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 October 24

Set 1

• Emily Remler, East to Wes, “Dahoud”
• Same, “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise”
• Emily Remler, Catwalk, “Pedals”
• Myra Melford & Dave Douglas, The Same River, Twice, “Drawing in the Dark (Prayer for Peace in the Balkans” 

Set 2

• Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes, “Rejoice, Disrupt, Resist”
• Angelika Niescier, NYC Five, “Invaded”
• Angelika Niescier, Soul in Plain Sight, “As Hemispheres at Home”
• Ray Hargrove, Nothing Serious, “Salima’s Dance”

Set 3

• Ella Fitzgerald, Complete Songbooks, “Day Dream”
• Billy Strayhorn, Piano Passion, “Day Dream”
• Jo Stafford, Jo+Jazz, “Day Dream”
• Johnny Hodges, With Billy Strayhorn & Orchestra, “Day Dream” 

Set 4

• Helen Merrill, Helen Merrill & Dick Katz Sessions, “Day Dream”
• Jimmy Rowles, Trio, Day Dream”
• Andy Bey, Ballads, Blues & Bey, “Day Dream”
• Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass, Play the Jazz Classics, “Day Dream”

Set 5

• Joshua Redman, Still Dreaming, “Haze and Aspirations”
• Cecile McLorin Salvant, Melusine, “Fenestra”
• Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto, “So Danco Samba”

Set 6

• Terri Lyne Carrington, New Standards Vol. 1, “Uplifted Heart”
• Terri Lyne Carrington, Structure, “Black Halo”
• Murray, Allen, & Carrington, Perfection, “Samsara (for Wayne)”
• Gigi Gryce, The Hapn’in’s, “Lover Man”
• John Coltrane, Dakar, “Velvet Scene”

Set 7

• Wes Montgomery, Smokin’ at the Half Note, “If You Could See Me now”
• Randy Weston, Get Happy, “Bass Knows”
• Same, “Where are You”
• Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball’s Bossa Nova, “Joyce’s Sambas”
• Cannonball Adderley, Bohemia After Dark, “We’ll Be Together Again”

Set 8

• Dan McCarthy, A Place Where We Once Lived, “Trail Marker”
• Mundell Lowe, Guitar Moods, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country”
• Mundell Lowe, The Mundell Lowe Quartet, “I’ll Never Be the Same”
• Joelle Leandre & Nicole Mitchell, Sisters Where, “Sisters on Venus”
• Hazel Scott, Relaxed Piano Moods, “Peace of Mind” 

Set 9

• Don Byron, Romance with the Unseen, “I’ll Follow the Sun”
• Same, “Basquiat”
• McCoy Tyner, 13th House, “Search for Peace”
• Louis Smith, Just Friends, “I Remember Clifford”

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.