Episodes
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 120 Talking Jazz with Elaine Dame
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 120 TALKING JAZZ with Mike Jeffers, founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com talks with Chicago vocalist Elaine Dame. Elaine talks about her upcoming tour throughout the Midwest, her monthly performances at Winter's Jazz Club and how she has carved out a career on the jazz scene.
Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show. See more episodes at https://www.chicagojazz.com/talking-jazz-with-mike-jeffers
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 119 Talking Jazz with Michele Thomas & Jeff Hedberg
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
EPISODE 119 of Talking Jazz with Mike Jeffers, founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com. On this show Mike talks with vocalists Michele Thomas and Jeff Hedberg discussing their upcoming performance on January 18th & 19th entitled "Celebrating the music of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross" at Winter's Jazz Club. They discuss the history of the legendary group, the challenge of putting a show like this together and what you can expect to hear on Jan 18th & 19th. Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show!
Get more jazz information and interviews at www.chicagojazz.com
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
TBT - 2013 Chicago Jazz Revealed w/ Abigail Riccards and Tom Muellner
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Chicago Jazz Radio from Chicago Jazz Magazine and ChicagoJazz.com
On this TBT we present a show that first aired on August 15 2013.
Chicago Jazz Revealed with Mike Jeffers featuring an interview with Abigal Riccards talking about her new CD "Every Little Star" and how she is helping very worth causes with her music.
Tom Muellner talks about his weekly jam session at the Serbian Village, performing throughout Chicagoland with many different groups and even re-calls hanging out with Bill Evans.
The show was recorded on August 15, 2013 at Katerina's in Chicago. The show was recorded live for ChicagoJazz.com and WDCB 90.9 FM and hosted by Chicago Jazz Magazine founder Mike Jeffers.
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
TBT - 2014 Chicago Jazz Revealed Live From Katerina's with Too Hot Too Handel
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
TBT - Podcast on the Chicago Jazz Audio Experience. We go back in the vault and pull out an episode of Chicago Jazz Revealed with Mike Jeffers Live from Katerina's in Chicago. The show was recorded live at Katerina's (1920 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago) and aired on ChicagoJazz.com and WDCB 90.9 FM.
On this episode Mike welcomes the stars of the show "Too Hot Too Handel" Roderick Dixon and Alfreda Burke the Jazz Gospel Messiah which is held annually at the Auditorium Theatre. They talk about the crossover aspects of opera, gospel and jazz and also perform live. This is a must listen, especially to the performance at the end.
Visit www.ChicagoJazz.com and www.ChicagoJazzMagazine.com for jazz news from Chicago and the country.
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
EPISODE 118 - TALKING JAZZ with Hrayr Attarian
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
Tuesday Jan 08, 2019
On the first episode of "Talking Jazz with Mike Jeffers" for 2019 Mike sits down with Chicago Jazz Magazine reviewer Hrayr Attarian to talk about growing up in Beirut, Lebanon during the civil war and his love of jazz.
Hrayr shares stories about going to jazz clubs in Beirut, listening to music at an early age, attending medical school and much more. Plus he reviews releases by Rosco Mitchell, Lucas Gillan, Fareed Haque and Kia String Quartet and Volcano Radar.
Get more jazz news at www.chicagojazz.com
Thanks to Johnny O's for hosting the show.
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
January 2019 - Feature Interview with Ryan Cohan
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
An Interview with Fareed Haque - December 2018 Chicago Jazz Magazine Feature Interview
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Wednesday Dec 05, 2018
Friday Nov 02, 2018
Patricia Barber - November 2018 - Chicago Jazz Magazine
Friday Nov 02, 2018
Friday Nov 02, 2018
Visit www.ChicagoJazzMagazine.com to read the full interview
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Marquis Hill - Chicago Jazz Magazine Feature Interview October 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Chicago Jazz Magazine's feature interview for the October 2018 digital issue is with trumpeter Marquis Hill.
He is dropping a new recording entitled "Modern Flows Vol II" which he talks in length with the founder of Chicago Jazz Magazine Mike Jeffers. In addition they focus on Marquis and his music, his influences, growing up in Chicago, winning the Thelonious Monk competition, his touring and of course his composing and recording.
Get more information and read the full digital issue at http://www.chicagojazzmagazine.com
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Chicago Jazz Magazine Feature Interview September 2018 - Kobie Watkins
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
TALKING JAZZ with Mike Jeffers
The September 2018 Issue of Chicago Jazz Magazine features an indepth interview with drummer Kobie Watkins.
ABOUT KOBIE WATKINS
Growing up in Chicago Kobie was first influenced by watching his father (Alious C. Watkins) play drums in the church. Of course this lead him to get curious about drumming himself and he quickly graduated from playing pots and pans as a toddler to practicing rudiments on a snare drum. With guidance from his father, Kobie continued to grow as a musician and when it came time to decide on what to do after high school he decided to give Vandercook College of Music a try instead of enlisting in the army which was the original plan.
At Vandercook Kobie studied all forms and genres of the percussion family with Marc “Max” Jacoby (vibraphonist/ mallet) and Kevin Lepper (percussionist). While learning percussion and all other instruments, Kobie’s extra curricular time was spent playing jazz standards and trading solo's with alto saxophonist Dennis Winslett which helped to expand his playing and concepts on how drums interacted with other instruments.
Graduating from Vandercook with a Bachelors of Music Education in 1999, Kobie became a public school band / music teacher by day, by night he played gigs around the Chicago land area and throughout the United States. Kobie eventually became known as the “Swing Master”of Chicago. He was depicted in a front-page article in the Joliet, Illinois Herald titled “Teacher has Alter Ego as Jazz Musician.”
He decided to continue his education at Northwestern University where in 2003 he received a Masters of Music in Jazz Pedagogy while continuously performing on the Chicago jazz scene. It was around that time that he began performing with guitarist Bobby Broom in his trio which served as a major turning point in his playing career. Broom who had moved to Chicago from New York is an internationally known guitarist and had a weekly steady with his trio that provided Watkins the platform to hone his musical concepts and skills and take his playing to the next level. A few years later, again thanks to Broom who was Sonny Rollins guitarist at the time, Watkins was able to audition for the jazz legend which lead to him touring and recording with Rollins up until recently.
In addition Watkins has performed and recorded with musicians such as Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Curtis Fuller, Bob Mintzer, Jim Hall, John Patitucci, Arturo Sandoval, George Coleman, Ira Sullivan, Sonny Fortune, Roy Haynes, Roy Hargrove, Kurt Elling, Fred Anderson, Chrstian McBride, Bobby Broom, Orbert Davis, Ken Chaney, Ron Perrillo, Bethany Pickens, Ryan Cohan and many others.