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 August 22

Set 1

• Charles Mingus, In Argentina, “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love”
• World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington, “Lush Life”
• Houston Person, Mellow, “In a Mellow Tone”
• Johnny Hartman, For Trane, “Sometimes I’m Happy”
• Sonny Stitt & Bennie Green, My Main Man, “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”

Set 2

• Conrad Herwig, A Jones for Bones Tones, “Slide’s Routine”
• Buck Clayton, The Kansas City Sessions, “I Know That You Know”
• Same, “Countless Blues”
• Charlie Parker, Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes, “Billie’s Bounce”
• Ornette Coleman, The Empty Foxhole, “Good Old Days”

Set 3

• Irene Kral, Where is Love, “Where is Love”
• Sonny Stitt, Goin’ Down Slow, “Where is Love”
• Lena Horne, Lena on the Blue Side, “Where is Love”
• Cal Tjader, Here and There, “Where is Love”

Set 4

• Weslia Whitfield, In My Life, “Where is Love”
• Adam Makowicz & George Mraz, Concord Duo Series, “Where is Love”
• Lorez Alexandria, From Broadway to Hollywood, “Where is Love”
• Jackie McLean, A Ghetto Lullaby, “Where is Love”

Set 5

• Erez Dessel, Better a Rook Than a Pawn, “Double Negative”
• Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage, “Little One”

Set 6

• Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, “Blues in B Flat”
• Anita O’Day, Complete Verve/Clef Sessions, “Mad About the Boy”
• Same, “Waiter, Make Mine Blues”
• Wycliffe Gordon, What You Dealin’ With, “Mood Indigo”
• Kenny Kirkland, Kenny Kirkland, “Ana Maria”

Set 7

• Cedar Walton & Ron Carter, Heart & Soul, “Little Waltz”
• John Patton, Accent on the Blues, “Don’t Let Me Lose This Dream”
• Arnett Cobb, Party Time, “The Slow Poke”
• Mulgrew Miller, Hand in Hand, “Waltz for Monk”

Set 8

• Jimmy Rowles, Rare But Well Done, “I Wouldn’t Change You for the World”
• Same, “Remember Me/There Goes My Heart”
• Mark Turner, The Ex-Colored Man, “Movement 7”
• Wallace Roney, Home, “Ghost of Yesterday”

Set 9 

• Tim Hagans, Alone Together, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
• Same, “Stella by Starlight”
• Ralph Sutton, Complete Commodore Recordings, “Candlelights”
• Keny Burrell, All Night Long, “Body & Soul”

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.