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 April 25

Set 1
JD Allen, I Am I Am, “Titus” 
Abbey Lincoln, Abbey Sings Billie, “For All We Know” 
Ran Blake, Sonic Temples, “Memphis” 
Mark Masters, Night Talk – The Alec Wilder Songbook, “Ellen” 
Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior is Far Easier to Paint, “Memo”

Set 2 
Sonny Rollins, Way O ut West, “Way Out West” 
Herbie Mann, Nirvana, “Cashmere” 
Same, “Willow Weep for Me” 
Billie Holiday, Thew Quintessential Billie Holiday, “That’s Life I Guess” 
Tineke Postma, A Journey That Matters, “Travelling Circus” 

Set 3 
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Glitter Wolf, “Welcome Hotel” 
Ed Palermo Big Band, Oh No! Not Jazz, “Prelude to an Insult” 
Greta Matassa, If the Moon Turns Green, “More Than You Know” 
Vincent Herring, Preaching to the Choir, “Hello” 
Hank Mobley, Dippin’, “The Dip” 

Set 4 
Donnie McCaslin, Declaration, “Late Night Gospel” 
Zach Brock, Almost Never Was, “Common Ground” 
Tony Williams Mosaic Select, “The Story of Neptune: Fear Not” 
Sam Weinberg, Implicatures, “Falls and Pratfalls”

Set 5 
Bobo Stenson, Serenity, “T” 
Same, “West Print” 
Same, North Print” 
Same, “East Print” 
Same, “South Print”

Set 6 
Bobo Stenson, Serenity, “Polska of Despair (II)” 
Same, “Golden Rain” 
Same, “El Mayor” 

Set 7 
Bobo Stenson, Serenity, “Die Nachtigall” 
Same, “Polska of Despair (I)”
Same, “Serenity” 
Same, “Tonus” 

Set 8 
Ahmad Jamal, Chicago Revisited, “Blue Gardenia” 
Antonio Hart, All We Need, “A Harmonic Future” 
Russell Malone, All About Melody, “Nice Lady” 
Thad Jones, Hard Bop, “I’ve Got a Crush on You”

Set 9 
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster, “It Never Entered My Mind” 
Red Garland, The P.C. Blues, “Why Was I Born?” 
Frances Langford & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, “Easy to Love” 
Henry Threadgill, Everyone’s Mouth’s a Book, “Burnt Til Recognition” 
Tomasz Stanko, Leosia, “Morning Heavy Song”