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 June 19

Set 1 

Abdullah Ibrahim, Water from an Ancient Well, “Mandela”
Abdullah Ibrahim, Mannenberg – Is Where It’s Happening, “Mannenberg”
Abdullah Ibrahim, Yarona, “Duke 88”
Abdullah Ibrahim, Water from an Ancient Well, “Song for Sathima” 

Set 2 

Abdullah Ibrahim, Senzo, “Blues for a Hip King”
Abdullah Ibrahim, Yarona, “Stardance”
Abdullah Ibrahim, Water from an Ancient Well, “The Wedding” 
Abdullah Ibrahim, Yarona, “Tintiyana”

Set 3 

Amina Figarova, Jazz at the Pinehill, “Mad Avenue” 
Carol Sloane, Love You Madly, “I Could Have Told You So” 
Same, “My Gentleman Friend” 
Phil Woods & Enrico Pieranunzi, Elsa, “September Song” 
The Cookers, Look Out!, “AKA Reggie” 

Set 4 

Dewey Redman Quartet, The Struggle Continues, “Joie de Vivre” 
J.J. Johnson, First Place, “It’s Only a Paper Moon”
Count Basie, April in Paris, “Corner Pocket” 
Horace Silver, Serenade to a Soul Sister, “Jungle Juice”

Set 5 

Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds, “The Plum Blossom” 
Same, “Blues for the Orient” 
Same, “Ching Miau” 
Same, “Don’t Blame Me” 

Set 6 

Yusef Lateef, Eastern Sounds, “Love Theme from ‘Spartacus’”
Same, “Snafu”
Same, “Purple Flower” 
Same, “Love Theme from ‘The Robe’”
Same, “The Three Faces of Balal”

Set 7 

Yusef Lateef, The Centaur and the Phoenix, “Revelation” 
Yusef Lateef, Live at Pep’s Vol. 1, “Number 7” 

Set 8 

Ben Webster, Ben Webster Plays Ballads, “For All We Know” 
Julian Lage, Squint, “Emily” 
Elvin Jones, Dear John C, “Everything Happens to Me” 
Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass, “Earl & the Three-Fifths Compromise” 

Set 9 

Bill Evans, Explorations, “Elsa (Alternate Take)” 
Jimmy Cobb Quartet, Cobb’s Corner, “My Ship” 
Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers, “Roots and Routes” 
Elmo Hope, Meditations, “I’m in the Mood for Love” 
Antonio Farao, Thorn, “Time Back”