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Bobby Broom Trio with Dennis Carroll & Kobie Watkins

Notes of Thanks is a new album from the Bobby Broom Trio, scheduled for release on May 1, 2026. It serves as a tribute to legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins, Broom's mentor, and features bandmates Dennis Carroll (bass) and Kobie Watkins (drums). The album is a celebration of Rollins' songbook and Broom’s long-held desire to express gratitude.

Bobby Broom Trio
Bobby Broom (guitars)
Dennis Carroll (bass)
Kobie Watkins (drums)

“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 Soul Message Band has long been co-led by organist Chris Foreman and drummer Greg “The Rock” Rockingham. Foreman and Rockingham were part of the Deep Blue Organ Trio along with guitarist Bobby Broom, and they also recorded together with guitarist Henry Johnson and saxophonist Red Holloway. Long-time fixtures in Chicago, they opened for Steely Dan for eight years and were inducted into the Hammond B3 Hall of Fame. 

The Soul Message Band previously recorded such albums as Soulful Days, Live At The Blue Llama, and People. On Full Circle, in addition to its co-leaders, The Soul Message Band features its newest member altoist Greg Jung on two songs and has appearances by guitarist Lee Rothenberg, tenor-saxophonist Geof Bradfield, and Steve Eisen on baritone and tenor with Typhanie Monique contributing background vocals on four numbers.

Jimmy Burns, who turned 82 in 2025, was born in the Mississippi Delta as the youngest of 11 children. When he was 12, he moved with his family to Chicago where he has lived ever since. He recorded a series of singles starting in 1964, took some time off to raise his family, and in the early 1990s became active again, leading six albums for the Delmark label during 1996-2007. 

“Full Circle” teams Jimmy Burns with the Soul Message Band and is a joyful listening experience. With the instrumentalists playing in the tradition of such classic 1960s soul jazz groups as those of Charles Earland, Jack McDuff, and Jimmy Smith, Burns sounds quite comfortable, contributing soulful and expressive vocals on eight of the ten songs. He particularly excels on the blues “World Of Trouble,” over the funky groove of “I Really Love You,” the rollicking “Too Much Lovin’,” and “Rock Me Mama,” playing a bit of guitar on the latter.   

The Soul Message Band takes “Ain’t That Funk For You” and “Since I Fell For You” as instrumental features for altoist Greg Jung, Chris Foreman is a major force throughout the date both as an accompanist to the singer and as a soloist, and Greg Rockingham keeps the music grooving.      

“Full Circle” is a fine showcase for Jimmy Burns and the Soul Message Band and is easily recommended for fans of high-quality blues, soul jazz, blues ballads, and soulful music.

- Scott Yanow, jazz journalist/historian

For years, Kurt Elling has imagined what might happen if the full force of a modern big band could be shaped around the human voice—not as ornament, but as its emotional and narrative center. In The Brass Palace is the realization of that vision.

Recorded with Germany’s legendary WDR Big Band and conducted by Bob Mintzer, the album pairs Elling’s unmistakable voice—by turns muscular, lyrical, playful, and searching—with widescreen orchestration that feels both classic and unmistakably contemporary. The result is a collection that swings hard, moves deeply, and treats the big band not as a museum piece, but as a living, breathing, expressive partner.

Elling has long been celebrated for pushing the boundaries of vocal jazz through storytelling, vocalese, and fearless reinterpretation. Here, that adventurous spirit is magnified. Each track unfolds like a scene—rich with color, momentum, and emotional weight—inviting the listener into a world where language, rhythm, and harmony move as one.

In The Brass Palace stands as one of the most ambitious projects of Elling’s career: a bold meeting of voice and orchestra, tradition and innovation, craft and imagination. It is big, expressive jazz—made for listening closely and feeling deeply.

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.

Verve's Finest Hour collection of Sarah Vaughan's work compiles 60 minutes of career highlights, including "Misty," "Lush Life," "Lullaby of Birdland," "Star Dust," and "My Coloring Book." Though it's by no means a definitive compilation of Vaughan's music, it does provide a welcome overview of some of her best pop and jazz moments.
~ Heather Phares

Released the month that Tony Bennett turned 80, this compilation of his 1960s records gives a good account of his second decade of recording, even if it doesn't quite live up to the "greatest hits" claim of its title. All of Bennett's Top 40 pop hits of the '60s are included, among them the Top 20 entries "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," "I Wanna Be Around," and "The Good Life." But the compilers were more concerned with presenting 48 minutes of highlights of the '60s tracks than with following the singles charts slavishly. They signal this right at the beginning by starting with the non-hit tracks "Put on a Happy Face," "The Best Is Yet to Come," and "Once Upon a Time." Proceeding in chronological order by recording date, they then select from among the modest hits Bennett enjoyed in the wake of his comeback with the Grammy-winning "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1962, adding in the non-hit songs "Speak Low" and "My Favorite Things" as they make their way to the end of the decade, when Bennett was recording more contemporary fare, such as the Beatles' "Something." The '60s was arguably Bennett's most accomplished decade artistically, even while it became commercially problematic as the impact of the British Invasion increased from 1964 on. Bennett was not primarily a singles artist by this point, and the compilers have balanced the biggest hits with other worthy material. Given its length, this album is no more than a sampling of Bennett's '60s work. But it does arguably feature the best three-quarters of an hour of his recorded work in the decade.
- review by William Ruhlmann

Booker T & The M.G.'s' McLemore Avenue features instrumental covers of songs from The Beatles' Abbey Road album, which had been released only months earlier in September 1969. McLemore is the street housing the famed Stax studio in Memphis, TN.

Ain’t Done With The Blues marks Buddy Guy’s 14th studio album with RCA Records. In celebration of his 89th birthday, the album showcases Buddy’s unrelenting
dedication to the blues. With featured artists such as Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Joe Walsh, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Joe Bonamassa, and Peter Frampton,
Ain’t Done With The Blues was produced at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN.

Slideways is bursting with Lil’ Ed’s rollicking slide-work and rough-hewn vocals on a joyous blend of smoking slide guitar boogies, raw-boned shuffles, and heart-stopping slow blues. Mixing smoking slide guitar boogies and raw-boned shuffles with the deepest soul-burners and heart-wrenching slow blues, Lil' Ed Williams and The Blues Imperials bring it all back home, playing each track with an impassioned sense of wild abandon. "Electrifying, raucous, pure Chicago blues...Lil’ Ed is a guitarist extraordinaire...slashing slide and flamboyant stage persona." –Chicago Tribune

Of all the precipitously emergent singers of folk songs in the continuing renascence of that self-assertive tradition, none has equaled Bob Dylan singularity of impact. As Harry Jackson, a cowboy singer and a painter, has exclaimed: "He's so goddamned real it's unbelievable!" The irrepressible reality of Bob Dylan is a compound of spontaneity, candor, slicing wit and an uncommonly perceptive eye and ear for the way many of us constrict our capacity for living while a few of us don't.

Not yet twenty-two at the time of this albums release, Dylan is growing at a swift, experience-hungry rate. In these performances, there is already a marked change from his first album ("Bob Dylan," Columbia CL 1779/CS 8579), and there will surely be many further dimensions of Dylan to come. What makes this collection particularly arresting that it consists in large part of Dylan's own compositions The resurgence of topical folk songs has become a pervasive part of the folk movement among city singers, but few of the young bards so far have demonstrated a knowledge of the difference between well-intentioned pamphleteering and the creation of a valid musical experience. Dylan has. As the highly critical editors of "Little Sandy Review" have noted, "...right now, he is certainly our finest contemporary folk song writer. Nobody else really even comes close."

A Celia Cruz Centennial Tribute that features twelve of the salsa icon’s indelible hits from her crowning years (1966–1993). The compilation brings together solo and collaboration songs featuring Latin music icons Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco, Willie Colón and the Fania All Stars. Highlights include the quintessential rumba “Quimbara,” the salsa jam “Usted abusó” and the salsafied guajira-son “Guantanamera,” plus liner notes by co-author of the official Celia autobiography Ana Cristina Reymundo. 

FITCH BANDWAGON starring PHIL HARRIS and ALICE FAYE (12-6-46)
Phil and Alice are invited to a society party and musicale but Phil's not thrilled about it. Elliott Lewis as Frankie Remley.

BOSTON BLACKIE (9-10-46)
"The Backstage Murder" starring Richard Kollmar as Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday. While rehearsing for a role in a local production of "The Mikado," Blackie discovers a dead body.

FRED ALLEN SHOW (5-26-46)
Guest Jack Benny joins Fred for the last show of the 1945-46 season. Fred strolls down Allen's Alley. Later, Benny sneaks into a 60-cent studio tour and becomes a contestant on Fred's new give-away program, "King for a Day." Cast includes Kenny Delmar, Alan Reed, Minerva Pious, Parker Fennelly.

NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (5-13-46)
"Case of the Uneasy Chair" starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. A woman wants Holmes to prove that a man, accused of murdering her father, did not commit the crime.

The WDCB Coffee Pack includes Two WDCB Jazz Icons 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.

Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings is a previously unissued collection of recordings from jazz icon and virtuosic pianist, Art Tatum, captured live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Chicago in March of 1953 with guitarist Everett Barksdale and bassist Slam Stewart. These recordings were transferred from the original tape reels and mastered by engineer Matthew Lutthans (who also worked on Resonance’s Grammy-nominated 2019 Nat King Cole release Hittin’ the Ramp). Containing a whopping nearly 3 hours of never-before-heard Art Tatum captured in an intimate setting at the height of his powers with his longtime trio, the deluxe, limited-edition set includes rare photos and memorabilia from Herman Leonard, Bob Parent and the Holzfeind family archives (owners of the Blue Note Jazz Club in Chicago); plus liner notes from Columbia University professor and author, Brent Hayes Edwards; as well as statements from Ahmad Jamal, Sonny Rollins, Monty Alexander, ELEW, Spike Wilner, Johnny O’Neal, Michael Weiss and Terry Gibbs.

Personnel:
Art Tatum – piano
Slam Stewart – bass
Everett Barksdale – guitar

Track Listing

CD 1

1. Night and Day
2. Where or When
3. On the Sunny Side of the Street
4. Don’t Blame Me
5. Soft Winds
6. These Foolish Things
7. Flying Home
8. Memories of You
9. What Does It Take
10. Tenderly
11. Crazy Rhythm
12. The Man I Love
13. Tea for Two

CD 2

1. I Cover the Waterfront
2. Body and Soul
3. Laura
4. Humoresque
5. Begin the Beguine
6. There Will Never Be Another You / September Song
7. Just One of Those Things
8. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
9. St. Louis Blues
10. After You’ve Gone
11. Someone To Watch Over Me
12. Would You Like To Take A Walk?

CD 3

1. Elegy
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. Out of Nowhere
4. Indiana
5. Tabu
6. Judy
7. Lover
8. Dark Eyes
9. Stompin’ at the Savoy
10. If
11. Stardust
12. Air Mail Special
13. I’ve Got the World on A String
14. The Kerry Dance

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.

Black 42" Auto-Open/Auto-Close Compact Umbrella With Reflective Trim

• Lightweight & packable: canopy opens and closes automatically!
• Compact and convenient umbrella for travel, commuting, and everyday living
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• Matching storage sleeve

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.

in sizes: S - 3XL

Includes:

• WDCB Miles100 Tee Shirt
• WDCB Baseball Cap
• WDCB Argyle Socks
• WDCB Tote Bag

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:

• Ella Grace - Figments
• Joshua Achiron - Climbing
• Juan Pastor's Chinchano - Memorias
• Kenny Reichert - Live in Chicago
• Sam Robinson - Chasin' the Dream
• Marques Carroll Quintet - Live at Winter's /Live at Andy's 2-CD Set
• Sam Burckhardt & Jeremy Kahn - Lucky Dragonfly
• Julian Davis Reid - Vocation

includes:

• Booker T & The M.G.'s - McLemore Ave

• Buddy Guy - Ain't Done With The Blues

• Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Slideways

• Jimmy Burns & Soul Message Band - Full Circle

Released to celebrate tenor jazz saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ Centennial, this package brings together the albums “Cookbook, Vol. 1,” “Cookbook, Vol. 2,” “Cookbook, Vol. 3,” & “Smokin’”, which he recorded with organist Shirley Scott. The package also features new liner notes by journalist Willard Jenkins.

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.

includes:
- WDCB Miles100 Tee Shirt
- WDCB Hooded Sweatshirt (forest green)
- WDCB Argyle Socks
- WDCB Baseball Cap (black)
- 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.

This 8-CD set highlights a series of 1965 performances at the Plugged Nickel, a legendary club located in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. The music captures Miles Davis and his Second Great Quintet at a moment of fearless transformation. Across eight riveting discs, Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams reimagine familiar standards on the fly, bending melody, harmony, and rhythm into bold new shapes.

This set presents the full sweep of those historic 1965 live dates. It’s more than seven hours of music that remains startlingly fresh and inventive. Elegantly packaged with detailed liner notes and rare photos, this set offers an immersive window into a club where jazz history was being rewritten in real time. Every moment crackles with risk and imagination, making Live at the Plugged Nickel not just a recording, but a vivid testament to artistic daring and collective genius.

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!

includes:

• Miles Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 8-CD set
• John Coltrane - Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings 5-CD set

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.