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 November 7

Set 1

• Larry Fuller, Larry Fuller, “Old Devil Moon”
• Same, “Reflections in D”
• Same, “Django”
• Jeff Hamilton Trio, Live!, “But Not For Me”

Set 2

• Larry Fuller, Overjoyed, “Fried Pies”
• Same, “Overjoyed”
• Same, “Lined with a Groove”
• Same, “Never Let Me Go”
• Same, “Jane’s Theme”
• Same, “Bossa Beguine”

Set 3

• Dinah Washington, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Coleman Hawkins, Chronological Classics, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Ernestine Anderson, Never Make Your Move Too Soon, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Stephane Grappelli & Barney Kessel, “What a Difference a Day Made”

Set 4

• Sarah Vaughan, Portrait of Sarah Vaughan, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Mulgrew Miller, From Day to Day, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Natalie Cole, Stardust, “What a Difference a Day Made”
• Sonny Rollings, +3, “What a Difference a Day Made”

Set 5

• Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake, The Newest Sound You Never Heard, “Green Dolphin Street”
• Same, “The Man I Love”
• Modern Jazz Quartet, In a Crowd, “Winter Tale”
• Mary Lou Williams Collective, Zodiac Suite Revisited, “Gemini”

Set 6

• Tomas Fujiwara, Patricia Brennan, and Tomeka Reid, 7 Poets Trio, “A Realm Distorted”
• Marta Sanchez, SAAM, “Dear Worthiness”
• Roxy Coss, Restless Idealism, “Recurring Dream”
• Ben Allison, Think Free, “Peace Pipe”

Set 7

• Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down, “Laika’s Descent”
• Roxana Amed, Ontology, “Last Happy Hour”
• Tal Farlow, Complete Verve Sessions, “Autumn in New York”
• Shirley Scott, Great Scott, “Trees”
• Tomeka Reid, Tomeka Reid Quartet, “Glass Light”

Set 8

• Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Alive at the Vanguard, “But Not For Me”
• Same, “Some Other Time”
• Sonny Clark, Blue Note Sessions, “Deep in a Dream”

Set 9

• Sasha Berliner, Onyx, “My Funny Valentine I”
• Same, “My Funny Valentine II”
• Denny Zeitlin, Solo Piano: Remembering Miles, “Lament”
• Alexa Tarantino, Winds of Change, “Wisp After Wisp”
• Same, “Calm”
• Geri Allen, Grand River Cross Wing, “Save the Children”

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.