December 27 - Playlist

Looking back at (and listening to) some of my favorite tunes from the past year:

David Benoit - Napa Crossroads Overture (Conversation)
Koplant No - Stockholm Exchange (Distants)
Rickie Lee Jones - Masterpiece (The Devil You Know)

Chick Corea - Africa (The Continents)
Chick Corea - Blue Bossa (The Continents)

Ahmad Jamal - Autumn Rain (Blue Moon)
Mike Stern - Cameroon (All Over The Place)
The Beach Boys - Think About The Days (That's Why God Made The Radio)

Brian Bromberg - Talia (In The Spirit Of Jobim)
Brian Bromberg - Spanish Castle Music (Bromberg Plays Hendrix)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - These Foolish Things (Their Last Time Out)
John Pizzarelli - Free Man In Paris (Double Exposure)

Esperanza Spalding - I Can't Help It (Radio Music Society)
Marcus Miller - Jekyll & Hyde (Renaissance)
Wyland Blues Planet Band - Down On The Water (Blues Planet II)

Roberta Piket - In The Days Of Our Love (Solo)
The Rippingtons - Route 66 (Built To Last)
Tia Fuller - Descend To Barbados (Angelic Warrior)

Diana Krall - We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Glad Rag Doll)
Paul McCartney - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Kisses On The Bottom)
Cassandra Wilson - No More Blues (Another Country)
Yo-Yo Ma/Chris Botti - Dona Nobis Pacem/Auld Lang Syne (Songs Of Peace And Joy)

December 20 - Playlist

JAZZ HOLIDAY

Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells (A Jolly Christmas)
Oscar Peterson - Jingle Bells (An Oscar Peterson Christmas)
Diana Krall - Jingle Bells (Christmas Songs)
Dave Brubeck - "Farewell" Jingle Bells (A Dave Brubeck Christmas)

Manhattan Transfer - Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season (The Christmas Album)
Tony Bennett - My Favorite Things (The Classic Christmas Album)
Count Basie with Joe Williams - Good Morning Blues (The Count Basie Story)
Dean Martin - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Christmas With The Rat Pack)

Antonio Hart - Winter Wonderland (A Merry Jazzmas)
Vince Guaraldi - Greensleeves (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
John Pizzarelli - Sleigh Ride (Let's Share Christmas)

Duke Ellington - Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite: Peanut Brittle Brigade (Three Suites)
Duke Ellington - Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite: Danse Of The Floreadores (Three Suites)
Herbie Hancock with Corinne Bailey Rae - River (River-The Joni Letters)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Jingle Bell Jazz)
Manhattan Transfer - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/Santa Man (The Christmas Album)
John Pizzarelli - Santa Claus Is Near (Let's Share Christmas)
Darlene Love/Brian Setzer Orchestra - Deep in The Heart Of Christmas (Jingle All The Way)

Wynton Marsalis Quintet - We Three Kings (God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen)
Harry Connick, Jr. - [It Must have Been Ol'] Santa Claus (When My Heart Finds Christmas)

The Beach Boys - Morning Christmas (Ultimate Christmas)
Brian Wilson - Peace On Earth (Songs In The Key Of Disney)
Michael McDonald - Angels We have Heard On High (Holiday)
Nancy Wilson - All Through The Night (Holiday Songs 2011)

Mel Torme - Christmas Time Is Here (Christmas Songs)
Norah Jones - Peace (Ultimate Jazz Christmas)
"City Of New Orleans" - O Holy Night (Sunday Music 5: Holiday)
Nat King Cole/Frank Sinatra - The Christmas Song (All The Best)

December 13 - Playlist

THE CHAIRMAN'S BIRTHDAY SHOW

Frank Sinatra sings songs from the Capitol Era on all tracks (except the last).  Arranged and conducted by:

Nelson Riddle

 - I've Got The World On A String (The Capitol Years)
 - I Get A Kick Out Of You (Songs For Young Lovers)
 - Anytime, Anywhere (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - They Can't Take That Away From Me (Songs For Young Lovers)
 - Someone To Watch Over Me (The Capitol Years)

 - The Gal That Got Away (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - Sunday (Swing Easy)
 - Taking A Chance On Love (The Capitol Years)
 - Can't We Be Friends (In The Wee Small Hours)
 - I'll Be Around (In The Wee Small Hours)

 - Old Devil Moon (Songs For Swingin' Lovers!)
 - Swingin' Down The Lane (Songs For Swingin' Lovers!)
 - You'll Get Yours (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - Learnin' The Blues (Complete Capitol Singles)

 - There's A Flaw In My Flue (Close To You)
 - I Wish I Were In Love Again (A Swingin' Affair!)
 - (Love Is) The Tender Trap (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - I Won't Dance (A Swingin' Affair!)
 - Melody Of Love (Complete Capitol Singles)

Billy May

 - Come Dance With Me (The Capitol Years)
 - Here Goes (Boys Night Out)
 - Come Fly With Me (Come Fly With Me)
 - Let's Get Away From It All (Come Fly With Me)
 - Isle Of Capri (Come Fly With Me)

 - Same Old Song And Dance (Come Dance With Me)
 - Something's Gotta Give (Come Dance With Me)
 - Too Close For Comfort (Come Dance With Me)
with Keely Smith - How Are You Fixed For Love (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - Baubles, Bangles And Beads (Come Dance With Me)

 - Day By Day (Come Swing With Me!)
 - Five Minutes More (Complete Capitol Singles)
 - Almost Like Being In Love (Come Swing With Me!)
 - Yes Indeed! (Come Swing With Me!)
 - I Love You (Complete Capitol Singles)

 - Moonlight In Vermont (Come Fly With Me)
 - Last Dance (Come Dance With Me)
with Bill Miller - One For My Baby (The Capitol Years)
 - Purple [Billy May, Composer] (Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems Of Color)

December 6 - Playlist

DAVE BRUBECK (12/6/1920 - 12/5/2012)

 - Strange Meadow Lark (Time Out)
 - Fare Thee Well, Annabelle (Jazz: Red Hot And Cool)

interview with Walter Cronkite (excerpt)
 - Ode To A Cowboy (Jazz Impressions Of The U.S.A.)
 - Give A Little Whistle/Oh, Lady be Good - (Evolution Of An Artist)

 - Introduction of the Quartet/Swanee River (Their Last Time Out)

interview with Walter Cronkite (excerpt)
 - In Your Own Sweet Way (Brandenburg Gate: Revisited)
 - Nomad (Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia)

interview with Walter Cronkite (excerpt)
 - We Crossed The Rhine (Private Brubeck Remembers)
 - Love Is Just Around The Corner (Park Avenue South)

 - Blue Rondo A La Turk (At Carnegie Hall)

interview with Walter Cronkite (excerpt)
 - Quiet As The Moon (Quiet As The Moon)
 - For Iola (For Iola)

 - Take Five (We're All Together Again For The First Time)

November 29 - Playlist

Roy Hargrove - My Shining Hour (Approaching Standards)
Sergio Mendes - Morning In Rio (Encanto)
Duke Ellington - Pie Eye's Blues (Blues In Orbit)

Pat Martino - Portrait (Nightwings)
Pat Martino - Dreamsville (We'll Be Together Again)

Koplant No - A36 (Distants)*
Monty Alexander Trio - Straighten Up And Fly Right (Jazz At The 19th Hole)

Toots Thielemans - Close Your Eyes (For My Lady)
Dave Posmontier Quartet - Art Of The States (Posterity)
Benny Goodman - King Porter Stomp (Sing, Sing, Sing)

Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - Desafinado (Jazz Samba)
Joe Lovano - The Dawn Of Time (Symphonica)

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (Head Hunters)
Brecker Brothers - On The Backside (The return of The Brecker Brothers)

Dave Brubeck Trio/Gerry Mulligan - Indian Song (Live At The Berlin Philharmonie)
Coleman Hawkins - Honeysuckle Rose (Ken Burns Jazz)

Ella Fitzgerald - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (First Lady Of Song)
Ray Charles/Betty Carter - Baby, It's Cold Outside (His Greatest Hits)
Brian Wilson - Peace On Earth (In The Key Of Disney)
Frank Sinatra - My Shining Hour (The Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release

November 15 - Playlist

Zoot Sims - Come Rain Or Come Shine (Somebody Loves Me)
Lionel Hampton - Je Ne Sais Pas (Lionel Hampton Quintet)
Count Basie - Avenue C (The Count Basie Story)

Koplant No - Blerg (Distants)*
Koplant No - Trio (Distants)*

Dave Brubeck - Jazzanians (Trio Brubeck)
Stanley Turrentine - Easy Walker (More Than A Mood)

Brian Bromberg - Coastline Drive (In The Spirit Of Jobim)*
Queen Latifah - Moody's Mood For Love (The Dana Owens Album)
Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance (Best Of...The First Ten Years)

Stan Getz - Times Lie (Captain Marvel)
Dexter Gordon - Darn That Dream (Daddy Plays The Horn)

Randy Crawford/Joe Sample - Street Life (Jackie Brown Soundtrack)
Fourplay - After The Dance (The Best Of...)
Eartha Kitt - My Heart's Delight (Legendary)
James Brown - I Got the Feelin' (20 All Time Greatest Hits)

Louie Bellson And His Jazz Orchestra - East Side Suite: Park Ave. Strut/Tiffany's Corner/Village Hangout (East Side Suite)

Michael Bublé - That's Life (Call Me Irresponsible)
Ella Fitzgerald - Cry Me A River (Love Letters From Ella)
Frank Sinatra - Come Rain Or Come Shine (Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release

October 18 - Playlist

Stan Getz - Wives And Lovers (What The World Needs Now)
Steve Turre - In A Sentimental Mood (Steve Turre)

Wynton Marsalis - Indelible And Nocturnal (Intimacy Calling)
Wynton Marsalis - Joe Cool's Blues (Joe Cool's Blues)
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Caldonia (Two Men With The Blues)

Wynton Marsalis - "D" In The Key Of "F" (Jump Start And Jazz)
Wynton Marsalis - Glad To Be Unhappy (The Midnight Blues)

WSU Big Band - Howl (WSU Jazz Big Band 2012)*
Al Jarreau - Jacaranda Bougainvillea (Al Jarreau And The Metropole Orkest Live)*
John Pizzarelli - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (Double Exposure)*

Duke Ellington/Count Basie - Battle Royal (The Count Meets The Duke)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Things You Never Remember (So What's New?)

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Mama Gets High (B,S &T 4)
Spinners - Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You (Spinners)
Tower Of Power - Below Us, The City Lights (Very Best Of The Warner Years)

Chick Corea & Friends - Bouncin' With Bud (Remembering Bud Powell)
Benny Golson - Grove's Groove (New Time New 'Tet)

Cleo Lane - Once In A While (That Old Feeling)
Bobby Darin - The Good Life (The Swinging Side)
Janelle Sadler - Swingin' Mood (Don't Make Me Laugh)
Frank Sinatra - Wives And Lovers (The Complete Sinatra-Basie)

* indicates Recent Release

October 11 - Playlist

Erroll Garner - The Coffee Song (Up In Erroll's Room)
Lucky Thompson - Soul-Lullaby (Home Comin')
Stan Kenton - Artistry In Rhythm (Kenton In Hi-Fi)

Thelonious Monk - Mysterioso (Bid Band And Quartet In Concert)
Thelonious Monk - Hackensack (Criss-Cross)

Rickie Lee Jones - Only Love Can Break Your heart (The Devil You Know)*
Cassandra Wilson - O Solo Mio (Another Country)*
Diana Krall - We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Glad Rag Doll)*

Stan Getz - Four (East Of The Sun: The West Coast Sessions)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Three To Get Ready (Time Out)

Sonny Rollins/Modern Jazz Quartet - Almost Like Being In Love (Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet)
John Lewis - Afternoon In Paris (The Wonderful World Of Jazz)

John Pizzarelli - I Feel Fine/The Sidewinder (Double Exposure)*
John Pizzarelli - Traffic Jam/The Kicker (Double Exposure)*
John Pizzarelli - Walk Between The Raindrops (Double Exposure)*

Bob Mintzer Big Band - Aha (For The Moment)*
The Bad Plus - Seven-Minute Mind (Made Possible)*
Arturo O'Farrill - The Sun At Midnight (The Noguchi Sessions)*

Jon Hendricks - Listen To Monk [Rhythm-A-Ning] (Freddie Freeloader)
Carmen McRae - Get It Straight (Carmen Sings Monk)
Frank Sinatra - The Coffee Song (The Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release

September 20 - Playlist

Dave Grusin - Moment to Moment (Two For the Road)
Chuck Corea Elektric Band - Hound Of Heaven (To The Stars)
Coleman Hawkins - Self Portrait [Of The Bean] (Ken Burns Jazz)

Cannonball Adderley - One For Newk (Cannonball Plays Zawinul)
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else (Somethin' Else)

Joe Lovano Nonet - Charlie Chan (52nd Street Themes)
Michael Franks - Charlie Chan In Egypt (Time Together)

Gil Evans & Lee Konitz - Reincarnation Of A Lovebird (Heroes)
Esperanza Spalding - Vague Suspicions (Radio Music Society)

Cannonball Adderley/John Coltrane - Limehouse Blues (Cannonball & Coltrane)
Cannonball Adderley Sextet - Planet Earth (In New York)

Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Best Of The Capitol Years)
Ramsey Lewis - The "In" Crowd (Priceless Jazz 2)
Paul Jackson, Jr.- It's A Shame (Blue Note Plays Stevie Wonder)

Dave Brubeck - Over The Rainbow (One Alone)
Stan Getz - Over The Rainbow (In Stockholm)
Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie: Soundtrack)

Nancy Wilson - Save Your Love For Me (Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley)
Harry Connick, Jr. - Pure Imagination/Candy Man (Songs I Heard)
Cassandra Wilson - A Little Warm Death (New Moon Daughter)
Frank Sinatra - Moment to Moment  (The Complete Reprise)

August 13 - Playlist

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Just One Of Those Things (The Heavy Hitter)
Brian Bromberg - Isn't It Beautiful? (In The Spirit Of Jobim)*
Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach - Very Special (Money Jungle)

Weather Report - Birdland (Heavy Weather)
Weather Report - What's Going On (Sportin' Life)

Stefon Harris/David Sánchez/Christian Scott - Congo (Ninety Miles)
Bob Berg - Mayumi (Best of...On Denon)

Art Blakey/Thelonious Monk - Purple Shades (Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk)
Grégoire Maret - Lucilla's Dream (Grégoire Maret)*

Stan Getz - Billie's Bounce (Live By The Sea, Cannes 1980)
Benny Goodman - Henderson Stomp (Clarinet A La King)

Jimmy McGriff - All About My Girl (So Blue, So Funky)
Sonny Criss - Blues In My Heart (SoulJazz)
Ray Charles/Norah Jones - Here We Go Again (Genius Loves Company)

Dave Brubeck/Michael Brecker - Michael Brecker Waltz (Young Lions & Old Tigers)
Oscar Peterson Trio - Now's the Time (Night Train)
Miles Davis - Milestones [Alt. Take] (Milestones)

Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick in the Head (Eee-O 11: Best Of The Rat Pack)
Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Learnin' The Blues (Ella And Louis Again)
Frank Sinatra - Just One Of Those Things (Swing Easy!)

* indicates Recent Release

August 30 - Playlist

Ry Cooder/Manuel Galbán - Secret Love (Mambo Sinuendo)
Roberta Piket - Estaté (Solo)*
Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee (Jaco Pastorius)

Charlie Parker - Ko Ko (Ken Burns Jazz)
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Mohawk (Bird And Diz)
Charlie Parker - Now's the Time (Bird's Best Bop On Verve)
Charlie Parker - Ornithology (Yardbird Suite)

Roy Hargrove-Christian McBride-Stephen Scott Trio - Dexterity (Parker's Mood)
Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass - Indiana/Donna Lee (Concord Heritage Series)

Herbie Hancock - Mimosa (Inventions & Dimensions)
Jerry Douglas - So Here We Are (Traveler)*

Charlie Parker - Just Friends (Charlie Parker With Strings)
Charlie Parker - Confirmation (Yardbird Suite)
Charlie Parker - K.C. Blues (Bird's Best Bop On Verve)
Charlie Parker - Laura (Charlie Parker With Strings)

Al Green - I Can't Get Next To You (Greatest Hits)
Brian Bromberg - Sanford And Sons (It Is What It Is)
Jeffrey Osborne - Wouldn't It Be Nice (A Jazz Portrait Of Brian Wilson)

SuperSax - Scrapple From the Apple (The Japanese Tour)
Stefano DiBattista - Parker's Mood (Parker's Mood)

Sarah Vaughan - Obsession (Brazilian Romance)
Mel Tormé - Learn to Croon (A Tribute To Bing Crosby)
Cheryl Bentyne - Let's Do It (The Book Of Love)
Frank Sinatra - Secret Love (Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release

August 23 - Playlist

FEATURE ARTIST, PART I - BILL EVANS

Bill Evans plays piano/keyboards on all tracks, accompanied as noted:

Trio - I Believe in You (Empathy)
with Stan Getz - Funkallero (Stan Getz & Bill Evans)

with Claus Ogerman - Symbiosis: 1st Movement (Symbiosis)
with Miles Davis - Blue In Green (Kind Of Blue)

with Tony Bennett - Make Someone Happy (The Complete Improv Recordings)
with Eddie Costa Quartet - Guys And Dolls (Guys And Dolls Like Vibes)
with Zoot Sims - Fudgesickle Built For Four (The "Interplay" Sessions)

Trio - Oleo (Everybody Digs Bill Evans)
Trio - Witchcraft (Portrait In Jazz)
Solo - A Time For Love (Ultimate Bill Evans)

FEATURE ARTIST, PART II - COUNT BASIE

Count Basie plays piano on all tracks, and by the way is also the Bandleader; in the last segment, he is accompanied by an obscure boy singer from Hoboken, NJ.

 - Jumpin' At The Woodside (Legendary)
 - One O' Clock Jump (Anthology Of Big Band Swing 1930-1955
with Octet - Skol Sister (Hollywood Swing & Jazz)
 - Corner Pocket (Basie At Birdland)

 - Li'l Darlin' (Complete Atomic Basie)
 - Shiny Stockings (April in Paris)
 - This Could Be The Start Of Something Big (This Time By Basie)

 - Intro/Splanky (Live At The Sands [Before Frank])
 - Come Fly With Me (Sinatra At The Sands)
 - Luck Be A Lady (Sinatra At The Sands)

 - Pennies From Heaven (The Complete Sinatra/Basie)
 - [Love Is] The Tender Trap (The Complete Sinatra/Basie)
 - My Kind Of Girl (The Complete Sinatra/Basie)
 - I Believe In You (The Complete Sinatra/Basie)

August 16 - Playlist

Miles Davis - I Thought About You (Someday My Prince Will Come)
Terry Vosbein - Crows In Tuxedos (Progressive Jazz)

Oscar Peterson - My Ship (Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle)
Oscar Peterson Trio - Moten Swing (Sonny Stitt Sits In)

Bill Fulton - About 12:00am (About 12:00am)
Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts - No Outerwear (An Attitude For Gratitude)

Oscar Peterson Trio - Love you Madly (At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival)
Oscar Peterson - Truffles (Meets Roy Hargrove And Ralph Moore)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Cielito Lindo (Bravo! Brubeck!)
Jonathan Powell & Nu Sangha - Transcend (Transcend)

Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster - Blues For Yolande (Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster)
Stan Getz/Oscar Peterson - Three Little Words (Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio)

Benny Golson - Epistrophy (New Time, New 'Tet)
Thelonious Monk - Caravan (Riverside Jazz)

Oscar Peterson - Walkin' My Baby Back Home (With Respect to Nat)
Juliet Annerino - Crush (Crushed Velvet)
Roberta Gambarini - From This Moment On (So In Love)
Frank Sinatra - I Thought About You (Songs For Swingin' Lovers!)

August 9 - Playlist

Brian Bromberg - Wave (In The Spirit Of Jobim)*
Kevin Toney 3 - New American Suite (New American Suite)*
Roberta Piket - Something To Live For (Solo)*

Keith Jarrett - All The Things You Are (Standards, Vol. 1)
Eliane Elias - Brazil (Paulistana)

Beach Boys - Think About The Days (That's Why God Made The Radio)*
Stefon Harris - Sunset And The Mockingbird (African Tarantella)
Grover Washington, Jr. - Summer Nights (Prime Cuts)

Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda (Mwandishi)
Benny Goodman Sextet - Slipped Disc (Slipped Disc, 1945-1946)
Incognito - Rivers On The Sun (Surreal)*

Sonny Rollins - There Are Such Things (Worktime)
Billy Strayhorn - Passion Flower (Lush Life)

Bobby Bennett - Days Go By (Conquer The World)
Andrew Strong - [She's] Some Kind Of Wonderful (The Commitments)
Fourplay with Take 6 - Higher Ground (Best Of Fourplay)
Linda Lyndell - What A Man (Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo A La Turk (Time Out)
Stan Getz - Easy Living (Spring Is Here)

Michael Franks - Now That Summer's Here (Time Together)
Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - I Won't Dance (Ella And Louis Again)
Frank Sinatra - Wave (Complete Sinatra/Jobim)

* indicates Recent Release

July 26 - Playlist

Stanley Turrentine - They Can't Take That Away From Me (Never Let Me Go)
Dave Posmontier - Double B On 3 (Posterity)

Johnny Hodges - Good Queen Bess (The Great Ellington Units)
Duke Ellington - Day Dream (Duke Ellington Presents...)
Johnny Hodges - Squaty Roo (The Great Ellington Units)
Duke Ellington - Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (Jazz Caravan)

Lucky Thompson - Tea Time (Home Comin')
Eddie Gomez - Arianna (Per Sempre)*

Brian Bromberg - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Compared To That)*
Charlie Haden/Hank Jones - Come Sunday (Come Sunday)*
Jean-Luc Ponty - Aurora, Part II (Le Voyage)

Miles Davis - Madness (Nefertiti)
Stan Getz - 6-Nix-Quix-Flix (Nobody But Me)

Bobby Bennett - Days Go By (Conquer The World)
Michael McDonald - Love T.K.O. (Soul Speak)
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World (The Essential)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo A La Turk (At Carnegie Hall)
Roberta Picket - Improvisation Blue (Solo)

Molly Johnson - Another Day [Radio Remix] (Another Day)
Steve Tyrell - It Had To Be You (Standard Time)
Cassandra Wilson - No More Blues (Another Country)*
Frank Sinatra - They Can't Take That Away From Me (Songs For Young Lovers)

* indicates Recent Release

July 12 - Playlist

André Previn/David Finck - They All Laughed (We Got Rhythm)
Jaco Pastorius - [Used To Be A] Cha Cha (Jaco Pastorius)

Roberta Piket (Solo)*
     - I See Your Face Before Me
     - Monk 1: Variations On A Dream
     - Monk 2: Monk's Dream

Chick Corea - Lotus Blossom (The Continents)

Stan Getz/Kenny Barron - You Stepped Out Of A Dream (People Time)
Nat King Cole - You Stepped Out Of A Dream (The World Of Nat King Cole)

Ray Brown/John Clayton, Jr./Christian McBride - Mack The Knife (Super Bass)
Spyro Gyra - Shaker Song (The Best Of Spyro Gyra)
Esperanza Spalding - Black Gold (Radio Music Society)*

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take The "A" Train (Their Last Time Out)
Kenny Werner - Lo's Garden (Lawn Chair Society)
Duke Ellington - Soul Call (Soul Call)

Art Pepper - Art's Opus (Four Classic Albums)
Charlie Haden Quartet West - My Old Flame (Sophisticated Ladies)
Gato Barbieri - Antonico (Best Of The Early Years)

Roberta Gambarini - Day In Day Out (So In Love)
Paul McCartney - It's Only A Paper Moon (Kisses On The Bottom)*
Janis Siegel - The Big Hurt (I Wish You Love)
Frank Sinatra - They All Laughed (The Complete Reprise)

 * indicates Recent Release

July 5 - Playlist

Stefon Harris/Jacky Terrasson - My Foolish Heart (Kindred)
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band - Con Alma (Dizzy's Business)
Rosemary Clooney/Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Blue Rose (Blue Rose)

Al Cohn/Zoot Sims - Tenor For Two Please, Jack (From A To Z And Beyond)
Al Cohn/Zoot Sims  - Mr. George (Easy As Pie: "Live" At The Left Bank)
The Four Brothers - The Swinging Door (Together Again!)

Charlie Mingus - Los Mariachis (Tijuana Mood)
Joni Mitchell - The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines (Mingus)

Dexter Gordon - Laura (Sophisticated Giant)
SWR Big Band/Bill Holman - Marmaduke (Bill Holman)

Count Basie - Splanky (At The Sands)
Stan Getz - The Wind (Bossas And Ballads: The Lost Sessions)

Stevie Wonder - I Wish (At The Close Of A Century)
Brian Bromberg - Chameleon (Downright Upright)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - It's A Raggy Waltz (Time Further Out)
Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge - Blue Moon (Dizzy)

Ella Fitzgerald - Sweet Georgia Brown (Whisper Not)
John Pizzarelli - Mountain Greenery (With A Song In My Heart)
Nancy Wilson - Don't Take Your Love From Me (Save Your Love For Me)
Frank Sinatra - My Foolish Heart (The Complete Reprise)

June 28 - Playlist

Eddie Costa Quartet - I've Never Been In Love Before (Guys And Dolls Like Vibes)
Dave Brubeck - Who Will Take Care Of Me? (Late Night Brubeck)

Sonny Stitt - Living Without You (Goin' Down Slow)
Sonny Stitt - Everything Happens To Me (Giants Of Jazz)

Stan Getz - Stella By Starlight (Plays)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny - All Across The City (Jim Hall & Pat Metheny)
Charlie Parker - Bird Of Paradise (Yardbird Suite)

Manhattan Transfer - Nothing Could Be Hotter (Spirit Of St. Louis)
Gil Evans Orchestra - Angel (Plays The Music Of Jimi Hendrix)
Bill Evans - I'm All Smiles (From Right To Left)

Sonny Stitt - Try A Little Tenderness (Late Night Sax)
Sonny Stitt - Wee (Just In Case You Forgot How Bad he Really Was)

John Klemmer - Paradise (Arabesque)
Robert Lamm - Skinny Boy (Skinny Boy)
James Brown - Cold Sweat (20 All Time Greatest Hits!)

Fred Hersch Trio - Evanessence (Plays...)
Michel Camilo - Repercussions (Spirit Of The Moment)

Holly Cole Trio/Wayne Shorter - Losing My Mind (Color And Light)
Michael Franks - Fool's Errand (Abandoned Garden)
Ella Fitzgerald - I Never Has A Chance (Like Someone In Love)
Frank Sinatra - I've Never Been In Love Before (Guys And Dolls)

June 21 - Playlist

Joe Henderson - Once I Loved (Double Rainbow)
Stan Getz - Apasionado (Apasionado)

Eric Dolphy - Red Planet (The Illinois Concert)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Stay On It (Live At Newport 1960)
Benny Carter - South Side Samba (More Cookin')

Hiroshima - Midnight Sun (Little Tokyo)
McCoy Tyner - What Is This Thing Called Love? (New York Reunion)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - The Things You Never Remember (So What's New?)
Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues In H [B] (Blues On Bach)

Ray Charles - [Night Time Is] The Right Time (Best Of: The Atlantic Years)
David Sanborn with Derek Trucks - Brother Ray (Here & Gone)
Roseanna Vitro - Sticks And Stones (Catchin' Some Rays)

Wynton Marsalis - Four In One (Live At The Village Vanguard)
Bill Evans - I Fall In Love Too Easily (Moon Beams)

Sade - Kiss Of Life (The Ultimate Collection)
Louis Prima - Angelina/Zooma Zooma (Jump Jive An' Wail: The Essential Louis Prima)
Billie Holiday - Big Stuff (Greatest Hits)
Frank Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim - Once I Loved (The Complete Reprise)

June 14 - Playlist

Chris Botti - The Way You Look Tonight (Italia)
Weather Report - Corner Pocket (Sportin' Life)
John Kirby Sextet - Blue Fantasy (John Kirby)

Chick Corea - Antarctica (The Continents)*

Gary Burton Quintet - Intermission Music (Dreams So Real)
Esperanza Spalding - Endangered Species (Radio Music Society)*

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Georgia On My Mind (Gone With The Wind)
Dexter Gordon - Second Balcony Jump (Go!)

Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins - Wanderlust (Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins)
Donald Byrd - Alter Ego (Jazz For A Lazy Day)

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - Ruby My Dear (Riverside Jazz)
Joel Vanderheyden - Pees And Deeto (Complete Life)

Stan Getz - Dane's Chant (The Song Is You)
Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble - Take Five (Jazz At The 19th Hole)

The Beach Boys - Think About The Days (That's Why God Made The Radio)*
Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee (The Intimate Ella)
Shirley Horn - My Funny Valentine (I Remember Miles)
Frank Sinatra - The Way You Look Tonight (The Complete Reprise)

* indicates Recent Release

June 7 - Playlist

Ben Webster Quintet - Makin' Whoopee (Soulville)
Chuck Corea & Friends - I'll Keep Loving You (Remembering Bud Powell)

Monty Alexander - Little Darlin' (Live At The Iridium)
Monty Alexander Trio - Creole Love Call (Impressions In Blue)

Jazz Crusaders - Native Dancer (Lighthouse '68)
Jimmy Heath - Studio Style (The Time And The Place)

Herbie Hancock - Hidden Shadows (The Essential Herbie Hancock)
Tommy Dorsey - The Blue Room (An Anthology Of Big Band Swing)

Kenny Barron - The Question Is (Spirit Song)
Stan Getz/Kenny Barron - Allison's Waltz (People Time - The Complete Recordings)

Jack McDuff - Another Real Good 'Un (SoulJazz)
Roy Hargrove Presents The RH Factor - Pastor "T" (Hard Groove)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - Hometown Blues (Back Home)
Brecker Brothers - Above & Below (The Return Of The Brecker Brothers)

Paul McCartney - Only Our Hearts (Kisses On The Bottom)*
Harry Nilsson - As Time Goes By (A Little Touch Of Schmilsson in The Night)
Tony Bennett - I Wish I Were In Love Again (Perfectly Frank)
Frank Sinatra - Makin' Whoopee (Songs For Swingin' Lovers!)

 * indicates Recent Release

May 17 - Playlist

Miles Davis - There's No You (Collector's Items)
Esperanza Spalding - Radio Song (Radio Music Society)*

Cedar Walton/Hank Mobley Quintet - House On Maple Street (Breakthrough!)
Eastern Rebellion - Roni's Decision (Simple Pleasure)

Pat Martino - Draw Me Down (Night Wings)

John Lewis - The Stranger (The Wonderful World Of Jazz)
John Coltrane - The Promise (Live At Birdland)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - New Wine (New Wine)
Stan Getz & Arthur Fiedler - Love Is For The Very Young (At Tanglewood)

Stevie Wonder - Bird Of Beauty (Fulfillingness' First Finale)
War - The World Is A Ghetto (The World Is A Ghetto)

Bobby Hutcherson - Whisper Not (SoulJazz)
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Chance Encounters (Act Your Age)

Rosemary Clooney - Everything Happens to Me (Jazz At The 19th Hole)
Milton Nascimento/Jobim Trio - Chega De Saudade (Novas Bossas)
Frank Sinatra - There's No You (Where Are You?)

* indicates Recent Release

May 10 - Playlist

Gene Harris Quartet - Nice 'N' Easy (Jazz At The 19th Hole)
Stan Getz - Major General (The Song Is You)

Benny Golson - Voyage (Up, Jumped, Spring)
Benny Golson - Killer Joe (Best Of Benny Golson)

Horace Silver - The African Queen (The Cape Verdean Blues)
Sidney Bechet - Wild Man Blues (Blues In Thirds)

Dave Liebman Quartet - G.I.G. (Negative Space)
Charles Mingus - GG Train (Mingus Ah Um)

Ahmad Jamal - M*A*S*H Theme (M*A*S*H Soundtrack)
Phil Woods - Prelude To A Kiss (Live At The Village Vanguard)

Chick Corea - America (The Continents)

Bill Evans Trio - Very Early (Moon Beams)
Benny Golson - Up, Jumped, Spring (Up, Jumped, Spring)

Paul McCartney - More I Cannot Wish You (Kisses On The Bottom)*
Nnenna Freelon - Until You Come Back to Me (Tales Of Wonder)
Frank Sinatra - Nice 'N' Easy (Nice 'N' Easy)

* indicates recent release

Coming Soon!

JAZZ...OR SOMETHING LIKE IT returns to 91.7 FM WMUH Allentown on May 10.

Be there, or be   !

Jazz Ramblings...and other Idle Thoughts

Greetings:

I take pen in hand (so to speak)(and being fully aware of the dearth of readership of this blog)(not to mention my annoying proclivity toward parenthetical comments)...where was I?

Oh yes, I just picked up a copy of Sir Paul's new CD "Kisses On The Bottom" and I can't praise it enough.  Having heard only a few preview tracks, but liking the looks of the song list, I took a flyer, and was not just pleasantly surprised, but nearly blown away.  This rare juxtaposition of outstanding jazz musicians (the instantly recognizable Diana Krall and John Pizzarelli to name just two) in support of McCartney's almost delicate voicing of some vintage songs is elegant and sublime.  In particular, his reading of the Frank Loesser's gem More I Cannot Wish You brings a tear to my eye.

 

I realize that aging Pop singers recording the Great American Songbook is no longer a novelty (notwithstanding Rod Stewart's efforts, which I loathe, there have been some nice discs in this area of late by a wide range of singers the likes of Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson and Gladys Knight), but it's Paul McCartney, folks.  I was tickled by his liner-note comments of being nervous in Capitol Studios singing into Nat "King" Cole's microphone and in the face of all the accomplished "jazz players" (imagine how they felt).  Interestingly enough, his voice sounded most in command while performing his two originals.  "Kisses On The Bottom" evokes for me nothing so much as Harry Nilsson's classic recording "A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night," songs in the same vein recorded with the great Gordon Jenkins and a full orchestra back in the 70's.  I still have the vinyl of that one.  (Both recordings have Always and Paper Moon in common).

When I do get back on the air, we will hear this fine recording.  I hope it won't be long.

Peace.

GREETINGS!

It is with equal parts of wistfulness and relief that I announce a brief Sabbatical for "Jazz...Or Something Like It."  I'm taking a few months off to rest, recharge and tend to other aspects of my life.  Thank you for your support; I shall return.  See you soon!