In this segment, Gordon explores a work by the English trumpet player, arranger, and composer Guy Barker called The Amadeus Project. As the title suggest it highly influenced by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but not his compositions. This project instead relie

In this segment, Gordon explores a work by the English trumpet player, arranger, and composer Guy Barker called The Amadeus Project. As the title suggest it highly influenced by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but not his compositions. This project instead relie

Gordon takes a look at the earliest works of saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Born in Newark, New Jersey in the later days of the Great Depression, Shorter fell in love with music at a young age and after a short stint in the US Army joined Art Blakey's Jazz Me

Gordon takes a look at the earliest works of saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Born in Newark, New Jersey in the later days of the Great Depression, Shorter fell in love with music at a young age and after a short stint in the US Army joined Art Blakey's Jazz Me

Gordon takes a look at the earliest works of saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Born in Newark, New Jersey in the later days of the Great Depression, Shorter fell in love with music at a young age and after a short stint in the US Army joined Art Blakey's Jazz Me

Gordon takes a look at the career and work of the somewhat obscure jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. While extremely gifted, Tristano was also extremely critical of jazz leading him to be disliked by most of the jazz community while simultaneously respected f

Gordon takes a look at the career and work of the somewhat obscure jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. While extremely gifted, Tristano was also extremely critical of jazz leading him to be disliked by most of the jazz community while simultaneously respected f

Gordon takes a look at the career and work of the somewhat obscure jazz pianist Lennie Tristano. While extremely gifted, Tristano was also extremely critical of jazz leading him to be disliked by most of the jazz community while simultaneously respected f

Gordon explores an unlikely figure in jazz, Bob Wills. Along with his band The Texas Playboys, Bob Wills redefined hillbilly music by adding elements of Dixieland, Swing, Big Band, and even early Bebop into traditional fiddle tunes. Universally known as t

Gordon explores an unlikely figure in jazz, Bob Wills. Along with his band The Texas Playboys, Bob Wills redefined hillbilly music by adding elements of Dixieland, Swing, Big Band, and even early Bebop into traditional fiddle tunes. Universally known as t