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Jazz Crossroads (#JazzCrossroads) – 29th September 2026

Artist – Track – Format – Year

Artemis    The Smile Of The Snake    Arboresque    2025
Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring    Soft Impressions    Split Decision    2025
Joel Farnsworth    Continuance    The Big Room    2025
Denise Donatelli    Go    Take My Breath Away    2026
Stefon Harris    Echoes Of The Lion    Legacy Dances    2026
Sullivan Fortner    Que Diablos    Leave That In There    2026
Sean Mason    A Good Day    State Of The Art    2026
Monty Alexander    Mystical Blues-Natural Mystic    A Jamaican In Paris    2026
Ezra Collective    Blow Your Trumpet    Here Because Of Hope    2026
Terri Lynn Carrington    Riddim Song    Trip The Night Fanatastic    2026

Don Was and the Pan Detroit Orchestra    I Ain’t Got Nothing But Time    Groove In The Face Of Adversity    2025
Azar Lawrence    Atlantis    Turn Up The Music    2026
Michael Blake    Stalking Monster    Halloween Tales    2026
Dennis Mitcheltree    Far Left    Seeing Red    2026
Ekep Nkwalle    Night Song    Caged Bird    2026
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto    I Wanted A Map    Fifteen    2026
Yoko Miwa and Mikayla Shirley    The Girl From Ipanema    The Midnight Hour    2026
Greg Abate    Kerry’s Song    In The Moment    2026
George Garzone    Just Ring The Bell    Themes For Good Friends    2026

Lee Dorsey    Ya Ya    Night People: The Best Of Lee Dorsey    2020
Lee Dorsey    Yes We Can Can Pt1    Night People: The Best Of Lee Dorsey    2020
Lee Dorsey    Mess Around    Night People: The Best Of Lee Dorsey    2020
Lee Dorsey    People Sure Act Funny    Night People: The Best Of Lee Dorsey    2020
Irma Thomas    Breakway    Wish Someone Would Care    1964
The Meters    Cissy Strut    The Meters    1969
The Meters    Look-Ka Py Py    Look-Ka Py Py    1969
The Meters    Just Kissed My Baby    Rejuvenation    1974
Dr John    Walk On Gilded Splinters    Gris Gris    1968
Dr John    Right Place, Wrong Time    In The Right Place    1973
Irma Thomas    New Rules    New Rules    1986
Dirty Dozen Brass Band    My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now    My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now    1984
Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie    A Night In Tunisia    Live In New Orleans    2025
Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie    Lil Liza Jane    Live In New Orleans    2025
Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie    Who Took The Happiness Out    Live In New Orleans    2025

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In Jeff Turton’s words…

“I have spent 35 years programming Jazz on Boston radio stations. Starting in the late 70’s at public radio station WBUR and at Emerson College at WERS. I did fill-in work at WGBH for a couple of decades for people like Eric Jackson and Ron Della Chiesa and in 1983, along with a bunch of radio professionals with big dreams, we got Boston’s first Alternative Rock station off the ground (though we didn’t really know what we were creating in the beginning because there was not an alternative format at the time) . He programmed Jazz on Sunday’s for 8 hours each week for more than 27 years. The program was very successful because of the hybrid approach we took to the programming of the music.

I have always thought that music thrived at the Crossroads, where many influences converge and develop and then move off on their own to provide their own perspectives. The Jazz Brunch was the only show on Boston radio that actively brought the influences from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa into the music mix and drawing their parallels to Jazz. Jazz Crossroads will also journey to New Orleans during the last hour.

New Orleans is truly the crossroads for music in this country. It has an incredibly unique culture with influences from Africa and the Caribbean and the beginnings of Jazz at it’s heart. I have spent the last 20 years since Katrina deeply involved in learning about that music and culture and am hoping it adds a little spice the Jazz Crossroads mix.

I am a recording engineer when not wearing my programming hat. I have spent much of that career in recording studios in the 80’s and then in newsrooms across the public radio system providing production help and also working with shows providing content for public radio. I have also spent many years in the TV and Sports production world as both an A1 and A2 engineer. These were my Crossroads and I like to think they have all added to my individual approach to music programming.”

Feel free to get in touch with Jeff via e-mail to let him know your thoughts about his show or even if you just fancy a shout out! jeff@soulandjazz.com.

Stereo, not stereotypical

Enjoy!


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