March 6 Carla Bley: Our International Women's Day program honours this great pianist, composer and band-leader, hosted by Ron Sweetman.
March 13 Listen Before You Buy: Recent jazz and blues releases chosen by Ron Sweetman.
Will include guitarists Ken Aldcroft, Ken Hatfield & Dom Minasi, organists Back Talk and Organissimo, drummers Nick Fraser, Mack Longpre, Lewis Nash, Alex Riel & Barry Altschul,
blues singers Willie Buck, Mississippi Heat & Mike Wheeler, and trombonist Jay Vonada.
March 20 March 20: Co-Host Ron Steeds presents jazz and blues recorded March 20 between 1929 and 2002. Expect to hear Mary Dixon, Hudson-DeLange Orchestra,
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tampa Red, Sarah Vaughan, Mal Waldron, Miles Davis,
Charles Lloyd, Elvin Jones, Joanne Brackeen, Borah Bergman, Ralph Peterson Jr.,
Marcus Belgrave, Fred Hersch, Michele Rosewoman, and Dave Liebman & Marc Copland.
March 27 Jazz & Blues Birthdays: Ron Sweetman plays recordings by jazz and blues artists
who share his birthday, including Harold Ashby, Leroy Carr, Johnny Copeland,
Robert Junior Lockwood, Pee-Wee Russell, Sarah Vaughan and Ben Webster.
April 3 Listen Before You Buy: Recent jazz releases, with an emphasis on pianists, presented by Ron Sweetman.
April 10 April 10: Co-Host Ron Steeds plays Jazz recorded on April 10 between 1928 and 1994. Expect to hear Bix Beiderbecke, Lillian Glinn, Charlie Christian, Count Basie,
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Hardy, Don Byas, Wardell Gray, Max Roach,
John Wright, Pee Wee Russell, Charles Mingus, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon,
Miles Davis, Joseph Bowie & Oliver Lake, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Ron McLure,
Dewey Redman and Trio San Francisco.
April 17 Ben Goldberg: Co-Host Jim Reil will explore the recordings of clarinetist
Ben Goldberg, as a leader and with Nels Cline, Marty Ehrlich, Junk Genius, Myra Melford and Tin Hat.
April 24 Listen Before You Buy: Recent jazz releases, with an emphasis on saxophonists, reviewed by Ron Sweetman.
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Bill Coleman, 1904-1981
About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
