The Dave Stryker Quartet as they will appear in the 2022 Tucson Jazz Festival {l to r}: Warren Wolfe on vibraphone, Dave Stryker on guitar, Jared Gold on Hammond B3 organ, and McClenty Hunter on drums.
courtesy Strykezone Records
January 6, 2022
Featured on the January 6th, 2022 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Jazz guitarist, composer & educator Dave Stryker is a headline artist in the 2022 Tucson Jazz Festival, which runs January 14th through the 23rd. Stryker says he was first inspired to play by listening to his older sister's Beatles records. But, his musical curiosity and flair for improvisation soon led him to perform with some of the most famous names in jazz. Stryker has now been band leader on more than 2 dozen critically acclaimed records, including the multi-volume "8-Track" series that celebrates decades of hit rock, soul and rhythm & blues music. The Dave Stryker Quartet with Warren Wolf and the Eric Alexander Quintet will officially launch the Tucson Jazz Festival at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Friday, January 14th. You can find a detailed guide at Tucson Jazz Festival.org..
- The Cocopah Indian Tribe has lived around the Colorado River Delta near Somerton, Arizona for centuries. But decades of drought and development have transformed this corner of the river. From Fronteras, Alisa Reznick reports on a concerted effort to restore this land to a healthier condition.
Cocopah Cultural Resource Manager Justin Brundin stands at the banks of a portion of Colorado River south of the Morelos Dam in the West Cocopah reservation.Alisa Reznick / KJZZ
- Meet Maryanne Chisholm, a successful Tucson artist who discovered her artistic passion while serving more than a decade behind bars. Chisholm tells Tony Paniagua how the Prison Arts Program provides inspiration and hope to women living in incarceration.
This is part of the painting "Provoking Mephistopheles" by Debra Mounla. Tony Paniagua/AZPM
- There is a long-running arts group in Tucson that follows a traditional technique to help them see their surroundings in new ways. They are the Sonoran Plein Air Painters, and currently the group's work is featured in two different exhibitions. New visions of historic places around Downtown Tucson are featured in “A Moment in the Barrio” in the Tucson Desert Art Museum's Four Corners Gallery. The beauty and spirit of the Sonoran Desert is on view in "A Brush with the Desert", at the Sonoran Desert Museum's Ironwood Gallery. Painters & friends Denyse Fenelon and Emely McConkey will tell Mark more about SPAP and the Tucson Barrio Painters.
'Upper Sabino Ridgeline' by Greg Wallacecourtesy Sonoran Plein Air Painters
'Bright Clouds, Honeybee Canyon' by Diana Schmidtcourtesy Sonoran Plein Air Painters
'View from Cat Canyon' by Denyse Feneloncourtesy Sonoran Plein Air Painters
'Morning at Madera Canyon' by Emely McConkeycourtesy Sonoran Plein Air Painters
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