Jazz Spectrum - Saturday

Saturdays 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Hosted by Fritz Byers, Jazz Spectrum is a blend of new releases and timeless classics, familiar names and emerging artists. And the familiar weekly feature – The Song of the Week – will continue to occupy two sets, beginning at 9:00 p.m. E.T. In this interlude, we present a variety of versions of a single song from the jazz repertoire as a way of highlighting the infinite variety of approaches to the materials of jazz. 

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Playlist for September 12

Set 1

• Emmett Cohen, Universal Truth, “Well You Needn’t”
• Same, “Universal Truth”
• Ahmed, Play Monk, “Epistrophy”
• Tomeka Reid, dance! skip! hop!, “Under the Aurora Sky”

Set 2

• Carlos Henriquez, Monk Con Clave, “Evidence of Four and One”
• Sylvie Courvoisier, Eclats – Live in Europe, “Downward Dog”
• Adam O’Farrill, Elephant, “Sea Triptych (Along the Malecon)”
• Same, “Sea Triptych (The Three of Us, Floating)”
• Same, “Sea Triptych (Iris Murdoch)”

Set 3

• Frank Sinatra, Songs for Young Lovers, “My One and Only Love”
• Charlie Ventura, This is Charlie, “My One and Only Love”
• Ella Fitzgerald, 1954-55, “My One and Only Love”
• Horace Silver, The Stylings of Silver, “My One and Only Love”

Set 4

• John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, “My One and Only Love”
• Sonny Rollins, The Standard Rollins, “My One and Only Love”
• Cassandra Wilson, Blue Skies, “My One and Only Love”
• Irvin Mayfield & Ellis Marsalis, Love Songs, Ballads, and Standards, “My One and Only Love”

Set 5

• Duke Ellington, The Blanton-Webster Band, “The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You”
• Mark Turner, Patternmaster, The Happiest Man on Earth”
• Same, “Patternmaster”

Set 6

• Louis Hayes, Crisis, “Desert Moonlight”
• Pat Metheny, Side-Eye III+, “Urban and Western”
• Ideal Bread, Transmit, “The Breath”
• Ellis & Branford Marsalis, Loved Ones, “Stella By Starlight”

Set 7

• Benny Golson and the Philadelphians, “Blues on My Mind”
• Roy Hargrove and Antonio Hart, Alone Together, “Alone Together”
• Mal Waldron, Trio, Mal, Dance and Soul, “Blue Monk”
• Hank Mobley, Hank Mobley Quintet, “Base on Balls”

Set 8

• Bill Frisell, In My Dreams, “Isfahan”
• Same, “Small Hands”
• Joel Ross, Gospel Music, “Hostile”
• Same, “Repentance”

Set 9

• Chris Potter, Alive with Ghosts Today, “The Heavens in Scarlet”
• Same, “This Earth Would Hold No Charms for Me”
• Steve Swallow, Winter Songs, “One”
• Same, “Two”
• Hank Jones, Hank Jones Trio, “When Will I Know You’

Meet Your Host Fritz Byers

Hailing from The Sunflower State of Kansas, Fritz Byers is a Duke University and Harvard Law School alum. 

After he started practicing law in the Toledo area, Fritz took his love for Jazz and proposed a new radio show on WGTE's FM 91. That's when Jazz Spectrum was born and it began airing on April 1, 1989. He has been sharing Jazz every Saturday night since on FM 91.