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 September 19

Set 1

Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68, “Capricorn”
Ken Filiano & Quantum Entanglements, Dreams from a Clown Car, “Retronym”
Ben Allison, Think Free, “Fred” 
Jennifer Warren’s Bonegasm, Grit and Grace, “Virtual Reality”

Set 2 

Joshua Redman, Compass, “Little Ditty” 
Cecile McLorin Salvant, The Window, “Visions” 
Glenn Zaleski, Solo, “Visa”
Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope, “Capsule” 

Set 3

Woody Herman and His Orchestra, Complete Capitol Recordings, “Captain Ahab” 
Reid Anderson, The Vastness of Space, “The Captain”
Paul Gonsalves, Cleopatra, Cleo’s Asp” 
Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift in Decorum, “Withered”

Set 4 

Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan, Live at MCG, “Capricious”
Roy Ayers, West Coast Vibes, “Ricardo’s Dilemma” 
Wynton Marsalis Septet, Blue Interlude, “Sometimes It Goes Like That” 
J.J. Johnson, Blue Trombone, “Blue Trombone” 

Set 5 

Pat Metheny, 80/81, “Two Folk Songs” 

Set 6 

Pat Metheny, 80/81, “80/81” 
Same, “The Bat” 
Same, Turnaround” 

Set 7 

Pat Metheny, 80/81, “Pretty Scattered” 
Same, “Goin’ Ahead” 

Set 8 

John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet, “Visions of Claudia” 
Dizzy Gillespie, Chronological Classics 1945, “I Can’t Get Started” 
Shirley Hornb, Quiet Now, “My Funny Valentine” 
Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love, “Blessings in a Year of Exiles”
Roxy Coss, The Future is Female, “She Needed a Hero” 

Set 9 

Pat Martino, Live at Yoshi’s, “All Blues” 
Roy Hargrove, Family, “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”
Lorez Alexandria, How Will I Remember You, “While We’re Young”
J.R. Montrose & Tommy Flanagan, A Little Pleasure, “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”