WoodWarbler's JazzGrass

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WoodWarbler's JazzGrass

Taking hot cuts of bluegrass and fusing them to jazz music somewhere along the Dawggy Mountain sonic continuum.

Airs LIVE on the following terrestrial and internet radio stations, via Pacifica's AudioPort network:

WGDR-Plainfield/WGDH-Hardwick, VT 91.1FM/91.7FM wgdr.org
WMRW-Warren, VT 94.5FM wmrw.org
WFVR-South Royalton, VT 96.5FM
WBTV-Burlington, VT
WOOL-LP—Bellows Falls
WHPW-Harpswell, ME
WGRN-Columbus, OH
WLPP-Palenville, NY
WRAQ-Angelica, NY
[email protected]/Global Community Radio
KZGM-

Kabool, MO
KRFY-Sandpoint, ID
KXCR-Florence, OR
KKRN-Round Mountain, CA
KPSQ-Fayetteville, AR

KOCF-Veneta, OR

06/03/2025

Finishing off a three-week-in-a-row trifecta of Recent Releases episodes with Volume 40 right here. Please do click below and enjoy the fine sounds of Billy Strings with Bryan Sutton, VolumeFive, The Infamous Stringdusters, Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road Friends and Fans Community, Blue Highway, Jerry Douglas, Greensky Bluegrass with Holly Bowling, WDR Big Band with darol anger's page & Mike Marsall & Bob Mintzer, Christian Sands, Camille Thurman - Green, Baione, SAM FRIBUSH ORGAN TRIO with Adam Deitch, Greg Ruby and a bunch more folks that don't do the Facebook link thang.....

Capping off a trilogy of shows featuring recently (2024-2025) released bluegrass, jazz and music that blends these styles up into a JazzGrass puree.

05/24/2025

So many fantastic recent releases to showcase, so quickly does a two-hour frame of music transpire that I decided to follow up Volume 38 with Recent Releases #39 in subsequent weeks. Featuring Gabe Epstein, Big Country Bluegrass, Bruce Molsky & darol anger's page, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, John Cowan Music, Dan Tyminski, Hank, Pattie & The Current, I'm With Her, Mary Halvorson, Leslie Pintchik, Warren Wolf, Posi-Tone Swingtet, Brad Mehldau + Bill Stewart + Mark Turner + Grenadier + Peter Bernstein, Kyle Tuttle Banjo, Stephane Wrembel + Jean-Michel Pilc, Ethan Setiawan, Charm City Junction and more. Just the distraction you need from literally everything!

Listen here for free on the Public Radio Exchange to what aired on Central Vermont Community Radio on 5.22.2025:

Getting caught up on the best of what quality bluegrass, jazz and sonic connective tissue has recently been released (in the past 18 months or thereabouts....)

05/18/2025

Alright friends & neighbors, family members & perfect strangers....new listeners and long-time fans, now hear this fresh episode of WWJG guaranteed to transport you away from whatever ails'ya for a couple hours. Featuring selections released in 2024-2025, with a smattering of '23 that I seem to have missed....including: Michael Cleveland & Jason Carter, Rebecca Frazier, Wyatt Ellis, East Nash Grass, Tony Trischka, Big Richard, Tim Stafford + Thomm Jutz, Andy Statman, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Woody Platt, Sierra Ferrell, Alison Krauss & Union Station feat. Jerry Douglas, Anya Hinkle Music, Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Hull, Dangerfield, Les Doigts de l'Homme, Diego Rivera, Artemis, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Mitch Towne and more.

(Seems to be fewer names to tag on Facebook than there used to be...)

The best of the most recently released bluegrass, jazz & beyond....2024/2025 with a smattering of '23

11/21/2024

300 episodes of WoodWarbler's JazzGrass are now streaming and for sale to radio stations here on the Public Radio Exchange. Enjoy!!

Exploring the sonic continuum between traditional bluegrass and all that jazz connotes in a 2-hr weekly program. ALL SHOWS ARE EVERGREEN. They will either sound fresh any time OR are contextually specific to a season (e.g., "Summerama," "Spring Resurgence" etc.) or in some instances a date on the ca...

08/07/2024

WoodWarbler's JazzGrass proudly presents this year's love letter to the late, great Jerry Garcia https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/539018-jerrygrass-18

Richard Windish, Chris Houston, Tony Bartold, Will League, Pam Goldman, Lynn Elston and all you other old & in the gray hippies out there (you know who you are)

An all-new JazzGrass homage to the late great Jerry Garcia. Happy Birthday to SpudBoy Captain Trips, perhaps the most original of JazzGrass influences!

05/30/2024

Last one for today is JazzGrass338 ~ Valleys (Vol.2), a second sequel to the Mountains shows from a while back. Amongst others that Facebook won't let me tag any longer, the show features Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, The Steel Wheels, Molly Tuttle, Kaia Kater, Wiseman, Chris Luquette, Nygaard, Tony Furtado, Jeff Beck, Leftover Salmon, John Scofield, Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom and more. Link & Setlist follow:

https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/531014-valleys-vol-2

Union Valley 7:34 Chris Luquette The Way I View The World 2019

Dark Hollow 2:34 Muleskinner Muleskinner Live - Original Television Soundtrack 1973

Green Valley 3:53 Scott Slay The Rail 2019

Last Train From Poor Valley 4:59 Tim O'Brien Tim O'Brien Band 2019

Rain In The Valley 3:14 The Steel Wheels Lay Down Lay Low 2011

Hickory Hollow 2:04 The Dillards Back Porch Bluegrass 1963

Possum Hollow 2:22 Jim Eanes Jim Eanes And The Shenandoah Valley Boys ~ Decca Recordings 1952-1955 1955

Happy Hollow 2:42 Bronwyn Keith-Hynes Fiddler's Pastime 2020

Grass Valley 3:51 Molly Tuttle Crooked Tree 2022

Valley Forge 2:07 Kaia Kater Sorrow Bound 2015

Paradise Valley 2:16 Mac Wiseman 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered [Disc 2] 1953

Lonesome Valley 2:40 The Carter Family Anthology, Vol.1 (1929-1932) 1937

Sullivan's Hollow 2:04 Uncle Earl She Waits For Night 2005

Derwent Vale 4:22 Scott Nygaard Dreamer's Waltz 1996

Shelton Laurel Valley 3:59 Thomm Jutz To Live In Two Worlds Volume 1 2000

Down In The Hollow 4:21 Leftover Salmon Leftover Salmon 2004

In The Hollow 3:42 Tony Furtado Golden 2011

Cloud Valley 5:41 The Infamous Stringdusters Rise Sun 2019

Girl From Mill Valley 3:55 Jeff Beck Beck-Ola 1969

Red River Valley 6:17 John Scofield Country For Old Men 2016

The Valley 2:09 Allison Au Quartet Wander Wonder 2018

Houdou Basin 5:18 Bill Evans Big Fun 2002

Deep Valley Blue 7:46 Bruce Sklar Dave Grippo Sextet Passing Through 1993

Mississippi Basin 3:05 Louis Armstrong Jazz Tribune: Young Louis Armstrong (1930-1933) 1933

Far Wells, Mill Valley 6:18 Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty 1959

Valley of the Giants 3:43 Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom Glitter Wolf 2019

Thematic musical selections to bring you down from the mountains into them dark hollers via the JazzGrass superhighway of sound.

05/30/2024

JazzGrass337 ~ Wildflower Wander (Vol.3) is also now available through PRX the Public Radio Exchange at https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/531011-wildflower-wander-vol-3

Sadly, FB won't let me tag pages anymore unless I've gone out there to 'follow' them, so here's the setlist instead:

Wildwood FLower 1:37 Earl Taylor & Jim McCall with The Stoney Mountain Boys 24 Bluegrass Favorites 1968

Flowers Creek 2:52 Cedar Hill Stories 2007

Flower Blooming In The Wildwood - 1959 2:24 Hylo Brown & The Timberliners 1954-1960 [Disc 1] 1958

Your Love Is Like A Flower 2:30 The Osborne Brothers Bluegrass Collection 1978

Soddy Daisy 1:51 Becky Buller Little Bird 2004

Blue Violet Waltz 3:20 Michael Cleveland Flame Keeper 2002

You Are My Flower 3:04 Flatt & Scruggs Recorded Live at Vanderbilt University 1964

Little Orchid 2:15 Hilary Hawke Banjo Babes 2012

Virginia Bluebell 2:06 Eddie Adcock Vintage Banjo Jam 2017

Shady Grove 4:37 Bryan Sutton Appalachian Picking Society 2004

Flowers Don't Mind 3:24 Serene Green Have At It 2019

Sweet White Clover 4:58 Ken Chapple Crossing The Black 2015

Home From The Forest 3:05 Gordon Lightfoot The Way I Feel 1967

The Blossom 4:51 Matt Flinner Trio Music Du Jour 2009

Lobelia Blue 3:37 Dan Crary Renaissance of the Steel String Guitar 2004

Blackberry Blossom 3:43 Pete Wernick & Flexigrass What The 2007
(don't) Walk On The Flowers (Waltz Of The Flowers) 5:22 Mr. Sun Mr. Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite 2023

Familiar Flower 3:59 Julian Lage Squint 2021

A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing 4:01 Sam Fribush Organ Trio Sam Fribush Organ Trio Vol.II: The Root 2021

Flower Power 8:31 Steve Turre Generations 2022

Forest FLower 10:37 Chico Hamilton Man From Two Worlds 1964

Little Sunflower 3:58 Christian McBride Number Two Express 1996

Trillium 5:48 Upper Left Trio Cycling 2003

Bloodroot 5:45 John Bruschini As You Were 2000

Another wander through the floral New English countryside via the David Grisman > Django Reinhardt sonic continuum.

05/30/2024

Ready...set...ENGAGE: JazzGrass340 ~ Recent Releases #36 is now live on PRX the Public radio Exchange and features fine fresh cuts from the likes of: Mighty Poplar, Cory Walker, Woody Platt, Full Cord, Mike Barnet, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Darrell Scott, Ida Claire, Balsam Range, Julian Lage, Hummus Crisis, Steve Legurner's SLUGish ensemble, Brittany Haas & Natalie Haas, Gripper, Ciancaglini, Organ Fairchild, Lakecia Benjamin, Larry Goldings + Rastegar + Rounds and more.

Click HERE to listen: https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/531015-recent-releases-36 .... SETLIST FOLLOWS:

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Walker's Backstep 2:54 Cory Walker School Project 2023

Kicking Up The Devil On A Holiday / Doctor Hecock's Jig 5:51 Mighty Poplar Mighty Poplar 2023

One Last Goodbye 3:12 Woody Platt 2022

Just To Satisfy You 2:55 Balsam Range Kinetic Tone 2023

Someone Like You (with Tim O'Brien) 4:15 Danny Burns Promised Land 2023

Logan's Farewell 3:09 Full Cord Cambium 2023

Distractions 2:54 Milan Miller Between The Rhythm and Rhyme 2023

Born To Be With You 2:52 Mike Barnett 3+ (EP) 2023

El Dorado 4:23 Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway City Of Gold 2023

Bloody Mary Morning 3:04 Willie Nelson Bluegrass 2023

It's A Great Day To Be Alive 4:28 Darrell Scott Old Cane Back Rocker 2023

Second Hand World 3:20 Ida Clare Ida 2 2023

When It's Over 4:31 Joe K Walsh* If Not Now, Who? 2023

Ballad Of Jubilee Jones 3:09 Old Crow Medicine Show Jubilee 2023

Strange Road to the Unknown / The Cowboy Druid 5:47 Natalie Haas, Brittany Haas HAAS 2023

The Layers 3:44 Julian Lage The Layers 2023

Consecutio 4:55 Pietro Ciancaglini Consecutio 2023

A Song Unsprung 8:35 Eddie Gripper Home 2023

Moraga 8:17 Steven Lugerner SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude 2023

Ere This Groove We Lay Down 6:33 Hummus Crisis Banks Of The River 2023

Moods 4:58 Lakecia Benjamin Phoenix 2023

Yeah Yeah Yeah 4:00 Larry Goldings, Kaveh Rastegar, Abe Rounds Better 2023

Over The Handlebars 5:25 Organ Fairchild Leisure Suit 2023

The best & brightest of new bluegrass, jazz and that shapeshifting sanctum of sound in between.

04/22/2024

Last show upload for today is "Live! (Vol.2)" and is a jazzgrass tour-de-force. Enjoy & BE GOOD TO EACH OTHER! 🪕🎻🎷🎺🎹

The best bluegrass, jazz and connective tissue material recorded onstage, volume 2.

04/22/2024

"JazzGrass ~ Moonlight In Vermont (Vol.5)" is now published on the Public Radio Exchange, just in time for yet another full moon, because who can resist two hours of bluegrass, jazz and genre-blending material about that pale celestial lamp hanging over us at night.....

Further explorations into the endless realm of jazzgrassworthy songs about the moon.

04/22/2024

"JazzGrass ~ Phones" is an ode to the good ol' fashioned phone call and is now available for radio stations & free streaming via the Public Radio Exchange. Recorded 4.3.2024 at Central Vermont Community Radio:

A JazzGrass ode to good ol' fashioned phone conversations.

04/22/2024

Presenting "It Might As Well Be Spring (Vol.4)," with the other three volumes also available via PRX. I love the sound quality and energy of these shows recorded live at Central Vermont Community Radio! So wonderful to be in the groove of doing live FM radio again:

Spring comes late to the North Country of Vermont wherein WoodWarbler's JazzGrass resides, and there are many appropro songs reflecting upon this.

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