Celebrating Birthdays on The Night Beat

A number of jazz musicians share June 16 as the date of their birth. Beginning at 8 pm on Wednesday, June 16, Night Beat host Doug Crane will feature music from many of them including Tom Harrell, Albert Dailey, Javon Jackson, Ivan Lins, Dominique Eade and Alicia Olatuja.

Trumpet/Flugelhorn player Tom Harrell was part of the Horace Silver Quintet in the mid-1970s, the Phil Woods Quintet throughout much of the 1980s and has been a leader of his own bands since the late 1980s. Fine examples of his work as a leader can be found on the HighNote, RCA and Contemporary labels. Known for his melodicism as both a composer and soloist, perhaps his best known composition is Sail Away.

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While pianist Albert Dailey wasn’t especially well-known outside of musician circles when alive, he worked with a veritable “Who’s Who” of jazz luminaries including Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard. He passed away in Denver during 1984 at the age of 45.

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Tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson grew up in Denver before attending the Berklee School of Music. In the past 30 years he’s appeared on over 150 recordings, roughly 20 of them as a leader. He was a member of the last incarnation of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and later toured with bands led by Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton.

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Brazilian Ivan Lins is best known as a composer although he’s recorded numerous albums under his own name. Two of his best-known and most-covered songs are Comecar de Novo (aka The Island) and Love Dance. Lins performed at the Denver Botanic Gardens in the 1990s in a show that had barely begun before a severe storm shut it down.

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After releasing four recordings in quick succession in the early 1990s, vocalist Dominique Eade began to raise a family in 1996 with her husband, saxophonist Allan Chase. A faculty member at the New England Conservatory since 1984, her students have included Roberta Gambarini, Luciana Souza and Kate McGarry.

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Vocalist Alicia Olatuja first came to national prominence in 2013 when she was the featured soloist with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir during its performance at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. She performed at Dazzle with her own band in 2019 and as a featured vocalist in 2016 with Billy Childs’ touring band at the Newman Center in support of his recording “Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Lauro Nyro.”

Join host Doug Crane on the Night Beat on Wednesday, June 16, at 8 pm. Only on KUVO JAZZ!

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