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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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February 17, 2013

10:00 AM

Delilah

Artist : Bobby Hutcherson

Album : Skyliner

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Label : Verve

10:07 AM

How Deep Is The Ocean

Artist : Curis Counce

Album : Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce

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Label : Contemporary

10:16 AM

Lotus Blossom

Artist : Ted Rosenthal

Album : Out Of Thos World

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Label : Going For Spins

10:21 AM

Never, Never Land

Artist : Jane Monheit

Album : Never, Never Land

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Label : N-Coded

10:26 AM

Enchantment

Artist : Davis Sanborn

Album : Closer

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Label : Verve

10:32 AM

Robbin’s Nest

Artist : Tommy Flanagan-Hank Jones

Album : Jazz Improv

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Label : Jazz Improv

10:39 AM

Laura

Artist : Jimmy Smith

Album : The Retun Of Fourmost

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Label : Milestone

10:53 AM

A House Is Not A Home

Artist : Christy Barron

Album : Take This Journey

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Label : Chesky

11:00 AM

Dear Old Stockholm

Artist : The All-Starys Play Miles Davis Classics

Album : Dream Session

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Label : Milestone

11:07 AM

Will You Still Be Mine

Artist : Red Garland

Album : Best Of The Red Garland Trios

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Label : Pablo

11:13 AM

Them There Eyes

Artist : Oscar Peterson-Stephane Grappelli

Album : Jazz In Paris

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Label : Verve

11:18 AM

All My Tomorrows

Artist : Nancy Wilson

Album : Yesterday

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11:21 PM

All The Things You Are

Artist : Art Pepper

Album : Art Of The Ballad

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Label : Prestige

11:39 PM

Invitation

Artist : Micheal O’Neill

Album : Still Dancin'

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Label : Jazzmo

11:48 PM

Exodus

Artist : Eddie Harris

Album : Eddie Harris Anthology

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Label : Atlantic

11:55 AM

Close To You

Artist : Carmen McRae

Album : Great American Songbook

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Label : Atlantic

12:06 PM

Alone Together

Artist : Joey DeFrancesco

Album : All About My Girl

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Label : Muse

12:13 PM

Flamingo

Artist : Osca peterson-Stepane Grappelli

Album : Jazz In Paris

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Label : Gitanes

12:18 PM

People Get Ready

Artist : Cheryl Jewell

Album : My Blue Heaven

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Label : Cheryl Jewell

12:25 PM

Li’l Darlin’

Artist : Chuck Redd

Album : Happy All The Time

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Label : Arbor

12:32 PM

Green Dolphin Street

Artist : Three Sounds

Album : Moods

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Label : Blue Note

12:38 PM

Lady Bird

Artist : Hank Jones-James Moody

Album : Our Delight

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Label : IPO

12:44 PM

I Won’t Last A Day Without You

Artist : Buddy Rich-Mel Torme

Album : Together Again For The First Time

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Label : Mobile Fidelity

12:50 PM

After The Rain

Artist : Eric Alexander

Album : Summit Meeting

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Label : Milestone

12:57 PM

Groove Yard

Artist : Montgomery Brothers

Album : Montgomery Brothers

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Label : Fresh Sound

1:01 PM

Day Dream

Artist : Duke Ellington

Album : Duke Ellington Presents

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Label : Bethlehem

1:05 PM

Baubles, Bangles And Beads

Artist : Zoot Sims

Album : Soprano Sax

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Label : Pablo

1:09 PM

Strollin’

Artist : Karrin Allyson

Album : Footprints

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Label : Concord

1:22 PM

Stompin’ At The Savoy

Artist : Clifford Brown

Album : Four Clasic Albums

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Label : Avid

1:29 PM

Time After Time

Artist : Ernestine Anderson

Album : Great Moments With Ernestine Anderson

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Label : Concord

1:34 PM

Honeysuckle Rose

Artist : Ray Brown

Album : Summertime

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Label : Concord

1:44 PM

When Sunny Gets Blue

Artist : Sarah Vaughan

Album : Sarah Plus Two

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Label : Roulette

1:47 PM

You’re Driving Me Crazy

Artist : Gene Ammons

Album : Jeg And Dodo

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Label : Prestige

1:54 PM

Fathead

Artist : David Newman

Album : Ray Charles Presents David Newman

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Label : Collectables

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

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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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