Thursday, March 26, 2009

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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^ indicates the "Vinyl Archive"
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

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)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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)


* indicates Recent Release

Thursday, February 26, 2009

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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Thursday, February 12, 2009

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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Thursday, February 5, 2009

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)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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!!!)


* indicates Recent Release