John Gilbreath: Shabaka, Afrocop, Wayne Shorter

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the 36th Annual Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle, we chat with John Gilbreath, long-time host of KEXP’s Jazz Theatre. He spotlights a few of the artists playing – offering everything from an R&B-infused song to a meditative flute-led track – and closes out his set with a classic from the great “Ambassador of Jazz” and the story of how he fell in love with radio. The Earshot Jazz Festival runs from October 17th through November 3rd in various venues throughout Seattle.

Our Associate Music Director Alex Ruder ends the episode with not one, but two tracks from a new Brussels-based group that he has on loop.

Shabaka - “Breathing”
Afrocop - “Get In, Let’s Ride”
Wayne Shorter - “Footprints (Live)”
Dizzy Gillespie - “Theme from The Cool World”
Another Dancer - “How to, Slow" + "You Know Where I Start"

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0:00.0	You're listening to In Our Headphones.
0:06.0	Your chance to discover the songs K-E-X-P-Djes don't want you to miss.
0:11.0	I'm Janice Hedley and I'm Isabel Kelly and this is your
0:15.9	never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered
0:20.2	K-E-X-P.
0:21.2	Hey everyone Janice here and this week we are thrilled to welcome one of the
0:27.8	co-host of K-E-X-P's Jazz Theater. He's one of our longest running de-J's, it's John Gilbreath. Hey John, how are you?
0:38.0	I am good. I'm glad to be here. Thank you. No, thank you. So you started at K-E-X-P in 1999. How did you get involved with the station? Isn't that something? Wow.
0:54.2	I was, I've been a long time executive director of the Earshot Jazz organization,
1:00.3	producing concerts and doing things around the city for the jazz community.
1:06.0	I was also involved in a radio station, the community station, KBCS at Bellevue College and Don Yates contacted me and
1:17.0	asked me if I had any referrals when the slot open for jazz theater and I recommended some people and he said how about you?
1:27.0	Yeah I've been here and this is in the waning days of KCMU and we were still up in the communications building in the University of Washington campus and the vibe was so great and of course I got to ride along with all of the transitional stuff that went on when the station moved and
1:49.7	I'm just I'm so grateful to be here and to be affiliated with this radio station.
1:54.8	There's so much great stuff that happens here. It's just positive, positive.
1:58.6	Absolutely. We've had a couple of guests on the podcast who were also on campus. We've talked to Cheryl
2:06.4	Waters and Larry Rose and Don Yates, our wonderful former music director.
2:15.0	He has been mentioned a few times on this podcast as well.
2:18.8	And he also brought in Greg Vandy and Riz and he was very formative in the history of this station.
2:30.0	It's a legacy stuff for sure.
2:32.2	Definitely, definitely. it's a legacy stuff for sure definitely and and you mentioned the earshot jazz
2:37.5	festival which is this amazing music festival here in Seattle and can you tell us some more about it?
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