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DJ Sessions: Jazz From Dizzy Gillespie To George Cables

American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Dizzy Gillespie. (Keystone/Getty Images)
American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Dizzy Gillespie. (Keystone/Getty Images)

KCRW jazz DJ Bo Leibowitz joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to look at a number of new jazz releases, including some from artists who have died, like Dizzy Gillespie.

Note: We have a Spotify playlist and an Apple Music playlist for our weekly DJ Sessions.

Music From The Segment

Dizzy Gillespie & Friends, “Blue ‘n’ Boogie”

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George Cables, “Honey Lulu”

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Count Basie Orchestra feat. Lester Young, “Swingin’ the Blues”

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Jimmy Scott & Joe Pesci, “The Nearness of You” (From “I Go Back Home“)

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