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 13

Set 1 

Omer Avital, Qantar: New York Paradox, “Zohar Smiles” 
Gregg Belisle-Chi, Slow Crawl, “Cluster” 
Dayna Stephens, Hopium, “Occasionally Cynical” 
Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues, “7th Symphony Elegy” 

Set 2 

Dave Douglas, Four Freedoms, “Militias” 
Same, “Sing Sing” 
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Tokyo, “Flight” 
Sharel Cassity, Gratitude, “Smile” 
Same, “Gratitude” 

Set 3 

Ines Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue, “Vauxhall”
Same, “In the Tropical Night” 
Eric McPherson, Double Brass Quartet, “Transmission” 
Ella Logan, Classic Black & White Sessions, “Tea for Two” 
Same, “Sometimes I’m Happy” 
Barbara Dennerlein, Junkanoo, “Nightowls” 

Set 4 

Zoot Sims-Bob Brookmeyer Octet, Stretching Out, “Pennies from Heaven” 
Wynton Marsalis, Marsalis Plays Monk, “Brake’s Sake” 
Urbie Green, East Coast Jazz, “Just One of Those Things” 
Same, “Sassafras” 
Clifford Brown, Complete Blue Note & Pacific Recordings, “Minor Mood” 

Set 5 

Clark Terry, Memories of Duke, “Passion Flower" 
Same, "Happy Go Lucky Local" 
Same, "Echoes of Harlem" 
Same, "Sophisticated Lady" 

Set 6 

Clark Terry, Memories of Duke, "Things Ain't What They Used to Be"
Same "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" 
Same, "Cotton Tail" 
Same, "Everything but You" 
Same, "Come Sunday" 

Set 7 

Clark Terry, Duke with a Difference, “C Jam Blues” 
Same, “Mood Indigo” 
Same, “Take the A Train” 

Set 8 

Carmen Staaf, Sounding Line, “Monk’s Mood” 
Anders Jormin, Alone, Hahnnele” 
Same, “El Mayor” 
Art Tatum, Group Masterpieces (with Roy Eldridge), “In a Sentimental Mood”
Same, “I Surrender, Dear” 

Set 9 

JD Allen, Love Letters, “I Get Along Without You Very Well” 
Denny Zeitlin, Without a Song in My Heart, “Falling in Love with Love” 
Ernie Watts, The Long Road Home, “The Long Road Home” 
Lioness, Pride & Joy, “Ida Lupino” 
Emily Remler, East to Wes, “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise”