Jazz Spectrum - Friday

Fridays at 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Hosted by Fritz Byers, “Jazz Spectrum – Friday” includes vignettes about the artists, commentary about the influences that led to the recording, and an occasional brief explication of the significance of the recording and the artists in the overall sweep of jazz history.   

The hour beginning at 10 p.m. E.T. will be dedicated to a particular theme – a single recording, a particular musician, a specific instrument, or perhaps a selection of recordings from a single year.   

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Playlist for January 2

Set 1

Fieldwork, Thereupon, “Embracing Difference”
Same, “Evening Rite”
Same, “The Night Before”

Set 2

Dave Douglas, Alloy, “Alloy”
Same, “Announcement: Vigilance”
Same, “The Antidote”

Set 3 

Steve Lehman, The Music of Anthony Braxton, “23b + 23g”
Same, “Unbroken and Unspoken”
Same, “23c”

Set 4

Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room, “Continuance”
Same, “I Fall in Love Too Easily”
Same, “The Big Room”

Set 5

Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet, “Question Marks (The Spot)”
“The Returning Angel”
Same, “House of Steam”

Set 6

Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts, “Full of Neon”
Same, “Eventidal”
Same, “Polyhedral”
Same, “Endmost”

Set 7

Billy Hart, Multidirectional, “Song for Balkis”
Same, “Giant Steps”

Set 8

Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, “Obsidian”
Same, “Tell Him I Said Hello”
Same, “Broken”

Set 9

James Brandon Lewis, Abstraction is Deliverance, “Ware”
Same, “Even the Sparrow”
Same, “Mr. Crick”

Set 10

James Davis Beveled, Arc and Edge, “Rothko Sketches I & II’
Same, “Heartstring Saga”
Same, “The Blind Watchmaker”

Set 11

Amir Elsaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal, “Autumn Comes”
Same, “For the Victims of Genocide”
Same, “Dignity”

Set 12

Thomas Fujiwara, Dream Up, “Dream Up”
Same, “Komorebi”
Same, “You Don’t Have to Try”