Thursday, October 11, 2012

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

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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)

Thursday, September 13, 2012

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

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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

Thursday, August 23, 2012

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)

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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!)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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