Live at the Bop Stop

All music used with permission by Bob Holz and A Vision Forward

• Jemin-Eye'n - Coryell
• Larry's Blue - Holz
• Jammin Man  - Holz
• West Coast Blues - Holz
• Eleven High - Holz
• Five Times a Winner - Coryell
• Side Scratch - Holz

One of America’s top fusion drummers, Syracuse, New York based Bob Holz has toured and recorded extensively with Larry Coryell, Stanley Clarke, and Randy Brecker. For this performance, he graced our stage in support of his sixth album Holz-Stathis with a trio that incudes Bob on drums, Mikal Serafim on guitar and Vynce Watson on bass.

From May 28th, 2022 it’s Bob Holz and a Vision Forward, Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended versions of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission by Diego Rivera Quintet

• Connections - Rivera
• Rasquache - Rivera
• Cancion De Cuna - Rivera
• Stompin at the Savoy - Webb
• Sombras Del Pasado - Rivera
• Battle Fatigue - Rivera
• Bracero - Rivera
• La Raza Cosimca - Rivera
• The Rose Window - Rivera
• Mestizo - Rivera

A world-class musician, composer, arranger and educator, Diego Rivera has entertained audiences for over 20 years. Rivera is known for his muscular tone and unique blend of straight-ahead jazz fused with music inspired by his Latino background and heritage.

On the heels of the announcement of him being named the Director of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Diego joined us on tour supporting his latest release Mestizo with his quartet.

A world-class musician, composer, arranger and educator, Diego Rivera has entertained audiences for over 20 years. Rivera is known for his muscular tone and unique blend of straight-ahead jazz fused with music inspired by his Latino background and heritage.

On the heels of the announcement of him being named the Director of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Diego joined us on tour supporting his latest release Mestizo with his quartet.

From April 9th, 2022 it’s the Diego Rivera Quintet – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended versions of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission bySam Blakeslee:

• Fiberglass - Blakeslee
• Bob - Blakeslee
• Ashokan - Blakeslee
• September in the Rain - Blakeslee
• Bygones are Bygones - Blakeslee
• Selective Coverage - Blakeslee

New York City based trombonist Sam Blakeslee comes home to celebrate the release of his new album The Long Middle with his quartet ‘wistful thinking’. The album is something closer to chamber jazz than the big band sound Sam is known for throughout northeast Ohio. But for this performance – Sam decided to move away from the chamber jazz sound with the addition of drums to give the music a different sound and feel.

Featuring Chris Coles on saxophone, Brandon Coleman on guitar, Sam on trombone, Matt Wiles on bass and Zaire Darden on drums on this February 6th, 2022 performance here’s Sam Blakeslee and Wistful Thinking – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission by Bobby Selvaggio Shake Trio.

• Flow - Selvaggio
• Kwanza Muwanga - Selvaggio
• Revolution - Selvaggio
•  - Selvaggio
• Beatrice - Rivers
• Central Park West - Coltrane
• Dance of the Tail-Chasing Cats - Selvaggio
• If the World Knew Love - Selvaggio
• Runaway - Selvaggio

Bobby Selvaggio is one of the leading contemporary alto sax players on the jazz scene, and one of Northeast Ohio’s most prolific performers. Performing with trios, quartets and big bands on an ongoing basis, Bobby always brings audiences a wide variety of jazz in various forms.

This week, it’s his Shake Trio project, a trio configuration playing atonal arrangements of new and previously recorded material. With Bobby on Saxophone are Kip Reed on Bass and Zaire Darden on Drums. 

From an October 9th, 2021 performance it’s Bobby Selvaggio’s Shake Trio – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission by Bryan Kennard:

• In to Blue - Kennard
• Of Other Moons - Kennard
• Here the Sun Whispers - Kennard
• Sci Fi Elf - Kennard
• Dolphin Dance - Hancock
• Two-Sided Triangle - Kennard
• Bending East - Kennard
• Floridiaspora - Kennard
• Windows - Corea
• When in Doubt - Kennard

Flutist Bryan Kennard comes from a diverse background – composing songs for jazz ensembles, bluegrass bands and Brazilian ensembles – performing original works at the Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals in Europe. 

Bryan returns home to Cleveland with a quintet performing original compositions featuring Chris Coles on saxophone, Dan Bruce on guitar, Ian Kinneman on bass and Anthony Taddeo on drums. From a February 10th, 2022 show in front of a live audience, it’s the Bryan Kennard Quintet – Live at the Bop Stop.

 This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission by Joshua Espinoza:

• Yesterday - Lennon/McCartney
• Streetlight Serenade - Espinoza
• Metrican - Espinoza
• In My Life - Lennon/Emerson/McCartney
•  Appalachian Wanderer - Espinoza
• And So It Goes - Joel
• Birdsong - Espinoza
• Take the A Train - Stayhorn
• Eleanor Rigby - Lennon/McCartney

Possessing a wide color palette, the Joshua Espinoza Trio explores shimmering harmonies and shifting orchestral contours with the aesthetic of a chamber ensemble as much as a jazz trio.  Through their genre-bending approach to songwriting, they've built a cross-generational audience of diverse backgrounds bound together by their love of good music. Featuring Kris Monson on bass, Jaron Lamar Davis on drums, and Joshua Espinoza on Piano, and from a March 30th, 2022 performance, it’s the Joshua Espinoza Trio – Live at the Bop Stop.  

 This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

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All music used with permission by Haidu, Williams and Allen.

• What a Difference a Day Makes - Grever/Adams
• The Chance - Kirkland
• You and the Night and the Music - Schwartz/Dietz
• Georgia On My Mind - Carmichael/Gorrell
• I Thought About You - Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette

Pianist Noah Haidu’s two most recent releases are outstanding tributes to jazz legends, and he stopped by for two sold out performances with a legendary trio to play selections from both. 

Doctone is the culmination of a film, book and album tribute to the legendary Kenny Kirkland, released in 2019. Slowly is his tribute to Keith Jarrett, released in May 2021. Both project feature performances of compositions by these legends and Doctone is a larger project that documents Kirkland’s life.

Noah took our stage for two performances with two jazz legends. Bassist and Grammy winner Buster Williams has a career spanning sixty years working with everyone from Herbie Hancock to Miles Davis.

Drummer Carl Allen has worked with artists as diverse as Freddie Hubbard, Ricky Lee Jones and Christian McBride’s Inside Straight.

The Trio joined us on stage on November 21st, 2022 and here’s Part Two – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

Want to Support The Bop Stop?  Donate here!

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All music used with permission by Haidu, Williams and Allen.

• Dienda - Kirkland
• Mister JC - Kirkland
• End of a Beautiful Friendship - Cole
• My Song - Jarrett
• Up Jumped Spring - Hubbard

 Pianist Noah Haidu’s two most recent releases are outstanding tributes to jazz legends, and he stopped by for two sold out performances with a legendary trio to play selections from both. 

Doctone is the culmination of a film, book and album tribute to the legendary Kenny Kirkland, released in 2019. Slowly is his tribute to Keith Jarrett, released in May 2021. Both project feature performances of compositions by these legends and Doctone is a larger project that documents Kirkland’s life.

Noah took our stage for two performances with two jazz legends. Bassist and Grammy winner Buster Williams has a career spanning sixty years working with everyone from Herbie Hancock to Miles Davis.

Drummer Carl Allen has worked with artists as diverse as Freddie Hubbard, Ricky Lee Jones and Christian McBride’s Inside Straight.

The Trio joined us on stage on November 21st, 2022 and here’s Part One – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

Want to Support The Bop Stop?  Donate here!

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All music used with permission by Organ-Ism

• Moon River - Mancini
• Full House - Sanborn
• Until It's Time For You To Go - Sainte-Marie
• Subindo - DelFierra
• Pocket Change - Smith
• You Are So Beautiful - Preston
• Southside - Smith

Four legendary Cleveland area sidemen got together to jam - and from those jam sessions decided to form Organism in 2007 and they’ve been making terrific music ever since. Featuring Howie Smith on saxophone – David Thomas on organ-Bob Ferrazza on guitar and Bill Ransom on drums the group has performed and toured with legendary performers such as Dizzy Gillespie – Art Farmer and Fathead Newman.

From a January 16th - 2022 performance here’s Organism – Live at the Bop Stop.

 This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows, our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

 Want to Support The Bop Stop?  Donate here!

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All music used with permission by Nortonk

• Quant - Pale
• June 8th - Forbes
• Hertzog - Killacky
• Spiders - Crammer
• Eve - Forbes
• Eve - Killacky
• Chutes and Ladders - Killacky
• Untitled - Crammer

New York City based Nortonk explore the compatibilities of chordless compositions and free jazz. With a mathematical feel and precise energy, this foursome provides a different perspective on the tensions between improvisation and structured compositions.

Featuring David Adewumi on Trumpet, Gideon Forbes on Saxophone, Stephen Pale on Bass and Steven Crammer on Drums, from their February 9th, 2022 Northeast Ohio debut it’s Nortonk – Live at the Bop Stop.

This program is recorded at the Robert Conrad Studios at the Bop Stop in Cleveland, Ohio with additional production by Graham Rosen and editing for WOBC and WNPA provided by Dr. Pete Naegele and for our podcast and other affiliates by Shawn Gilbert and Carsen Gilbert at GilAzar media. 

 The Executive Producer is Daniel Peck.

For extended version of all our shows –our Live at The Bop Stop podcast can be found on your favorite podcast app.

 Want to Support The Bop Stop?  Donate here!

Contact us here