In this broadcast, a conversation with two staff members of Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2022: Kate Dumbleton, Co-Executive and Artistic Director, and Volunteer Coordinator Mashaune Hardy. Plus an interview with drummer, bandleader, composer, and educator E.J. Strickland. He leads a sextet scheduled to perform at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, on September 18. The Jazz Coalition-commissioned performance is entitled, “A Unified Stance, We Must Take.” Plus, a selection from the new release by Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans and American accordionist Will Holshouser.

Playlist
Artist / Song / Title / Label
[excerpt] Chris Greene/Samba Fu Maga/PlaySpace 2: Play Harder/Single Malt Recordings [6:42]
[excerpt] Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Meets Dee Alexander/Crazy Wrong/On the Way to be Free/JMarq [6:41]
[excerpt] Oscar Brown Jr. & Maggie Brown/Strongman/We’re Live/ESP-Disk [5:39]
[excerpt] Charles McPherson/Song of the Sphinx/Jazz Dance Suites/Chazz Mack Music [5:29]
[excerpt] Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizon Ensemble/Transient Sounds/Live The Spirit Residency Presents #2: Transient Takes/Ernest Dawkins [9:34]
[excerpt] E.J. Strickland Quintet/Tune for S.C/The Undying Spirit/Strick Muzik [6:53]
[excerpt] E.J. Strickland/Language of the Unheard/Black Lives – From Generation to Generation/Jammin’colors [6:22]
[excerpt] Jacques Schwarz-Bart/Dreaming of Freedom (For Tony)/Black Lives – From Generation to Generation/Jammin’colors [5:28]
[excerpt] Immanuel Wilkins/Prayer/Black Lives – From Generation to Generation/Jammin’colors [3:37]
Eric Vloeimans and Will Holshouser/Children’s Song/Two for the Road/V-flow / Challenge [4:29]

A weekly one-hour program focused on jazz and improvised music, news, radio, conversations, and more. There’s news out there about the people, ecosystems, history, and culture of jazz and improvised music, and host Cheryl K. and her erudite guests are ready to share. Hosted by Cheryl K., host of "The Jazz Disturbance" Sundays at 11 a.m. on WGXC-FM.