What's on tonight?

Hey, hey, Check Ça fans. It's rainy and snowy in the 'Peg these days, so we need to heat things up on the radio dial. Maybe some sizzling, jazz, some hot funk, and some fire-y latin beats, and who knows what else will be burnin' up the turnables tonight! Tune in for your weekly 'hot toddy' Check Ça fix.

Shout out to Michael Cain and the Brandon crew for the Brandon Jazz Festival this weekend (March 16-18). One of the headliners is a Check Ça fave: Dirty Catfish Brass Band. DCBB will be in the booth with us on the show March 31st, but if you can't wait, head out to Brandon this weekend.


Also putting Marisolle Negash on your radar if she isn't already. She's having a release event for her release "Spaceship" tonight (March 17) at Forth at 171 McDermot Avenue (Winnipeg), and will be at the Albert Street Cocktail Company at 91 Albert Street on Wednesday (March 22) and SMITH in the hotel at the Forks (Winnipeg) next weekend (March 24-25). Looking forward to hearing Marisolle cool RnB and neosoul vibes on the keys. Check it out.

Derrick Gardner on the air waves

Thank you to Mr. Derrick Gardner for visiting the show on February 24, 2017. If you missed it live, check it out the CKUW website:  https://ckuw.ca/programs/detail/check-ca


Derrick is professor with the University of Manitoba Jazz Studies and is also a talented and internationally renown jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and instructor. The show featured music selected in recognition for Black History Month (February). Throughout the show, Derrick shared anecdotal and historical tidbits about the music played. We also played a few selections featuring him on trumpet as well. And we all had a blast. Check out the choice track list:

Artists	Song Title	Album	Label
Art Blakey	Split Kick	from A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	Blue Note Records
Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	from The Sidewinder	Blue Note Records
Freddie Hubbard	On the Que-Tee	from Backlash	Atlantic Records
Charles Mingus	Hora Decubitus	from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus	Impulse Records
Kenny Dorham	Una Más	Una Más	Blue Note
Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets +2	Natural Woman	from Echoes of Ethnicity	Owl Studios
Curtis Nowosad	Dialectics	from Dialectics	Cellar Live
Charles Earland	More Today Than Yesterday	from Black Talk!	Prestige Records
Miles Davis	Footsteps	from Miles Smiles	Columbia Records
Eric Dolphy	Gazzelloni	from Out to Lunch!	Blue Note Records

Check out his website for more information about his music: www.derrickgardnermusic.com


Thanks to Mr. Gardner and hoping he'll be back to visit again soon.