2009 Ancient Future Top 20 (in alphabetical order) Dee Alexander, Wild is the Wind, Blu Jazz Jane Bunnett, Embracing Voices, Sunnyside Kurt Elling, Dedicated to You, Concord Oran Etkin, Kelenia, Motema Robert Glasper, Double Booked, Blue Note Stefon Harris & Blackout, Urbanus, Concord Bobby Hutcherson, Wise One, Kind of Blue Vijay Iyer, Historicity, ACT Sean [...]
Ancient Future radio is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.43 FM, Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro area. Wynton Marsalis Winter Wonderland Crescent City Christmas Columbia Clairdee Baby It’s Cold Outside This Christmas Clairdee Joe Williams Let it Snow, Let it Snow That Holiday Feelin’ Verve Moore By Four Let it [...]
The Ancient Future radio program airs on WPFW 89.3 FM, Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro region at 50,000 watts. Ancient Future is hosted by Willard Jenkins. Randy Weston African Cookbook Spirits of Our Ancestors The Metronomes Monk’s Mood Something Big! Jazzland Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan See See Rider Trouble In Mind Steeplechase [...]
Though not a resident of New York City I spend a fair amount of time there — and if you work anywhere in the jazz business a working knowledge of New York is almost essential. I do a fair amount of work there, mainly curating two annual concert series for Tribeca Performing Arts Center. In [...]
The Ancient Future radio program is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.3 FM, Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC. Theme: Randy Weston "Route of the Nile" Randy Weston The Seventh Queen Spirits of Our Ancestors Antilles Cannonball Adderley Hi Fly Live in San Francisco Milestone Jelly Roll Morton I [...]
Fiercely independent aptly describes MATANA ROBERTS One of the more compelling young artists to have arrived on the scene the last few years is saxophonist-composer and AACM member Matana Roberts. She wrote recently to express her appreciation for the Ain’t But a Few of Us Independent Ear series conversations with journalist-author-educator Robin D.G. Kelly, he of [...]
RAHSAAN CLARK MORRIS RAHSAAN CLARK MORRIS (center) with Amiri Baraka and William Parker I first encountered Chicago-based writer Rahsaan Clark Morris a few years back when working with the Jazz Journalists Association to establish fellowships to a journalist conference in California in the name of my late friend and colleague, the Harlemite jazz writer Clarence [...]
DOUGLAS EWART: in a rare moment of relaxation for a man who seems never to sleep The group photo of modern day renaissance men should include Douglas Ewart. A saxophonist & all-round woodwind specialist and composer from Jamaica who emigrated to Chicago as a young man and currently splits his time between the Windy City and Minneapolis, is [...]
Do Jazz Artists enjoy longer artistic lives? AHMAD JAMAL SONNY ROLLINS Years ago when Suzan Jenkins was the exectutive director of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, which at the time was based in DC, their major annual event was the Pioneer Awards. This was the annual occasion on which the giants of [...]
The Ancient Future radio program is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.3 FM, Pacifica Radio in the Nation’s Capital at 50,000 watts. Thelonious Monk Four in One Big Band and Quintet in Concert Columbia Sonny Rollins Don’t Stop the Carnival Don’t Stop the Carnival Milestone Mary Stallings Centerpiece Remember [...]