Live Jazz

Live Jazz is a Spanish-language jazz program with a radio soul: conversational, restless, and built around the belief that music deserves explanation before it disappears into the next track. It is not a dry catalog of records. The show starts with a song, a concert, a birthday, or a musician's name, then widens into biographies, scenes, memories, styles, and arguments about cultural space. Hiromi Uehara is introduced through Sonic Wonder, international musicians, rock, funk, pop, contemporary jazz, and the energy of collective arrangement. Dave Brubeck leads to Bravo Brubeck, Pablo Prieto's tribute work, Paul Desmond, family bands, and the pleasure of hearing a jazz giant through another player's devotion. Herbie Hancock becomes a map of acoustic jazz, electronic jazz, rhythm and blues, humanitarian work, UNESCO, and International Jazz Day. The show likes lineage. It also likes surprise. The Esto No Es Jazz episodes make room for familiar pop songs recast by jazz musicians, from Cyndi Lauper, Sade, Donna Summer, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, and The Doors to versions by Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, Joe Pass, and others. That recurring move gives newcomers a foothold while still respecting the players who transformed the material. Interviews bring in musicians with specific memories and listening habits, including Pablo Prieto on Brubeck and Gazú Siqueiros on Kind of Blue, Eugenio Toussaint, and the way jazz can feel like order after everyday noise. The show is warm, but it is not passive. It openly worries about the lack of commercial radio space for jazz and keeps making the case for more public reach. Tracks are not just played; they are introduced, defended, compared, and passed along. Live Jazz suits listeners who want the record-store conversation, the concert note, and the radio handoff in one place. Its center is simple: jazz is alive because people keep telling each other where to hear it next.