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.
Playlist for March 14
Set 1
John Fedchock Big Band, Fluidity, “I Hear a Rhapsody”
Same, “I’ve Never Been in Love Before”
John Harrison Trio, Roman Sun, “It’s You or No One”
Charles Mingus, Let My Children Hear Music, “Taurus in the Arena of Life”
Set 2
Don Byron, You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians, “Dark Room”
Same, “No Whine”
Zach Brock, Almost Never Was, “You’ve Changed”
Barry Harris Sextet, Luminescence! “Nicaragua”
Set 3
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers,1930s Rare and Popular Music, “I Want a Little Girl”
Count Basie, Complete Clef/Verve Fifties Studio Recordings, “I Want a Little Girl”
Nat King Cole, Stardust: The Complete Capitol Recordings, “I Want a Little Girl”
Lester Young, The Kansas City Sessions, “I Want a Little Girl”
Set 4
Joe Williams, Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions, “I Want a Little Girl”
Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Trio +1, “I Want a Little Girl”
Louis Armstrong, Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Sessions, “I Want a Little Girl”
Lee Konitz, Oleo, “I Want a Little Girl”
Set 5
Angelica Sanchez, Nighttime Creatures, “Ring Leader”
Gene Krupa, Complete Capitol Recordings of Gene Krupa and Harry James, “Just for Fun”
Paul Gonsalves, Humming Bird, “Humming Bird”
Godwin Lewis, Global, “Bisket Tombe”
Set 6
Gene Ammons, The Happy Blues, “The Great Lie”
Curtis Amy, Mosaic Select, “The Blues Message”
Sarah Vaughan, Complete Roulette Studio Sessions, “Dreamy”
Chet Baker, Blues for a Reason, “Blues for a Reason”
Set 7
Michel Petrucciani, Cold Blues, “Beautiful But Why?”
Hank Mobley, Hi Voltage, “No More Goodbyes”
Stefon Harris, Black Action Figure, “After the Day is Done”
Joe Henderson, Porgy and Bess, “O Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess”
Set 8
Ray Brown Trio, Moore Makes Four, “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”
Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne, “Infant Eyes”
Ben Webster and Harry Sweets Edison, Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, “Embraceable You”
James Carter, The Real Quiet Storm, “Born to Be Blue”
Set 9
Larry Young, Complete Blue Note Recordings, “I Wish You Love”
Palladium, Don’t Look Back, “She Moves Through the Fair”
Red Mitchell, Red Mitchell, “I’ll Never Be the Same”
Bobo Stenson, Very Early, “Some Other Spring”
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.
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