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 July 17

Set 1

• New England Jazz Collaborative, Tributaries, “The Secret”
• Cannonball Adderley, Fiddler on the Roof, “Fiddler on the Roof”
• Stella Heath, For Billie, “Good Morning Heartache”
• Miles Okazaki, Boomtown, “Thermopolis”

Set 2

• James Brandon Lewis, Omni, “Testify”
• Steve Lacy & Mal Waldon, Live in Berlin, “Improvisation”
• Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya, Sotho Blue, “Nisa”
• Kenny Dorham, Jazz Contemporary, “Horn Salute”

Set 3

• Johnny Hodges, Complete Verve Small Group Sessions, “Blues’ll Blow Your Fuse”
• Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers I, “Vestibule”
• Lorez Alexandria, Standards with a Light Touch of Jazz, “Angel Eyes”
• Same, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”
• Hank Mobley, Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions, “Mobleymania”

Set 4

• Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes (From the Underground), “Black Codes (From the Underground)”
• Lee Konitz & Ted Brown, Dig-It, “Dig-It”
• Michael Formanek Very Practical Trio, Even Better, “Apple and Snake”
• Makaya McCraven, In the Moment, “Three Fifths a Man”

Set 5

• Kenny Barron, So Many Lovely Things, “Oh, Look at Me Now”
• Same, “Up Jumped Spring”

Set 6

• Kenny Barron, So Many Lovely Things, “Shuffle Boil”
• Same, “Time Was”
• Same, “Silent Rain”

Set 7

• Kenny Barron, So Many Lovely Things, “Canadian Sunset”

Set 8

• Marc Copland & Gary Peacock, Insight, “Blue in Green”
• Same, “River’s Run”
• Coleman Hawkins & Henry “Red” Allen, Reunion in Hi-Fi, “I Cover the Waterfront”
• Mary Lou Williams, Free Spirits, “Baby Man, No. 2”

Set 9

• Randy Ingram, Sound Within, “My Foolish Heart”
• Same, “For All We Know”
• Sidney Bechet, Complete Blue Note Recordings, “Lonesome Blues”
• Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet, Complete Argo/Mercury Sessions, “’Round Midnight”