Radio & Podcasts Honoring Melba Liston. by Mary Foster Conklin February 9, 2019. This broadcast presents a special tribute to trombonist, composer and arranger Melba Liston in the third hour in honor ...

Jazz album: “Melba Liston and Her 'Bones” by Melba Liston, released in 2006 on Fresh Sound New Talent. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz ...

Melba Liston: Melba Liston and Her 'Bones. by Hrayr Attarian June 2, 2006. Finding an obscure recording, especially one of quality, can be exciting for jazz enthusiasts. This reissue of Melba Liston's ...

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Women have shaped jazz from the very beginning—on the mic, at the piano, and behind ...

In the early 1980s, pianist Dee Spencer’s astonishing and unanticipated encounter with Melba Liston introduced her to a jazz wonderland. A first-call trombonist best known as the arranger of ...

Bessie Smith, often hailed as the “Empress of the Blues”, was among the earliest voices to command national attention in the ...

Several other events that evening include T.K. Blue and the Nick Masters Trio, who will perform a tribute to trombonists Benny Powell and Melba Liston with “Shades of Melba and Benny” at the ...

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...

It was the 32nd annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, a three-day tradition for jazz lovers to pay tribute to one of the greatest saxophonists ever. ... “It’s an homage to Melba Liston, ...

It was a time, after all, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Melba Liston were dispatched as cultural ambassadors to Africa’s post-colonial regions, only to realize they were smokescreens ...

Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program Collection / Series 4: Video/DVD Sponsor The interviews were made for the Smithsonian Institution under the auspices of the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ...