Episode 272: Resurgence of Traditional Jazz, Part 1 (w. Cliff Beach)

Discovering Jazz

Cliff Beach's latest album is called You Showed Me The Way. He credits Ella Fitzgerald with showing him the way through traditional sgin and bebop and through the path of modern jazz.

On this episode we play some Ella, as well as an outstanding track from Cliff's latest album. Then Cliff talks about how the more traditional swing, bebop, and blues forms of jazz have never died....but had been 'paved over'. And if you listen closely to most modern jazz you'll find that those elements are still there, even though they are fused with so many other musical forms.

Some of the great music you'll hear this week include the likes of Emmett Cohen w. Houston Person, Nubya Garcia, Brandon Sanders with Jazzmeia Horn, Billy Childs, Saje w. Jacob Collier, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and the great Samara Joy, And I introduce a new artist to Cliff who typifies that amalgalm of traditional and modern. His name is Sahil Chugh, a pianist/composer from Edmonton, who has just put out his first album.

I think you will treasure Cliff Beach's insights as we listen to these great recordings together.