Jazz Spectrum - Friday

Fridays at 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

jazz spectrum friday

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 October 25

Set 1 
Art Blakey, Roots and Herbs, “Roots and Herbs” 
Patricia Barber, Verse, “I Could Eat Your Words” 
Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie, Roy & Diz, “Limehouse Blues” 

Set 2 
Allison Miller, Rivers in Our Veins, “Blue Wild Indigo” 
Frank Strozier, Fantastic Frank Strozier, “Just in Time”
Modern Jazz Quartet, In a Crowd, “Mean to Me” 
Julian Priester, In Deep End Dance, “Blues Sea” 

Set 3 
John Scofield, Works for Me, “Big J” 
Mary Lou Williams, Live at the Keystone Korner, “It Ain’t Necessarily So” 
Gerry Mulligan, the Original Sextet, “Lollypop” 
Harold Land, Eastward Ho!, “On a Little Street in Singapore” 

Set 4 
Chrstine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, Habitat, “Sweet Adelphi” 
Charlie Parker, Complete Live Performances on Savoy, “Slow Boat to China” 
J.J. Johnson, Let’s Hang Out, “It’s You or No One” 
Freddie Hubbard, Complete Blue Note & Impulse Sessions, “Birdlike” 

Set 5 
Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch, “Los Otros Yo”
Same, “Breaking Stretch” 
Same, “555" 

Set 6 
Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch, “Palo de Oros” 
Same, “Suenos de Coral Azul” 
Same, “Five Suns” 


Set 7 
Patricia Brennan, Breaking Stretch, “Mudanza” 
Same, “Manufacgtuer’s Trast Comany Building” 
Same, “Earendel” 

Set 8 
Mark Turner & Tad Shull, Two Tenor Ballads, “Turn Out the Stars” 
The Claudia Quintet +1, What is the Beautiful, “The Bloodhounds” 
Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Brookmeyer Small Band, “Exactly Alike” 

Set 9 
John Coltrane, The Stardust Session, “Invitation” 
Ahmad Jamal, Complete Trio Argo Sessions, “You Go to My Head” 
George Freeman, The Good Life, “If I Had You”