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Miles ’55 offers a deeper look at 1955, the year in which jazz icon Miles Davis formed his first great quintet (John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones) and established his influential sound. This collection includes 16 tracks remastered from the original analog tapes by GRAMMY-winning engineer Paul Blakemore, with lacquers cut by Kevin Gray. Included are new liner notes by GRAMMY® Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn and session notes by Dan Morgenstern.

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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It covers the legendary artists prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Included on the back of the newly designed sleeve is a new essay by GRAMMY® award winning writer Ashley Kahn.

PERSONNEL:

Charlie Parker - Sax)
Kenny Dorham, Miles Davis - (trumpet)
Bud Powell - (piano)
Dizzy Gillespie - (piano, trumpet)
Charles Mingus, Curly Russell - (bass)
Max Roach - (drums)

TRACKS:

01. Ko-Ko
02. Now's The Time
03. Cheryl
04. Parker's Blood
05. Billie's Bounce
06. Donna Lee
07. Confirmation
08. Ornithology
09. Groovin' High
10. Anthropology
11. Salt Peanuts

The late, great, trumpeter and educator, Clark Terry called the Chicago Jazz Orchestra “The best big band in the country." Under the direction of Jeff Lindberg, the CJO celebrates the upcoming release of its latest album: More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery with a live concert featuring phenomenal jazz guitarist Bobby Broom. From “Road Song” to “More, More, Amor” to “Boss City,” the Windy City’s oldest continuously operating jazz orchestra tips its hat to one of the most unique and pivotal voices jazz guitar has ever known.

Trombonist Conrad Herwig, one of the most adventurous voices in Latin jazz, is back with a terrific new Savant release. This time he's teamed up again with the legendary Eddie Palmieri, a true icon of the genre, and bassist Luques Curtis, forming a trio that breaks all the rules. What sets this album apart? There's no drummer. In a musical style as rhythm-centric as Latin jazz, going drumless is almost unheard of - but that's precisely what makes this project so exciting. Curtis keeps the pulse moving forward with his rock-solid, melodic bass playing, while Palmieri fires up all his usual excitement and rhythmic complexity, using the piano like a percussion instrument. Herwig, of course, soars over it all with his high-flying, bold and fluid trombone sound. Herwig and Palmieri go way back, having played together on several of Palmieri's Grammy-winning records. With "Reflections-Facing South," they strip things down to the essentials, and the result is Latin jazz like you've never quite heard it before-energetic, unfiltered and full of surprises.

In April of 1998, fresh off their Grammy win for Best Latin Jazz Performance for their debut effort, Habana, Roy Hargrove’s Crisol went into a studio in Guadalupe to record their follow-up album. Until now, that album, Grande-Terre, has never been heard. Featuring an all-star band of Roy’s long-time collaborators, including trombonist Frank Lacy, pianist Larry Willis, bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Willie Jones III, Grande-Terre showcases Hargrove’s fiery playing, his exquisite writing and the band’s incredible power and unique sound. Roy’s untimely passing in 2018 makes us wonder what this band could have achieved if they’d had the chance to continue developing their original approach to Latin Jazz.

Dave Specter and Delmark Records have been together for over three decades. Dave’s acclaimed double album “Six String Soul” celebrated this amazing journey. Now, “Dave Specter Live at Space” writes a new and exciting chapter in this long and harmonious story on Dave’s 14th album on Delmark. At home at Evanston’s premier venue, SPACE, Dave and his smokin’ tight band deliver a definitive live blues event, vibrantly captured in this recording. This is 21st century Chicago blues, anchored in tradition and open to the future.

With Pierre Lacocque at the controls and an artistic collective of veteran and rising new artists, Mississippi Heat continues to look ahead as it stretches the boundaries of Chicago blues.  Featuring Sheryl Youngblood, vocals.

RADIO IN 1948–BOB HOPE SHOW (12-28-48) Broadcasting from the Berlin Airlift, Bob’s guests are Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and Irving Berlin.

ESCAPE (3-28-48) “A Shipment of Mute Fate” is the classic story of a deadly bushmaster snake, escape in the hold of a ship at sea.

BING CROSBY SHOW (1-7-48) Bing’s guests are comedian Walter O’Keefe and The Lone Ranger (Brace Beemer), who join the cast in an hilarious western sketch.

JIMMY DURANTE SHOW (4-28-48) The Schnozzola welcomes guest Lucille Ball who joins singer Peggy Lee for Jimmy’s tour of industry to show them the Big Business attitude towards women.

The WDCB Coffee Pack includes Two WDCB Trumpet Coffee Mugs, a bag of coffee from I Have a Bean, and chocolate from Four Brothers Handcrafted Chocolates.

Albert King’s 1999 live album In Session with Stevie Ray Vaughan is now available in its entirely for the first time. Recorded live for television at CHCH-TV studios in Ontario, Canada in 1983, this is the only known recording of Vaughan and King playing together. Also featured are Tony Llorens (piano/organ), Gus Thornton (bass), and Michael Llorens (drums). This deluxe edition features the audio debut of “Born Under A Bad Sign,” “Texas Flood,” and “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town,” and has been newly remastered by Paul Blakemore.

The concept of these recordings is to give the listener the complete Groover experience as you would hear it live in a club. Many recordings today are limited for time so you don’t get the full experience of hearing solos develop and people stretching out like you do on live dates. And then there’s the energy of the audience feeding the band which I think is an essential part of playing music. These recordings were made as if we weren’t recording at all so the listener gets a completely uninhibited performance that sounds great.

Releasing these 2 recordings together gives the listener a 25 year span of The Groover Quartet. It is very rare to have bands that last decades these days and it’s interesting that we have live material from back in the beginning and from right now. When we recorded the Anniversary Quartet it was back when I first started really focusing on using tunes by the R&B groups I grew up listening to and making them into vehicles for swinging and for improvisation.

The Original Groover Quartet, or “OGQ” are some of the baddest cats on the planet bar none. We were all so young when we started, well at least they were, I have 10 years on them. We’ve been friends for decades, started our families during our time together and have been all over the world. They are my musical family and I think you can hear that in the music.

Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ two studio albums for Lester Koenig’s Contemporary Records, Way Out West and And The Contemporary Leaders, with a third disc, Contemporary Alternate Takes. Featuring remastered audio by Bernie Grundman, the set is presented in a 3-CD box and includes an expanded booklet with new notes and interview by GRAMMY® Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn, including a new 2021 interview with Sonny Rollins.

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Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert at the Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires is the first official release of pianist Bill Evans with Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell captured live at the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 24, 1973.

Remastered from the original concert tape reels and in cooperation with the Bill Evans Estate, this deluxe 2-CD set includes an extensive booklet with rare photos from the actual concert; essays by American author/journalist Marc Myers and Argentine author Claudio Parisi (who wrote the book Grandes del jazz internacional en Argentina (1956-1979)); plus new interviews with Eddie Gomez, Marty Morell and pianist Richie Beirach. This concert recording is available officially for the very first time and is the companion piece to the Resonance Release, Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín Concert, Buenos Aires with Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera.

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Heathered Gray/Black Hemingway 12-Can Backpack Cooler with Reflective Trim

• Durable and stylish; Sits comfortably on shoulders for easy, hands-free carry, even at full capacity
• Large, zip-close compartment; Insulated 12-can capacity
• Front slip pocket and two mesh side pockets
• Padded backpack straps
• Bungee cord on top panel adds to carrying capacity
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We love and support our local jazz artists!  And to encourage you to as well, we are DOUBLING our Chicago Jazz Pack from the usual four CDs to a whopping eight CDs so you can enjoy this music with us!!

includes:

• Tony Richards Duo - A Day in January
• Zachary Finnegan - Guidance & Gratitude
• Paul Hecht - Pyrography
• Steve Knight - For Years Gone
• Julia Danielle - self titled album
• Scott Hesse Trio - Intention
• Sharel Cassity - Gratitude
• Jarod Bufe - Brighter Days

includes:

• Dave Specter - Live at Space

• Pierre Lacocque's Mississippi Heat - Don't Look Back

• Joe Filisko & Eric Noden - Let's Go

• Son House - Forever on my Mind

Reissued together as a set in their entirety here for the first time, the five volumes of Panart Records' Cuban Jam Session albums were released over a span of almost a decade, from 1956-1964. Featuring an all-star line-up including Julio Gutiérrez, Niño Rivera, José Fajardo, and Cachao. Together, these albums encapsulate a stylistic and historic panorama of Cuban music, from big band son montuno to Afro-Cuban rumba, mambo, cha-cha-cha and country acoustic guajira music, at the same time that they attest to Cuba’s long relationship with popular American music and jazz.

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includes:
- WDCB Jazz Icons Long-Sleeve Tee Shirt
- WDCB Hooded Sweatshirt (heather dark navy)
- WDCB Trumpet Socks
- WDCB Baseball Cap
- WDCB Duffel Bag
- WDCB Travel Mug

Coltrane’s breakout year, when his mature sound first grabbed ears and his own recordings began to sell consistently, was 1958. This release chronicles the exciting story session by session, featuring all 37 tracks Coltrane recorded as a leader or co-leader for the independent Prestige Records label in those twelve months. This collection captures him in creative high gear—developing the signature improvisational style that journalist Ira Gitler famously dubbed “sheets of sound.” The timely release marks the 70th year since the founding of Prestige and comes just after the 60th anniversary of these recordings.

A dozen CDs will be hand-picked by WDCB and delivered to you – one each month over the next 12 months!

You will also receive all benefits of the WDCB "Insiders Club" - invites to select WDCB concerts, three on-air "Insider" announcements, as well as the offer of a station visit with "Insider" tour!

MILES IN FRANCE is the eighth installment in the celebrated Miles Davis Bootleg Series and this edition focuses on the birth of the Second Great Quintet in 1963 and 1964. The music heard here represents the sound of an end and a beginning coming through at once. The set contains 5 separate performances of the Miles Davis Quintet spread over 6 CDs and the energy and depth of feeling in the transcendent playing hint at the special relationship Miles and the group had with the French nation that embraced them in a way their homeland would not. It contains over 4 hours of revelatory, unreleased live music featuring Miles backed by George Coleman (on the 1963 recordings), Wayne Shorter (on the 1964
recordings), Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. This set expands on the 1964 live album MILES IN EUROPE which documented the Miles Davis Quintet’s performance at the Festival Mondial du Jazz in Antibes in July 1963. While that album included a single edited set across 2LPs, this will include all three very distinct performances from Antibes along with two never-before-released concerts from October 1964 in Paris, by which time Wayne Shorter had joined the band, so you could hear the Second Great Quintet come together before your ears. The audio has been lovingly mixed and mastered in the highest quality possible and the CDs are packaged in 3 gatefold mini-jackets housed in a luxe slipcase box with a die-cut O-card and a 32 page book that includes dozens of unseen photos, ephemera and extensive liner notes by noted journalist Marcus J. Moore.

You will spend one hour as a co-host with one of our DCB Jazz hosts, sharing your "desert island" picks*. Your visit will also include:

• a digital image of you and your co-host from WDCB
• a keepsake CD of your hour on WDCB
• a station tour

* The co-host is subject to availability. And all music is subject to approval by WDCB in advance of your visit.