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 August 15

Set 1

Count Basie, Complete Live Recordings, “Little Pony” 
Same, “Li’l Darlin” 
Same, “Basie” 
Same, “The Midnight Sun Never Sets” 
Same, “Segue in C” 
Same, “Corner Pocket” 

Set 2 

Sheila Jordan, Portrait of Sheila, “Falling in Love with Love” 
Same, “If You Could See Me Now” 
Same, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” 
Sheila Jordan, Sheila, “Lush Life” 
Sheila Jordan, With Cameron Brown, “I Got Rhythm/Listen to Monk” 
Sheila Jordan, Live at Mezzrow, “Baltimore Oriole” 

Set 3 

Myra Melford, Splash, “Chalk” 
Same, 4:22 Interlude I” 
Zoot Sims, If I’m Lucky, “I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone” 
Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts, “Full of Neon” 
Same, “Carved From” 

Set 4 

James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction is Deliverance, “Remember Rosalind”
Same, “Multicellular Beings” 3:22
Ken Filano, Subvenire, “Tangram” 
Art Pepper, Promise Kept, “Straight No Chaser” 
Thelonious Monk, Misterioso, “Blues Five Spot” 

Set 5

Dinah Washington, Vol. 6, “What a Difference a Day Made” 
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Complete Decca Sessions, “What a Difference a Day Made” 
Ernestine Anderson, Never Make Your Move Too Soon, “What a Difference a Day Made” 
Ike Quebec, Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions, “What a Difference a Day Makes” 

Set 6 

Keiko Lee, “What a Difference a Day Made” 
Wynton Kelly, Full View, “What a Difference a Day Made” 
Diane Schuur, Pure Schuur, “What a Difference a Day Makes” 
Sonny Rollins, +3, “What a Difference a Day Made” 

Set 7

Terence Blanchard, Absence, “Absence” 
Lauren Kinhan, A Sleepin’ Bee, “Happy Talk”
New Air, Air Show No. 1, “Salute to the Enema Bandit”

Set 8 

George Freeman, The Good Life, “If I Had You” 
Lee Konitz, Someone to Watch Over Me, “Someone to Watch Over Me” 
Wynton Marsalis, From the Plantation to the Penitentiary, “These are Those Soulful Days”

Set 9 

Benjamin Koppel, The Art of the Quartet, “If I Should Lose You” 
Jimmy Rowles, in Paris, “Blues for Henri” 
Harry Edison & Ben Webster, “Blues for Bill Basie”