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 28

Set 1
 
Thelonious Monk, Orchestra at Town Hall, “Off Minor”
Same, “Monk’s Mood”
Ella Fitzgerald, Sings the Songbooks, “The Man I Love”
Same, “How Long Has This Been Going On?”
Same, “S’ Wonderful”
 
Set 2
 
Benny Green, That’s Right, “Me and My Baby”
Barry Harris, Newer Than New, “Burgundy”
Same, “I Didn’t Know What Time it Was”
Joshua Redman, Compass, “Insomniac”
 
Set 3
 
Dizzy Gillespie, Verve Small Group Sessions, “Blue ‘N’ Boogie”
Same, “Bonnie’s Blues”
Toshiko Akiyoshi, Live at Blue Note Tokyo, “Sophisticated Lady”
Billie Holiday, Complete Commodore Recordings, “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel, Riding the Nuclear Tiger, “Jazz Scene Voyeur”
 
Set 4
 
Clifford Brown, Complete EmArcy Recordings, “Delilah”
Gene Ammons & James Moody, Chicago Concert, “I’ll Close My Eyes”
John Carter & Bobby Bradford’s New Art Ensemble, Seeking, “Karen on Monday”
Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, “Just You, Just Me”
 
Set 5
 
Thad Jones, Three and One, “Instant Blues Disinstant”
Same, “My One and Only Love”
Same, “But Not for Me”
 
Set 6
 
Thad Jones, Three and One, “Night Mist Blues”
Same, “My Romance”
Same, “Three and One”
 
Set 7
 
Thad Jones, Thad Jones, “I Can’t Get Started”
Same, “Bitty Ditty”
Same, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
 
Set 8
 
Jeremy Pelt, The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 2, “I Can’t Escape from You”
Same, “There’ll Be Other Times”
Max Roach, Complete Mercury Plus Four Recordings, “This Time the Dream’s on Me”
Branford Marsalis, Metamorphosen, “The Blossom of Parting”
 
Set 9
 
Sonny Rollins, Old Flames, “I See Your Face Before Me”
McCoy Tyner, Tender Moments, “All My Yesterdays”
Tina Brooks, Complete Blue Note Recordings, “Everything Happens to Me”
Kurt Roswenwinkel, Reflections, “East Coast Love Affair”