Category: bluenotes

This month we bring you our salute to the great jazz crooners who helped define the role of male vocals in American jazz. Our playlist includes Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Cab Calloway, Steve Tyrell, Muncie’s own Wayne Powers, and many more.  That’s Saturday, June 24th, at 8pm, only on Indiana Public Radio.

For May, we salute the jazz orchestras of the 1950s and ‘60s. Our playlist includes Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and many other great orchestras. That’s Saturday, May 27th, at 8pm, only on Indiana Public Radio.

April is Jazz Appreciation Month and we’ll celebrate tonight with our Jazz ala Carte format which means you’re liable to hear almost anything. Be sure to listen in if you missed the broadcast! That’s Saturday, April 29th, at 8pm, only on Indiana Public Radio.

March is National Women’s History Month and BlueNotes joins the observation tonight with a salute to the Great Women of American Jazz. Over these two hours, Larry will be featuring the pioneers who paved the way for women in jazz as well as today’s contemporary women who continue to push for recognition of women in…

It’s February and that means it’s time for our annual salute to bands and vocalists of the Swing Years. Tune in this month for a wonderful playlist of well-known and some of the lesser known bands of the era; from Benny Goodman to Benny Carter, Margaret Whiting to Frank Sinatra. And, we’ll hear a number of rare recordings of songs written exclusively for the war effort during World…

We bring you a great playlist to welcome in the first month of the New Year and to celebrate the start of our 8th annual season on IPR. In fact, we’ve been around a tad longer; BlueNotes began as an occasional jazz special on IPR back in 2015. Featured musicians this time include Horace Silver, Jamie Cullum, Nnenna Freelon, Mark Colby &…