Anthony Dean-Harris

This week's show is a continuation of my column for this week . I figured that if I was going to speak at length about how to make a good cover, I should have some good examples. Well, here's an hour worth of examples. Also, if you're seeing this and you want to turn your friends onto jazz music, this may be the show with which to do so. Seu Jorge and Almaz - Everybody Love the Sunshine The Seu Jorge and Almaz album may be one of the best albums of 2010. It's just too chill. Their rendition of this famous Roy Ayers tune is clear evidence of that. Herbie Hancock - All Apologies All of Hancock's The New Standard album is great evidence of my main conceit but I always find myself coming back to this track. Gretchen Parlato - Weak For some reason, my family just can't latch themselves onto this song. I love it. Many of my friends who I've made hear this song love it. But my family, my sister especially who loves SWV, just doesn't. We're at an im...

The pledge drive has ended but that doesn't mean you still can't pledge your support and become a member of KRTU . In my lethargy (which didn't really show in my putting the show together), I haven't been all that active live-tweeting the show this evening nor in putting together a good blogpost for tonight's episode. But as I was trained in this job, I am a mere tour guide to the music. It should speak for itself for the most part, so I present to you tonight's Line-Up . Stefon Harris & Blackout - Minor March Christian Scott - Jenacide (The Inevitable Rise and Fall of the Bloodless Revolution) Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Mob Job Robert Glasper - No Worries Freddie Hubbard - Caravan Joshua Redman - Obsession Medeski Martin & Wood - Sweet Pea Dreams Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazil Mike Stern - Tumble Home

I don't have much to say tonight about the show. Much of it was computer selected but it's still pretty good. Others were just randomly brought to mind because of one thing or another. As always, please read my latest post at Nextbop about how jazz music is really all around us. On a related note, Janelle Monáe just release a couple new tracks that'll appear on her latest album this coming May. "Tightrope" sort of falls in that same aforementioned ideology. The horns really are quite dynamic. Give Monáe a listen and support her. She's already on the cusp of blowing up. You won't be able to say, "I heard her first." That's already claimed by folks who went to school in the AUC if you wanted that blipster cred, but  her music can still most certainly be appreciated and she only continues to grow as a musician. But that's on a whole other note. Tonight's Line-Up includes... Miguel Zenon - Oyelo The computer selected this one bu...

I don't really have much to say tonight outside of the playlist other than you should read my latest post on Nextbop  on why jazz shouldn't seem like such a scary old genre of music. Also, is this not the laziest of weekends? Enjoy it. Due to FCC protocols, I can't keep my streams up for long terms. SoundCloud was already doing a good job of that which is why I switched to Humyo, but I figure I'll stay in the rules and only keep streams up for at most a month. So, I'm going back to SoundCloud for the streams. Streams of the last two weeks are also still available at KRTU's archives . The Terrence Blanchard Group - D's Choice Jacky Terrasson & Michael Brecker - What's Wrong With You! Roy Hargrove - Family St. Germain - Sure Thing Chick Corea & Hiromi - Summertime Jaspects - Uppity Negro Joshua Redman - Yesterdays Brad Mehldau - Secret Beach

It's a hard job being a DJ.  You have to put together what you think would sound good whenever you construct a set.  Some sets are more inspired than others.  Still, the strength of a DJ's library makes a world of difference.  I'm blessed not only to have this show and the pleasure of putting on show I love to do every week (and that folks enjoy hearing), but also to have a strong library of music from whence this show originates, along with a few choice songs of my own that I bring to the station and hope others appreciate.  Sometimes I just let the computer that holds this library do the picking and after I hear what it has to offer, I'm pretty pleased with what it suggests.  Some shows are more dependent on the computer than others but for the most part, I put my seal of approval on each show, including the things I have to say (on which I'm extremely critical).  Tonight, ye olde KRTU library made a lot of the choices with the exception of me doing ...