Here's a look at special Holiday programming and more available on WBGO! Enjoy the sounds of the season as WBGO turns up the volume on holiday jazz beginning at 6 pm on Friday, December 23rd, through Saturday Christmas day, with additional holiday specials throughout WBGO’s “Rhythm and Song Weekends”:
Friday, December 23
6 pm Non-stop Holiday music from now through Christmas Day!
Saturday, December 24 - Christmas Eve
6 am Portraits in Blue Holiday Special
10 am Rhythm Revue Holiday Soul Classics
4 pm Latin Jazz Cruise Holiday Special with Bobby Sanabria
6-8 pm Favorite Things Holiday Special with Pat Prescott
Featuring favorite holiday tunes from WBGO listeners.
Sunday, December 25 - Christmas Day
6 am Favorite Things Holiday Special with Pat Prescott - encore presentation
8 am Come Sunday Holiday Show
Holiday tunes and selections from "Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration" a revision of the 18th-century oratorio featuring a roster that includes Patti Austin, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau, the Yellowjackets, Take 6, Sounds of Blackness and the Boys Choir of Harlem, with an all-star take on the "Hallelujah" chorus, by more than 80 artists conducted by Quincy Jones.
12 pm Rhythm Revue Sunday featuring Holiday Soul Classics
5 pm Jazz Piano Christmas 2022
Check out your favorite holiday classics as you’ve never heard them! This year, our annual sell-out event spotlights ferociously talented Japanese musical phenom Hiromi, Mountain Stage’s Bob Thompson, and Bolivian prodigy José André Montaño, chosen as one of the Kennedy Center’s “Next 50” leaders.
6 pm Snap Judgment "The Christmas Tree Mafia"
The king of Christmas trees in Manhattan is nicknamed the “Pontiff of Soho.” But when his business runs afoul of the mob he gets an offer he can’t refuse. The crazy true story of the New York Christmas tree industry, full of turf wars, karate fights, and the mafia. Plus, a story from a covert operative who is assigned to extract a high-level target from Russia. But his mission… goes horribly wrong.
7 pm Jazz Night in America 2022 "Holiday" Special
Featuring drummer Matt Wilsons' Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O; a ruckus band recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center that flip holiday songs on their head while inserting humor and joyful swing.
8 pm The Dave Koz Radio Show
10 pm Snap Judgment - encore presentation
Saturday, December 31-New Year’s Eve
8 pm-12 am
Happy New Year from Toast of the Nation, your NPR New Year's Eve tradition since the 1970s. Enjoy sets from pianist Chucho Valdés, trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, vocalist José James, and Ranky Tanky with special guest Lisa Fischer.
Saturday, January 1-New Year’s Day
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