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The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz

An archive of jazz radio programs focused on intensive in-depth looks at great themes from jazz history. Winner of the Jazz Journalist Association Award for Career Excellence, Sid has been broadcasting for over 40 years on WKCR-FM, NYC. He was also voted ’Best Jazz DJ’ by the Village Voice in its 2008 Best Of NY Issue. Browse the dozens of episodes by scrolling down on this page. Or for an artists’ index, copy this address into your browser: gonesounds.weeblysite.com/

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04:57:32

JR Monterose

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/12/27

JR Monterose possessed a very strong and personal emotional tone on the tenor sax, and he is one of the underrated masters of the modern jazz era. Frank Monterose, Jr. was born in 1927 and raised in Utica, NY. The moniker JR comes not from initials but from being a Jr. but he usually spelled it without punctuation. Monterose started his professional career briefly in the big bands of Buddy Rich and Claude Thornhill. As a young man, he also performed widely in upstate New York in various settings

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04:55:11

Milt Jackson

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/12/18

Milt Jackson was one of the all-time jazz greats on the vibraphone. First, he was an innovator bringing this esoteric instrument to the bebop revolution of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Additionally, he possessed superb musicality that added to the popularity of the instrument. Beyond utilizing the percussion role of the vibes, Jackson played with fleet, free flowing lines suitable to modern jazz. He was a master of a soulful, piercing, driving sound. While at slower tempos, with notes

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03:09:09

Donald Byrd with John Coltrane

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/12/12

WKCR presented a marathon special broadcast saluting Donald Byrd, in December 2024.For my contribution, I prepared a set surveying Donald Byrd’s intersections with John Coltrane. In the period 1956-1958, only shortly before each in their own way were to burst forth separately to a next level of stardom, Byrd and Coltrane appeared together (though not "in tandem") on several recording sessions. They made dates with Elmo Hope, Paul Chambers, Sonny Clark (the classic LP “Sonny’s Crib”), Art Blakey,

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04:59:39

Jimmy Van Heusen

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/12/12

The best in jazz derives from its interpretations of the great American popular songbook, and Jimmy Van Heusen was one of its composer-giants. In 2013, the centennial of Van Heusen’s birth, we added this jazz flavored element to its commemoration. Van Heusen was born in Syracuse, NY on January 26, 1913 as Edward Chester Babcock. He began a musical career in high school and worked as a radio disk jockey, taking the stage name Van Heusen from the shirt company. He moved to New York City in the

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05:03:15

Art Blakey 1958-1964

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/12/05

Sid Gribetz features Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers “From Moanin’ To Kyoto”. Art Blakey is the dynamic drummer and band leader who nurtured many young jazz stars and inculcated the “hard bop” sound in the groups he organized over the many decades of his career until his death in 1990. Even in a five hour program, we will have time to focus only on a limited aspect of Blakey’s prolific career. Thus, we’ve chosen to explore a period of golden flowering of the ensemble, starting with the arrival in 1958

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01:28:24

Billie Holiday 2

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/17

During the 2019 Billie Holiday WKCR Birthday Broadcast, I put together a segment of an erstaz sampling of live performances, some famous, some obscure, including, among others, Count Basie, Stan Getz, A Yiddishe Momma, and The Sound Of Jazz TV broadcast. A nice listen....88 minutes

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04:58:19

Sammy Price

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/15

Born in Texas October 6, 1908, Sammy Price began his career as an entertainer on the black vaudeville TOBA circuit as a dancer and singer as well as pianist. He then became a fixture as a pianist in the Southwestern swing and blues jazz scene in Kansas City and its territories in the burgeoning years of jazz in the 1930s. Price moved to New York City in 1938, working for over a decade as the house pianist and musical arranger for Decca Records, appearing on countless classic blues and gospel

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04:57:48

Houston Person

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/05

In jazz history, Houston Person is one the great purveyors of the deep throated tenor saxophone sound --dynamically powerful and swinging, but also sultry, bluesy, sensitive and romantic. Houston Person was born on November 10, 1934 in Florence, South Carolina. He was musically inclined as a child, and then studied at South Carolina State University. After college, Person entered the service and was stationed in West Germany for several years in an Air Force unit that included Cedar Walton, Lex

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04:59:51

Ike Quebec

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/04

Ike Quebec was a deep-toned, dynamic saxophonist, instrumental in both the swing styles and the modern jazz era. Born in Newark, NJ in 1918, Quebec began his artistic career in show business as a dancer, and then a pianist, but during the World War II years he came of age as a saxophonist. Quebec’s early roots were in the swing styles, both as a key member of Cab Calloway’s big band in the 1940's, and as a soloist in small group swing and blues combos. Notably, Ike participated in some seminal

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03:17:19

Clifford Brown 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/01

WKCR presents an annual marathon 24 hour tribute to trumpet virtuoso Clifford Brown on October 30, his birthday anniversary.Here is my segment from the 2024 edition. It begins with a half hour potpourri of Brown recordings. That's followed by a detailed survey of Clifford's first commercial jazz records in 1953, when he flowered on the scene in sessions with Lou Donaldson and Elmo Hope; J.J. Johnson; Tadd Dameron; and his first date as a leader for Blue Note in August. Finally, the survey includes

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04:42:06

Buck Clayton

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/11/01

Buck Clayton was a leading trumpeter and arranger of the swing era. Coming of age in the Southwestern Jazz Styles, Clayton moved to Los Angeles as a young man and made his name in the California Jazz circles. In 1934, he assembled a band that moved to Shanghai, China, and brought American Jazz to the Orient. Escaping Shanghai just before the Japanese invasion, Clayton returned to the US and landed in Kansas City, where he joined the nascent Count Basie orchestra. Clayton served as the lead

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02:44:23

Thelonious Monk 2

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/10/16

WKCR presents annual marathon broadcasts to celebrate the October 10 birthday anniversary of Thelonious Monk. Here's my segment form the 2024 edition. It begins with selections from Monk's appearances as a "sideman" on sessions with Clark Terry, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, and Sonny Rollins. Next is a lengthy survey of Monk's recordings for the Blue Note label from 1947-1952, his first record contract and an opportunity to proudly display the initial conceptions of his now legendary

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02:59:21

Max Roach 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/10/16

WKCR presents a marathon broadcast celebrating Max Roach annually, on his birthday anniversary, January 10. Here's my segment from the 2022 program. The major portion of this episode samples recordings from Debut Records, the independent label owned by Roach and Charles Mingus, and includes material ranging from some esoteric ensembles to the legendary Massey Hall Concert.

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04:58:16

George Wallington

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/10/09

George Wallington was one of the legendary pianists of the bebop era but never achieved great fame. With his early retirement from a musical career, he remains a more obscure figure in jazz history and lore. However, he was an especially swinging pianist and inventive composer who deserves continued attention. Born Giacinto Figlia in Sicily in 1924 (some sources date his birth a little earlier) his family moved to New York when he was an infant, and his father was an opera singer who exposed him

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02:58:04

Lorez Alexandria

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/27

Vocalist Lorez Alexandria was a great interpreter of jazz and American popular song. She sang with deeply felt presentation of the lyrics and a style of improvisational freedom and swing. While originally from the church and informed by that soul, she was not a “shouter” or gospel singer. Some records, like her hit version of “Baltimore Oriole”, employed exotic touches, and others had scat interludes. Like the best instrumental soloists, Lorez communicated with the listener and told her song’s

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04:58:31

Benny Golson

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/27

Benny Golson is one of the great eminences of jazz, best known as a composer of lyrical compositions that have become enduring staples of the modern jazz repertory. A key performer in some of the most important jazz groups of the late 1950's and early 1960's, Golson added an element of elegance and refinement to the hard bop sound. He imposed a steady sophistication and class to the ensemble presentation. Stablemates, Killer Joe, Whisper Not, I Remember Clifford, Along Came Betty, Blues March,

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03:05:23

Coleman Hawkins 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/16

WKCR presents an annual marathon broadcast celebration the Coleman Hawkins birthday on November 21. From the 2023 celebration, here's a 185 minute long segment. It begins with a brief sample of early 1960's recordings with Duke Ellington and other mainstream sides. Then the final 149 minutes contains an intensive survey of his career in the period from 1939 through 1944, after his return from Europe. From Body And Soul through the Apollo early bebop date.

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04:44:42

Fats Navarro

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/16

In his brief life, Fats Navarro was a fleeting spectacle of brilliance as a leading trumpeter in the history and development of jazz during the bebop years. Nicknamed “Fats” or “Fat Girl” (befitting all in one his avoirdupois, his high pitched voice, and most important his fat musical tone on the trumpet), Theodore Navarro was born on September 23, 1923 in Key West. He played music seriously since childhood, and left Florida after high school to embark on a career as a professional jazz musician

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04:57:30

Dinah Washington

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/16

Dinah Washington called herself "The Queen Of The Blues", and she was that, and then some, a larger than life character and a dynamic singer of great jazz, pop, rhythm and blues, and the American Popular Songbook. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and reared in Chicago (as Ruth Jones), influenced by gospel music she began singing professionally as a youth. Lionel Hampton "discovered" her, and she featured in his band for a number of years under the stage name Dinah Washington, before striking out on her

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03:25:41

Thelonious Monk 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/09/06

WKCR presents annual marathon broadcasts to celebrate the October 10 birthday anniversary of Thelonious Monk. From the 2023 edition, here's 205 minutes of a segment I presented. Begins with a potpourri of Monk's music, first some live performances, next piano music, featuring selections from, among other recordings, the French Vogue session, the Duke Ellington album, and the "The Unique Thelonious Monk". The final 123 minutes includes a survey of a less-famous aspect of Monk's career, his

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