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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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185:45

Louis Armstrong 4

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/09/29

From the August 4, 2026 Louis Armstrong WKCR special on his baptismal birth date, here’s a show with two separate features, about an hour each -- Pops in duets (with Duke, Ella, Bing, Carmen, Billie and Lotte Lenya); and another focusing on Armstrong with the Luis Russell band in the late 1930s on Decca. These two thematic segments are interspersed with some unstudied tracks for general listening appeal.

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293:15

Miles Davis-John Coltrane Collaborations

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/09/16

This program presents the masterwork collaborations of John Coltrane with Miles Davis, in context. It can serve as a history primer “Jazz 101" for the jazz lay person; for the aficionado, it can simply be an opportunity to submerge oneself in five hours of intense musical enjoyment.Miles Davis was a teenage trumpet prodigy who came to fame during the bebop years of the 1940's. Despite this reputation and additional successful endeavors, such as with the Birth of the Cool band and other post bebop

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177:52

Lester Young 4

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/09/09

The "Bird-Prez Birthday Broadcast", a 72 hour (and some years longer) marathon celebrating Lester Young and Charlie Parker around their birthday anniversaries, August 27 and August 29, is a long standing tradition at WKCR, and it is among our listeners' favorites.From the 2026 edition, here's a segment that includes a survey of Lester Young's recordings with small groups during the Big Band years of the 1936-1940 period when he was in the Count Basie orchestra.

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297:19

Bennie Green

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/09/03

While lesser-remembered today, Bennie Green was one of the great trombone players in the post war jazz years, a period when the otherwise cumbersome instrument developed into a persuasive and interpretive soloist’s vehicle. Green had a facile and fluid ease on the trombone, a great sense of rhythm and swing, and a sophisticated understanding of modern jazz harmonies. These traits all informed his ability to succeed in many styles of mainstream jazz, and laid the groundwork for his contributions to

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298:15

Cedar Walton

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/08/07

Cedar Walton is one of the leading “hard bop” pianists to come of age in the late 1950's and 1960's. In addition to his great lyrical skill at the piano, Walton is well-known as a composer and arranger, and this radio show focuses on his compositions.Among the prominent work early in his career was his stint in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the early 1960's, and he contributed the songs Mosaic, Ugetsu [Fantasy in D], Plexus, and others, which have become classics of the Blakey book

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178:35

Coltrane On Atlantic

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/08/02

John Coltrane’s 1959-1960 recordings for the Atlantic record label are surveyed during this three hour program. Having finally left the Miles Davis group, John Coltrane had the opportunity to explore his own developing sounds and lead his own groups. This was a transitional period that featured the breakthrough classic albums “Giant Steps” and “My Favorite Things”. Atlantic’s releases also included memorable songs such as “Like Sonny” and “Central Park West”, and the Milt Jackson collaboration,

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298:23

Some Americans In Paris

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/07/23

There is a long history of American jazz musicians making the scene in Europe, and there are many expatriate stories of note. For this program I’ve selected three significant aspects of Americans in Paris to comprise a five hour package for an afternoon of casual listening.First I will feature Don Byas. Byas was a magnificent tenor saxophonist, fluent in both the swing and bebop idioms, harmonically sophisticated, and possessed of an exquisite tone. He was most prolific from the years 1944-1946

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293:25

Miles Davis Centennial 2

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/07/16

For the Miles Davis Centennial (May 26, 1926) WKCR presented a series of marathon programming over several days. To kick things off, I presented this five hour "Introduction to Miles Davis".

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296:58

Teddy Charles

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/07/10

Teddy Charles was a hard swinging master of the vibes and also a sophisticated composer and arranger of forward looking sounds. Theodore Charles Cohen was born in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents in Springfield, Mass. He loved music as a child, noodled on the piano and took drum lessons. As a teenager during the World War II years he played professional gigs filling in for those drafted overseas. He suffered from anti-semitism and chafed at the poor musical prospects in his small town. So, upon

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293:08

Frank Strozier

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/06/28

Frank Strozier, a powerful and dynamic player on the otherwise softer instruments of alto saxophone and flute, was born in 1937 and came of age in Memphis the 1950's among an influential group of young musicians who combined the soulful Southern rhythms with the intricacies and sophistication of bebop to create a style and sound that has a lasting impact in the development of modern jazz. Strozier made his first mark with the “MJT + 3" group. He also played with Memphis buddies such as Booker

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296:13

Shirley Scott

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/06/12

Shirley Scott was born in 1934 in Philadelphia and was raised in a musical family. As a schoolchild she played both trumpet and the piano. She began playing jazz professionally on the then-robust and creative Philadelphia jazz scene. Upon embarking in earnest in her professional career, in the mid 1950's Shirley turned to the Hammond B-3 Organ and established herself as one of the primary figures in our jazz organ canon.Her first major professional association, and what a great one it was, was

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180:10

Miles Davis Centennial 1

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/05/31

For the Miles Davis Centennial (May 26, 1926) WKCR presented a series of marathon programming over several days.Here's one of my segments. It includes selections of Sonny Rollins, Miles with Bob Dorough, and and then over two hours of an in depth listen to the Bill Evans association with Davis.

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295:43

Mark Murphy

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/05/14

Mark Murphy (1932-2015) was an unsung hero among modern jazz vocalists, a cult figure who deserves wider recognition, a primary influence for new generations of jazz singers.He was a risk taker of musical invention. Murphy was a masterful scat singer and a champion of vocalese with compositions such as Stolen Moments and Red Clay. Mark’s outlook is that of a wide ranging humanist, including his poetry and theatrical sides, with interpolations from Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley, and other literary

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190:08

Charles Mingus 2

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/05/04

WKCR presents a marathon broadcast celebrating Charles Mingus annually, on his birthday anniversary, April 22. From my segment on the 2026 edition, I presented a variety of sounds, among them a selection of early Debut recordings, and a feature of live concerts of the 1964 ensemble with Eric Dolphy (about an hour towards the end).

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295:45

Teddy Edwards

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/04/27

Saxophonist Teddy Edwards was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 26, 1924. His grandfather and other family members were leading local musicians, and Teddy began playing the alto sax as a youth. By age 12 he had played in some professional settings himself. As a teenager he went to Detroit to live with an uncle and began participating in the vital Motor City scene. In his development, he forged connections with many young jazz artists, among others notably Wardell Gray with whom he became a

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169:34

Billie Holiday 5

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/04/20

For the 2026 WKCR Billie Holiday Birthday Broadcast. I prepared a survey of Lady Day's recordings with Prez, Lester Young (about 2 hours). The epitome of sublime intimacy and heartfelt companionship. The episode opens and closes with several other Holiday tracks for casual listening, not so shabby in their own right.

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299:29

Coltrane On Prestige

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/04/10

John Coltrane is a major figure in our culture. The majesty, grandeur and passion of his saxophone communicates with the soul and has inspired the reverence and spiritual devotion of his widespread listening audience.It would be difficult to profile his widespread body of work in a single radio program. Therefore, this program focuses on one discrete portion of his career, his recordings on the Prestige record label. Coltrane attained his first widespread notice in his late twenties as a member

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238:59

Roy Eldridge 3

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/03/31

WKCR has a long standing tradition of celebrating Roy Eldridge, “Little Jazz”, with a marathon 24-hour broadcast tribute every year on the trumpet giant's birthday anniversary, January 30.Here’s my shift from the 2026 edition. We begin at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival, followed by 70 minutes of Roy in the 1950s, including his Verve session with Art Tatum and other goodies. Next comes a detailed survey of Roy’s association with Gene Krupa (approx 85 minutes). This episode concludes with a

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298:49

Academy Award Winning Songs

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/03/27

We continue an occasional series of programs focusing on the American Popular Song, examining the impact of the legendary composers on the jazz repertory. For some of the best in jazz improvisation derives from its interpretations of the musical forms, melodies and harmonies of these great treasures.For this show I did something different, and fun, and less intensive. I surveyed songs that won the Academy Award Oscar as Best Original Song in a motion picture. These movie songs certainly

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292:17

Howard McGhee

The Gone Sounds of Jazz with Sid Gribetz ·

2026/03/13

Howard McGhee, a renowned trumpeter of both the big band and be-bop eras, also was a leading figure and mentor on the New York jazz scene in the 1960's and 1970's. Born in Oklahoma in 1918, and raised in Detroit, McGhee gained attention in his youth in the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, and, notably, Andy Kirk. Settling in Los Angeles in the 1940's and working in Coleman Hawkins small group, McGhee became a major player in California, recording with musicians ranging from Lester

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