Episode Details

There are many storied jazz venues, but for a great recorded legacy, none quite matches the Village Vanguard.  So many epochal improvised moments put to tape!  So many clinking wine glasses captured for eternity!  Such a matchless, smoky atmosphere of creation in the heat of the moment!  (Insert record scratch here.)  The boys don't look at the best known monuments from the place, but rather start with a lesser known session from the end of the seventies and then examine three brand new "Live from the Vanguard" recordings and ask - is the magic still there?   Kris Davis – LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD; Mark Turner – LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD; Kurt Rosenwinkle – UNDER COVER, LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD; Woody Shaw – STEPPING STONES: LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD.