Check Ça jazz spot for 2015 Winnipeg Jazz Festival

Hey CKUW-fam! Hope those of you in Winnipeg or visiting checked out some of this year's Winnipeg Jazz Festival for 2015. It was a fun line-up with lots of great shows. Congrats to Paul Nolin, Executive Director, staff, and the many, many volunteers who made the festival a fun and entertaining experience.  And cheers to the many artists for bringing solid entertainment!

Last Friday was a special programme, featuring jazz artists who have performed at the Winnipeg Jazz Festival and artists' picks - and some things we just couldn't pass up for a jazz spotlight special. Here's a peek at the show list:

 

Artist Name	Album Name	Song Title	Label
Booker T Jones	The Road to Memphis	Everything is Everything	Anti-
Funk Inc.	Funk Inc.	Kool is Back	Prestige Records
Grant Green	The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark	Airegin	Blue Note
Greg Lowe w/Steve Kirby	Guitar And Bass Sessions	Modern Mayhem	(Self-Released)
George Benson	Summer Jazz	Sunny	Verve
George Benson Quartet	It's Uptown	Ain't That Peculiar	Columbia Jazz
John Patton	Accent on the Blues	Captain Nasty	Blue Note
Art Blakey	Blue N' Groovy	Ping Pong	Blue Note
Dr. Lonnie Smith	Boogaloo To Beck	Lower	Scuffin Records
Curtis Nowosad	The Skeptic & The Cynic	Welcome to the Machine	Know-A-Sad Records
Russell Malone	Love Looks Good  On You	Soul Leo	High Note Records
Curtis Nowosad	Dialectics	Gleaning & Dreaming	Cellar Live
Neil Watson	Move!	Quinn's Dance (Part 1)	Mile 50 Records
Crash	Crash	The Honourable M.P.	C.W. Productions
The Poets Of Rhythm	Anthology 1992-2003	50 Yards Of Soul	Daptone Records
Dirty Catfish Brass Band	Dirty Catfish Brass Band	Countershot	(Self-Released)
The Poets Of Rhythm	Anthology 1992-2003	More Mess on my Thing	Daptone Records
Sharon Jones & the Dap‑Kings	Give the People What They Want	Long Time, Wrong Time	Daptone Records
Booker T Jones	The Road to Memphis	Rent Party	Anti-
Curtis Nowosad	Dialectics	Dialectics	Cellar Live
Alice Russell	Nova Soul 3	A Fly in the Hand	Audiopharm
Ivana Santilli	Corduroy Boogie	Everlasting	Brown Recordings
The Quantic Soul Orchestra	Nova Soul 2	Hold It Down	Audiopharm
Herbie Hancock	75 Years of True Blue	Cantaloupe Island	Blue Note

Tune in this week for some choice funky cuts!