On Ron Carter’s 87th birthday, the author shared a recording from NPR’s “Jazz Night in America” and a Mixcloud link featuring an hour of Carter’s remarkable tracks. Also, a supplemental playlist is available.
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Pop And Jazz Jocks On The Radio
Billboard Magazine’s October 12th, 1963 issue explores the fusion of jazz with popular music, highlighting Creed Taylor’s impact on presenting jazz artists to the pop scene. Here I have two Bill Coss authored features on this topic. Discussed is the trend of pop jockeys blending more jazz into their shows as audiences become sophisticated listeners, while jazz deejays remain cautious of trend slavery in pop jazz. An spoken audio texts are included as an experiment.