Starting from the crosshairs of 60’s hard bop, Jazz Advance moves through time and location covering off everything from contemporary Northern European Avant Guard to Brazilian Bossa Nova, Rare Groove and Cake Walks of the early 1900s. On this program, Jeffrey Plansker draws from personal record collecting to in-studio performances of local and international players. Each show finds a unique look at this ever-evolving and always influential form called Jazz.

This month’s episode: SIX CYLINDERS, The Motor City Scene
Detroit audiences were hip to modern jazz and could hear the difference between exceptional performances and those that were marginal or worse. “You had to have your stuff together,” Joe Henderson said in 1996. “Detroit had the best listening audience. The audiences around Detroit were like musicians. I mean, they knew. No way to come up on the bandstand jiving. That could be injurious to one’s ego.”