December 29 - Playlist (Subbing for Chicago Carl)

"A backward glance at some Jazz favorites from 2009"

1) Pete Downes & Steve Littler - Skywatcher (Mystery Of Weather)
2) David "Fathead" Newman - Chelsea Bridge (The Blessing)
3) Chip White - Bird In The Yard (Double Dedication)
4) Joel Vanderheyden - Tanzania Life Project (Complete Life)
5) Stan Getz - Open Country (At The Shrine)`
6) JaR - Esquire (Scene 29)
7) Madeleine Peyroux - Bare Bones (Bare Bones)
8) Count Basie - Instant Blues (Basie Land)`
9) 8 Legged Monster - Saturn (Vol. 2)
10) Juliet Annerino - Drowning (Scenes From A Life On Fire)
11) Gerry Mulligan - I Heard The Shadows Dance (Lonesome Boulevard)`
12) Jim Holton - Wright Is Wright (No Green Bananas)
13) Diana Krall - Walk On By (Quiet Nights)
14) The Blue Note 7 - Mosaic (Mosaic)
15) Manhattan Transfer - Spain (The Chick Corea Songbook)
16) Bud Powell Trio - Fifty-Second Street Theme (Blues In The Closet)`
17) Roberta Gambarini - Estate (So In Love)
18) Eliane Elias - Chega De Saudade (Bossa Nova Stories)
19) Joe Lovano Us Five - Song For Judi (Folk Art)

` indicates Reissue

December 24 - Playlist: "JAZZ HOLIDAY"

1) Dexter Gordon - The Christmas Song (The Christmas Collection)
2) Bob & Hilary James - Christmas Eyes (A Koch Records Jazz Collection)
3) Inner Voices - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus (Holiday Harmonies)
4) Gary Burton - O Tannenbaum (GRP Christmas Collection)
5) Dave Brubeck - We Three Kings (A Jazz Christmas)
6) Yo-Yo Ma/Chris Botti - My Favorite Things (Songs Of Joy & Peace)
7) Dave Koz - Deck The Halls (Memories Of A Winter's Night)
8) Oscar Peterson - Winter Wonderland (An Oscar Peterson Christmas)
9) Booker Ervin - White Christmas (Ultimate Jazz Christmas)
10) Darlene Love/Brian Setzer Orchestra - Sleigh Ride (Jingle All The Way)
11) Stan Kenton - Christmas Medley (A Merry Christmas!)
12) Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (Holiday)
13) Eliane Elias - I'll Be Home For Christmas/Sleigh Ride (Yule Struttin')
14) Manhattan Transfer - Snowfall (The Christmas Album)
15) Bill Evans - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Best of Bill Evans On Verve)
16) Chuck Leavell - Joy Boogie (Holiday Harmonies)
17) Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (Now That's What I Call Christmas)
18) Isley Brothers - Special Gift (Now That's What I Call Christmas)
19) Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas (Christmas Wishes)
20) Don Grusin - Angels We Have Heard On High (GRP Christmas Collection Vol. II)
21) "City Of New Orleans" - O Holy Night (Sunday Music)
22) Heath Brothers - Our Little Town (God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen)
23) Dennis Wilson - Morning Christmas (Beach Boys Ultimate Christmas)
24) Diana Krall - Count Your Blessings (Christmas Songs)
25) Rosemary Clooney - Christmas Time Is Here (Christmas Belles)
26) Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra - The Christmas Song (All The Best)

December 17 - Playlist

1) Diana Krall - Jingle Bells (Holiday)
2) Vince Guaraldi - Skating (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
3) Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father (Song For My Father)
4) Ray Charles And Betty Carter - Baby, It's Cold Outside (Ray Charles And Betty Carter)
5) Ray Charles/Milt Jackson - Bags Of Blues (Soul Brothers/Soul Meeting)
6) Ray Charles - Little Drummer Boy (Sunday Music Volume 5)
7) Benny Goodman Sextet - After You've Gone (Slipped Disc, 1945-1946)
8) Ken Peplowski Quintet - Mr. Gentle And Mr. Cool (Jazz For Dads)
9) Bob Brookmeyer Quintet - Santa Claus Blues (Traditionalism Revisited)
10) Yo-Yo Ma with Dave Brubeck - Joy To The World (Songs Of Joy & Peace)
11) Ella Fitzgerald - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (First Lady Of Song)
12) Stan Getz - Three Little Words (Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio)
13) Miles Davis - Little Stuff (Filles De Kilimanjaro)
14) Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere - Cuttin' it Close (Nudge It Up A Notch)
15) Juliet Annerino - Jones (Scenes From A Life On Fire...)*
16) Chuck Berry - Merry Christmas Baby (Golden Decade Volume 2)^
17) Stanley Turrentine - Major's Minor (Never Let Me Go)
18) Maynard Ferguson - Christmas For Moderns (Stan Kenton: A Merry Christmas)
19) Dean Martin - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Making Spirits Bright)
20) Manhattan transfer - Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season (The Christmas Album)
21) Mel Torme - Good King Wenceslas (Christmas Songs)
22) Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells (The Frank Sinatra Christmas Album)^

* indicates Recent Release
^ indicates the "Vinyl Archive"

December 10 - Playlist

THE CHAIRMAN'S BIRTHDAY
The Frank Sinatra Birthday Special

Sinatra sings on all tracks (unless otherwise noted):

1) - Ring-A-Ding Ding (The Complete Reprise)
2) - Something's Gotta Give (Classic Sinatra II)
3) - So Long My Love (The Complete Capitol Singles Collection)
4) - I Wish I Were In Love Again (The Capitol Years)
5) - The Coffee Song (The Complete Reprise)
6) Oscar Peterson Trio - You Make Me Feel So Young (A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra)
7) - The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else (Vegas)
8) - Get Me To The Church On Time (Vegas)
9) - I Only Have Eyes For You (The Rat Pack Live At The Sands)
10) - For Once In My Life (Live At The Meadowlands)
11) with Harry James And His Orchestra - My Buddy (Featuring Frank Sinatra)
12) with Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra - Shake Down The Stars ("The Song Is You")
13) - Sweet Lorraine (Portrait Of Sinatra)
14) - The Continental (Portrait Of Sinatra)
15) Joe Lovano - I've Got You Under My Skin (Celebrating Sinatra)
16) with Antonio Carlos Jobim - Baubles, Bangles And Beads (The Complete Reprise)
17) with Antonio Carlos Jobim - Change Partners (The Complete Reprise)
18) - Wave (The Complete Reprise)
19) Joe Piscopo - I Love Rock 'N Roll (12" Single)
20) - Two Hearts, Two Kisses [Make One Love] (The Complete Capitol Singles Collection)
21) - From The Bottom Of My Heart (The Complete Capitol Singles Collection)
22) - Ol' MacDonald (The Complete Capitol Singles Collection)
23) - Here Goes (The Rat Pack: Boys Night Out)
24) John Basile - The Way You Look Tonight (Frankly Speaking)
25) - Don't Be That Way (The Complete Reprise)
26) with Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - All I Need Is The Girl (The Complete Reprise)
27) - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (Eee-O 11: Best Of The Rat Pack)
28) - It Started All Over Again (The Complete Reprise)
29) - Talk To Me Baby (The Complete Reprise)
30) - Soliloquy (The Complete Reprise)
31) Count Basie And His Orchestra - On The Road To Mandalay (Frankly Basie)
32) with Count Basie And His Orchestra - Luck Be A Lady (At The Sands)
33) - In The Still Of the Night (Sinatra And Sextet: Live In Paris)
34) with Count Basie And His Orchestra - Street Of Dreams (At The Sands)

December 3 - Playlist

Dave Brubeck's 89th Birthday

Dave Brubeck plays on all tracks (unless otherwise noted), accompanied by:

1) Quartet - Blue Rondo A La Turk (Time Out)
2) Quartet - Unsquare Dance (Time Further Out)
3) Quartet - Theme from Elementals (Time Changes)
4) Quartet - Elementals (Time Changes)
5) Quartet - Koto Song (Buried Treasures)
6) Quartet - Three To Get Ready Four To Go (25th Anniversary Reunion)
7 & 8) Quartet with New York Philharmonic - Dialogues for Jazz Combo And Orchestra: Allegro / Andante (Bernstein On Jazz)
9) with Yo-Yo Ma with Matt Brubeck - Concordia (Songs Of Joy And Peace)
10) with Louis Armstrong/Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Everybody's Coming (The Real Ambassadors)
11) with Louis Armstrong/Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Cultural Exchange (The Real Ambassadors)
12) with Louis Armstrong/Carmen McCrae - Good Reviews (The Real Ambassadors)
13) with Louis Armstrong/Carmen McCrae - You Swing Baby (The Real Ambassadors)
14) Two Generations Of Brubeck - Christopher Columbus ("Brother, The Great Spirit Made Us All")
15) Quartet - Hometown Blues (Back Home)
16) John Salmon - The Salmon Strikes (Salmon Plays Brubeck)
17) Ian Hobson - Brazileira (Darius Milhaud: Creation Du Monde)
18) with London Symphony - Regret (Classical Brubeck)
19) Trio with Gerry Mulligan And Paul Desmond - Take Five (We're All Together Again For The First Time)

November 26 - Playlist (HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!)

1) Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - This Can't Be Love (Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson)
2) Billy May And His Orchestra - T'Ain't What You Do (Oscillatin' Rhythm)
3) Gerry Mulligan - The Flying Scotsman (Lonesome Boulevard)*
4) Gerry Mulligan/Stan Getz - Anything Goes (Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-Fi)
5) Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker - I Got Rhythm (Reunion)
6) Dave Brubeck - Unfinished Woman (We're All Together Again For The First Time)
7) Lee Morgan - Hocus-Pocus (The Sidewinder)
8) Lennie Tristano - East Thirty-Second (Lennie Tristano)
9) Joe Lovano Us Five - Powerhouse (Folk Art)*
10) Holly Cole - Alley Cat Song (Holly Cole)
11) Carla Bley - Death Of Superman/Dream Sequence #1-Flying (The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu)
12) Ike Quebec - Me 'N You (Bossa Nova Soul Samba)
13) Howlin' Wolf - Sitting On Top Of The World (Chess Records Sampler)
14) Eartha Kitt - My Heart's Delight (Legendary No. 3)
15) Ella Fitzgerald - Imagine My Frustration (Ella At Duke's Place)
16) Bob & Gene - I Can Be Cool (This Is Daptone Records)
17) John Williams' Tenorama - Waiting For Dexter (John Williams' Tenorama)
18) Jarrett Carter - E (Jazziz On Disc: Fall 2009)*
19) Artie Shaw And His Orchestra - Serenade To A Savage (Begin The Beguine)
20) Ann Hampton Callaway - Save A Place For Me (At Last)*
21) John Pizzarelli - Johnny One Note (With A Song In My Heart)
22) Sophie Milman - Beautiful Love (Take Love Easy)*
23) Frank Sinatra - This Can't Be Love (Classic Sinatra II)*

* indicates Recent Release

November 19 - Playlist

1) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Night And Day (West Side Story)
2) Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Primitivo (Jazz Workshop Revisited)
3) Cassandra Wilson - Seven Steps (Traveling Miles)
4) Cassandra Wilson - Crazy (Glamoured)
5) Cassandra Wilson - Show Me A Love (Belly Of The Sun)
6) Teo Macero - Close To The Edge (The Spirit)
7) Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams - Libeccio (Motor City Scene)
8) Coleman Hawkins - I'll Never Be The Same (Prestige Profiles)
9) Stan Getz - Very Early (Pure Getz)
10) Pat Martino - Along Came Betty (Head And Heart)
11) Ray Charles with The Count Basie Orchestra - Every Saturday Night (Ray Sings, Basie Swings)
12) Bill Cosby - Funky North Philly (an honest-to-God 45 RPM record)^
13) Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (The Essential)
14) John Coltrane - Wise One (Crescent)
15) Sonny Stitt - Blues For Pres... (Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio)
16) Mel Torme - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Sings Fred Astaire)
17) Cathy Rocco - Little By Little (You're Gonna Hear From Me)
18) Frank Sinatra - Night And Day (A Swingin' Affair)

^ indicates the Vinyl Archive

November 12 - Playlist

1) Stan Getz - I Love You (Serenity)
2) Count Basie - Doodle-Oodle (Basie Land)*
3) Gary Burton - Like Minds (Like Minds)
4) Gary Burton Quintet - Vox Humana (Dreams So Real)
5) Jon Hendricks And Friends - Listen To Monk (Freddie Freeloader)
6) Nikki Yanofsky - Airmail Special (We All Love Ella)
7) New York Voices - Cloudburst (Sing! Sing! Sing!)
8) Gerry Mulligan - Sun On The Stairs (Midas Touch)
9) Hiroshima - Sir Charles (Little Tokyo)
10) Jon Burr Quartet - Out Of The Woods (In My Own Words)#
11) Wayne Shorter - Orbits (Alegria)
12) Soulive - El Ron (Soulive)
13) Huey Lewis & The News (But It's Alright)
14) Tower Of Power - You're Still A Young Man (The Very Best Of...The Warner Years)
15) Dave Brubeck - Cast Your Fate to The Wind (Quiet As The Moon)
16) Miles Davis - Splashdown (The Complete "In A Silent Way" Sessions)
17) Marilyn Scott - Ice Box (Innocent Of Nothing)
18) Bing Crosby - Cheek To Cheek (Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings)
19) Janet Planet - Love On A Greyhound Bus (Home)*
20) Frank Sinatra - I Love You (The Complete Reprise)

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November 5 - Playlist

1) Art Pepper - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Meets The Rhythm Section)
2) Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Hunting Wabbits 2 [A Bad Hare Day] (The Phat Pack)
3) Kathleen Gorman - Ain't The Way (Brand New Day)#
4) Oscar Peterson/Itzhak Perlman - Blue Skies (Side By Side)
5) Oscar Peterson Trio - Elevation (At The Concertgebouw)
6) Oscar Peterson Trio - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street (With Respect To Nat)
7) Oscar Peterson - In A Mellow Tone (Plays The Duke Ellington Songbook)
8) Duke Ellington - Portrait Of Sidney Bechet (New Orleans Suite)
9) Brian Bromberg - Chameleon (Downright Upright)
10) Stan Kenton - Waltz Of The Prophets (Adventures In Jazz)
11) Stan Getz - Pernod (At The Shrine)
12) Wynton Marsalis Septet - The Cat In The Hat Is Back (Live At The Village Vanguard)
13) Theloniouis Monk - Eronel (Criss-Cross)
14) Stevie Wonder - Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing (Innervisions)
15) Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (Corinne Bailey Rae)
16) The Philadelphia Experiment - Grover (The Philadelphia Experiment)
17) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Mr. Broadway (Buried Treasures)
18) Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Drum Thunder Suite (Moanin')
19) Ella Fitzgerald - Night In Tunisia (Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie)
20) Michael Franks - A Fool's Errand (Abandoned Garden)
21) Billie Holiday - You Better Go Now (Greatest Hits)
22) Frank Sinatra - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (A Swingin' Affair)

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October 22 - Playlist

1) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Strange Meadow Lark (Time Out)
2) Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Monterey Moods Suite: Allegro (Monterey Moods)
3) Bill Evans - Walkin' Up (At The Montreux Jazz Festival)
4) Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby (Piano Player)
5) Bill Evans/Tony Bennett - Dream Dancing (The Complete Improv Recordings)
6) Michael Brecker - Cardinal Rule (Pilgrimage)
7) 8 Legged Monster - Sonny's Tune (Vol. 2)*
8) Benny Carter - Honeysuckle Rose (Further Definitions)
9) Manhattan Transfer - Four Brothers (Very Best Of Manhattan Transfer)
10) Thelonious Monk - I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Plays Duke Ellington)
11) Stan Getz - Empty Shells (Live By The Sea, Cannes 1980)
12) Roy Hargrove Presents The RH Factor - Pastor "T" (Hard Groove)
13) Blu 7 - Kelly (Cultural Instigator)#
14) Michael McDonald - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Motown)
15) Chick Corea New Trio - Chelsea Shuffle (Past, Present & Futures)
16) Charlie Haden Quartet West - Detour Ahead (Now Is The Hour)
17) Willie Nelson - Fly Me To The Moon (American Classic)*
18) George Benson & Al Jarreau - Four (Givin' it Up)
19) Diana Krall - Where Or When (Quiet Nights)*
20) Frank Sinatra - High Hopes (The Complete Capitol Singles Collection) - in Memory of Harry K. - Go Phillies!

* indicates Recent release
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October 15 - Playlist

1) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Taking A Chance On Love (Jazz Red Hot And Cool)
2) Joe Lovano & Greg Osby - The Wild East (Friendly Fire)
3) Artie Shaw And His Orchestra - Temptation (Begin the Beguine)
4) Pat Metheny Group - Minuano [Six Eight] (Still Life)
5) Jim Hall & Pat Metheny - Ballad Z (Jim Hall & Pat Metheny)
6) Stan Getz - A House Is Not A Home (What The World Needs Now)
7) Lenore Raphael - Anthropology (Class Act: Live At Steinway Hall)#
8) Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Leap Frog (Bird And Diz)
9) The Blue Note 7 - Dolphin Dance (Mosaic)
10) Keith Jarrett - I Fall In Love Too Easily (Standards, Vol. 2)
11) Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler (Mysterious Traveler)^
12) Donald Byrd - Lover Come Back To Me (Off To The Races)
13) Stevie Wonder - Love Having You Around (Music Of My Mind)^
14) Jeff Lorber - Gigabyte (Philly Style)
15) The Memphis Horns with Mavis Staples- I'm Just Another Soldier (The Memphis Horns)
16) Nick Smith - Mack's Blues (It's Like That)#
17) Duke Ellington - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (The Best Of Duke Ellington)
18) Jimmy Scott - At Last (All The Way)
19) Big Kahuna with Rosemary Clooney - And The Angels Sing (Shake Those Hula Hips)
20) The Frank & Joe Show with Janis Siegel - Glow Worm (66 2/3)
21) Frank Sinatra - Taking A Chance On Love (Songs For Young Lovers/Swing Easy)

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^ indicates the Vinyl Archive

October 8 - Playlist

1) Oscar Peterson - Come Dance With Me (A Night Out With Verve)
2) Louis Armstrong - There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (Jazz Masters 1)
3) Gene Harris/Scott Hamilton Quintet - You Are My Sunshine (Jazz For Dads)
4) Kenny Barron - Tongue In Cheek (Things Unseen)
5) Kenny Barron - Cook's Boy (Spirit Song)
6) Stan Getz - El Sueno (Bossas And Ballads: The Lost Sessions)
7) Jim Holton - Blues For Royal (No Green Bananas)*
8) Miles Davis - Tutu (Tutu)
9) Joel Vanderheyden - Simple Elegance (Complete Life)*
10) Chad Rager Groove - Straight No Chaser (21st Century Groove)*
11) Drivetime - Brooklyn Heights (Reflections)*
12) John Scofield - Strangeness In the Night (This Meets That)
13) Doug Johns - Chump Suey (Pocket Fulla Nasty)*
14) Stanley Jordan - Steppin' Out (State Of Nature)
15) Jr. Walker & The All Stars - What Does It Take [To Win Your Love] (Hitsville USA)
16) Dave Brubeck - Ode To A Cowboy (In Their Own Sweet Way)
17) Danilo Perez - Rays And Shadows (Across The Crystal Sea)
18) John Pizzarelli - Stompin' At The Savoy (Let There Be Love)
19) Roberta Gambarini/Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band - Stardust (Dizzy's Business)
20) Frank Sinatra - Come Dance With Me (Come Dance With Me)

* indicates a Recent Release

September 24 - Playlist "Meet The Beatles"

1) Dexter Gordon - Tangerine (Tangerine)
2) 8 Legged Monster - Jo Co & Co. (Vol. 2)*
3) Jazz Crusaders - Eleanor Rigby (Lighthouse '68)
4) Arturo Sandoval - Blackbird ([I Got No Kick Against] Modern Jazz)
5) John Adams - Sound Of The Wind (Thumbs Up)*
6) Joel Vanderheyden - Pees And Deeto (A Complete Life)*#
7) John Pizzarelli - Things We Said Today (Meets The Beatles)
8) George Benson - Something/Octopus's Garden/the End (The Other Side Of Abbey Road)
9) The Beatles - Honey Pie (The Beatles)
10) Joe Newman Quintet - Wednesday's Blues (At Count Basie's)
11) Sonny Rollins - Strode Rode (Saxophone Colossus)
12) Cassandra Wilson/Dianne Reeves - Come Together (DJ Smash Presents Phonography)
13) BeatleJazz - Lady Madonna (All You Need)
14) Bobby McFerrin - Drive My Car (Blue Note Plays the Beatles)
15) Stan Getz & Albert Dailey - A Night In Tunisia (Poetry)
16) Dave Brubeck Quartet - A Fine Romance (Brubeck Time)
17) Nigel Kennedy - Sunshine Alley (Blue Note Sessions)
18) Eliane Elias - Superwoman (Bossa Nova Stories)*
19) Johnny Hartman - What Is There To Say (Songs from the Heart)
20) Ella Fitzgerald - My Old Flame (Love Letters from Ella)
21) Frank Sinatra - Tangerine (The Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release
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September 3 - Playlist

1) Stan Getz - How About You (East Of The Sun: The West Coast Sessions)
2) Ray Brown Trio with Ralph Moore - [When It's] Sleepy Time Down South (Some Of My Best Friends Are...The Sax Players)
3) Claude Bolling Big Band - La Strada (Cinemadreams)
4) Claude Bolling Big Band - Sixteen Men Swingin' (Jazz Brunch)
5) Claude Bolling Big Band - Magenta Haze (A Tone Parallel to Harlem)
6) Joel Vanderheyden - Tanzania Life Project (Complete Life)*
7) 8 Legged Monster - Buttercup (Vol. 2)*
8) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Marian McPartland (Double Live From USA And UK)
9) Daniel Domenge - Nonchalance (Patchwork)*#
10) Dexter Gordon - Very Saxily Yours (Gettin' Around)
11) Danilo Perez/Claus Ogerman - The Saga Of Rita Joe (Across The Crystal Sea)
12) Jason Miles - Mercy Mercy Me (What's Going On?)
13) Les Paul & Friends with Sam Cooke & Eric Clapton - Somebody Ease My Troublin' Mind (American Made World Played)
14) Grover Washington Jr. - Soulful Strut (Prime Cuts)
15) James Brown - I Got The Feelin' (20 All Time Greatest Hits!)
16) Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Heads Up! Tails Down! (Why Am I Treated So Bad!)
17) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Lyresto (Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane)
18) Diana Krall - So Nice (Quiet Nights)*
19) Willie Nelson - Since I Fell For You (American Classic)*
20) Cathy Rocco - Give Me One Reason (You're Gonna Hear From Me)
21) Frank Sinatra - How About You? (Songs For Swingin' Lovers)

* indicates Recent Release
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August 20 - Playlist

1) Dave McKenna - Swinging On A Star (An Era Remembered)
2) Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding - Blue Monk (Giants Of Jazz)^
3) 8 Legged Monster - ...Or Something (Vol. 2)*
4) 8 Legged Monster - Turnin' On The Jewkes (Live At North Beach)
5) 8 Legged Monster - Goodbye (Vol. 2)*
6) Duke Ellington - Main Title/Anatomy Of A Murder (Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack)^
7) Kathleen Gorman - Rialto (Brand New Day)#
8) Jon Burr Band - Just Can't Wait (Just Can't Wait)#
9) Les Paul/Chet Atkins - Out Of Nowhere (Chester & Lester)
10) Marc Johnson - Union Pacific (The Sound Of Summer Running)
11) Pat Martino - Twisted Blues (Remember)
12) Charlie Parker - Lester Leaps In (1949 Jazz At The Philharmonic)
13) Billy Taylor with Turtle Island String Quartet - One For Fun (Homage)
14) Ricky Fante - Smile (Rewind)
15) Corinne Bailey Rae - Enchantment (Corinne Bailey Rae)
16) Stevie Wonder - Ribbon In The Sky (At The Close Of A Century)
17) Stan Getz Quartet - On Green Dolphin Street (In Paris)
18) Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond - You Go To My Head (1975: The Duets)
19) Tony Bennett with Bono - I Wanna Be Around (Duets - An American Classic)
20) Carmen McRea/Betty Carter - Isn't it Romantic (Duets)
21) Ray Charles with Norah Jones - Here We Go Again (Genius Loves Company)
22) Frank Sinatra - Swinging On A Star (The Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release
^ indicates the Vinyl Archive
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August 13 - Playlist

1) TanaReid - Cheek to Cheek (Passing Thoughts)
2) Chick Corea Quartet - One World Over (Time Warp)
3) Benny Goodman - The Sheik Of Araby (Benny Goodman Sextet 1939-1941)
4) Cathy Rocco - Autumn Leaves (You're Gonna Hear From Me)*
5) Cathy Rocco - Come Rain Or Shine (You're Gonna Hear From Me)*
6) Cathy Rocco - Daydreaming (You're Gonna Hear From Me)*
7) Stan Getz Quartet with Chet Baker - Airegin (Quintessence, Vol. 2)
8) Keith Jarrett Trio - Never Let Me Go (Standards, Vol. 2)
9) Michel Camilo & Tomatito - Para Trono Y Salgan (Spain)
10) Jacky Terrasson - Chan's Song (Rendezvous)
11) Dave Brubeck - Knives (Night Shift)
12) Sonny Stitt Quartet - Twelfth Street Rag (New York Jazz)
13) Stefano DiBattista - Donna Lee (Parker's Mood)
14) Average White Band - Queen of My Soul (Soul Searching)^
15) Blood, Sweat & Tears - Take Me In Your Arms (B, S & T; 4)^
16) Lionel Richie - All Night Long (Can't Slow Down)^
17) Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio - Cherokee (Live In New York)
18) GRP All-Star Big Band - Manteca (GRP All-Star Big Band)
19) Regina Carter - Chattanooga Choo Choo (Motor City Moments)
20) Robert Lamm - Another Sunday (Subtlety & Passion)
21) Ella Fitzgerald - Billie's Bounce (Montreux '77)
22) Frank Sinatra - Cheek To Cheek (Come Dance With Me)

^ indicates the Vinyl Archive
* indicates Recent Release

August 6 - Playlist

1) Eddie Costa Quartet - Luck Be A Lady (Guys And Dolls Like Vibes)
2) Stan Getz with Bob Brookmeyer - Feather Merchant (At The Shrine)*
3) Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas (Saxophone Colossus)
4) Sonny Rollins - Remembering Tommy (Sonny, Please)
5) Spyro Gyra - Bob Goes To The Store (Best of Spyro Gyra: The First Ten Years)
6) Walter Becker - Circus Money (Circus Money)
7) Phil Woods - Viable Blues (Real Life)
8) Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (Footprints: The Life And Music OF Wayne Shorter)
9) Dave Brubeck - Red Sails In The Sunset (One Alone)
10) 8 Legged Monster - Saturn (Live At North Beach)*
11) Miles Davis - Well You Needn't (Jazz Signatures Vol. III)
12) Blues Brothers with Ray Charles - Shake A Tailfeather (The Definitive Collection)
13) Urban Knights - King (Urban Knights V)
14) Van Morrison - Someone Like You (At The Movies)
15) Art Farmer - Five Spot After Dark (Brass Shout/Aztec Suite)
16) Louie Bellson's Magic 7 - Another Shade Of The Blues (Air Bellson)
17) Rob McConnell - My Ideal (Trio Sketches)
18) Peabo Bryson with Joshua Redman - Pretty Women (Color And Light: Jazz Sketches On Sondheim)
19) Marilyn Scott - If it's the Last Thing I Do (Night Cap)
20) Frank Sinatra - Luck Be A Lady (Sinatra At The Sands)

* indicates Recent Release

July 30 - Playlist

1) Charlie Parker - Easy To Love (Charlie Parker With Strings)
2) Gary Burton Quintet - Ictus/Syndrome (Dreams So Real)
3) Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Tourist Point Of View (The Far East Suite)

4) Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach - Caravan (Money Jungle)
5) Duke Ellington - Lotus Blossom ("...And His Mother Called Him Bill")
6) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Freight Trane (Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane)
7) Sonny Stitt Quartet - Sonny's Tune (New York Jazz)
8) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Brandenburg Gate (Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia)
9) Thelonious Monk - Played Twice (Big Band And Quartet In Concert)
10) Stan Getz with The Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - Extravagances (Change Of Scene)
11) Yo-Yo Ma - Samambaia (Obrigato Brazil)
12) Fletcher Henderson - Queer Notions (Ken Burns Jazz)
13) Bernard Wright - Firebolt Hustle (GRP 10th Anniversary Collection)
14) Orchestra Was - Never Again [Will I Knock On Your Door] (Forever Is A Long, Long Time)
15) Soulive - Solid (Doin' Something)
16) Dave Grusin - Cool (West Side Story)
17) Bill Evans Trio - I Loves You Porgy (At The Village Vanguard)
18) Eliane Elias - Our Sweet Love/Friends (Jazz Portrait Of Brian Wilson)
19) Dinah Washington - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (UltraLounge)
20) Bobby Darin - I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans (Mack The Knife)
21) Janis Siegel - Out Of My Dreams/I Have Dreamed (Sketches Of Broadway)
22) Frank Sinatra - You'd Be So Easy To Love (The Complete Reprise)

July 16 - Playlist

1) Miles Davis - Corcovado (Quiet Nights)
2) Keith Jarrett - De Drums (The Impulse Story)
3) Michael Brecker - Ode To the Doo Da Day (Now You See It...[Now You Don't])
4) Brecker Brothers - Big Idea (Return Of The Brecker Brothers)
5) Michael Brecker - I Can See Your Dreams (The Nearness Of You: The Ballad Book)
6) Roy Hargrove - My Shining Hour (Approaching Standards)
7) Count Basie - Out The Window (The Count Basie Story)
8) Hot Club Of Detroit - I Want To Be Happy (Night Town)
9) Stan Getz/Kenny Barron - Stablemates (People Time)
10) Dave Brubeck Quartet with Bill Smith - By Jupiter (Near Myth)
11) Ben Webster/Oscar Peterson - The Touch Of Your Lips (Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson)
12) Bill Evans - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (California Here I Come)
13) Drivetime with Justin Guarini - What You Won't Do For Love (MP3)*
14) Jason Miles - The Saddest Thing (2 Grover With Love)
15) Eric Bolvin - Time Bomb (Workin' It)*
16) Gary Burton - First Impressions (Generations)
17) Wynton Marsalis - Thelonious (Marsalis Play Monk)
18) Erroll Garner - Red Top (Concert by The Sea)
19) Manhattan Transfer - Tuxedo Junction (The Very Best Of Manhattan Transfer)
20) Dena Taylor - Route 66 (Round Midnight)#
21) Harry Connick, Jr. - You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (Songs I Heard)
22) Frank Sinatra - Corcovado (Sinatra/Jobim)

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July 9 - Playlist

1) Ray Brown Trio with Ralph Moore - Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Jazz At Night's End)
2) Steve Kuhn Trio - Two By Two (Live At Birdland)
3) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime (Porgy & Bess)
4) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - They Can't Take That Away From Me (Ella And Louis)
5) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Ella And Louis Again)
6) John Klemmer - Touch (Priceless Jazz Sampler 5)
7) Danilo Perez - Overjoyed (...Till Then)
8) Travelin' Light - Say It's So (Cookin' With Frank And Sam)
9) Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Dorian (In My Time)
10) Weather Report - Palladium (Heavy Weather)
11) Stan Getz - Easy Living (Blue Skies)
12) Billie Holiday - Good Morning Heartache (Priceless Jazz)
13) Main Ingredient - Happiness Is Just Around The Bend (Euphrates River)^
14) Ramsey Lewis - Sun Goddess (Sun Goddess)^
15) Dave Brubeck Trio & Gerry Mulligan - Out Of Nowhere (Live At The Berlin Philharmonie)
16) Charlie Parker - Leap Frog (Bird's Best Bop On Verve)
17) Ann Hampton Callaway - Finding Beauty (At Last)*
18) Steve Tyrell - Night And Day (Songs Of Sinatra)
19) Frank Sinatra - Polka Dots And Moonbeams (The Complete Reprise)

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July 2 - Playlist

1) Dave Brubeck Octet - Let's Fall In Love (Dave Brubeck Octet)
2) David "Fathead" Newman - Romantic Night (The Blessing)*
3) Irene & Her Latin Jazz Band - Trieste (A Song For You)*
4) Stan Freberg - Yankee Doodle Go Home (Stan Freberg Presents the United States Of America)^
5) Norah Jones - American Anthem (Ken Burns' "The War")
6) Ray Charles - America The Beautiful (His Greatest Hits)
7) Herbie Hancock - The Sorcerer (Quartet)
8) Stan Getz - Windows (Sweet Rain)
9) Dave Holland Big Band - Bring It On (Overtime)
10) Darren Heinrich Trio - Lunar (New Vintage Tunes For The Hammond Organ)*
11) John Williams' Baritone Band - Short Stop (John Williams' Baritone Band)
12) JaR - Esquire (Scene 29)*
13) Temptations - Ball Of Confusion (Hitsville USA)
14) Muddy Waters - Kansas City (Woodstock Album)
15) Michael Jackson - I Can't Help It (Off The Wall)^
16) Eric Alexander - Nemesis (Night Life In Tokyo)
17) 8 Legged Monster - Brainville (Live In North Shore)*
18) Sophie Milman - I'm On Fire (Take Love Easy)*
19) Marilyn Scott - Round & Round (Innocent Of Nothing)
20) Tony Bennett - Love Scene (Jazz)
21) Frank Sinatra - Let's Fall In Love (The Complete Reprise)

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June 25 - Playlist

1) Andre Previn/David Finck - They All Laughed (We Got Rhythm)
2) Clark Terry/SWR Big Band - Cold Tater Stomp (Jazz Matinee)
3) Boz Scaggs - Senza Fine (Speak Low)*
4) Ray Brown - Captain Bill (The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio)
5) Duke Ellington/Ray Brown - See See Rider (This One's For Blanton)
6) Ray Brown with John Clayton, Jr. & Christian McBride - Mack The Knife (SuperBass)
7) Jaco Pastorious Big Band - Cannonball (The Word Is Out)
8) Stan Getz - Espanola (Apasionado)
9) Lenore Raphael - Love For Sale (Class Act)#
10) Roberta Piket Trio - So In Love (Love And Beauty)#
11) Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band - I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Appearing Nightly)*
12) The Blue Note 7 - The Outlaw (Mosaic)*
13) Miles Davis - Splatch (Tutu)
14) Stevie Wonder - Go Home (In Square Circle)
15) Sugarman Three - Promised Land (This Is Daptone Records)
16) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Park Avenue South)
17) The Philadelphia Experiment - Lesson #4 (The Philadelphia Experiment)
18) Cal Tjader - Sone (Plays the Contemporary Music Of Mexico And Brazil)
19) Sophie Milman - Rocket Love (Make Someone Happy)
20) John Pizzarelli - All I Saw Was You (Let There Be Love)
21) Ella Fitzgerald - That Old Black Magic (Ella In Hamburg)
22) Frank Sinatra - They All Laughed (The Complete Reprise)

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June 18 - Playlist

1) Lionel Hampton Quintet - Don't Be That Way (Lionel Hampton Quintet)
2) Kathleen Gorman - No More Room (Brand New Day)#
3) Sonny Stitt - Ray's Idea (Endgame Brilliance)
4) Sonny Stitt/Paul Gonsalves - Surfin' (Salt And Pepper)
5) Sonny Stitt - Where Is Love? (Goin' Down Slow)
6) Stefon Harris - Sunset And The Mockingbird (African Tarantella)
7) Joe Lovano Nonet - Focus (On This Day: At The Vanguard)
8) Mel Torme - I Get A Kick Out Of You (Best Of The Concord Years)
9) Jazz Crusaders - Native Dancer (Lighthouse '68)
10) Stan Getz/Bob Brookmeyer - Love Jumped Out (Recorded Fall 1961)
11) Cannonball Adderley - If This Isn't Love (Cannonball Adderley Takes Charge)
12) Jeff Lorber - Under Wraps (Philly Style)
13) Van Morrison - Into The Mystic (At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits)
14) Urban Knights with Ramsey Lewis - Church (Urban Knights V)
15) Dave Brubeck - Bifocal Blues (In Our Own Sweet Way)
16) Miles Davis - Blues No. 2 (Someday My Prince Will Come)
17) Eliane Elias - Desafinado (Bossa Nova Stories)*
18) Dexter Gordon with Eddie Jefferson - Diggin' In (Sophisticated Giant)
19) Carmen McRae - My One Bad Habit (The Real Ambassadors)
20) Frank Sinatra - Don't Be That Way (The Complete Reprise)

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June 4 - Playlist

1) Sonny Rollins - Where Or When (Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert)
2) Toots Thielemans with Shirley Horn Trio - Once In A While (For My Lady)
3) Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Work Song (Them Dirty Blues)
4) Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Mercy Mercy Mercy (Mercy Mercy Mercy: Live At "The Club")
5) Cannonball Adderley Quintet - The Sticks (Money in The Pocket)
6) David Sanchez - The Elements (Street Scenes)
7) Yellowjackets - Dewey [A Tribute To Miles Davis] (Collection)
8) Louis Armstrong - Love Walked In (Priceless Jazz 4)
9) Bill Charlap Trio - My Shining Hour (Live At The Village Vanguard)
10) Oliver Nelson's Big Band - Night Train (Live In Los Angeles)
11) Pat Martino - Groove Yard (Remember: A Tribute To Wes Montgomery)
12) Diana Krall - I've Got You Under My Skin (The Very Best Of Diana Krall)
13) Chris Potter - Gratitude (Jazz Now)
14) Paul Jackson, Jr. - It's A Shame (Blue Note Plays Stevie Wonder)
15) The Commitments - I Never Loved A Man (The Commitments)
16) Steely Dan - Green Book (Everything Must Go)
17) Stan Getz - Times Lie (Captain Marvel)
18) Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond - Alice In Wonderland (1975: The Duets)
19) Joni Mitchell - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (Mingus)
20) Michael Franks - Flirtation (Objects Of Desire)
21) Roseanna Vitro - Roll With My Baby (Catchin' Some Rays)
22) Frank Sinatra - Where Or When (Live At The Meadowlands)*

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May 28 - Playlist

1) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Pennies From Heaven (At Carnegie Hall)
2) Modern Jazz Quartet - The Golden Striker (No Sun In Venice)
3) Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud (The Best Of...The Blue Note Years)
4) Thelonious Monk - Bemsha Swing (Brilliant Corners)
5) Thelonious Monk Quartet - Five Spot Blues (Monk's Dream)
6) Geoffrey Keezer - Angel Face (Sublime)
7) Charlie Watts Orchestra - Flying Home (Live-Fulham Town Hall)
8) Al Cohn/Zoot Sims - Mediolistic (From A To Z And Beyond)
9) Hot Club Of Detroit - Blues Up And Down (Nighttown)
10) Stefon Harris/Jacky Terrasson - Shane (Kindred)
11) Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp (Ken Burns Jazz)
12) Dizzie Gillespie/Stan Getz - It Don't Mean A Thing [If It Ain't Got That Swing] (Diz And Getz)
13) Charlie Parker - Confirmation (Yardbird Suite)
14) Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said [I'm In Heaven When You Smile] (At The Movies-Soundtrack Hits)
15) Ray Charles/Michael McDonald - Hey Girl (Genius Loves Company)
16) Brian Culbertson - The Groove (Bringing Back The Funk)
17) Bud Powell Trio - Elogie (Blues In the Closet)*
18) David Liebman - Poinciana (Negative Space)*
19) Count Basie And His Orchestra - I'm Shoutin' Again (On My Way & Shoutin' Again!)*
20) Grover Washington Jr./Freddy Cole - I'm Glad There Is You (All My Tomorrows)
21) Patricia Barber - In The Still Of The Night (The Cole Porter Mix)
22) Frank Sinatra - Pennies From Heaven (The Complete Reprise)

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May 14 - Playlist

1) Lester Young - Almost Like Being In Love (Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio)
2) Horace Silver Quintet - Que Pasa? (Song For My Father)
3) Wilson Jardine - Zawinul [For Joe] (Wilson Jardine)*#
4) Dexter Gordon - Ruby, My Dear (Manhattan Symphony)
5) Dexter Gordon - Three O'Clock In The Morning (Go!)
6) Rick Denzien - Dark And Stormy (Jazz Vespers: Live At St. John's)*
7) Roberta Piket Trio - Alone Alone (Love And Beauty)*#
8) Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band - Blue 'N Boogie (Dizzy's Business)
9) John Williams' Tenorama - Crescendo Date (John Williams' Tenorama)
10) Nick Smith - Tony Williams (It's Like That)#
11) Serge Forte Trio - Canadian Market Place (Oscar: A Tribute)#
12) Mo'Fone - Wiggle (Sling Shot)
13) Steve Cole - Come With Me (True)
14) Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet (At The Close Of A Century)
15) Stan Getz with Jimmy Rowles - Serenade To Sweden (The Peacocks)
16) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Mr. Fats (London Flat, London Sharp)
17) Carolyn Lee Jones - Bon Appetit (Bon Appetit)*
18) Nat King Cole - You Stepped Out Of A Dream (Lush Life)
19) Diane Reeves - Something To Live For (Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life)
20) Frank Sinatra - Almost Like Being In Love (Come Swing With Me)

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May 7 - Playlist

1) Eddie Harris - On A Clear Day [You Can See Forever] (Greater Than the Sum Of His Parts)
2) Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite (Yardbird Suite)
3) Gerry Mulligan - Utter Chaos (What Is There To Say?)
4) Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Lullaby Of Birdland (Piano In The Background)
5) Blue Note 7 - Search For Peace (Mosiac)*
6) Roy Hargrove Quintet - To Wisdom The Prize (Earfood)*
7) Blu 7 - Leather (Cultural Instigator)*#
8) Stan Getz - Dynasty (Dynasty)
9) Steve Turre - Inocencia (Steve Turre)
10) Dave Brubeck Quartet - The City Is Crying (Jazz Impressions Of Japan)
11) Kenny Burrell - Minor Mishap (Prestige Profiles)
12) Jason Miles - Heavy Love Affair (What's Going On?: Songs Of Marvin Gaye)
13) Albert King - Driving Wheel (Stax Records Sampler)
14) Huey Lewis And The News - It's Alright (Greatest Hits)
15) Thelonious Monk - Hackensack (Criss-Cross)
16) Charles Mingus - Wolverine Blues (Epitaph)
17) Miles Davis - Electric Red (Aura)
18) Ella Fitzgerald - I Wants to Stay Here (Porty & Bess)
19) Manhattan Transfer - Feel Flows (Vibrate)
20) Frank Sinatra - On A Clear Day [You Can See Forever] (Complete Reprise)

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April 30 - Playlist

1) McCoy Tyner - Come Rain or Come Shine (Illuminations)
2) Sonny Rolling - Doxy (Sonny Rollins And the Big Brass)
3) Eliane Elias - The Beat Of My Heart (Everything I Love)
4) Eliane Elias/Bob Brookmeyer & The Danish Radio Orchestra - One Side Of You (Impulsive!)
5) Eliane Elias - Minha Saudade (Bossa Nova Stories)*
6) Roch Lockyer - Monk's House (Nondirectional)*#
7) Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band - Someone To Watch (Appearing Nightly)
8) Dianne Reeves - I'm In Love Again (When You Know)
9) David Liebman - G.I.G. (Negative Space)*
10) Dizzy Gillespie - I Remember Clifford (At Newport)
11) Stan Getz - Lady Bird (Live In Europe)
12) Oliver Nelson's Big Band - I Remember Bird (Live From Los Angeles)
13) Norah Jones - Turn Me On (Come Away With Me)
14) Joyce Cooling - Mildred's Attraction (Revolving Door)
15) Corinne Bailey Rae - Since I've Been Loving You (Corinne Bailey Rae)
16) Blu 7 - Kelly (Cultural Instigation)
17) Dave Brubeck Quartet with Bill Smith - The Sailor And The Mermaid (Near Myth)
18) Benny Goodman - Oh, Baby! (All The Cats Join In)
19) Eddie Daniels/Gary Burton - Avalon (Benny Rides Again)
20) Esperanza Spalding - I Know You Know (Esperanza)
21) Tony Bennett/Bill Evans - Who Can I Turn to? (The Complete Improv Recordings)
22) Billie Holiday/Lester Young - Who Wants Love? (A Musical Romance)
23) Frank Sinatra - Come Rain or Come Shine (The Complete Reprise)

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April 23 - Playlist

1) Thelonious Monk - Nice Work if You Can Get It (Ken Burns Jazz)
2) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Unisphere (Time Changes)
3) New York Voices - Baby Driver (Sing The Songs Of Paul Simon)
4) Mel Torme - Ridin' High/I'm Shootin' High (The great American Songbook)
5) Mel Torme/Gerry Mulligan/George Shearing - Duke Ellington Medley (The Classic Concert Live)
6) Mel Torme - Day In, Day Out (Encore At Marty's, New York)
7) Roberta Piket - I'm My Everything (Love And Beauty)*#
8) Johnny Dodds - Wild Man Blues (Classic Jazz Archive)
9) Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue (Ellington At Newport)
10) Dexter Gordon - Number Four (Daddy Plays The Horn)
11) Oliver Nelson's Big Band - Miss Fine (Live From Los Angeles)
12) Steve Cole - Bounce (True)
13) Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (Chess Records Sampler)
14) Earth, Wind & Fire - Fall In Love With Me (The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire)
15) Stan Getz/Bill Evans - Grandfather's Waltz (Stan Getz & Bill Evans)
16) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Buddy tate/Coleman Hawkins/Arnett Cobb - Fourmost (Prestige Profiles Collector's Edition Vol. 4)
17) Michael Buble - That's Life (Call Me Irresponsible)
18) Peggy Perkins - Moondance (At Last)*#
19) Patricia Barber - You're The Top (The Cole Porter Mix)
20) Frank Sinatra - Nice Work if You Can Get It (The Complete Reprise)

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April 16 - Playlist

1) Ray Brown Trio - Have You Met Miss Jones? (The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio)
2) Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan - Two Of A Mind (Two Of A Mind)
3) Roberta Piket Trio - Flight (Love And Beauty)*#
4) Count Basie & His Orchestra - Shiny Stockings (April in Paris)
5) Count Basie & His Orchestra - Taxi War Dance (The Essential Count Basie, Volume I)
6) Count Basie & His Orchestra - Li'l Darlin' (The Complete Atomic Basie)
7) Roch Lockyer - Hutch (Nondirectional)*#
8) SuperSax - Ornithology (The Japanese Tour)
9) Coleman Hawkins All Stars - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (At Newport)
10) Stan Kenton - Turtle Talk (Adventures In Jazz)
11) Turtle Island Quartet - Moments Notice (A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane)
12) Abbey Lincoln - Storywise (A Turtle's Dream)
13) Grover Washington, Jr. - Where Is The Love (All The King's Horses)
14) Steely Dan - Deacon Blue (A Decade Of Steely Dan)
15) Dave Brubeck with Anthony Braxton - In Your Own Sweet Way (All The Things We Are)
16) Stan Getz Quartet with Chet Baker - We'll Be Together Again (Quintessence Vol. 2)
17) Steve Tyrell with Patti Austin - Don't Make Me Over (Back To Bacharach)
18) Kathleen Gorman - Ain't The Way (Brand New Day)*#
19) Michael Franks - Scatsville (Rendezvous In Rio)
20) Frank Sinatra - Have You Met Miss Jones? (The Complete Reprise)

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21) Billy & The Beaters - At This Moment (Billy & The Beaters)^
22) Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (Pearl)^
23) Miles Davis - All Blues (Kind Of Blue)^

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April 9 - Playlist

1) Oscar Peterson/Stephane Grappelli Quartet - Makin' Whoopee (Jazz In Paris Vol.I)
2) Lenore Raphael - Anthropology (Class Act)*#
3) Carla Bley And Her Remarkable Big Band - Awful Coffee (Appearing Nightly)*
4) Joe Newman Quintet - The Midgets (At Count Basie's)
5) Cannonball Adderley - Cyclops (Domination)
6) Johnny Griffin - Ball Bearing (A Blowin' Session)
7) Brubeck Brothers Quartet - Cool On The Coast (Classified)*
8) James Carter - Rapid Shave (Present Tense)*
9) Hot Club Of Detroit - Pour Parler (Night Town)*
10) Stan Getz - On The Up And Up (Pure Getz)
11) Eric Dolphy - Les (Prestige Profiles Collector's Edition Vol. 9)
12) David Sanborn with Eric Clapton - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (Here & Gone)*
13) Ray Charles - [Night Time Is] The Right Time (Blues + Jazz)
14) Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Georgia On My Mind (Two Men With The Blues)*
15) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (Buried Treasures)
16) Cal Tjader - Silenciosa (Plays The Contemporary Music Of Mexico And Brazil)*
17) Sonny Stitt - Moten Swing (Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio)*
18) Boz Scaggs - Save Your Love For Me (Speak Low)*
19) Dena Taylor - Close Enough For Love (Round Midnight)*#
20) Frank Sinatra - Makin' Whoopee (Songs For Swingin' Lovers!)

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April 2 - Playlist

1) Kenny Burrell - I Never Knew (Prestige Profiles)
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2) The Subtle - Waves/Vineyard (Yes, Really...Live!)
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3) Hank Jones - Oh, What A Beautiful Morning (Kids)
4) Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (You Are There)
5) Charlie Haden/Hank Jones - Go Down, Moses (Steal Away)
6) John Stetch - Star Trek (TV Trio)*
7) Joe Lovano Ensemble - Cool (Streams Of Expression)
8) Charlie Parker - She Rote (Yardbird Suite)
9) Stan Getz - 'Round Midnight (Cool Velvet)
10) Kathleen Gorman - Survival (Brand New Day)*#
11) David Garfield And Friends - Babylon Sisters (Tribute To Jeff)
12) Serge Forte Trio - Rock Of Ages (Oscar: A Tribute)#
13) Joani Taylor - Dance With Me (In My Own Voice)*#
14) Stan Kenton - Tres Corazones (Cuban Fire)
15) Paquito D'Rivera - Havana Cafe (Havana Cafe)
16) Dave Valentin - Wasabi (Con Mucho Ritmo)
17) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Love For Sale (Park Avenue South)
18) Roy Hargrove Quintet - Brown (Earfood)*
19) Mel Torme - On the Street Where You Live (Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley)
20) Ella Fitzgerald - That Old Black Magic (Ella In Hamburg)
21) Jane Monheit with Michael Buble - I Won't Dance (Taking A Chance On Love)
22) Frank Sinatra - I Never Knew (The Complete Reprise)

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March 26 - Playlist

1) Sonny Stitt - I'll Remember April (Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio)*
2) Coleman Hawkins/Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear (Ken Burns Jazz)
3) Ben Webster - De-Dar (Ben Webster And Associates)
4) Spyro Gyra - Shaker Song (The Best of Spyro Gyra: The First Ten Years)
5) Spyro Gyra - Limelight (The Very Best of Spyro Gyra)
6) Spyro Gyra - Shakedown (The Best of Spyro Gyra: The First Ten Years)
7) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Someday My Prince Will Come (Countdown: Time In Outer Space)
8) Cassandra Wilson - A Little Warm Death (New Moon Daughter)
9) Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - A Night Away (Metheny Mehldau Quartet)
10) Hank Mobley - Two And One (Hi Voltage)
11) Joe Henderson - Blue Bossa (Milestones Profiles)
12) Bud Powell - Lady Bird (Best Of Bud Powell On Verve)
13) Jason Miles - Summer Nights (2 Grover With Love)*
14) Bob & Gene - I Can Be Cool (This Is Daptone records)*
15) Stevie Wonder - Please Don't Go (Fulfillingness' First Finale)^
16) Stan Getz - Heart Place (Live By The Sea)
17) Dizzy Gillespie - Africana (Dizzy: The Music Of John Birks Gillespie)
18) Faith Gibson - Undun (You Don't Know Me)#
19) Jon Burr Band - Rainbow Over Harlem (Just Can't Wait)*#
20) Sophie Milman - So Long, You Fool (Make Someone Happy)
21) Frank Sinatra - I'll Remember April (Point Of No Return)

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March 12 - Playlist

1) Joe Lovano - Imagination (Celebrating Sinatra)
2) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Nomad (Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia)
3) Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt/Sonny Rollins - I Know That You Know (Sonny Side Up)
4) Dizzy Gillespie/ Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra- Things Are Here (Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody With Gil Fuller)
5) Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Groovin' High (Ken Burns Jazz)
6) Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Stompin' At The Savoy (Ella And Louis Again)
7) Roy Haynes Trio with Danilo Perez & John Patitucci - Bright Mississippi (Roy Haynes Trio)
8) Charlie Haden Quartet West - Our Spanish Love Song (Always Say Goodbye)
9) Chick Corea Akoustic Band - Sophisticated Lady (Alive)
10) Art Blakey & The Jazz messengers - So Tired (A Night In Tunisia)
11) Dexter Gordon - Darn That Dream (Ballads)
12) Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (Head Hunters)
13) Al Jarreau with Joe Cocker - Lost And Found (All I Got)
14) James Brown - Cold Sweat (20 AllTime Greatest Hits!)
15) Stan Getz - Lucifer's Fall (My Foolish Heart - "Live" At The Left Bank)
16) Wynton Marsalis - D'Artagnan (The Marciac Suite)
17) Chicago with The Gypsy Kings - Sing Sing Sing (Night & Day)
18) Billy Joel with Ray Charles - Baby Grand (The Essential Billy Joel)
19) Steely Dan - Black Friday (Marion McPartland's Piano Jazz)
20) Frank Sinatra - Imagination (Vegas)

March 5 - Playlist

1) Bill Evans - Dancing In The Dark (Trio 64)
2) Hot Club Of Detroit - Blues Up And Down (Night Town)*
3) Lionel Hampton - Hamp's Thing (Ring Dem Bells)
4) John Coltrane - I Want To Talk About You (Live At Birdland)*
5) John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Giant Steps)
6) Roy Hargrove Quintet - I'm Not So Sure (Earfood)*
7) Clark Terry/SWR Big Band - Easy Does It (Jazz Matinee)
8) Two Siberians - Amoroso (Out Of Nowhere)
9) Badi Assad - Abismo De Rosas (Echoes Of Brazil)
10) Claude Bolling - Africane [from Concerto For Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio] (Vintage Bolling)
11) Stan Getz - Once Upon A Time (Mickey One)
12) Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Crossing (The Crossing)
13) Modern Jazz Quartet - Rise Up In The Morning (Blues On Bach)
14) David Sanborn with Derek Trucks - Brother Ray (Here & Gone)*
15) Stevie Wonder - Sweetest Somebody I Know (A Time To Love)
16) Tom Scott - Get A Grip (GRP 10th Anniversary Collection)
17) Randy Brecker with Michael Brecker - Some Skunk Funk (Some Skunk Funk)
18) 8 Legged Monster - Groovin' With Grewen (8 Legged Monster) *
19) Charles Mingus/Gunther Schuller - O.P. [Oscar Pettiford] (Epitaph)
20) Robert Lamm - I Could Tell You Secrets (Subtlety & Passion)
21) Frank Sinatra - Dancing In The Dark (Come Dance With Me)


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February 26 - Playlist

1) Lenore Raphael - It Might As Well Be Spring (Class Act)*#
2) Roy Hargrove Quintet - The Stinger (Earfood)*
3) Louie Bellson And His All-Star Orchestra - Hawk Talks (Duke Ellington:Black, Brown & Beige)
4) Louie Bellson's Magic 7 - Lou's Blues (Air Bellson)
5) Louie Bellson And His Jazz Orchestra - What Makes Moses Run (East Side Suite)
6) Joani Taylor - Take Five (In My Own Voice)*#
7) Paul Desmond Quartet - Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Live)
8) Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Exodus (At The Lighthouse)
9) Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Blue Monk (At Carnegie Hall)
10) Weather Report - Birdland (Heavy Weather)
11) Stan Getz & Bill Evans - My Heart Stood Still (Stan Getz & Bill Evans)
12) Eliane Elias - Perere (Kissed by Nature)
13) Chico O'Farrill - Avocadoes (Cuban Blues)
14) Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban - Monte Adentro (Mambo Sinuendo)
15) Rosa Passos - Eu Sambo Mesmo (Amarosa)
16) Dave Brubeck Quartet - For All We Know (at Carnegie Hall)
17) Lester Young - Stardust (With The Oscar Peterson Trio)
18) Ray Brown Trio with Nancy King - The Perfect Blues (Some Of My Best Friends Are...Singers)
19) Sting - She Walks This Earth (A Love Affair: The Music Of Ivan Lins)
2) Frank Sinatra - It Might As Well Be Spring (The Complete Reprise)

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February 12 - Playlist

1) SuperSax - Embraceable You (The Japanese Tour)
2) Manhattan Transfer with Jon Hendricks - Ray's Rockhouse (Vocalese)
3) Nick Smith - Four By Four (It's Like That)#
4) Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins - Denial (Dig)
5) Miles Davis with Gil Evans - Aos Pes Da Cruz (Quiet Nights)
6) Miles Davis - Tadd's Delight ('Round About Midnight)
7) Jon Burr Quartet - Out Of The Woods (In My Own Words)#
8) Esperanza Spalding - If That's True (Esperanza)*
9) Lenore Raphael - One For The Byrd (Class Act)*#
10) Joe Lovano - Eternal Joy (Symphonica)*
11) DexterGordon - You Stepped Out Of A Dream (A Swingin' Affair)
12) Dave Brubeck - Jazzanians (Trio Brubeck)
13) Kathleen Gorman - Ain't The Way (Brand New Day)*#
14) Earth, Wind & Fire - Wait (The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire)
15) Brian Culbertson with Chance Howard - You've Got To Funkafize (Bringing Back The Funk)*
16) Stan Getz - Waltz For A Lovely Wife (Nobody Else But Me)
17) Michael Brecker - Chan's Song (The Nearness Of You-The Ballad Book)
18) Ella Fitzgerald - Cry Me A River (Love Letters From Ella)
19) John Pizzarelli - This Can't Be Love (With A Song In My Heart)*
20) Cassandra Wilson - Lover Come Back To Me (Loverly)* 2009 Grammy Award: Best Jazz Vocal Album
21) Frank Sinatra - Embraceable You (Nice 'N' Easy)

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February 5 - Playlist

The Stan Getz Birthday Show

Stan Getz is tonight's Feature Artist, and plays Tenor Saxophone on all Tracks, accompanied by:

1) Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema (Getz/Gilberto)
2) Bob Brookmeyer - Rustic Hop (The Cool Sounds)
3) Gary Burton - Here's That Rainy Day (Nobody Else But Me)
4) Benny Goodman Orchestra - Fascinating Rhythm (All The Cats Join In)
5) Woody Herman Orchestra - Four Brothers (The New Collection)
6) Horace Silver - Strike Up the Band (The Roost Quartets)
7) Hank Jones and Max Roach - Opus De Bop (Cafe Jazz)
8) Jimmy Raney and Al Haig - Jumping With Symphony Sid (At Storyville)
9) Jimmy Rowles - With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair (Stan Getz Plays)
10) Dizzy Gillespie - Girl Of My Dreams (Diz And Getz)
11) Lionel Hampton - Headache (Hamp And Getz)
12) J.J. Johnson - Crazy Rhythm (At The Opera House)
13) Gerry Mulligan and Sweets Edison - Candy (Jazz Giants '58)
14) Oscar Peterson Trio - Bronx Blues (Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio)
15) Charlie Byrd - Desifinado (Jazz Samba)
16) Gary McFarland - Chega De Saudade (Big Band Bossa Nova)
17) Luiz Bonfa and Maria Toledo - Menina Flor (Jazz Samba Encore!)
18) Chick Corea, et al - Captain Marvel (Captain Marvel)
19) Kenny Barron - Blood Count (Anniversary)
20) Kenny Barron - I'm Okay (People Time)
21) Tony Bennett - Just Friends (Jazz)
22) Ella Fitzgerald - What Will I Tell My Heart (Like Someone In Love)
23) Abbey Lincoln - Up Jumped Spring (You Gotta Pay The Band)
24) Huey Lewis - Small World [Part II] (Small World)

January 29 - Playlist

1) Stan Getz - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (In Stockholm)
2) Brubeck Brothers Quartet - 7th Sense (Classified)*
3) Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band with David Sanborn - Play That Funky Music (The Phat Pack)
4) Bob James And David Sanborn with Al Jarreau - Since I Fell For You (Moonlighting)
5) David Sanborn - Please Send Me Someone to Love (Here And Gone)*
6) Donald Byrd - Paul's Pal (Off To The Races)
7) Dave Brubeck Quartet - Mr. Broadway (Buried Treasures)
8) Joe Lovano with WDR Big Band - Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Symphonica)*
9) Kurt Rosenwinkel - Blue Line (Heartcore)
10) Joe Newman Quintet - Wednesday's Blues (At Count Basie's)
11) Jason Miles with Bobby Caldwell - Distant Lover (What's Going On?: Songs Of Marvin Gaye)
12) James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (20 All Time Greatest Hits!)
13) Michael McDonald - Only God Can Help Me Now (Soul Speak)
14) Bill Evans - Walkin' Up (Ultimate Bill Evans)
15) David Sanchez with Cassandra Wilson - Dee Like The Breeze (Street Scenes)
16) Eliane Elias - Evanesque (Something For You)
17) Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones - Lush Life (You Are There)
18) Tony Bennett - I Wish I Were In Love Again (Perfectly Frank)
19) Patricia Barber - Easy To Love (The Cole Porter Mix)*
20) Frank Sinatra - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!)


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