In this installment of DJ Sessions, Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Bo Leibowitz, a jazz DJ at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. He shares sounds from a newly discovered recording of John Coltrane, to a new take on a Duke Ellington standard.
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Songs In This Segment
- John Coltrane, “My Favorite Things”
- Chick Corea Trio, “Recorda Me”
- Akua Dixon, “Freedom” by Duke Ellington
- Melissa Stylianou, “I Wish I Knew” written by Harry Warren
- Carl Saunders, “Bumble Bee Blues” (a reinterpretation of “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
Guest
- Bo Leibowitz, jazz DJ at KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif.
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