's Night Life, great blues and even a little old time religion.  Stick with us as Carmen Lundy brings operatic flair to Ellington; Freddy Cole and Ernestine Anderson drive the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Marcus Roberts, Michael Feinstein and Patti Austin rhapsodize on Gershwin.  Kevin Mahogany and the soulful tenorman Todd Williams evoke balladeer Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane.

We slide off the standard scale when Carla Cook and Allen Harris honor the vocalese genius Eddie Jefferson.  Singers Tierney Sutton, Loston Harris, Nancy King, Claire Martin, Jane Monheit and Nancy Wilson carry the tradition into the future.  We'll mark Bossa Nova's 50th anniversary with Ivan Lins, "the best Brazilian songwriter since Antonio Carlos Jobim" and Rosa Passos.  Even Bill Cosby and Gil Scot-Heron and Yusef Komunyakaa get their say, as wordsmiths and tunesmiths come together.

At the office, on the beach or at the 'crib' - Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio brings home the swing.  I hope you'll join us.  There's no more musical way to spend your summer!