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Jazz with Bob Perkins

Monday through Thursday, 6 to 9 pm; Sunday 9 am to 1 pm

Lovingly known as “BP with the GM” (Bob Perkins with the Good Music), BP brings you that good music just in time for dinner during your work week, and keeps your Sunday brunch swinging. His selections are like a familiar hug from Jazz Land featuring your favorite standards and vocalists such as Sarah, Ella, and Nat, some Big Band legends including the Duke and the Count, and the giants of the instrumentals like Lee Morgan, Hank Crawford, Miles, and Coltrane. Take a listen to "Ol' BP" as he calls himself...you'll be back again and again.

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January 01, 2013

6:06 PM

Green Dolphin Street

Artist : Miles Davis

Album : Jazz Moods Cool

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Label : Columbia/legacy

6:16 PM

Wave

Artist : Graham Dechter

Album : Right On Time

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Label : Capri

6:24 PM

Prelude To A Kiss

Artist : Duke Ellington

Album : Ellington Indigos

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Label : Columbia

6:28 PM

In My Solitude

Artist : Kate Ceberano

Album : Bittersweet

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Label : Erle-Tones Records

6:34 PM

Where Is The Love

Artist : Stephen Scott

Album : Vision Quest

Purchase:

Label : Enja

6:38 PM

Moten Swing

Artist : Kenny Burrell w./ Tommy Flanagan

Album : Swingin'

Purchase:

Label : Blue Note

6:47 PM

Old Devil Moon

Artist : Zoot Sims

Album : Warm Tenor

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Label : Pablo Records

6:52 PM

Soft Winds

Artist : Gene Harris & Jack McDuff

Album : Down Home Blues

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Label : Concord

7:03 PM

Overview

Artist : Jay Hoggard

Album : Overview

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Label : Muse

7:11 PM

Nice ’N Easy

Artist : Shirley Horn

Album : Live At The Vine Street Bar & Grill

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Label : Verve

7:17 PM

Bouncin’ With Bud

Artist : Hank Mobley

Album : Mobley's Message

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Label : Prestige

7:24 PM

If Ever I Would Leave You

Artist : Jeb Patton

Album : New Strides

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Label : MaxJazz

7:31 PM

When Sunny Gets Blue

Artist : Kurt Rosenwinkel

Album : Intuit

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Label : Criss Cross Jazz

7:39 PM

For All We Know

Artist : Susannah McCorkle

Album : Hearts And Minds

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Label : Concord

7:44 PM

Ralph’s Blues

Artist : Modern Jazz Quartet

Album : Cocorde

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Label : Prestige

7:51 PM

The Night We Called It A Day

Artist : Milt Jackson & John Coltrane

Album : Bags And Trane

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Label : Atlantic

7:55 PM

Bags Groove

Artist : milt Jackson & The Clayton-Hamilton Big Band

Album : Explosive

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Label : Quest/Warner Brothers

8:03 PM

Once I Loved

Artist : Renee Rosnes

Album : A Beautiful Friendship

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Label : Venus

8:08 PM

At Last

Artist : Etta James

Album : At Last

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Label : Argo

8:12 PM

Society Red

Artist : Dexter Gordon

Album : Doin' Allright

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Label : Blue Note

8:26 PM

Nuages

Artist : Tal Farlowe & Tommy Flanagan

Album : Saturday Afternoon Jazz

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Label : Concord

8:32 PM

My Foolish Heart

Artist : Curtis Stigers

Album : Secret Heart

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Label : Concord Jazz

8:40 PM

I Never Knew

Artist : Blue Mitchell

Album : Blue's Moods

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Label : Riverside

8:45 PM

They Say It’s Spring

Artist : Joe Alterman

Album : Give Me The Simple Life

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Label : Miles High Records

8:51 PM

Who Can I Turn To

Artist : David Sills

Album : Bigs

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Label : Naxos

8:57 PM

Tonk

Artist : Art Farmer

Album : Perception

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Label : Argo

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Tue January 1, 2013 - 6pm

Sun December 30, 2012 - 10am

Thu December 27, 2012 - 6pm

Wed December 26, 2012 - 6pm

Tue December 25, 2012 - 6pm

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Jazz Holiday Highlights

6:56 pm

Mon December 24, 2012

A Few of our Favorite Things on Christmas

By Maureen Malloy

Join your favorite jazz hosts for their favorite holiday jazz tunes! On Christmas eve and Christmas night, from 6 to 9 pm, they'll each take an hour to bring you the best in seasonal jazz. Whether it's the “oldies but goodies,” or some holiday releases from this season, you’ll hear it from the WRTI hosts you depend on all year long for great jazz.  

Featured hosts for Christmas Eve: Bob Perkins (6 pm), Maureen Malloy (7 pm), Joe Patti (8 pm). Christmas night: Bob Craig (6 pm), Zivit (7 pm), Mark Quinlan (8 pm). Tune in for the fun!

The Dave Brubeck Legacy

8:14 pm

Tue December 11, 2012

Bob Perkins on Dave Brubeck: The Interview

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Bob Perkins recommends...Jazz Red Hot and Cool

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz at Oberlin is a must-have CD according to BP.

By Kile Smith and Bob Perkins

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Continuing our appreciation of Dave Brubeck, WRTI's own jazz legend Bob Perkins sits down with Kile Smith for a wide-ranging interview about the man, his music, and his legacy. "As Louis Armstrong would say, he was a cat..."

A Sad Day In Jazz

6:43 pm

Tue December 11, 2012

A Dave Brubeck Memorial By Bob Perkins

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Dave Brubeck and Bob Perkins in 1983 - backstage at the Academy of Music where BP was the emcee for a jazz concert featuring Brubeck and his sons performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1981

By Bob Perkins

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Bob Perkins looks back on the life and career of Dave Brubeck.

WRTI mourns the loss of iconic jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, who died on December 5th at age 91 - one day shy of his 92nd birthday. Watch this "Take Five" video from 1966 and remember a legend:

WRTI Spotlight

11:45 am

Fri November 2, 2012

Vocalist Mary Ellen Desmond Sings on BP's Show

By Bob Perkins

Join me on Sunday, November 4th at 1 pm for a special twist to the afternoon program. Vocalist Mary Ellen Desmond will be singing some jazz favorites recorded live, here at the WRTI performance studio. You'll hear three different pianists accompanying her during this session: Lucas Brown, Bill Schilling and Tom Lawton. Don't miss it!

CD Selections

5:56 pm

Wed September 5, 2012

Bob Perkins Recommends...Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes

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By Bob Perkins

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie have been credited with changing the face of jazz in the mid 1940s. They kicked it up a notch, and ushered in an era known as "modern jazz" - which some dubbed "bebop." 

Amazingly, Parker was only widely known for about a decade before he died in 1955 at the age of 34. He accomplished great fame while living a self-destructive lifestyle, which included frequent use of controlled substances and consumption of hard liquor. But despite living on the edge, his genius shined through.

CD Selections

12:06 pm

Thu August 2, 2012

Bob Perkins Recommends: Joe Pass & J.J. Johnson, We’ll Be Together Again

Joe Pass & J.J. Johnson: We’ll Be Together Again

By Bob Perkins

If you’re a lover of great jazz, then you know the real joy in taking time to relax and listen to a recording by a gifted performer.

But even better than that... how about listening to two gifted performers on the same recording date? Your finely-tuned ears will be in for a treat, should you choose to add the Joe Pass / J.J. Johnson CD We’ll Be Together Again to your music library.

Music Features

7:39 am

Tue July 10, 2012

Who Is She? Just One Of The Most Popular Songs Ever

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Credit YouTube

Astrud Gilberto performs "The Girl From Ipanema." Gilberto, the wife of Brazilian singer Joao Gilberto, had never sung professionally before recording the song.

Credit Douglas Engle / AP

Helo Pinheiro, who inspired the song "The Girl From Ipanema," dances during a fashion show in Rio de Janeiro in 1999.

By NPR Staff

Originally published on Sun July 8, 2012 5:57 pm

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Amy Winehouse. Ella Fitzgerald. Sammy Davis Jr. The Yale Whiffenpoofs. Mike Tyson.

WRTI Spotlight

3:32 pm

Mon June 25, 2012

Live Broadcast from Sunset Jazz Series with BP: June 25th at 6 pm

Bob Perkins, "BP with the GM"

By Bob Perkins

Join us from 6 to 9 pm on Monday, June 25th as WRTI's Bob Perkins crosses the Delaware to bring you his program live from the Sunset Jazz Series at Wiggins Park in Camden, NJ.

Jazz

11:58 am

Thu May 31, 2012

Bob Perkins Recommends...THE TONY BENNETT-BILL EVANS ALBUM

By Bob Perkins

What would happen if an inventive jazz record label decided to blend a great singer of standard-pop ballads with an outstanding jazz pianist? The two artists would be on their own--no other musicians--just the two of them, performing a number of time-honored classics.

Well, there was such an occurrence in June of 1975, at the Fantasy Recording Studios in Berkeley, California, when and where Tony Bennett and Bill Evans were recorded. A better result could not have been imagined.

Kudos to BP

7:56 am

Sun April 15, 2012

Bob Perkins Does It Again!

By Bob Perkins and WRTI Staff

Our "BP with the GM" will be honored with a Jazz Master Award by the Somers Point Jazz Society on Sunday, April 22nd. Take a drive down the shore and join the festivities - everyone's welcome! The award ceremony starts at 4:30 pm, and then The Joe Mancini Trio takes over at 6 pm. Details here.

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