Jazz Spectrum - Saturday
Saturdays 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.
Hosted by Fritz Byers, Jazz Spectrum is a blend of new releases and timeless classics, familiar names and emerging artists. And the familiar weekly feature – The Song of the Week – will continue to occupy two sets, beginning at 10 p.m. E.T. In this interlude, we present a variety of versions of a single song from the jazz repertoire as a way of highlighting the infinite variety of approaches to the materials of jazz.
Playlist for November 22
Set 1
Spinaflex, Maxximus, “Smitten”
Mark Sherman, Bop Contest, “Bop Contest”
“Love Always Always”
Phil Haynes, Liberty Now, “Situation Ethnics”
Same, “Corner Store Strut”
Set 2
Raphael Pannier Quartet, Live in St. Louis, Senegal, “Lonely Woman”
Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something, “News Cycle”
Same, “Elegiac Foldouts”
Andrew Hill, Smoke Stack, “Smoke Stack”
Set 3
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, with Jack Leonard, I’ll See You in My Dreams, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Buck Clayton, Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Billie Holiday, Complete Verve Studio Master Takes, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Coleman Hawkins, Soul, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Set 4
Ella Fitzgerald, The Intimate Ella, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Art Tatum, Solo Masterpieces, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Lena Horne, Lena on the Blue Side, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band, Appearing Nightly, “I Hadn’t Anyone Till You”
Set 5
Jack Sheldon, The Entertainers, “Atomic Bomb”
Johnny Smith, Complete Roost Recordings, “Pawn Ticket”
Louis Armstrong, Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings, “Honeysuckle Rose”
Eric Alexander, Solid, “Solid”
Set 6
Conrad Herwig, Obligation, “Lua Flora”
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Live at Yoshi’s, “Stairway to the Stars”
Herbie Mann, Nirvana, “Willow Weep for Me”
Gordon Grdina, The Marrow, “Break the Branch”
Set 7
Ray Brown, Super Bass, “Sculler Blues” 1
Duke Ellington, Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings, “Creole Love Call”
Jeanne Lee & Ran Black, The Newest Sound You Never Heard, “Blue Monk”
Sir Roland Hanna, Tributaries, Reflections on Tommy Flanagan, “Body and Soul”
Set 8
Louis Smith, Ballads for Lulu, “Old Folks”
Keith Jarrett, New Vienna, “Part IV”
Same, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
Andy Kirk and His Orchestra, Chronological Classics, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song, “Flux Fuelings”
Set 9
Brad Mehldau, The Art of the Trio, “Moon River”
Lennie Tristano, Requiem, “Requiem”
Dexter Gordon, Homecoming, “Round Midnight”
Meet Your Host Fritz Byers
Hailing from The Sunflower State of Kansas, Fritz Byers is a Duke University and Harvard Law School alum.
After he started practicing law in the Toledo area, Fritz took his love for Jazz and proposed a new radio show on WGTE's FM 91. That's when Jazz Spectrum was born and it began airing on April 1, 1989. He has been sharing Jazz every Saturday night since on FM 91.
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