Jazz Tones

Saturdays from 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM
Jay Edwards

Jay Edwards Hosts Jazz Tones

Jazz Tones with your host Jay Edwards features legendary and emerging artists  of mainstream, Latin and Brazilian Jazz.

Jay's goal for his audience is education and entertainment better known as "edu-tainment."  He achieves this during Jazz Tones with  interviews with composers, instumentalists, and vocalists.

Jazz Tones is an ongoing musical journey you can join every Saturday afternoon from two until six.

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Jazz
10:15 am
Sat May 18, 2013

Jonathan Butler Joins Jay Edwards On Jazz Tones

Jonathan Butler is in town May 22 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center as part of the Jazz Roots Series, performing with David Sanborn.  The South African guitar and vocal artist is known across the globe for his music and his spirituality.

Jay Edwards will talk with Butler about his music, his influences, and what fans and newbies alike can expect at the May 22 performance.

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Jazz
7:47 am
Sat April 13, 2013

Eric Person On Jazz Tones

Jazz
9:33 am
Sat April 6, 2013

Jay Edwards Salutes Hugh Masekela On Jazz Tones

In advance of Hugh Masekela's performance tonight at The Rialto Center For the Performing Arts downtown,  Jay Edwards will be focusing on the South African horn player, composer, singer and legend on Jazz Tones between 2p-6p.

Masekela celebrated his 74th birthday this weekend.  Tickets are still available, check here for more information.

Jazz
9:54 am
Sat March 30, 2013

Jay Edwards Previews Atlanta Jazz Festival Exclusively On Jazz Tones

Drummer E. C.  Coleman will be a featured performer at Atlanta's upcoming annual Jazz Festival.  He'll stop by on Jazz Tones with Jay Edwards this afternoon. 

In between you can be sure to hear the greatest and the latest in mainstream jazz and latin rhythms that will put pep in your step on your Saturday.

Don't miss today's musical journey on Jazz Tones, 2p-6p Saturday afternoons on Jazz 91.9 FM, The Jazz Of The City.

Atlanta Jazz Festival information here.

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Arts
2:01 pm
Sat March 9, 2013

A Conversation Between Malcolm X and President Obama: A One Act Play

Jay Edwards Hosts Jazz Tones On WCLK Saturdays 2-6p

Jay Edwards chatted with playwright and musician Jacqueline Clay Chester on Jazz Tones Saturday.  Ms. Chester's play A Conversation Between Malcolm X and President Obama: A One Act Play,  will be performed  at the Southwest Arts Center March 15-17 at 8pm.

Chester's play suggests its plot in the title, with Malcom's ghost appearing in the White House and the conversation that ensues between these two transformative African American leaders.

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Politics
12:35 pm
Thu February 28, 2013

Amiri Baraka Stops By WCLK To Discuss Du Bois, The Movement, Django Unchained

Amiri Baraka is one of the most recognized and lauded writers and poets of his generation, and one of the most widely respected and published African American writers this side of James Baldwin.

Baraka was in Atlanta and at Clark Atlanta University for the CAU History Department's W. E. B. Du Bois and the Wings Of Atlanta 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference.

Baraka stopped in to chat with Jay Edwards about the challenges faced by all of those in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora.

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Jazz
10:50 am
Sat February 23, 2013

Nnenna Freelon Is Lena Horne @ Ferst Center, Talks With Jay Edwards On Jazz Tones

Nnenna Freelon

Captivating jazz vocalist and six-time Grammy nominee Nnenna Freelon celebrates Lena Horne in an evening of song and story set against the backdrop of Lena Horne’s 92-year life and legacy. The recipient of numerous international honors, Freelon has earned a global fan base for her performances and recordings.  Freelon is at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech Saturday night, February 23 at 8pm.

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Arts
8:32 am
Mon December 24, 2012

Jazz Education Network 4th Annual Conference In Atlanta Jan 2-5

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Wycliffe Gordon and the Army Blues, performing Friday night, January 4 as part of the Jazz Education Network Conference @ Hyatt Regency Peachtree Center.

The Jazz Education Network is dedicated to building the jazz arts community by advancing education, promoting performance, and developing new audiences.  Their annual conferences bring together musicians, students, educators and jazz authorities for four days of performances, seminars and informal opportunities for those just starting out in jazz music to mingle and learn from those who have made a lifetime of it.

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Playlist

February 16, 2013

2:00 PM
Tutu
Artist : Miles Davis
Album : Tutu
TrackNumber : 10
Label :
2:02 PM
Funky T
Artist : Steve Turre
Album : Rhythm Within
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
2:18 PM
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Artist : Nnenna Freelon
Album : Homefree
TrackNumber : 6
Label :
2:24 PM
Heaven Help Us All
Artist : Ray Charles & Gladys Knight
Album : Genius Love Company
TrackNumber : 11
Label :
2:28 PM
Compared To What
Artist : Javon Jackson
Album : Lucky 13
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
2:36 PM
Monolope
Artist : Jimmy Smith
Album : Walk on The Wild Side
TrackNumber : 11
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2:42 PM
My Favorite Things
Artist : Cjharles Earland
Album : Funk Fantasia
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
2:47 PM
Places and Spaces
Artist : Donald Byrd
Album : The Best of Donald Byrd
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
2:58 PM
Close to You
Artist : Vanessa Williams
Album : The Real Thing
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
3:03 PM
So May It Secretly Begin
Artist : Anne Walsh
Album : Pretty World
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
3:07 PM
Sleeping Alone
Artist : Carmen Lundy
Album : Changes
TrackNumber : 6
Label :
3:15 PM
Self - Made Man
Artist : Tyrone Brown
Album : A Sky With More Tears Suite for Fredrick Douglass
TrackNumber : 8
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3:21 PM
Black Cab
Artist : Marcus Shelby
Album : Soul Movement Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,
TrackNumber : 4
Label :
3:30 PM
MR. DT
Artist : Zen Zadravec
Album : Coming of Age
TrackNumber : 5
Label :
3:37 PM
The Unleashing
Artist : Joe Jennings & Howard Nicholson
Album : Life Force Speaks
TrackNumber : 5
Label :
3:44 PM
The Look Of Love
Artist : Anna Maria Flechero
Album : Within The Fourteenth Hour
TrackNumber : 3
Label :
3:52 PM
My One and Only Love
Artist : Buford Powers
Album : Too Good To Be True
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
3:57 PM
No Messin
Artist : Acoustic Alchemy
Album : Radio Contact
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
4:03 PM
Speak No Evil
Artist : Bobby Sanabria
Album : Multiverse
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
4:09 PM
Azucar
Artist : Eddie Palmieri
Album : Eddie Palmieri
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
4:17 PM
Snort of Green
Artist : Willie Bobo
Album : Hell of Act to Follow
TrackNumber : 6
Label :
4:23 PM
O Mundo e’ Seu - The World is Yours
Artist : Roman Andren
Album : Juanita
TrackNumber : 9
Label :
4:35 PM
Samba Desweno
Artist : Cal Tjader
Album : El Sonido Nuevo
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
4:41 PM
Magnifico
Artist : Zeb
Album : Sister Bossa Vol 4
TrackNumber : 5
Label :
4:35 PM
Samba Desweno
Artist : Cal Tjader
Album : El Sonido Nuevo
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
4:52 PM
Come With Me
Artist : Tania Maria
Album : Tania Maria
TrackNumber : 9
Label :
4:50 PM
Here I go Again
Artist : Lil Phillips
Album : Pull Out Those Dreams
TrackNumber : 11
Label :
5:00 PM
Creepin
Artist : Nnenna Freelon
Album : Tales Of Wonder
TrackNumber : 2
Label :
5:05 PM
Button up your Overcoat
Artist : Nnenna Freelon
Album : Soul Call
TrackNumber : 5
Label :
5:07 PM
The Time is Right
Artist : Faith Harris
Album : The Time is Right
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
5:12 PM
Groovy Sambas
Artist : Cannoball Adderley
Album : Cannonball's Bossa Nova
TrackNumber : 6
Label :
5:16 PM
Da O pe’, Loro
Artist : Antonio Adolfo
Album : Charo Baio
TrackNumber : 4
Label :
5:21 PM
Janerio
Artist : Duduka Da Fonseca
Album : Samba Jazz in Black in White
TrackNumber : 4
Label :
5:31 PM
Light My Fire
Artist : Elaine Elias
Album : Light My Fire
TrackNumber : 5
Label :
5:36 PM
Nora
Artist : Mark Levine
Album : 0ff and On
TrackNumber : 1
Label :
5:41 PM
Bird Like
Artist : Andrea Brachfeld
Album : Lady of The Island
TrackNumber : 6
Label :
5:52 PM
Kind of Sunshine
Artist : Nicola Conte
Album : Other Directions
TrackNumber : 6
Label :