The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

Coming Soon

Airs at: Sat, 03/01/2025 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Airs at: Sat, 05/03/2025 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Hosted by:

Yugen

Produced by:

KBOO

Subscribe to podcast

The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

Every Saturday from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

Post modern representations of improvisation, across dramatic modes, and re-imagined spaces of diverse music genre. Hosted by The Motif, aka Yugen Kelsaw.

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

JAZZ ROCKS!: Carving a Tradition part 2

Airs at: Sat, 10/19/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

JAZZ ROCKS!: Carving a Tradition. The music evolves. It rises from a turbulent sea; dry docks on land, and takes to the hills. This anomaly - comprised of wires, clogs, trebles, clefs and notes, is boiler plated in the late sixties through the early seventies. With nam... Read more

JAZZ ROCKS!: Carving a Tradition and The Winnerz Circle - Help me understand?"

Airs at: Sat, 10/12/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

2pm to 4pm JAZZ ROCKS!: Carving a Tradition. The music evolves. It rises from a turbulent sea; dry docks on land, and takes to the hills. This anomaly - comprised of wires, clogs, trebles, clefs and notes, is boiler plated in the late sixties through the early seventies.... Read more

Harold Mabern

Airs at: Sat, 10/05/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

This week Rick Mitchell will guest host. From 4 to 5 p.m. we'll play a special episode of Jazz In the New Millennium focusing on pianist Harold Mabern. Mabern, who passed away September 19 at the age of 83, liked to call himself a blues pianist with jazz chops. His percus... Read more

The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility on 09/28/19

Airs at: Sat, 09/28/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Nancy Wilson and Joni Mitchell: A Tale of Two Singers

Airs at: Sat, 09/21/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

Nancy Wilson and Joni Mitchell - Each with a telling and distinctive sound. One, a perennial stylist of composition; the other a story teller of immense imagination. Both provide genre bending brilliance; a nod to jazz vocalist Little Jimmy Scott, the other a poetic genius... Read more

A Whiter Shade of Jazz: Blue Eyed Soul in the 21 Century

Airs at: Sat, 09/14/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

On this episode we explore the commercially viable side of jazz through a 'lighter lens'. Pop music stars The Righteous Brothers in the sixties are given the tag "Blue Eyed Soul" by Black folks as a term of endearment. The duet sang lyrics with a nod to soul music. ... Read more

The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility on 09/07/19

Airs at: Sat, 09/07/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

BLUES: The Midwife of Jazz Music

Airs at: Sat, 08/31/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

(Symbiotic is one way to explain the genesis and integrative cycle of jazz and blues). A kind of immaculate conception with no true birthing moment. Tune in. Experience that soulful, aspirational emergence, and the sonic oddessey... "Downbeat" by Jonas E... Read more

Island Noir and Melodies in Jazz

Airs at: Sat, 08/24/2019 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Produced for: The Motif: Re-Imagine a Jazz Sensibility

KBOO

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

A departure to resonate marvel bursting with color and rhythms. Be transported on a safari of melodies. Found aesthetic moment ventured through imagined nirvana in restless times. I'm back from my journey across the tropics. And now this... Tune in. Yugen "jam j... Read more