Selections from ten of Jazz Collector’s favorite albums. Featured artists including Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Donald Byrd, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and many more.
Category: Podcast
Podcast: Live From Newport Jazz Festival
This week’s theme: It’s summertime, and we are focusing on live recordings made at the Newport Jazz Festival, covering the years 1956 to 1968. Featured artists include Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Lambert Hendricks and Bevan, Count Basie, Jo Jones, Roland Kirk, Herbie Mann, Chick Correa and many, many more.
Podcast: Standards, vocals, Instrumentals
This week’s theme. All standards, some vocals, some instrumentals. Featured artists include Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Art Blakey, Rosemary Clooney, Stacey Kent, Scott Hamilton, Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Jo Jones, John Coltrane, Arthur Taylor, Paul Chambers, Warren Vache, Nancy LaMott, Richie Cole and many more.
Podcast: Coltrane, Live, Europe, Early ’60s
This week’s theme. John Coltrane, Live in Europe, 1961 to 1963. Featured musicians include John Coltrane, McCoy Tyler, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison, Reggie Workman, Eric Dolphy.
Podcast: Brubeck, Desmond, Fantasy
This week’s theme. Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on the Fantasy label. Featured artists include Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Ron Crotty, Joe Dodge, Lloyd Davis, Bill Ruther, Herb Barman, Dave van Credit, William O. Smith, Jack Weeks, Dick Collins, Cal Trader, Joe Morello, Norman Bates.
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Podcast: The Alternate Clifford Brown
This week’s theme: Clifford Brown, alternate takes and other discoveries. Artists include Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Harold Land, George Morrow, Richie Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Manhattan Transfer, Herb Geller, Joe Maini, Walter Benton, Kenny Drew, Curtis Counce.
Podcast: Jazz Vinyl, 1965
This week’s theme: Jazz Vinyl recorded or released in 1965. Artists include Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, George Coleman, Anthony Williams, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Ray Bryant, Pete LaRoca, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Mann, Paul Desmond, Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans, and many more.
Podcast: Dexter Gordon, The (Almost) Lost Decade
This week’s theme: Dexter Gordon studio recordings 1950s (and The Resurgence). Featured artists include Dexter Gordon, Stan Levey, Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Leroy Vinnegar, Lou Levy, Kenny Drew, Lawrence Marble, Carl Perkins, Chuck Thompson, Jimmy Robinson, Dolo Coker, Martin Banks, Richard Boone, Charles Green.
Standards Series, Volume 6: The Great American Songbook, One More Time
This week’s podcast: More vocals and instrumentals from the Great American Songbook. Featured artists include Dinah Washington, Ben Webster, Annie Ross, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Barney Kessell, Herb Ellis, Rosemary Clooney, Zoot Sims, Scott Hamilton, Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Paul Desmond Jim Hall, Sonny Criss, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more.Featured songs include Makin’Whoopee, I Was Going All Right, Diane, I’ve Got a Crush on You, Cry Me a River, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face, For All We Know, and more.
Standards Series, Volume 5: Digging Deeper Into the Jazz Collector Collection
This week’s theme: Another show wherein I play a jazz vocal from the Great American Songbook, followed by a jazz instrumental of the same song. Featured artists include Rosemary Clooney, Stan Getz, Eddie Jefferson, Nat King Cole, Harry Sweets Edison, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Clarke, Anita O’Day, Hank Mobley, Sonny Clark, Marshall Royal, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, LaVern Baker, Sonny Stitt, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Paul Chambers, Arthur Taylor, Bill Hartman, Curtis Porter,and many more.
April is Jazz Month
