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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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02:59:59

Richard Wyands

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/08

Richard Wyands was one of the great heroes of modern jazz piano. An unassuming man who did not seek much publicity, he was a vital force in our jazz community. Wyands was a sparkling pianist of elegance and grace, with great swing and command. He contributed his talents to many jazz groups throughout the years. Richard Wyands was born in Oakland, California on July 2, 1928. He exhibited prodigy-like talent as a child and took [mainly] classical music lessons. When as an 11-year old he saw

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04:59:07

Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/08

Willis Jackson was among the notable cadre of exciting, young, Florida musicians who came of age in the post World War II bebop years. He got his first major professional break in the Cootie Williams orchestra, with whom he scored his first big record "Gator Tail" in 1949. Jackson then plied his trade in the rhythm and blues field and married the great singer Ruth Brown, and his sax strongly backs Brown on her early recordings such as "5-10-15 Hours". After breaking up with Brown, Jackson made his

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03:03:21

Billie Holiday 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/08

From the 2024 edition of WKCR's annual Billie Holiday special, my shift contains a variety of material, including a segment comparing Billie Holiday's classic small group recordings of the 1930's revisited in Norman Granz productions of the 1950's with Ben Webster, Sweets Edison and others.

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05:00:31

Elmo Hope

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/05

Born in 1923 and coming of age in the bebop and hard bop years, as a youth Elmo Hope was friendly with Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Hope was a creative pianist and inventive composer. He possessed the fleet linear attributes and innovations of bebop. However, more significant was his compositional outlook, angular and dissonant in the mode of Herbie Nichols or his close friend Monk, yet with a romanticism that tempered the sometimes harshness of that style and stamped his true individualism.

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04:59:51

Harry Warren

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/05

The popular standards of the Great American Songbook provide the foundational material for the musical improvisations of the jazz repertory. This program is one of an occasional series we’ve produced focusing on the legendary composers and their jazz interpretations. Born in New York to Italian immigrant parents in 1893 as Salvatore Guaragna, Harry Warren was a self-taught musician who dropped out of high school to begin performing in the entertainment field. After stateside service in the Navy

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04:58:51

Harold Land

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/05

Land was best known as the tenor saxophonist in the original Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. But his prolific and accomplished career lasted more than four decades thereafter, although never gaining the more widespread fame that he deserved. Land possessed a firm sound and ingenious creativity on his saxophone and also was an inventive composer. Harold Land was born in Houston, Texas in 1928, and his family moved eventually to San Diego, where he was raised. As a young man, Land settled in Los

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02:56:12

Louis Armstrong 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/05

WKCR presents annual marathon tributes to Louis Armstrong on the 4th of July. Here’s my segment from the 2023 broadcast, which, in addition to a potpourri of some Satchmo goodies also includes a lengthy set of a mix of his 1957 Verve recordings with Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, and the Russ Garcia orchestra

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04:59:52

Buddy DeFranco

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/03

Buddy DeFranco was one of the greats among the clarinet players in modern jazz. He possessed a cerebral sophistication and intelligence, which, together with his masterful facility and command of the instrument and great sense of swing, made him one of our jazz giants. His tone on the clarinet was always warm, woody, and welcoming. Boniface “Buddy” DeFranco was born on February 17, 1923 to a poor Italian-American immigrant family in Camden, New Jersey. His father, an amateur guitarist, was

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04:59:07

Carmen McRae

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/03

Carmen McRae should be high on the list in the discussion of the all time great jazz vocalists. She sang with special concern for the lyrics and performed with pronounced clarity and vision, enhancing the meanings of the songs. Additionally, McRae had a husky, soulful timbre, another factor that intensified her emotional connections with the listener. She was an excellent pianist as well, and her musicality informed her artistic grace and command. Carmen McRae was born in a middle class

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04:57:33

Melvin Rhyne

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/01

Melvin Rhyne is one the greats from the 1950s heyday of the jazz organ, but he is not so widely remembered today. He should be. Born October 12, 1936 in Indianapolis, he attended the segregated Crispus Attucks High School, which had a legendary music program and nurtured many jazz greats who came of age when Indianapolis had a thriving jazz scene. Rhyne originally played piano, notably backing Rahsaan Roland Kirk. When Jimmy Smith and other pioneering giants made the Hammond organ a popular

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04:54:07

Ernie Henry

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/01

Not well known even in his brief lifetime, Ernie Henry was an astonishing musician of grace, style and profound emotion. Henry came up in the bebop days and was a key member of Dizzy Gillespie's 1948-9 big band, and he also participated in the more lyrical side of bebop with Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, Howard McGhee, and Walter "Gil" Fuller. He spent the early fifties with his native Brooklyn beboppers, and as he turned 30 in 1956 he emerged full force on the scene, appearing on Thelonious Monk's

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04:57:12

Don Byas

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/07/01

A prolific and influential figure on the national jazz scene during the World War Two years, Byas moved to Europe in 1946 and remained an expatriate for the rest of his life. While he achieved some celebrity on the continent, sadly his absence from the US has left him a somewhat forgotten figure in our music here. Carlos Wesley Byas was born on October 21, 1913 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His paternal grandfather was a blacksmith, and his father a jeweler. His maternal grandfather was a reverend and

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02:57:25

Beverly Kenney

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2024/06/28

Vocalist Beverly Kenney is one of the hidden gems in the treasured vaults of the jazz vocal legacy. She lived a short life and is not well-remembered, but for those who knew her, musician and audience alike, the impact was lasting. Like a “cool school” saxophonist, Kenney sang with a laid-back detachment that on its surface presented a seemingly distanced and indifferent affect, yet her form possessed an inner reality intensely connected to the lyrics of the song and the deep emotions of artistic

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