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Jazzism (a katzpheno mix)

On a mission to rescue jazz radio from the blahs! Celebrating Jazz Culture with news, views and inspiration for your daily walk and not to mention plenty of this music we so lovingly call JAZZ! Each episode is expertly blended and intended to give "Young Jazz Lovers" more of what they"re Jazzin" for! New episodes post regularly. Listen, subscribe and fall in love with Jazz Radio all over again. We gonna keep Jazzism rocking until the cops come knocking.

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01:28:33

Jazzism 19.5 - Don't Look Back

Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) ·

2026/10/03

Your boarding pass has been issued... enjoy your first class flight into the land of good good music! This episode features the music of Cassandra Wilson and a whole lot more. Don't worry about the time.... Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) is open 24 - 7 and it feels like heaven! - Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Cassandra Wilson - Don't Look Back Cassandra Wilson - Another Country Next Collective - Perth Christian Scott - Alkebu Lan Marquis Hill - Fly Little Bird Fly Cassandra Wilson - St. James

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01:35:51

Jazzism 19.4 - Sonny Days Are Here

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2026/08/27

Greetings All You Young Jazz Lovers, May 25th 2026 marked the passing of The Saxophone Colossus... Sonny Rollins. A man of his on invention and conviction, a true artist and pioneer, a non conformist. He seemingly reinvented himself over the years and each version was an improvement on the previous one. Not just as a performer but as a human being. Sonny Rollins believed in the future and wanted to be there and be ready for it. "I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next

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02:22:17

Jazzism 19.3 - MPH

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2026/05/08

MPH means miles per hour, and in this instance on Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) Podcast, MPH references the man with the horn Miles Dewey Davis. @026 marks the centennial of Miles Davis star falling to earth, what a star he was. A gifted musician with the uncanny ability to be where he needed to be in Jazz Culture, a man who embodied and in many ways influenced the ziegiest during his lifetime. This episode touches on just a small portion of his 60 year career in music, but hey don't fret All You Young

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01:40:31

Jazzism 19.2 - All Trane

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2026/04/10

APRIL IS JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH! This April, we not only celebrate all things Jazz... but we celebrate specifically the centennial of not one but two Icons of Jazz Culture, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Miles and Coltrane was a combination that just couldn't miss.. I mean they went together like peanut butter and jelly or tickle on a belly, like cheese on grits and like The Beatles had hits. All Young Jazz Lovers know their collective story and history and of course the music, the music, the

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01:28:22

Jazzism 19.1 - The Country Preacher

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2026/03/08

Back again with the good news from on high... The Country Preacher has spread the gospel, a gospel of liberation, and gospel of power, econmoic power, red, black and green... know what I mean! He preached a gospel born of exclusion demanding a seat at the table not for just him and his but for all regardless of gender, race or creed. Shouting let freedom ring!! The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson transcended this earthly plane on February 17th 2026 and when he was a young freedom fighter in Chicago -

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01:46:37

Jazzism 18.7 - Life Goes On

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2026/01/01

Welcome to the final episode of Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) for 2025. On this episode we celebrate life, the beauty, the struggle, and the joy of it all. Though a year is full of change we reflect on those aspects of change in our lives that were positive. We focus now on those aspects of change that helped us to grow, that gave us deeper knowledge of ourselves and the world around us, that taught us to share with one another, and to love each other more. "What the world needs now is love sweet love,

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01:18:21

Jazzism 18.6 - Exotic Isles

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2025/11/16

Greetings All You Young Jazz Lovers! It is time for another expertly curated Jazz music podcast, and on this episode we take a closer look at the career of the incomparable drummer, pianist and composer Jack DeJohnette. As All Young Jazz Lovers know Jack DeJohnette transitioned from this earthly plane October 26th, 2025. He blessed us with 6 decades of artistry and left an indelible mark upon Jazz Culture Worldwide. Of course... we also hear from other Jazz greats as we once again revel in this

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01:25:53

Jazzism 18.5 - All Or Nothing At All

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2025/10/07

Greetings All You Young Jazz Lovers! Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) has returned with yet another installment of the "best damn Jazz Music podcast on the internet." So glad you have found the time and place to enjoy my humble offering. This episode features "Nothing But The Best That The World Has To Offer In Jazz Music" so let the sounds take on a magical journey and "Expand Your Jazz-Like Mind, One Time." I do it all in service to "This Music We So Lovingly Call... Jazz." OK...I think that cover all my

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01:28:05

Jazzism 18.4 - Wang, Dang, Doodle

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2025/07/08

Greetings All You Young Jazz Lovers! Another episode of the best damn Jazz music podcast on the internet has dropped, and this episode has drawn its inspiration from the world of film. A cinema masterpiece entitled "Sinners" hit theaters back in April of this year and ever since I can't seem to quench my desire for the blues (I also avoid the sunlight...strange). It's as if I have been seduced and placed under a spell! I wonder, is there such a thing as a Blues Vampire? If so...one must have bit me

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01:29:01

Jazzism 18.3 - Work

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2025/03/30

Greetings All You Young Jazz lovers! Brian Phoenix back again with another installement of Jazzism (a katzpheno mix).... one I am certain you are gonna dig the most! I entitled this episode "Work" for two reasons, one it is the title of a composition written by Thelonious Monk and included here on the podcast (performed by Chick Corea Trio), and because work is essential to life. Work gives us purpose and it sustains us. There is an inherient nobility in all forms of work. Work loses it's meaning

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01:04:14

Jazzism 18.2 - My Funny Valentine

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2025/02/14

Greetings All You Young Jazz Lovers, February 14th in the USA is officially Valentines Day, a day created by a small entrepenuer ages ago to... well, quite frankly sell more product. The origins seem to begin around 1850 in Massachusetts with a woman regarded as the mother of the American valentine - Esther Howland, the daughter of a stationer. She started making small Valentine cards made of layers of lace with printed images on them. She hired a bunch of local girls to create them at home in her

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01:27:47

Jazzism 18.1 - Rice and Beans

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2025/01/21

Welcome to the first podcast of 2025!! I apologize for the long wait but sometimes life as we all know... be lifin' and before ya know it 3 months whiz by and you find yourself in a new calendar year. 2025 is setting up to be a "doozy" so a musical escape may just be the thing to get us through. Besides, one of the many taglines of Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) is "Keep Jazz In Your Life, Not Strife and Everything Will Be Alright!" So, with that in mind.... enjoy the mix! Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix

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01:25:35

Jazzism 17.5 - Very Special

Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) ·

2024/09/09

Welcome once more to an exploration into Jazz Culture! This episode, naturally brings you nothing but the best that the world has to offer in Jazz music and a little bit more! With Jazzism 17.5 we begin a new segment I am calling Jazz Music Matters. For that past few months now I have been developing traction on the hashtag #jazzmusicmatters via Facebook and Instagram and now I take the next step by posing the question to young jazz lovers as I go out and about enjoying this music at live events

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01:20:56

Jazzism 17.4 - Pass It On

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2024/08/24

Pass it on, Pass on the good vibes, pass on the love, pass on the joy, that is what I do with my humble podcast, I pass on all the good stuff I have to you... my loyal listeners. All I ask in return is that you share the podcast, the good vibe, the love and the joy to the people you know. Enjoy the mix, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Tony Williams - Takin' My Time (1985) Billy Childs - Leimert Park (2020) The Cookers - Priestess (2010) Benito Gonzalez - Father (2021) Joanna Pascale - I'm

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01:21:54

Jazzism 17.3 - You And The Night And The Music

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2024/05/31

Greetings once again, all you young Jazz lovers! Another installment of the best damn Jazz music podcast on internet has arrived! Just in time to save Jazz radio from the blahs!! This episode encourages fanatics of this culture to actively participate in showing their fantacism by getting out to a favorite Jazz venue and enjoy this true american artform as it was intended... live and in living color! Now as much as I love the fact that you choose to spend an hour or so of your precious time enjoying

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01:24:29

Jazzism 17.2 - Jazz Is A 4 Letter Word

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2024/03/30

"The words love and like both have 4 letters, but they're two different things all together" - Whodini (from One Love - 1986) "Funk used to be a bad word" - Funkadelic (from Let's Take It To The Stage - 1975) "Jazz is a 4 letter word" - Max Roach, Nicholas Payton and anyone else who can read, write and count. The word jazz is a controversial term. It might be the new "N" word. It's meaning has gone through various changes, in the early 1900's jazz meant fornication. In an interview with The Harvard

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01:28:11

Jazzism 17.1 - You Go To My Head

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2024/03/03

Welcome to Season 17 of Jazzism (a katzpheno mix).... as always there is more Jazz music love here than you know what to do with, as I continue my quest to bring All You Young Jazz Lovers - Nothing But The Best That The World Has To Offer In Jazz Music. Those of course are my trademark slogans. In any event this is the maiden voyage of 2024 so, all aboard the seas are calm and we have a steady wind blowing to take us anywhere we choose to go. Sail On, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Billy

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01:08:07

Jazzism 16.8 - Lady Be Good

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2023/12/31

The Final Episode of 2023 Fellas break out the tux, Ladies don your favorite ballroom attire...we going out Big Band Style! Happy New Year!!! Enjoy, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Roy Hargrove Big Band - Mambo For Roy (2009) The Chad Rager Modern Big Band - Straight, No Chaser (2008) Deborah Cox - I Don't Hurt Anymore (2007) Dizzy Gillespie & His orchestra - Birk's Works (1950) Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Tea For Two (1956) Tito Puente & His Orchestra - Cha Cha Cha Mambo (1999) Nat King

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01:16:11

Jazzism 16.7 - Jitterbug Waltz

Jazzism (a katzpheno mix) ·

2023/11/10

As you may know by now... I use the title of one of the tunes from the episodes playlist, as the title of the episode. It's my attempt to tie the songs to the show and keep it all about the music, the thing I love. It is also, in most cases, a nod to a great composer or performer, in this instance it is both. The title of the episode is "Jitterbug Waltz" penned by a truly remarkable and prolific composer, stride piano player, showman, broadway hitmaker and King of Harlem - Thomas "Fats" Waller. The

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01:28:04

Jazzism 16.6 - Double Rainbow

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2023/10/14

Fall is in the air, the leaves are changing into their vibrant hues of brown, orange, yellow and red. Pumpkin spice has been sprinkled on everything edible and infused in aroma candles and therapy. Raincoats and sweater come out of the closet and a new covid 19 booster is available at the druggist. You gotta love it!! One of my favorite traditions is also taking place this fall.... HOMECOMING. I will celebrate in one way or another my alma mater (HU You KNOW!!), by enjoy the game (Go BISON),

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