JAZZ AMERICA with RUSS DAVIS on VOA!

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Following is the log for the next JAZZ AMERICA program from the Voice of America, heard by a potental audience of 134 million listeners each weekend on the entertainment service MusicMix, and on the worldwide VOA service via shortwave transmission.

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This Week’s Special Feature…REMEMBERING MILES DAVIS: Celebrating His 87th Birthday!

Join Russ Davis as he talks to four of the greats of modern jazz who learned important lessons in their younger days working with the legendary MILES DAVIS. You’ll hear from Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Garrett and John Scofield as they tell their “Miles Story” followed by the music they made with him.

JAZZ AMERICA…SHOW #1447…25-26 MAY 2013

MILES DAVIS…budo (birth of the cool)

GIACOMO GATES…milestones (miles tones)

* Chick Corea Interview

MILES DAVIS…petits machins (filles de kilimanjaro)

CHICK COREA…samba yantra (now he sings now he sobs)

MILES DAVIS…tutu (tutu)

KENNY GARRETT…big ol’ head (prisoner of love)

* Kenny Garrett Interview

MILES DAVIS…catembe (amandla)

MILES DAVIS…e.s.p. (e.s.p.)

AHMAD JAMAL…effendi (1965)

JAZZ AMERICA…SHOW #1448…25-26 MAY 2013

MILES DAVIS…so what (kind of blue)

MILES DAVIS…blow (doo-bop)

* Herbie Hancock Interview

MILES DAVIS…seven steps to heaven (tbd)

HERBIE HANCOCK…hump (dis is da drum)

CASSANDRA WILSON…run the voodoo down (traveling miles)

MILES DAVIS…straight, no chaser (live @ Newport jazz festival 1958)

* John Scofield Interview

MILES DAVIS…something’s on your mind (you’re under arrest

MILES DAVIS…oleo (relaxin’ with the miles davis quintet)

Next Week’s Special Feature…COURTNEY PINE: King of English Jazz!

Join Russ Davis as he takes you to Prague, backstage at the Lucerna Music Club to talk to one of the current greats of modern jazz from England, saxophonist Courtney Pine, after a performance for the Prague Jazz Festival. We’ll hear his story and music from his new release “House Of Legends.”

GMT/UTC Saturdays and Sundays

• Africa – 4.95 6.08 13.57 15.58 17.895 mhz
• Middle East and Europe – 12.005 15.53 mhz
• Asia and Pacific – 7.43 7.575 9.7 12.15 mhz