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 December 19

Set 1 

Louis Armstrong, Jazzy Christmas in New Orleans, “Christmas in New Orleans” 
Same, “White Christmas” 
Same, “Winter Wonderland” 
Roland Kirk, The Best of Christmas, “We Free Kings” 
Ralph Sharon, Plays the Ralph Blane Songbook, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” 
Booker Ervin, Structurally Sound, “White Christmas” 
Carmen McRae, Sings Love Man, “The Christmas Song”

Set 2 

Rob McConnell, Big Band Christmas, “A Christmas Love Song”
Same, “Silver Bells, In the Bleak Midwinter” 
Sidney Bechet, A Jazz Christmas, “Blues du Papa Noel” 
Rosemary Clooney, “The Night Before Christmas” 
Pete Christlieb, A Mellow Jazz Christmas, “White Christmas” 

Set 3 

Abbey Lincoln, Swinging Christmas, “A Child is Born” 
Beegie Adair, Jazz Piano Christmas, “Frosty the Snowman” 
Same, “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” 
Same, “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Billie Eckstine, Swinging Christmas, “Blue Christmas” 
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel, Riding the Nuclear Tiger, “Charlie Brown’s Psychedelic Christmas”

Set 4 

Charlie Parker, Complete Live Performances on Savoy, “White Christmas”
Chet Baker, Welcome Back, “Christmas Waltz” 
Chico Hamilton, A Jazz Christmas, “Winter wonderland” 
Bennie Green, Yule Struttin’, “A Merrier Christmas” 
Count Basie, A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas, “Let It Snow”
Same, “It’s the Holiday Season”

Set 5

Wynton Marsalis, Crescent City Christmas Card, “Carol of the Bells” 
Same, “Silent Night”    
Same, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”    
Same,  “The Little Drummer Boy”    
Same, “We Three Kings”    
Same, “O Tannenbaum”   

Set 6 

Wynton Marsalis, Crescent City Christmas Card, “Sleigh Ride”    
Same, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
Same, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”    
Same, “Winter Wonderland”
Same, “Jingle Bells”     
Same, “O Come All Ye Faithful” 
Same, “'Twas the Night Before Christmas”    

Set 7 24:13)

Dexter Gordon, The Panther!, “The Christmas Song” 
Cyrus Chestnut, A Charlie Brown Christmas, “Linus and Lucy” 
Same, “Me and Charlie Brown” 
Diana Krall with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” 
Dave Brubeck, A Dave Brubeck Christmas, “Away in a Manger” 

Set 8 

Classical Jazz Quartet, Christmas, “Overture Miniature from the Nutcracker”
Same, “March from the Nutcracker” 
Same, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” 
Same, “Dance of the Reeds” 
Same, “Waltz of the Flowers”