This week on Jazz Northwest, Jim Wilke previews new releases by several Jazz Northwest airs Sundays at 1 PM PDT on 88.5, KPLU and streamed at kplu.org<\/a>. The program is also available as a podcast following the airdate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Saxophonist, composer, bandleader and radio maven Bill Kirchner writes from New Jersey:<\/p>\n Last February, I did a second show on the ever-expanding art of two-piano jazz. This third edition will have the greatest stylistic variety: from the virtuoso stride pianos of Dick Hyman and the late Dick Wellstood (from their aptly-named 1986-87 album \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stridemonster!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) to recent post-modern explorations by Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays, and Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq.<\/p>\n The show will air this Sunday, May 27, from 11 p.m. to midnight, Eastern Daylight Time.<\/p>\n NOTE: If you live outside the New York City metropolitan area, WBGO also broadcasts on the Internet at www.wbgo.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To whet your two-piano appetite, here are Wellstood and Hyman in 1986 at the Bern International Jazz Festival in Switzerland.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Wilke2.jpg\" "\\"Wilke\\"")
<\/a>Northwest resident jazz artists including Scott Cossu, Pearl Django,and Kareem Kandi as well as sampling some of the musicians featured at next weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bellevue Jazz Festival. Included are The Clayton Brothers, Hubert Laws, Thomas Marriott and Jovino Santos Neto. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also info about other upcoming jazz events.<\/p>\n<\/a> The growing number of CDs in this idiom makes a third show essential.<\/p>\n