Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz we mark the passing of the great singer Nancy King , and bid farewell to several other towering musicians who have left us: the inimitable pianists Hal Galper and Eddie Palmieri , and San Antonio's own  Flaco Jiménez , the celebrated  conjunto accordionist, singer and songwriter. The heart of the program is a deep dive into Impending Bloom , the unforgettable album by King and bassist Glen Moore , which features the whimsical lyrics of Samantha Moore (Justice Records, 1991). Photo credit: Ziggy Spiz . Check the YouTube (below) for King's stunning solo rendition of Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's 1937 classic, "By Myself."    Playlist Flaco Jimenez "Blanca Rosa" (Instrumental) from San Antonio Soul (Rounder, 1991) 00:37 Eddie Palmieri "Mi Mambo Conga" from Mambo Con Conga Es Mozambique (Tico Records, 1966) 03:01 Hal Galper "Song Title" from Live at Maybeck Recital Ha...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we present  Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF Records, 2025),  vibraphonist  Mike Freeman 's new release with his ZonaVibe project. The album features his compositions and performances with Guido Gonzalez on trumpet, Jim Gailloreto on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Ruben Rodriguez on bass, Roberto Quintero on percussion and Joel Mateo on drums. Freeman, who lives in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York City,  meticulously mixed and mastered the recording during the pandemic. The beautiful physical disc package contains his heartfelt and eloquent notes on the lockdown experience, when "everything was totally unknown and eerily unsettling as the normal sounds and life of the city disappeared."  To begin the show, we return to last week's feature, playing a few more selections from  trombonist-arranger Ryan Keberle 's  Choro das Aguas (Alternate Side, 2025), with pianist-arranger Felipe Silveira , ...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we wish--belatedly--feliz aniversário to Ivan Lins , the celebrated Brazilian songwriter and singer-pianist who turned 80 on June 16, 2025, and to trombonist-arranger Ryan Keberle , who shares the same birthday. Keberle  and his Collectiv do Brasil ensemble  have just released an album in tribute to Lins , entitled Choro das Aguas (Alternate Side, 2025), which features pianist-arranger Felipe Silveira , bassist Felipe Brisola and drummer Paulinho Vicente . You'll hear selections from Choro das Aguas , and several of Lins' original versions...   Check the YouTube (below) to watch Keberle and company perform "Lua Cirandeira" live in the studio. Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Ins...

    Listen to this week's show   This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we're spinning  Antonio Adolfo 's new release,  Carnaval - The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM, 2025) . They were and it is. Read our review here , on All About Jazz . Click the YouTube for a taste (below). Até lá, see you there...    Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  All About Jazz . W hile you're at it, why not support community radio by becoming a member of the station at  join.krtu.org ?  What's that catchy theme music for Caminhos do Jazz?  Damas Grátis  (Ladies Free) / 4:37 / 2007 /  Eduardo Neves  /  Gafieira de Bolso  /  Eduardo Neves

Listen to this week's show On this week's edition of Caminhos do Jazz, we focus on two standout 2025 recordings: Speaking in Tongues from Rachel Ekroth & John Hadfield (Adhyaropa) and Watersong from Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico with Lamia Bedioui (ECM). Both have interesting back stories, which you can read on All About Jazz (articles linked to album titles, above). Check the YouTube (below) for a taste of "Full Fathom Five," Ariel's song from Shakespeare's Tempest , performed exquisitely by Yannatou and company...     And click below (YouTube) for a live version of "Speaking in Tongues," the title cut of Ekroth and Hadfield's brilliant release...     Click  here (or on the image below) to hear the show and browse the archive. ...   Caminhos do Jazz with Katchie airs live on Saturday mornings at 10 Central.  KRTU 91.7 FM in San Antonio, worldwide at KRTU.org. ...follow us on  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Al...

Listen to this week's show This week on Caminhos do Jazz, we enter Rocky and Bulwinkle's Wayback Machine and imagine that we are in 1939 on the brink of WWII, when "the world is falling apart." We begin with our seed, a lovely rendition of "Are You Havin' Any Fun" from Danish jazz singer Marie Mørck 's brand new release, My One and Only Love (Zack's Music, 2025).  "Are You Havin' Any Fun"  was a big hit for Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra in 1939, but it might have been sung by the character Edward Weyse in PBS' Seaside Hotel , the hugely popular Danish TV show ( Badenhotellet ), set in Denmark during the WWII period,1928-1947.  Read more about all that in our  review of Mørck's album on All About Jazz.  Our program is comprised of songs from the 1939 hit parade--mainly in the US, but we also dip into Brazil and Germany. In the first set, we feature the artists who made the tunes hits, while the remainder focuses on other ...