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Welcome, friends, to another edition of In

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the Groove Jazz and Beyond. My name's

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Ken Laster. I was listening

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to a popular jazz

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standard, Freedom Jazz Dance. It's

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been covered by Miles Davis

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and others. And I

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was listening to a new version of it

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by Eddie Henderson on his latest release and

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realized I had not really listened

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to the original version by composer

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Eddie Harris. So we're going to

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start today's show with that from the 1966 album, The In Sound.

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This is Eddie Harris with

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Freedom Jazz Dance. Thanks

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for watching. He.

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He even. More.

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More. And.

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More. More.

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music music

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music

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He. he

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That is such a catchy tune. No

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wonder it's covered by so many. From

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Jazz Dance, the composer of that tune,

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Eddie Henderson from his 1966 album The

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In Sound.

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While I was living in Hartford, Connecticut,

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there was a great young alto

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sax player who was going

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to school at University of Hartford

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and I knew right away she

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was really something special. Her name

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is Sarah Hanahan. She's

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since graduated the University of

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Hartford and moved on

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to New York City where

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she's been quite successful playing

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in local New York City

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jazz clubs and touring the

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world with other great

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players. She's currently touring

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with the Joe Farnsworth

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Quartet and last time I

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was in New York I saw her play

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with Joe Farnsworth. Sarah Hanahan

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is certainly a name to look out

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for on the jazz scene in years

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to come. She isn't well

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recorded at this point in time but I

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did see her pop up on

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an album by the

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Swiss Jazz Ambassadors and

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this album features Sarah Hanahan and then

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I was hit to another album she

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was on by Peter Martin. We're going

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to hear both of those groups with

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Sarah Hanahan in front

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playing the alto sax. I

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hope you like it. We're going

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to begin with the Swiss Jazz

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Ambassadors featuring Sarah Hanahan And

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their version of the Art Blake. The

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Classic: Who gets so. He.

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Me: no.

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Hello! model

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you you

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you you

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You the

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Bepur Ashley

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speaks in Irish the

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the The.

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No. He.

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He. He.

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He. me

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That was Mike Derubo on

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Alto Saxophone, another player

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coming out of the University

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of Hartford, Jackie McQueen Institute

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for Jazz. Mike Derubo, fortunate

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to study directly under the

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master, Jackie McQueen.

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Along with Mike Derubo was

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Brian Charette on Hammond B3

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Organ, Andrew Renfro on guitar,

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and the drummer, Jung Kuk

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Kim, better known as

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J.K. Kim. And the name

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of that track was J.K.

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in NYC, written for J.K.

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Kim. And

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before that, we heard two tracks

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featuring Sarah Hanahan. That

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last one you heard was from

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Peter Martin, a fine piano player,

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along with Sarah Hanahan on

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sax, Gregory Hutchinson on drums,

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and Reuben Rodgers on bass.

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And you heard the track Groove Echo

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Chamber from the album Peter

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Martin and Generation S. And

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before that we heard from the Swiss

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jazz ambassadors featuring

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Sarah Hanahan and

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we heard the Cedar Walton

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composition made famous by Art

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Blakey and his jazz messengers.

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We heard Ugetsu. Up

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next we're going to hear something

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brand new from vibraphone artist Joel

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Ross from his brand new release

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New Blues that was just released

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last week. We're

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going to hear his cover of

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the John Coltrane classic Equinox.

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Let's listen to Joel Ross.

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You You

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You you

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The Thank

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you. Thank

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you. Thank

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you. Thank

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you.

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You You

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he That

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is the late, great Chick Corea

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from his album Now He Sings,

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Now He Sobs way back in

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We heard the track Matrix featuring

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Chick Corea on piano, Mersloff, Vitus

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on bass, and Roy Haynes on

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drums. Before that

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we heard from Joel Ross

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from the album New Blues,

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a brand new release. I

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love the sound of Joel

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Ross's vibraphone and along

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with Joel is Emmanuel Wilkins

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on alto saxophone, Jeremy Caron

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on piano, Kanoa Mendenhall on

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bass, and Jeremy Dutton on

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drums. We heard the track,

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Equinox, a John Coltrane composition.

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That brings us near the close of this week's

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In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. My name is

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Ken Laster. Thank you for joining me. We

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are on the radio at

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WWUH 91.3 FM

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in Hartford, Connecticut, along

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with an internet radio

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station, radiobobusa.com. Check that

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out. You can also

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join me on social

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networking at

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jazztodon.com, and

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that is a jazz-centric social media

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platform, part of the

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Mastodon Network, so check that

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out. We're gonna finish

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this show with another Chick Korea

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classic. Oh, I miss Chick Korea

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since he passed away in

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February of 2021. Can you believe it's

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been three years? We're

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gonna hear from a great album that

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I think shows off Chick Korea's penchant

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for bringing lightheartedness and joy

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and happiness to his music.

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The name of the album

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is Friends. It

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is a 1978 release with

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Chick Korea on acoustic and

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Fender Rhodes piano, Joe Farrell

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on soprano saxophone, tenor sax,

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and flute, and Eddie

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Gomez on bass and Stephen Gadd

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on drums. We're going to hear

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the title track, Friends. He.

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He. The.

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He. he

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the Groove, Jazz and Beyond. I've

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