Ken Irwin joins the team at SoulandJazz.com to deliver a new two-hour weekly show, Jazz Outpost, featuring what’s happening in the world of creative improvised music today, whilst looking back at the great heritage of Jazz and African American music across nine decades.
With Yusef Lateef as his faculty sponsor, Ken Irwin earned his degree in “Ethnomusicology of African-American Music” at UMass in Amherst 2002, and has been an active broadcaster and announcer since 1975. He is happiest in his studio producing great programming and listening to some outstanding music, surrounded by thousands of his CD’s and LP’s. We’re delighted he’s on board.
Stereo, not stereotypical®
Enjoy!
9th February 2026
Artist – Track – Format – Year
Vance Thompson Bud Powell Lost and Found 2026
David “Fathead” Newman Mr. Gentle, Mr. Cool Mr. Gentle, Mr. Cool 1994
Mary Foster Conklin Some Cats Know These Precious Days 2023
Bongwool Lee Why Not? My Singing Fingers 2018
Mike Ledonne The World is a Ghetto I Love Music 2014
Gregory Lewis & Ms. Raina Ask Me Now Organ Monk Sings 2026
Lisa Hilton Extended Daydream Extended Daydream 2026
Charles McPherson Goodbye Porkpie Hat First Flight Out 1994
Dave Wilson Quartet Wichita Lineman When Even Goes East 2026
Benny Benack III Sugar & Spice This is the Life 2026
Roderick Harper Course of Life Confidence 2026
Alexa Tarantino Back in Action The Roar & The Whisper 2026
Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Jazz Sextet With Amanda in Favignana Armando Mi Conga 2025
Conrad Herwig Reflections-Facing South Reflections-Facing South 2025
John Macmurchy’s Art of Breath February Brings the Rain Volume 2 2018
Anna Kolchina Vacation From the Blues Reach for Tomorrow 2026
Joe Magnarelli Jimmy’s Blues Decidedly So 2026
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie Melancholy Baby Bird & Diz 1952
Glenn Makos & Brū Liquid Sunshine Arrowsic 2026