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 10 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 January 3

Set 1

Emma Rawicz, Inkyra, “Particles of Change”
Same, “Moondrawn (Dreaming)”
Same, “A Portrait of Today”

Set 2

John Patitucci, Spirit Fall, “Think Fast”
Same, “Spirit Fall”
Same, “House of Jade”

Set 3

Arturo O’Farrill, Mundoagua – Celebrating Carla Bley, “Blue Palestine: Part One”
Same, “Part Three”

Set 4

Branford Marsalis, Belonging, “The Windup”
Same, “Blossom”

Set 5

Trio of Bloom, Trio of Bloom “Queen King”
Same, “Bend It”

Set 6

Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible, “Contemplation”
Same, “Gina’s Ascent Intro”
Same, “Gina’s Ascent”

Set 7

Webber-Morris Big Band, Unseparate, “JI Etudes for Big Band – Metaphor”
Same, “Habitual”

Set 8

Miguel Zenon Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea, “Dale La Vuelta”
Same, “Bendicion”

Set 9

Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens, “Portal”
Same, “Strange Heavens”
Same, “Noise Machinery”
Same, “Just Waiting”

Set 10

Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind, “African Blues”
Same, “Voices”
Same, “Song for Mother E”
Same, “Beneath the Sun”

Set 11

Rebecca Trescher, Changing Perspectives, “Veils of Fog”
Same, “Changing Perspectives”
Same, “Where We Belong”

Set 12

Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue, “Black Butterfly”
Same, “The Ghost of Lady Day”

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.