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The A-Trane Radio Program CFRO

The A-Trane Radio Program CFRO

Written by: Nou Dadoun
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 Jazz and creative music from all eras and styles curated by Nou Dadoun. Focusing on new releases, birthdays and significant musical calendar events, and performances & releases relevant to the musical community in Vancouver, Canada and the World!
The music has roots in Black experience so every month is Black History Month. Women are important contributors and participants in this music so every day is Women in Jazz Day.
We celebrate music that has the joy of creation, that knows where its been and (often) tries to see where it's going.
The A-Trane has been on the airwaves on community radio in Vancouver since 1982 and the current host has been in the broadcaster's chair since 1986. Every show starts with a different version of our theme "Take the A Train" relevant to the date or Vancouver performances and then continues with a piece performed or inspired by John Coltrane.
Always engaging, sometimes challenging, never boring - the best in Jazz & Creative music!Copyright Nou Dadoun Music
Episodes
  • The A-Trane 2026-01-02 - Vibes, Sonny Greenwich, Primary Influences, previews

    The A-Trane 2026-01-02 - Vibes, Sonny Greenwich, Primary Influences, previews
    Jan 6 2026
    Looking forward and looking back, kicking off 2026 in style on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program!A new release from Carsten Dahl takes in the theme and then a nod to Milt Jackson's birthday yesterday leads into a survey of some great contemporary vibes players with Joel Ross, Patricia Brennan, Sasha Berliner, and Steve Nelson.Of course Nelson is part of the all-star ensemble at Frankie's Jazz Club this weekend along with David Hazeltine, Steve Davis, Cory Weeds, Ken Lister and Jesse Cahill so we have a set featuring all of them in various combinations (and include a nod to Nick Hempton for his 50th birthday yesterday!)The great Sonny Greenwich turned 90 years old yesterday and will get a feature set with some great rarities, a Jimmy Dale Orchestra recording that also features Ed Bickert & Lenny Breau, Hank Mobley, a 1979 single with Claude Ranger, an unreleased JazzBeat session with Mike Allen and Julian McDonough among other gems. And we'll take it out with a preview for a great Coastal Jazz show later this month with the Action trio - David Binney, Louis Cole and Pera Krstajic!Year in, year out, the A-Trane abides every Friday afternoon at two pm Pacific at 100.5FM or coopradio . org! Happy New Year!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org Check it out!
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    3 hrs and 31 mins
  • The A-Trane 2025-12-19 - Marilyn Mazur, Carla's Christmas Carols, Dec 19 BDs, Previews

    The A-Trane 2025-12-19 - Marilyn Mazur, Carla's Christmas Carols, Dec 19 BDs, Previews
    Dec 20 2025
    Seasonal fun on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program - an extended feature for Carla's Christmas Carols, Carla Bley's brass quintet arrangements of some traditional tunes and a couple of her own compositions taken from both the official ECM Records 2009 release and an unofficial live contemporaneous concert.The first part of the show will be a retrospective of the late percussionist Marilyn Mazur who passed away last week featured in projects and collaborations with Miles Davis, Nils Petter Malvaer, Eivind Aarset, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lotte Anker, Marilyn Crispell, Jan Garbarek, Jean-Michel Pilc, Norma Winstone, Pierre Dorge & The New Jungle Orchestra, her all-women ensemble Shamania and more. An amazingly prolific artist who deserves to be better known in North America!We'll have time for previews for Tania Gill and Jacob Wutzke playing tonight at Tyrant Studios and Frankie's After Dark respectively. And birthdays for Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Mulatu Astatke, Bobby Timmons and Bob Brookmeyer with a big finish from Tim Warfield & his all-star ensemble doing a Hanukkah tribute!A Show for All Seasons! Put some musical nog in your noggin at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at two pacific featuring rumballs and drum rolls!If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadounon every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm PacificCelebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986100.5FM or coopradio.org Check it out!
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    3 hrs and 30 mins
  • The A-Trane 2025-12-12 - Roland Kirk RSD, Dec 12 Birthdays, Previews, NRs

    The A-Trane 2025-12-12 - Roland Kirk RSD, Dec 12 Birthdays, Previews, NRs
    Dec 13 2025
    A musical pot-pourri on this afternoon's edition of The A-Trane Radio Program!

    A short feature on the late Gordon Goodwin and the Big Phat Band (his arrangement of Take the A Train also takes in the theme), the RSD release of Pre-Rahsaan Roland Kirk live at the Village Gate in 1963 (with 3 different outstanding pianists), previews for Winter Morning Walks: musica intima & Triology at the Blueshore tonight, Peter Bernstein at Frankie's, Antibalas at the Pearl, The Leading Ladies with Ellington/Strayhorn's setting of the Nutcracker at a few venues starting with Brentwood tonight, the B3 Kings at the Shadbolt, Arab Blues at the Kay Meek and in the new year, Christian McBride at the Centre. Along with a stellar slate of birthdays McCoy Tyner (yesterday), Manu Dibango, Tony Williams, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Dodo Marmarosa (centenary!) and Bob Dorough!

    Music that you won't find anywhere else on your radio dial that speaks to you and your community - check it out at 100.5FM or coopradio . org starting at Two Pacific and afterwards, the podcast linked in The A-Trane Playlist!

    If you want to follow along, here's the playlist!

    The A-Trane Radio Program with your host Nou Dadoun
    on every Friday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30 pm Pacific
    Celebrating jazz & creative music in Vancouver since 1986
    100.5FM or coopradio.org Check it out!
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    3 hrs and 32 mins
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