1959 – A Sad Golden Year In Jazz

Dick Fairly - host of the Jazz Excursion on 91.5 KRCC
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Dick Fairly - host of the Jazz Excursion on 91.5 KRCC

1959 was a Golden Year for jazz. It was a year in which some of the greatest innovators in jazz were recorded on five of the most influential albums in jazz history, and it was also a year in which three great jazz musicians died. 

This Sunday on the Jazz Excursion between 7 and 10 p.m., we’ll listen to those albums, and we’ll hear the music of the jazz musicians who made 1959 remarkable.

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