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 May 3

Set 1 
Woody Herman, Complete Capitol Recordings of Woody Herman, “Opus de Funk”
Nina Simone, 5 Classic Albums “It Might As Well Be Spring”
Dizzy Reece Mosaic Select, “The Rebound” 
Miles Davis, Complete Birth of the Cool, “Venus de Milo” 
Eddie Higgins Trio, Again, “Walk Alone” 

Set 2 
David Weiss, Venture Inward, “Black Comedy” 
Geri Allen, The Gathering, “Angels” 
Chet Baker, Smokin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet, “So Easy” 
Steve Coleman, Functional Arrythmias, “Cardiovascular” 
Edward Simon, Femininas, “Naked Sky” 

Set 3 
Oscar Pettiford, Complete Studio Big Band Recordings, “Now See How You Are” 
Rodrigo Amado Trio, The Abstract Truth, “Universe Unmasked” 
Billie Holiday, Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, “Let’s Dream in the Moonlight” 
Dizzy Gillespie, Have Trumpet, Will Excite, “I Found a Million Dollar Baby” 
Don Braden, Brighter Days, “Sweet T (Dedicated to Stanley Turrentine)” 

Set 4 
Sean Mason, The Southern Suite, “Final Voyage” 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars, Sunday Jazz a la Lighthouse, “Four Others” 
Samara Joy, Linger Awhile, “I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)”
Aruan Ortiz, Hidden Voices, “Arabesques of a Geometrical Rose (Summer)” 
Duke Ellington, Such Sweet Thunder, “Half the Fun” 

Set 5 
Booker Little, Booker and Friend, "Victory and Sorrow"
Same, "Forward Flight" 
Same, "Looking Ahead" 
Sam Rivers, Dimensions and Extensions, “Precis” 

Set 6 
Booker Little, Booker and Friend, "If I Should Lose You" 
Same, "Calling Softly" 
Same, "Booker's Blues" 
Same, "Matilde" 
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch, “Hat and Beard”

Set 7 
Mulgrew Miller, Live at Yoshi’s, “What a Difference a Day Makes” 
Avram Fefer Quartet, Juba Lee, “Bedouin Dream” 
John Campbell, At Maybeck Recital Hall, “The Touch of Your Lips” 
Modern Jazz Quartet, Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings, “Sun Dance” 

Set 8 
Satoko Fujii & Ramon Lopez, Confluence, “Confluence” 
Lionel Hampton, You Better Know It, “Vibraphone Blues” 
John Beasley present MONK’estra, Vol. 2, “Light Blue” 
Jean-Michel Pilc, Threedom, “Nardis”
Alchemy Sound Project, Adventures in Time and Space, “Transition Waltz”