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.
Playlist for October 18
Set 1
Jan Allen, Jan Allen 70, “Rapid”
Betty Carter, The Audience, “I Could Write a Book”
Betty Carter, Live at the Village Vanguard, “Body and Soul”
Fred Hersch, Songs Without Words, “Whisper Not”
Set 2
Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith, Angel Falls, “Sonic Utterance”
Same, “Whispering Images”
Billie Holiday, Commodore Master Takes, “My Old Flame”
Same, “I’ll Be Seeing You”
Same, “Lover Come Back to Me”
Richard Davis, Persia My Dear, “Strange Vibes”
Set 3
Bing Crosby, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Barney Bigard, Chronological Classics 1944-45, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Louis Armstrong, Chronological Classics 1931, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Coleman Hawkins, The Bebop Years, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Set 4
Doris Day, Greatest Hits, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Charlie Mingus, Reincarnation of a Love Bird, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Weslia Whitfield, In My Life, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Dizzy Gillespie, Have Trumpet Will Excite, “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams”
Set 5
Dannie McCaslin, Give and Go, “Two-three”
Carmen McRae, Sings Lover Man, “What a Little Moonlight Can Do”
Carmen McRae, And Her Trio, “It Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do”
Melissa Aldana, Visions, “Dos Casas, Un Puente”
Set 6
Hank Mobley, Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions, Mobleymania”
Ray Brown Trio with Benny Green, Don’t Get Sassy, “Brown’s New Blues”
Benny Carter with Elisabeth Welch, Vol. 3, “When Lights are Low”
Kenny Burrell, Blue Muse, “’Round Midnight”
Set 7
Miles Davis, Round About Midnight, “Bye Bye Blackbird”
Cedar Walton, Manhattan Afternoon, “Skylark”
Arthur Blythe, Focus, “In a Sentimental Mood”
Roy Hargrove, Of Kindred Souls, “Homelife Revisited”
Set 8
Johnny Griffin & Horace Parlan, Close Your Eyes, “My One and Only Love”
Aaron Parks, Little Big, “Siren”
Lorez Alexandria, Lorez Sings Pres, “No Eyes Blues”
Thelonious Monk, Complete Riverside Recordings, “Flugelin’ the Blues”
Set 9
Cyrus Chestnut, A Million Colors in Your Mind, “A Time for Love”
Marcus Strickland, Of Song, Pinocchio”
Red Garland, Bright and Breezy, “You’ll Never Know”
Blue Mitchell, Out of the Blue, “Blues on My Mind”
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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