WBGO Program Listings - Wednesdays

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6:30PM JAZZSET WITH DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater

July 30 - Kennedy Center Trumpet Festival
From the KC Jazz Club in Washington, DC, hear bassist Christian McBride play Miles Davis’s “NO Blues,” the Terell Stafford Quintet, and Wallace Roney playing “Christina” by bassist Buster Williams.

August 6 - Double Bill: Hugh Mase & Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The a cappella choir from South Africa sings at the Santa Fe Jazz & International Music Festival, and trumpeter/singer Hugh Masekela performs township music at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.

August 13 - Kate McGarry & Esperanza Spalding at Sculler's
McGarry is a breezy and daring improviser who writes her own material and bassist/ singer Spalding's vocals can be wordless and free-flowing. Trumpeter Christian Scott is in her group. Thanks to WGBH Radio Boston.

August 20 - Revisiting the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival
In the late 1990s, JazzSet visited Oregon for the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, catching outdoor sets from a variety of artists. We’ll turn back the clock for highlights.

August 27 - Tribute to Horace Silver from “Discoveries at Disney Concert Hall” series, Los Angeles
Born on September 2, 1928, Silver became a "pencil packin' papa," known for his tunes and his bands. Christian McBride organized this tribute with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Randy Brecker, George Coleman, Tom Harrell, Joe Lovano and more. Thanks to NPR.

Programs are repeats of Sundays

7:30PM WHAT'S THE WORD? with Sally Placksin

July 30 - Regional Literature, Volume V: The Southwest
Don Graham talks about the writings of J. Frank Dobie, Larry McMurtry, and Katherine Anne Porter; Rolando Hinojosa-Smith discusses his novels and other Hispanic literature in South Texas; and Edward Shannon talks about Woody Guthrie and the tradition of Southwestern humor.

August 6 - Fish in Literature
From the biblical tale of Jonah and the big fish to Dr. Seuss's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, fish and fishing have long captured our imagination. Gregory Semenza takes us back to seventeenth-century England for a look at Sir Izaak Walton's fishing manual, The Compleat Angler; Ann Colwell explores Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish" and Kenneth Womack talks about Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It.

August 13 - Literature on Foot
James Chandler discusses walking in the works of Romantic poet William Wordsworth; Christie McDonald explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau's eighteenth-century work Reveries of the Solitary Walker, and James Simpson talks about the fourteenth-century allegory, Piers Plowman.

August 20 - Horses in Literature and Film
From country and city, the horse was once the primary means of transportation and power. To the western landscape of the lone cowboy, the image of the horse is compelling to young and old alike. Lesley Ginsberg talks about Anna Sewell's 1877 classic novel, Black Beauty; Joseph Flora explores Jack Schaefer's western novels Shane and Mavericks, and Samuel B. Girgus discusses the film Seabiscuit, about the legendary American racehorse.

August 27 - Brazilian Film
On this program, we'll hear about three important Brazilian films. Charles A. Perrone discusses Carlos Dieges's 1998 film Orfeu and the 1959 French film Black Orpheus; Marta Peixoto explores Susana Amaral's 1986 film The Hour of the Star; and Mark Lokensgard talks about Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles's award-winning 1998 film, Central Station.