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.   

Jazz Spectrum Blog

Playlist for January 16

Set 1 

Colin Steele Quartet, The Blue Nile, “Headlights on the Parade” 
Same, “Let’s Go Out Tonight” 
Renee Rosnes, Beloved of the Sky, “Black Holes” 
Ornette Coleman, Sound Museum: Hidden Man, “Sound Museum” 
Same, “What Reason” 

Set 2 

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Free for All, “The Core” 
Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie, Roy & Diz, “Sometimes I’m Happy” 
Tommy Flanagan, Roy Eldridge & Vic Dickenson, “Like Someone in Love” 
Lester Young, Complete Studio Sessions on Verve, “Ad Lib Blues” 
Same, “Too Marvelous for Words” 

Set 3 

Dexter Gordon, BeBop Story, Vol. 3, “Bonna Rue”
Same, “Tenderly” 
Duke Ellignton, Such Sweet Thunder, “Half the Fun” 
Same, “Star-Crossed Lovers” 
Johnny Hodges, Complete Johnny Hodges Verve Sessions, “Used to Be Duke”

Set 4 

Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet, Complete Mercury Recordings, “This Nearly Was Mine” 
Marian McPartland, Live at Yoshi’s, “Straight No Chaser” 
Clifford Jordan, Complete Strata-East Sessions, “Alias Buster Henry” 
John Coltrane, Settin’ the Pace, “If There is Someone Lovelier Than You” 

Set 5 

Chet Baker, Chet Baker and Crew, To Mickey's Memory" 
Same, "Slightly Above Moderate" 
Same, "Halema" 
Same, "Revelation" 

Set 6 

Chet Baker, Chet Baker and Crew, "Something For Liza" 
Same,"Lucius Lu"
Same, "Worryin' the Life Out of Me" 
Same, "Medium Rock"

Set 7 

Chet Baker, Chet Baker and Crew, "Jumpin' Off a Clef" 
Same, "Chippyin'" 
Same, "Pawnee Junction" 
Same, "Music to Dance By”

Set 8 

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio, Songs from My Father, “Pretty Blue Eyes”
Pandelis Karayorgis, Seventeen Pieces, “Super Bronze” 
Same, “Centennial”
Irene Kral, You Are There, “If Love Were All” 
Coleman Hawkins & Red Allen, Complete Classic Sessions, “The Lonesome Road”
Same, “Summertime”

Set 9 

Gerry Mulligan Concert Band, Complete Verve Sessions, “Go Home” 
Hank Jones, Satin Doll, “If I Had You” 
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins, Duets, Volume Two, “Old Folks” 
Horace Parlan & Johnny Griffin, Close Your Eyes, “You’re My Everything”
Same, “Pannonica”