The Checkout: April 14, 2009




The Checkout - Show Podcast show

Summary: Welcome to the second episode of The Checkout from WBGO. In this show, we talk to drummer Jack DeJohnette and John Comerford, the producer of the film documentary, "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense". Singer Claudia Acuna and her band join us in the studio. So does the Marco Benevento Trio. New York Times music critic, Ben Ratliff, discovers new music from pianist Horace Parlan recorded in 1961. Hear "Tango African" from MUSIC WE ARE, featuring Jack DeJohnette, bassist John Patitucci, and pianist Danilo Perez.