Monty Alexander and the Harlem-Kingston Express (Second Jazz Fest Weekend) Thursday, April 30,  Zatarain’s/WWOZ Jazz Tent, 5:30 p.m.

In the late ’50s, in Kingston, Jamaica, the steady diet of music feeding the young pianist Monty Alexander’s growing creative appetite came primarily from the radio. There was just one station for music in Kingston back then, transmitting a diverse juxtaposition of sounds: classical music alongside American pop, jazz and R&B.