DJ Sessions: Jazz That's Unearthed And Reinvented

Published January 22, 2015 at 12:50 PM EST

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Cellist Akua Dixon's take on Duke Ellington's "Freedom" is one of the songs featured in this week's DJ Session. (Facebook)

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)

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Guest

Bo Leibowitz, jazz DJ at KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif.