For those who love jazz
This week’s theme: Tina Brooks as sideman and leader n Blue Note. Featured artists include Tina Brooks, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones, Clifford Jarvis, Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Paul Chambers, Louis Hayes, Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Arthur Taylor, Johnny Coles, Wilbur Ware, Philly Joe Jones, Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey.
This week’s theme: Songs that have the name of a woman in the title. Eclectic, but fun. And some great music. Featured artists include Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Wynton Kelly, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Connie Kay, Percy Heath, Eddie Jefferson, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Miles Davis, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Jimmy Rushing, and many more.
This week’s theme: Songs that reference cities and countries around the world, i.e., St. Thomas, Barbados, Spain, Tokyo Blues. You get the hint. Featured artists include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Junior Cook, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Harold Land, Richie Powell, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Chick Correa, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Airto, Flora Purim, and many more.
Theme: Jazz instrumental and vocal versions of songs written by Frank Loesser. Featured artists include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, Eddie Costa, Charles Rouse, Julius Watkins, Gildo Mahones, Teddy Charles, Phil Woods, Bob Brookmeyer, Zoot Sims, Herb Geller, Gene Quill, Hal McKusick, Al Cohn, Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Sammy Davis Jr., Carmen McRae, Hoagy Carmichael, Art Pepper, Rosemary Clooney, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, and many more.
This week’s theme: Selected Cannonball Adderley pre-Riverside recordings on Savoy, Emarcy and Blue Note. Featured artists include Nat Adderley, Cannonball Adderley, Junior Mance, Jimmy Cobb, Sam Jones, Jerome Richardson, Ernie Wilkins, Quincy Jones, Cecil Payne, Paul Chambers, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, John Williams, Hank Jones, Art Blakey, and more.
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.
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.
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.
This week’s theme: Alternating favorite tracks between John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Featured artists include John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Shelley Manne, Ray Brown, Barney Kessel, Hampton Hawes, Wynton Kelly, Max Roach, Jimmy Cobb, Ray Bryant, George Morrow, and more.
This week’s theme. Jazz vocals and instrumentals from the Great American Songbook. Featured artists include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, McCoy Tyner, Red Garland, Jackie McLean, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Rosemary Clooney, Scott Hamilton, Art Pepper, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Dizzy Reece, Stan Getz, and many more.
