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One highlight is "Ezz-thetic" by composer and music theorist for Ezzard Charles, the African-American boxing champion from the late 1940s into the '50s. When Charles beat Jersey Joe Walcott and then Joe Louis, he was the world heavyweight champ. Ezzard Charles was a noted bass player, as well; he jammed at Birdland back in the day. Wilson says the modern-sounding "Ezz-thetic" is "really a peek into what might have been the next musical step in Charlie Parker's development." Parker died in 1955, leaving the future an open question.

Wednesday, February 8, at 6:30 .. playsВP the original parts from the 1950 release Bird with Strings. Altoist Steve re-imagines the music at the Kennedy Center, now on JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Here's a 30-second sample of this jazz-and-classical combination:

Remember this? A classic LP, tracks often heard to this day on WBGO.

February 7, 2012. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

Let My Children Hear Music, Inc., and JazzSet thank the National Endowment for the Arts.

On President's Day weekend at Jazz Standard all weekend and on Sunday, up at you can hear more Mingus. High school students compete to play his demanding music with accuracy and passion. During this JazzSet, we'll hear more about that from co-producers Sue Mingus of Let My Children Hear Music, Inc., and Justin DiCioccio of MSM, and in Montclair, NJ -- winners last year and finalists in 2012. There's more about the fourth annual Mingus Competition .

Above, Gunther Schuller conducts the OrchestraВP inВP "Noon Night" and "Taurus in the Arena of Life," two lyric tone poems. "I fought my whole life to bring composition and improvisation together on an equal level," Schuller says in an interview in . "That's what Third Stream [music] is about and in many cases that has happened. . . . If there ever was a Third Steam composer, his name was Charlie Mingus."

Last February at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, blues, gospel shouts, and fight songs filled this sacred space. Wait til you hear bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz wailing on "Noddin YaВP Head Blues," John Clark's French horn on "Haitian Fight Song," Frank Lacy reciting from the Book of Ecclesiastes on "Ecclusiastics," Boris Kozlov bowing his bass on "Meditations for Moses." All composed by the greatВP Charles Mingus (1922-79).

Listen for the Mingus Orchestra .. Sunday, February 12, at 6pm and Wednesday, February 15, at 6:30 .. on WBGO Jazz 88.3/wbgo.org and at your convenience any time this week at .

February 9, 2012. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

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