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!
4th November 2025
Artist – Track – Format – Year
Horace Silver Song For My Father Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 2025
Christopher McBride Funky Good Senor Blues The Hang, The Hustle, The Path 2025
Mike LeDonne Unconditional Love Slow Freight Turn It Up Live at the Sidecar 2025
Ledisi You’ve Got What It Takes (With Gregory Porter) For Dinah 2025
David Bode Cold Train Funk Good Hang 2025
Jimmy Greene Praises As We Are Now 2025
Stanley Cowell Maimoun Musa: Ancestral Streams 2025
Aaron Parks Parks Lope By All Means!! 2025
Paul Cornish Dinosauer Song You’re Exaggerating 2025
Kyle Roussel Frankie and Johnny Nola à la Mode 2021
Nat Adderley Jr. People Make The World Go Round Took So Long 2025
Monty Alexander People Make The World Go Round Monty Meets Sly and Robbie 2000
Nicholas Payton Let It Ride Triune 2025
Don Was and The Pan-Detroit Ensemble Nubian Lady Groove In The Face Of Adversity 2025
Herbie Mann Hold On I’m Coming Memphis Underground 1969
Bill Evans You’re Gonna Hear From Me Another Time 2017
Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition New Orleans Strut Album Album 1984
Pat Metheny Pretty Scattered 80/81 1981
The Meters Hey Pocky A-way Rejuvenation 1974
Dr. John Goin Back To New Orleans Goin Back To New Orleans 1992
Trombone Shorty and New Breed Brass Band Street Music Second Line Sunday 2025
The Rumble FT. Big Chief Monk Boudreaux. Jr. Up Until The Morning Live At The Maple Leaf 2023
John Boutté Sisters Good Neighbor 2008
Walter “Wolfman” Washingtom You Got Me Worried Wolf Tracks 1986
Johnny Adams The Night Is The Hunter The Real Me: Sings Doc Pomus 1991
Aurora Nealand and Tom McDermott Ain’t No Sweet Man Live at Luthjen’s 2020
Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now Live At Chickie Wah Wah 2012
Tom McDermott and Meschiya Lake I Like em Fat Like That Live At Chickie Wah Wah 2012
Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses Cakewalking Babies A Tribute To Sidney Bechet 2011
Marcia Ball The Tatooed Lady and the Alligator Ma The Tatooed Lady and the Alligator Man 2014
Marcia Ball The Party’s Still Going On Roadside Attractions 2011