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 February 20

Set 1 
 
Sun Ra, Swirling, “Astro Black” 
Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia, “Back to You” 
Same, “Space Ghost” 
Billie Holiday, Complete Decca Recordings, “Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer”
Same, “You Better Go Now” 
 
Set 2 
 
Miles Davis, Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet, “It Could Happen to You”
Susannah McCorkle, Hearts and Minds, “It Could Happen to You” 
Susannah McCorkle, Easy to Love, “Ev’rytime We Say Goodbye” 
Susannah McCorkle, From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies, “Laughing at Life” 
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Royal Garden Blues” 
Duke Heitger, “On the Sunny Side of the Street” 
 
Set 3 
 
Thelonious Monk, Genius of Modern of Music, “In Walked Bud” 
Thelonious Monk, Thelonious in Action, “In Walked Bud” 
Carmen McRae, At the Great American Music Hall, “Miss Otis Regrets” 
Same, “Don’t Misunderstand” 
Same, Never Let Me Go” 
Same, “The Folks Who Live on the Hill” 
 
Set 4 
 
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, “Choo Choo ChBoogie” 
Same, “Is You or Is You Ain’t My Baby” 
Same, “Caldonia Boogie” 
Same, “Nobody Here But Us Chickens” 
Thelonious Monk, Mulligan Meets Monk, “’Round Midnight” 
Thelonious Monk, Monk at Town Hall, “Rhythm-a-Ning” 
 
Set 5 
 
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, “Orbits” 
Same, “Circle” 
Same, “Footprints” 
 
Set 6 
 
Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, “Dolores” 
Freedom Jazz Dance” 
Same, “Gingerbread Boy” 
 
Set 7 
 
Miles Davis, E.S.P., “E.S.P”
Same, “Iris” 
 
Set 8 
 
Herbie Hancock, Takin’ Off, “Watermelon Man” 
Herbie Hancock, Headhunters, “Chameleon” 
Same, “Headhunters” 
 
Set 9 
 
Claude Bolling, Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano, "Baroque and Blue" 
Same, "Sentimentale"
Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is? “Sing a Rainbow” 
Miles Davis, Workin’, “It Never Entered My Mind” 
Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans, “Goodbye”