Dimensions in Jazz

Past Playlists

For information about any of this music, email me at:  kenz@mnstate.edu

Playlists are roughly in chronological order, beginning with the oldest.  Some lists are dated with the original air date, but all the cuts listed were aired at some point.  Format varies throughout the complete listing on this page as well, and some day (well, most likely, never...) I'll clean it up.  But for now, the listing provides a good idea of the type of music aired on the program.

March 24, 2000

Artist - Album Title - Title of Cut - Label

1. Dexter Gordon - Homecoming - In Case You Haven't Heard (Columbia)

2. Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Composure - Visions (Thirsty Ear)

3. Roscoe Mitchell - Nine to Get Ready - Leola (ECM)

4. Dave Douglas - Leap of Faith - Leap of Faith (Arabesque)

Note: This is a program airing during NDPR's Spring Pledge Drive

April  7, 2000

1. Paul Nash: The Soul of Grace - The Phoenix (Soul Note)

2. Franz Koglmann: Make Believe - Make Believe (Between the Lines)

3. Abdullah: Actual Proof - Serenade for Marion Brown (CIMP)

4. Martin Wind: Family - New Life (A)

Note: This music was aired during NDPR's  Spring Pledge Drive on April  7, 2000

April 14, 2000

Eric Dolphy - Last Date -The Madrig Speaks, the Panther Walks (Fontana)

George Flynn -Trinity - Three Segments from Salvage - (Southport)

Junior Mance - For Dancers Only - For Dancers Only (Sackville)

Enrico Rava/Ran Blake - Duo en Noir - Nature Boy (Between the Lines)

George Russel - At Beethoven Hall - Lydia in Bags Groove (MPS)

Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Composure - Gesture (Thirsty Ear)

Bill Dixon - Papyrus Volume 1 - Indirizzo (Soul Note)

Lou Grassi - Neo Neo - For Thomas Chapin (CIMP)

Richard Tabnik - In the Moment - In Sync & Heartline (New Artist)

April 28, 2000

Milo Fine - Surges/Suspensions, Comme Toujours - MF/SG/EF (Shi Shi Wu Ai)

Charles Sibersky/Murray Wall - Just Jazz Just Two - Blue For Ted (Zinnia)

Art Tatum - Classic Early Solos (1934/37) - The Shout  (Decca/GRP)

May 5, 2000

Wayne Shorter - Et Cetera - Et Cetera (Blue Note)

Jim Knapp - Things For Now - Subconscious Lee (A Records)

Bill Dixon - Papyrus Volume 1 - Indirizzo & Scribbles (Soul Note)

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie - Milestones (OJC)

Franz Koglmann - Make Believe - Blut (Lullaby) (Between the Lines)

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure - Dedication (Blue Note)

Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Composure - Visions (Thirsty Ear)

May 12, 2000

Sonny Fortune - In the Spirit of John Coltrane - Trane and Things  (Shanachie)

Junior Mance - Milestones - Milestones (Sackville)

Paul Nash - The Soul of Grace - Cathexis (Soul Note)

Veryan Weston - Mercury Concert - Shorter Piece (Emanem)

Sal Mosca/Warne Marsh - Quartet Volume 1 - Shakin'-Out (Zinnia)

Myra Melford - Above Blue - Through Storm's Embrace (Arabesque)

Mark Whitecage - Split Personality - Something About J.C. (G.M. Music)

May 19, 2000

Miles Davis - Relaxin' with Miles Davis - Oleo (OJC)

Connie Crothers/Lenny Popkin - Session - Starline (New Artists)

Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots - Tension (Atlantic)

Peggy Stern - Actual Size - Room Enough (Koch Jazz)

Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Composure - Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear)

Enrico Rava/Ran Blake - Duo en Noir - Nature Boy (Between the Lines)

Oscar Peterson/Dizzy Gillespie - Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie - Con Alma (Pablo)

Lester Bowie - All That Magic - Ghosts (ECM)

Sal Mosca - A Concert - Lennie Bird (Jazz Records)

May 26, 2000

"A Celebration and Tribute to the Life and Music of Sun Ra - All Evidence Reissues"

Note:  All the music on this program was issued by Evidence Records

Fate in a Pleasant Mood - The Others in Their World  &   Space Maker

Monorails and Satellites - Space Towers

When Sun Comes Out - Dancing Shadows

Monorails and Satellites - Easy Street  &  Blue Differentials

My Brother the Wind V.II - Otherness Blue  &  Pleasant Twilight

Monorails and Satellites - Monorails and Satellites

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy - And Otherness

Monorails and Satellites - The Alter Destiny

June 2, 2000

Freddie Hubbard - Backlash - Echoes of Blue (Koch Jazz)

Tony Coe/Roger Kellaway - British-American Blue - Caron Glass and Lady Maggie (Between
   the Lines)

Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Stolen Moments (Impulse)

Richard Tabnik - In the Moment - Timestream (New Artists)

Horace Silver - The Jody Grind - Blue Silver (Blue Note)

Franz Koglmann - An Affair With Strauss - A Metropolitan Affair (Between the Lines)

Sun Ra - Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth - Reflections in Blue (Evidence)

Count Basie - Complete Decca Recordings - Swingin' the Blues (GRP/Decca)

June 30, 2000

Chet Baker - In Tokyo - Four (Evidence)

Connie Crothers - Music from Everyday Life - Sonance (New Artists)

Red Mitchell/Harold Land - Hear Ye! - Catacomb (Koch)

Matthew Shipp - Pastoral Composure - Gesture (Thirsty Ear)

Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band - Handle with Care - Get Out of Town (Koch)

Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron - Communique - Wickets (Soul Note)

Tony Coe/Roger Kellaway - British-American Blue (Between the Lines)

Anthony Braxton - Wesleyan (12 Altosolos) 1992 (HatArt)

Reg Schwager - Border Town - Cold Shoulder (Rant)

Christmas 2000 and later music:

Helen Merrill – Christmas Song Book – The Christmas Song – JVC
Benny Goodman – Santa Claus Came in the Spring - UME
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Good King Wenceslas, Santa Clause Came in the
   Spring, & Silent Night – Sackville
Harvi Griffin – Harvi’s Harp for the Holidays – Oh Come All Ye Faithful & Joy to the World –
   Gryphon
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Let It Snow & Old Time Religion – Sackville
Helen Merrill – Christmas Song Book – A Child is Born, Away in a Manger & White Christmas –
    JVC
Soundtrack from Rudolph the Red Noted Reindeer – The Most Wonderful Day of the Year &
   A Holly Jolly Xmas – MCA
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – We Three Kings – Sackville

Louis Armstrong – Christmas In New Orleans *
Louis Prima – Shake Hands With Santa Claus
Benny Goodman – Santa Claus is Coming in the Spring
Duke Ellington – Jingle Bells
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Santa Claus is Coming to Town & We Three Kings -
   Sackville
Ella Fitzgerald – White Christmas
June Christy – The Merriest
Dean Martin – Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Joe Williams – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – At the Christmas Ball & Winter Wonderland –
   Sackville
Jimmy Dorsey – Dixieland Band From Santa Claus Land
Lionel Hampton – Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Billie Holiday – I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Go Tell It On the Mountain - Sackville

 * [NOTE – The individual cuts from this program, other than the Sackville All Stars, are issued on
one cd called  “Yule B’ Swingin’ Too!”, issued by Hip O Records]


January 5, 2001 

Pete Magadini – Bones Blues – Freddie Freeloader – Sackville
Eddie Harris – For Bird and Bags – The River Nile & Salute to Bags – Koch Jazz
Ian Bargh – Only Trust Your Heart – Heather on the Hill & Skye Boat Song – Sackville
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – Waltz of the Demons – Koch Jazz
Eddie Allen - Summer Days – Summer Days – Enja
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – Our Blues – Muse


 January 19, 2001 

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue – So What, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green, All Blues,
   Flamenco Sketches - Columbia


January 26, 2001 

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue – Flamenco Sketches & Freddie Freeloader – Columbia
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – W.K.Blues & Luck A Deuce – Koch Jazz
Art Pepper –Gettin’ Together – Whims of Chambers – OJC
Miles Davis – Nefertiti – Nefertiti – Columbia
Bill Evans – Waltz for Debbie – My Foolish Heart - OJC 
Grover Washington – Aria – Flower Duet – Sony

February 16, 2001

Erroll Garner – Magican & Gershwin and Kern – Someone to Watch Over Me & Strike Up
   the Band - Telarc
Lighthouse All-Stars – Mexican Passport – Viva Zapata! No. 1 & La Soncailli – Concord
Dizzy Gillespie – The Complete RCA Victor Recordings – Cubana Be, Cubana Bop & Guarachi
   Guaro - RCA
Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Live in Havana – Green Dolphin in the Street & Nueva Cubana – MessidorSteve Turre – Rhythm Within – Morning & All Blues – Antilles

February/March 2001

Don Pullen – Solo Piano Album – Richards Tune & Song Played Backwards - Sackville
Daniel Schnyder – Words Within Music – Trio for Soprano Saxophone, Bass Trombone
   and Piano – Enja
Mark Sanders, Simon Fell, Simon Rose – Badland – Sadness & Come Sunday – Bruces Fingers
Jim Galloway – Music is My Life – Sunday Morning & Wrap Your Thoughts  in Dreams –
   Sackville
Jay McShann – Swingmatism – Swingmatism & A Night in Tunisia – Sackville


Bill Evans – Trio 64 – Everything Happens to Me – Verve
Miles Davis – Agharta – Columbia 


Stephane Grappelli/McCoy Tyner – Live in Warsaw – How High the Moon – Who’s Who in Jazz
Peter Brotzmann – Little Birds Have Fast Hearts – Part 1 – FMP
Clarke/Boland Big Band – Handle With Care – Sonor – Koch Jazz


Connie Crothers/Lennie Popkin – Session – Bird’s World – New Artists
Max Roach – Members Don’t Git Weary – Effi – Koch Jazz
MJT + III – Brother Spike – Koch Jazz
Lee Konitz – Inside Hi-Fi – Indiana – Koch Jazz
Rob Reddy’s Quttah – However Humble – Workman – Koch Jazz
Reggie Workman – Cerebral Caverns – Fast Forward – Postcards
Oliver Lake / Trio 3 – Encounter – Encounter – Passin’ Thru
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – W.K. Blues – Koch Jazz


Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane – Enja
John Lindberg – A Treefrog Tonality – Thanksgiving Suite – Between the Lines
Steuart Liebig – Hommage Obliques – Generator – Nine Winds
Wendell Harrison – Rush and Hustle – The Hooptie – Enja
Georg Graewe – Concert in Berlin – Section D – Wobbly Rail
Eddie Harris – For Bird and Bags – Salute to Bird
Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Yancy Special – Sackville
MJT +III – Message From Walton Street – Old Images – Koch Jazz
Daniel Schnyder – Words Within Music – Trio for Soprano Sax., Bass Trombone and Piano –  Enja
Buddy DeFranco – Blues Bag – Blues Connotation – Koch Jazz
Matt Turner – The Mouse That Roared – Improv 1 – Meniscus
Red Richards – Echoes of Spring – S’Wonderful – Sackville
Steve Lacy – Hooky – The Crust – Emanem
George Wallington – Knight Music – Serendipity  & Billies Tune – Koch Jazz
Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Blue Monk - Sackville


3/2/01

Connie Crothers/Lennie Popkin – Session – E Train & Carol’s Dream – New Artists
Arkadia Jazz All-Stars – Thank You, Duke – Sophisticated Lady & Come Sunday
   [Joanne   Brackeen]  – Arkadia
Shirley Scott – Oasis – Blues Everywhere & Basie in Mind – Muse
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – Beatrice - Muse


3/9/01

Connie Crothers – Music from Everyday Life – Etude for the Spirit & Sonance – New Artists Corky Hale – Corky – So Many Stars & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – GNP
   Crescendo
Joanne Brackeen – Live at Maybeck Recital Hall – Dr. Chu Chow & Curved Space – Concord
Joanie Pallatto – Passing Tones – All Blues & Blue in Green – Southport
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – The Oracle - Muse  


3/16/01

Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane & Stablemates – Enja
Karl Berger and Edward Blackwell – Just Play – Just Play – Emanem
Frank Strozier – Fantastic [Frank Strozier] – Waltz of the Demons & Off Shore - Koch
John Butcher – Fixations (14) – Wool and Drift – Emanem
Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble – Duets and Solos Vol. 1 – W.S.C & G.Y.A.
   Blues - Boxholder
Keith Ingham – We’re In the Money – Let’s Get Lost & Indian Summer – Sackville 


3/23/01

Ralph Sutton –  Ralph Sutton at Maybeck - Love Lies & Russian Lullaby - Concord
Dizzy Gillespie – And His Big Band in Concert – Manteca – GNP Crescendo
KONK [K. Hedger, Charlie Kohlhase, Nate McBride, & Curt Newton] – KONK – Toru & Dishpan
   Hands – Boxholder Records
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Dog Years in the Fourth Ring – Domino & Freddie Freeloader – 32 Jazz
Charles Mingus – New Tijuana Moods – Ysabel’s Table Dance – RCA
Mugsy Spanier – The Ragtime Band Sessions – Eccentric, Livery Stable Blues & Relaxin’ at the Touro - 
   RCA 


 3/30/01

Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Yancy Special & Flat on Your Back - Sackville
Dexter Gordon – Homecoming – In Case You Haven’t Heard – Columbia
Red Richards – Echoes of Spring – There Will Never Be Another You – Sackville
Wild Bill Davison – The Jazz Giants – Struttin’ With Some Barbecue – Sackville
Jay McShann - At the Café Des Copain – Exactly Like You - Sackville 


 4/6/01

Ralph Sutton – At the Café Des Copain – Laugh Clown Laugh & Christopher Columbus- Sackville
Duke Ellington – The Far East Suite – Ad Lib on Nippon – RCA
Freddie Hubbard – Backlash – Echoes of Blue – Koch Jazz
Connie Crother and Richard Tabnik – Duo Dimensions – A Different Place – New Artists
Jay McShann - At the Café Des Copain – Exactly Like You - Sackville 


8/31/01
       A Tribute to Joe Henderson

Kenny Dorham – Una Mas – Straight Ahead – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Page One – Homestretch & Out of the Night – Blue Note
Andrew Hill – Point of Departure – Spectrum – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Inner Urge – Inner Urge & Isotope – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Lush Life – Lush Life & Lotus Blossom – Verve


9/7/01

Michael Levy – On the Spot! – Mix Up – New Artists
Tony Wilson Sextet – Lowest Note - #20 – Spool
Ruby Braff/Dick Hyman – Play Nice Tunes – Lotus Blossom – Arbors
Ruby Braff/Ellis Larkins – Calling Berlin V. 1 – My Walking Stick & Russian Lullaby –
     Arbors
Myra Melford’s Crush – Dance Beyond the Color – Orange & Yellow Are Crowds of
     Flowers II – Arabesque
Phil Nimmons Quartet – Sands of Time – Night Crawler & Arf – Sackville
Dennis Mitcheltree – Transformation – Time Waits – Altenburgh

9/14/01 
Ralph Sutton/Johnny Varro – A Pair of Kings – (Back Home Again In) Indiana – Arbors
Ruby Braff – Music for the Still of the Night – Willow Weep for Me – Arbors
Matt Turner – Crushed Smoke – Prairie Lament – Tautology
Julius Hemphill – Roi Boye and the Gotham Minstrels – [first 5 minutes, cd 1] - 
          Sackville
Western Jazz Quartet – Firebird – Landmarks Along the Way – Western School of Music
Ornette Coleman – The Complete Science Fiction Sessions – Street Women and Rock the
           Clock – Sony
Ruby Braff/Ellis Larkins – Calling Berling V.2 – Remember the Night & The Song is
            Ended

OTHER:

Karl Berger/Edward Blackwell – Just Play – Just Play – Emanem
Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane & Summer Days  -  Enja
Connie Crothers/Richard Tabnik – Duo Dimension – A Different Place – New  Artists
Connie Crothers/Lenny Popkin Quartet – Session – Birds World – New Artists
Connie Crothers – Music from Everyday Life – Sonance – New Artists
Sun Ra – Destination Unknown – Carefree – Enja
Keith Ingham – We’re in the Money – We’re in the Money - Sackville

8/31/01 

A Tribute to Joe Henderson 

Kenny Dorham – Una Mas – Straight Ahead – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Page One – Homestretch & Out of the Night – Blue Note
Andrew Hill – Point of Departure – Spectrum – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Inner Urge – Inner Urge & Isotope – Blue Note
Joe Henderson – Lush Life – Lush Life & Lotus Blossom – Verve

 
Other late summer program’s:

Karl Berger/Edward Blackwell – Just Play – Just Play – Emanem
Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane & Summer Days  -  Enja
Connie Crothers/Richard Tabnik – Duo Dimension – A Different Place – New  Artists
Connie Crothers/Lenny Popkin Quartet – Session – Birds World – New Artists
Connie Crothers – Music from Everyday Life – Sonance – New Artists
Sun Ra – Destination Unknown – Carefree – Enja
Keith Ingham – We’re in the Money – We’re in the Money - Sackville

9/7/01 

Michael Levy – On the Spot! – Mix Up – New Artists
Tony Wilson Sextet – Lowest Note - #20 – Spool
Ruby Braff/Dick Hyman – Play Nice Tunes – Lotus Blossom – Arbors
Ruby Braff/Ellis Larkins – Calling Berlin V. 1 – My Walking Stick & Russian Lullaby –
       Arbors
Myra Melford’s Crush – Dance Beyond the Color – Orange & Yellow Are Crowds of
        Flowers II – Arabesque
Phil Nimmons Quartet – Sands of Time – Night Crawler & Arf – Sackville
Dennis Mitcheltree – Transformation – Time Waits – Altenburgh


9/14/01

Ralph Sutton/Johnny Varro – A Pair of Kings – (Back Home Again In) Indiana – Arbors
Ruby Braff – Music for the Still of the Night – Willow Weep for Me – Arbors
Matt Turner – Crushed Smoke – Prairie Lament – Tautology
Julius Hemphill – Roi Boye and the Gotham Minstrels – [first 5 minutes, cd 1] - 
      Sackville
Western Jazz Quartet – Firebird – Landmarks Along the Way – Western School of Music
Ornette Coleman – The Complete Science Fiction Sessions – Street Women and Rock the
    Clock – Sony
Ruby Braff/Ellis Larkins – Calling Berling V.2 – Remember the Night & The Song is Ended -
     Arbors


9/21/01

Tim O’Dell – before MY life – Jackslap (Southport)
The Aoki/Wong/Pavkovic Trio – Urban Reception – Back to Jazz (Southport)
Charlie Kohlhase – Good Deeds – Buhaina Checked Out (Accurate)
John Lindberg – A Tree Frog Tonality – Drifter (Between the Lines)
Five Play – On the Brink – On the Brink (Arbors)
Anthony Braxton/Scott Rosenberg – Compositions/Improvisations 2000 - #168
   (Barely Auditable)
Chico Hamilton – Foreststorn – Outrageous & Sweet Dream (Koch)


9/28/01

Pete Selvaggio – Galleria – Best Thing for You & First Song  (Koch)
Howard Riley – Overground – Spliced & Recognition  (Emanem)
Dino Saluzzi – Rios – Los Them  (Intuition )
Sun Ra – Pathways to Unknown Worlds  – Pathways to Unknown Worlds  (Evidence)
Richard Galliano – Laurita – Leo, Estante Num Instante (Dreyfus)


10/01

Ralph Sutton – At Café Des Copains – Laugh Clown Laugh & Christopher Columbus -
   Sackville
Pete Magadini – Bones Blues – Freddie Freeloader – Sackville
Ralph Sutton – A Pocketful of Dreams – Farewell Blues – Sackville
Cooper-Moore – Deep in the Neighberhood of History and Influence – Waltz -
   Hopscotch
Red Richards – Lullaby in Rhythm – Hot Toddy – Sackville

Hilton Ruiz – Doin’ it Right – Scottish Blues & The Blessing – RCA Novus
The Best of the Jazz Saxophones v. 2 – Gato Barbieri – OC-DC – LRC
Gonzalo Rubalcaba – The Blessing – Besame Mucho – Blue Note
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Aces Back to Back – 32 Jazz
Errol Garner – That’s My Kick & Gemini – That’s My Kick – Telarchive

Mingus Big Band – Live in Time – Dreyfuss
Wendell Harrison – Rush and Hustle – The Hooptie – Enja
Max Roach – Member, Don’t Git Weary – Absolutions – Koch
Red Mitchell/Harold Land – Hear Ye! – Hear Ye! – Koch

Ralph Sutton – Partners in Crime – How Can You Face Me – Sackville
George Wallington – Knight Music – Billie’s Tune, The Ghostly Lover, & Up Jumped
   the Devil – Koch
Junior Mance – Milestones – Lester Leaps In – Sackville
Grover Washington Jr. – Aria – Flower Duet – Columbia
Fela – Best Best of Fela – cd 1, cut #3 – MCA

Carl Grubbs – Inner Harbor Suite – Saturn & Harborplace – B & C Productions
KONK [Hedger/Newton/McBride/Kohlhase] – Au Privave – Boxholder
Charlie Kohlhase – Dart Night – Dart Night at the Willow & Bossa Macabre – Accurate
Kenny Davern – A Night with Eddie Condon – Rose Room – Arbors
Carl Grubbs – Live at the New Haven Lounge – In My Youth – B & C Productions


10/26/01   West Coast Jazz pt. 1

Hampton Hawes – All Night Sessions v.3 – Blues #3 – OJC
Lighthouse All-Stars – Mexican Passport – Witch Doctor #2 – Contemporary
Graham Connah – The Only Song We Know – Yonderlust – Evander
Frank Rosolino – Thinking About You – There’s No You – Sackville
Vinny Golia – 9 Pieces fo Solo B flat Clarinet – Back to the Interstate – Meniscus
Dave Brubeck – Live at College of the Pacific – Lullaby in Rhythm – OJC
Eddie Gale – A Minute with Miles – A Minute with Miles & Noboby Knows the Trouble 
   I’ve Seen – Mapleshade


11/02/01 - West Coast Jazz pt. 2 

Teddy Edwards – Back to Avalon – Good Gravy – Contemporary
Dave Brubeck – Just You, Just Me – Strange Meadowlark – Telarc
Terry Gibbs – Main Stem v. 4 – Ja-Da – Contemporary
Dan Plonsey – Open Door and Desire – The Puzzle of the Pre-Socratics – NewTone
Vinny Golia – Commemoration – Lies of Deception – 9 Winds
Shorty Rogers/Bud Shank and the Lighthouse All-Stars – America the Beautiful – Un  
    Poco Loco & America the Beautiful – Candid


11/09/01 

Joe Turley – When the Jitterbug Bites – 35 Cents and When the Jitterbug Bites -
    Boogieman  Records
Swing Street – Ain’t Misbehavin’, Georgia on My Mind, & St. James Infirmary
   Glenn Ginn Music
Gerard Carelli – Lucky to Be Me – It Never Entered My Mind – CG Records
Corky Hale – Corky – It Might As Well Be Spring – GNP Crescendo
Freddy Cole – Love Makes the Changes – Love Makes the Changes & Brother, Where
    Are You? –  Fantasy
Raj Rathor and Diana Smith – Jazz Cat – I Love Paris & Doodlin’ – Jazz Cat Records


11/16/01

Tommy Newsome – Friendly Fire – Cotton Tail & Billies Bounce – Arbors
Dick Hyman/Ralph Sutton – Just You, Just Me – Viper’s Drag & Changes – Sackville
Andrew Cyrille/Manfred Zepf – Paintings – Scent of Spring – West Wind
Ruby Braff – Music for the Still of the Night – Linger Awhile – Arbors
Ross Thomkins – Younger than Springtime – I’ll Get By & Moonray – Arbors
Dick Twardzik – 1954 Improvisations – Round Midnight & Original – New Artists


11/23/01

Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Challenge – E.D. Message and 2.B. Ornette – Emanem
Joe McPhee – Oleo & Future Retrospective – Oleo & I Remember Clifford – HatHut
Joe McPhee – In the Spirit – Deep River – CIMP
Hal Russell – Albert’s Lullaby – Edge of Night – Southport
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Bap-Tizum – Immm & Ouuffnoon – Koch
Chico Hamilton – Foreststorn – 11 Bars for Arthur & Foreststorn – Koch
Karl Berger/Ed Blackwell – Just Play – We Are & South of Imperial – Emanem
 

11/30/01

Miles Davis – And His Tuba Band – Godchild – Natasha
Miles Davis – Agharta – Prelude pt.1, Prelude pt.2  & Maiysha – Columbia
Miles Davis – And His Tuba Band – S’ll Vous Plait – Natasha
 

12/07/01

Ruby Braff/Dick Hyman – Play Nice Tunes – Sweet Savannah Sue – Arbors
Don Pullen – Solo Piano Album – Big Alice & Song Played Backwards – Sackville
Matthew Goodheart/Dominic Duval – Crossings – Constellation Fragments – CJR
Max Roach/Connie Crothers – Swish – Let ‘Em Roll, Swish, & Creepin’ In – New
    Artists

12/14/01 

A selection of pieces from Glenn Horiuchi as a tribute to the man and his music

January 5, 2001 

Pete Magadini – Bones Blues – Freddie Freeloader – Sackville
Eddie Harris – For Bird and Bags – The River Nile & Salute to Bags – Koch Jazz
Ian Bargh – Only Trust Your Heart – Heather on the Hill & Skye Boat Song – Sackville
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – Waltz of the Demons – Koch Jazz
Eddie Allen - Summer Days – Summer Days – Enja
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – Our Blues – Muse


January 19, 2001

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue – So What, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green, All Blues, Flamenco Sketches
   Columbia

January 26, 2001

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue – Flamenco Sketches & Freddie Freeloader – Columbia
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – W.K.Blues & Luck A Deuce – Koch Jazz
Art Pepper –Gettin’ Together – Whims of Chambers – OJC
Miles Davis – Nefertiti – Nefertiti – Columbia
Bill Evans – Waltz for Debbie – My Foolish Heart – OJC


February 16, 2001

Erroll Garner – Magican & Gershwin and Kern – Someone to Watch Over Me & Strike Up the
   Band - Telarc
Lighthouse All-Stars – Mexican Passport – Viva Zapata! No. 1 & La Soncailli – Concord
Dizzy Gillespie – The Complete RCA Victor Recordings – Cubana Be, Cubana Bop & GuarachiGuaro - RCA
Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Live in Havana – Green Dolphin in the Street & Nueva Cubana – Messidor
Steve Turre – Rhythm Within – Morning & All Blues – Antilles


 MATERIAL AIRED ON PAST PROGRAMS

 

Grover Washington – Aria – Flower Duet – Sony
Don Pullen – Solo Piano Album – Richards Tune & Song Played Backwards - Sackville
Daniel Schnyder – Words Within Music – Trio for Soprano Saxophone, Bass Trombone and Piano – Enja
Mark Sanders, Simon Fell, Simon Rose – Badland – Sadness & Come Sunday – Bruces Fingers
Jim Galloway – Music is My Life – Sunday Morning & Wrap Your Thoughts  in Dreams – SackvilleJay McShann – Swingmatism – Swingmatism & A Night in Tunisia – Sackville

Helen Merrill – Christmas Song Book – The Christmas Song – JVC
Benny Goodman – Santa Claus Came in the Spring - UME
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Good King Wenceslas, Santa Clause Came in the Spring, & Silent Night –
   Sackville
Harvi Griffin – Harvi’s Harp for the Holidays – Oh Come All Ye Faithful & Joy to the World – GryphonThe Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Let It Snow & Old Time Religion – Sackville
Helen Merrill – Christmas Song Book – A Child is Born, Away in a Manger & White Christmas – JVCSoundtrack from Rudolph the Red Noted Reindeer – The Most Wonderful Day of the Year & A Holly
   Jolly Xmas – MCA
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – We Three Kings – Sackville

 

Louis Armstrong – Christmas In New Orleans *
Louis Prima – Shake Hands With Santa Claus
Benny Goodman – Santa Claus is Coming in the Spring
Duke Ellington – Jingle Bells
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Santa Claus is Coming to Town & We Three Kings - Sackville
Ella Fitzgerald – White Christmas
June Christy – The Merriest
Dean Martin – Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Joe Williams – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – At the Christmas Ball & Winter Wonderland – Sackville
Jimmy Dorsey – Dixieland Band From Santa Claus Land
Lionel Hampton – Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Billie Holiday – I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
The Sackville All Star Christmas Record – Go Tell It On the Mountain - Sackville 

* [NOTE – The individual cuts from this program, other than the Sackville All Stars, are issued on one cd called “Yule B’ Swingin’ Too!”, issued by Hip O Records]

Bill Evans – Trio 64 – Everything Happens to Me – Verve
Miles Davis – Agharta – Columbia

Stephane Grappelli/McCoy Tyner – Live in Warsaw – How High the Moon – Who’s Who in Jazz
Peter Brotzmann – Little Birds Have Fast Hearts – Part 1 – FMP
Clarke/Boland Big Band – Handle With Care – Sonor – Koch Jazz
 

Connie Crothers/Lennie Popkin – Session – Bird’s World – New Artists
Max Roach – Members Don’t Git Weary – Effi – Koch Jazz
MJT + III – Brother Spike – Koch Jazz
Lee Konitz – Inside Hi-Fi – Indiana – Koch Jazz
Rob Reddy’s Quttah – However Humble – Workman – Koch Jazz
Reggie Workman – Cerebral Caverns – Fast Forward – Postcards
Oliver Lake / Trio 3 – Encounter – Encounter – Passin’ Thru
Frank Strozier – Fantastic – W.K. Blues – Koch Jazz
 

Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane – Enja
John Lindberg – A Treefrog Tonality – Thanksgiving Suite – Between the Lines
Steuart Liebig – Hommage Obliques – Generator – Nine Winds
Wendell Harrison – Rush and Hustle – The Hooptie – Enja
Georg Graewe – Concert in Berlin – Section D – Wobbly Rail
Eddie Harris – For Bird and Bags – Salute to Bird
 

Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Yancy Special – Sackville
MJT +III – Message From Walton Street – Old Images – Koch Jazz
Daniel Schnyder – Words Within Music – Trio for Soprano Sax., Bass Trombone and Piano – Enja
Buddy DeFranco – Blues Bag – Blues Connotation – Koch Jazz
Matt Turner – The Mouse That Roared – Improv 1 – Meniscus
Red Richards – Echoes of Spring – S’Wonderful – Sackville
Steve Lacy – Hooky – The Crust – Emanem
George Wallington – Knight Music – Serendipity   & Billies Tune – Koch Jazz
Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Blue Monk - Sackville


March 2, 2001 

Connie Crothers/Lennie Popkin – Session – E Train & Carol’s Dream – New Artists
Arkadia Jazz All-Stars – Thank You, Duke – Sophisticated Lacy & Come Sunday [Joanne
    Brackeen]  – Arkadia
Shirley Scott – Oasis – Blues Everywhere & Basie in Mind – Muse
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – Beatrice - Muse
 

March 9, 2001

Connie Crothers – Music from Everyday Life – Etude for the Spirit & Sonance – New Artists
Corky Hale – Corky – So Many Stars & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – GNP Crescendo
Joanne Brackeen – Live at Maybeck Recital Hall – Dr. Chu Chow & Curved Space – Concord
Joanie Pallatto – Passing Tones – All Blues & Blue in Green – Southport
Cindy Blackman – The Oracle – The Oracle - Muse

 

March 16, 2001

Eddie Allen – Summer Days – Eye of the Hurricane & Stablemates – Enja
Karl Berger and Edward Blackwell – Just Play – Just Play – Emanem
Frank Strozier – Fantastic [Frank Strozier] – Waltz of the Demons & Off Shore - Koch
John Butcher – Fixations (14) – Wool and Drift – Emanem
Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble – Duets and Solos Vol. 1 – W.S.C & G.Y.A. Blues
    –Boxholder
Keith Ingham – We’re In the Money – Let’s Get Lost & Indian Summer – Sackville 

 
March 23, 2001

Ralph Sutton –  Sackville
Dizzy Gillespie – And His Big Band in Concert – Manteca – GNP Crescendo
KONK [K. Hedger, Charlie Kohlhase, Nate McBride, & Curt Newton] – KONK – Toru & Dishpan Hands –
    Boxholder Records
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Dog Years in the Fourth Ring – Domino & Freddie Freeloader – 32 Jazz
Charles Mingus – New Tijuana Moods – Ysabel’s Table Dance – RCA
Mugsy Spanier – The Ragtime Band Sessions – Eccentric, Livery Stable Blues & Relaxin’ at the Touro - 
    RCA

 
March 30, 2001

Junior Mance – Junior Mance Special – Yancy Special & Flat on Your Back - Sackville
Dexter Gordon – Homecoming – In Case You Haven’t Heard – Columbia
Red Richards – Echoes of Spring – There Will Never Be Another You – Sackville
Wild Bill Davison – The Jazz Giants – Struttin’ With Some Barbecue – Sackville
Jay McShann - At the Café Des Copain – Exactly Like You - Sackville
 

April 6, 2001

Ralph Sutton – At the Café Des Copain – Laugh Clown Laugh & Christopher Columbus- Sackville Duke Ellington – The Far East Suite – Ad Lib on Nippon – RCA
Freddie Hubbard – Backlash – Echoes of Blue – Koch Jazz
Connie Crother and Richard Tabnik – Duo Dimensions – A Different Place – New Artists
Jay McShann - At the Café Des Copain – Exactly Like You - Sackville
 

 NOTE:  The March 30 and April 6th programs are part of ND Public Radio’s Spring Pledge Drive
.

May 17, 2002 

Note:  This is my annual “Sun Ra Tribute” program.  All music by Sun Ra except where noted. 

Monorails and Satellites – Space Towers – Evidence
The Magic City – The Magic City – Evidence
Samarai Celestial – Cosmic Gold Millennium – Ra’s Shadow – Carrot Top
Lanquidity – Lanquidity – Evidence

 
May 24, 2002

Sonny Stitt – Just in Case You Forgot…. – Wee – 32 Jazz
Damon Short / Jim Baker – Incidental Dialects – QRS & Meanwhile… - Depth Perception
Sun Ra – The Solar-Myth Approach v.1 and 2 – Ancient Ethiopia & Strange Worlds –
    Charly/BYG
Sabir Mateen / Ben Karetnick – Sun Xing – Blues to the North – JMZ Records
Something Else (Beck/Fell/Hession) – Start Moving Earbuds – Manchester Bus Station – Bruces
    Finger’s

 
JUNE 2002 

Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel – Riding the Nuclear Tiger – Jazz Scene Voyeur – Palmetto
Carl Grubbs – Reflections – Carl’s Blues – B&C Productions
Virg Dzurinko – Fun City – Fun City, Dinosaurs Rising, Traffic and Weather Together, 7 Eight, Free
    Transfer, & Walk Don’t Walk – New Artists
Mark Helias – New School – Pick and Roll – Enja
Johnny Frigo – DNA Exposed – Poor Butterfly & Tanga – Arbors
Wayne Shorter – Introducing Wayne Shorter – Black Diamond [alternate] – Koch
Derek Smith – High Energy – Doxy & St. Thomas - Arbors


June 7, 2002

Ralph Sutton / Johhny Varro – A Pair of Kings – (Back Home Again In) Indiana – Arbors
Trio 3 (Cyrille, Lake, Workman) – Open Ideas – Hooray for Herbie – Palmetto
Anthony Braxton – Six Compositions (Quarter) 1984 – Black Saint
Evan Parker / Han Bennink – The Grass in Greener – Smoke of Sacrifice – PSI
Glenn Horiuchi – Oxnard Beet – Warbubozu – Soul Note
John Butcher / Gerry Hemingway – Shooters and Bowlers – Shift – Red Toucan
Randy Weston – Ancient Future / Blue – Ancient Future – Mutable Music 

 
June 14, 2002

Tom Washatka – Easy to Love – Footprints – Stellar
Herbie Nichols Project – Strange City – The Happening & Change of Season – Palmetto
Gerd Dudek – ‘Smatter – ‘Smatter – PSI
Paul Plimley – Everything in Stages – Influx & Sirens for Ulysses – Songlines
Vienna Art Orchestra – Concerto Piccolo – Variations on “Am Hermeneli Z’Liab –
   HatART
Julius Hemphill – Fat Man and the Hard Blues – The Hard Blues – Black Saint
Andrew Hill – Grass Roots – Mira – Blue Note 


June 21, 2002

Horace Tapscott – Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam – Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam – Arabesque
Marilyn Crispell / Eddie Prevost –Band on the Wall – Opening Time - Matchless
Rashied Ali – Rashied Ali Quartet - Address – Knit Classics
Miymi Project Big Band –Rooted: Origins of Now – Part One: Now - Southport
8 Bold  Souls – Ant Farm - A Little Encouragement – Arabesque

7/05/02 

Sun Ra – Sun Song – Street Named Hell & Call for All Demons – Delmark
Matthew Goodheart / Josh Allen / Garth Powell – I Can Climb a Tree, I Can Tie a Knot,
    I Can Have a Conversation – For Princess – Road Cone
Stephane Grappelli / McCoy Tyner – Live at the Operetka House – I Hear Music & How
    High the Moon – Who’s Who in Jazz
John Butcher – 13 Friendly Numbers – Two Up – Two Down – Acta
Eyvind Kang / Dylan van der Schyff / Francois Houle – Pieces of Time – 9:57 – Spool/Line
Glenn Horiuchi – Oxnard Beet - Warm Spring & Dance For a Nisei Hipster – Soul Note
Sara Schoenbeck / Travis Baker – Yesca One – Yesca One – Spool / Line 15


7/12/02 

Corky Hale – Corky – Here’s That Rainy Day – GNP Crescendo
Anthony Braxton / Georg Grawe – Duo (Amsterdam) 1991 – Duet II – Okka
Yuri Honing / Misha Mengelberg – Playing – Authentic & Chess – Radio Netherlands
Steve Norton / Tom Plsek / Gino Robair – Firehouse Futurities – She recalled his elaborate shine
   internal supply, consumer watchdogs agree. – Rastascan
Sara Schoenbeck / Travis Baker – Yesca One – Cards #1 – Spool / Line 15
Corky Hale – Corky – The Bad and the Beautiful - GNP Crescendo

7/19/02

Nancy King / Steve Christofferson – Dream Lands – Lazy Afternoon – Stellar
Kenny Davern / Ken Peplowski – The Jazz Kennection – Creole Love Call – Arbors
Trevor Watts / Veryan Weston – 6 Dialogues – Unrest Assured – Emanem
Ruby Braff – Music for the Still of the Night – Willow Weep for Me – Arbors
Roger Smith – Green Wood – Local Twang – The Last of the Season – Emanem
Jesper Thilo – Strike Up the Band – There’s No You – Sackville
Janet Planet / Tom Theabo – The Consequences of 2 – Live for Life – Stellar
Andrew Hill – Grass Roots – Mira – Blue Note

 
7/26/02

Miles Davis – Complete Bitches Brew – Miles Runs the Voodoo Down – Columbia
Tony Williams – Emergency! – Vashkar – Polygram
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Lost Trident Sessions – Sister Andrea – Columbia
Billy Cobham – Spectrum – Stratus – Atlantic
Al Dimeola – Casino – Chasin’ the Voodoo – Columbia
Ronald Shannon Jackson – Mandance – Man Dance & The Art of Levitation - Antilles
Last Exit – Koln – Last Call – ITM

 

8/02/02

Ruby Braff / Ellis Larkins – Calling Berlin v.2 – Change Partners – Arbors
Africa West – Africa West - Omo Lode – Stellar
Bob Barnard / Jim Galloway – What’s New – Last Time I Saw Paris – Sackville
John Harmon – Rite of Passage – Fred – Stellar
Ruby Braff / Dick Hyman – Play Nice Tunes – Sweet Savannah Sue & Once Upon a Time  -
   Arbors
Ernesto Diaz-Infante – Solus – Parts 1 and 2 – Pax
Lennie Tristano – Concert in Copenhagen – It’s You or No One, Imagination, & Tangerine - New
   Jazz

8/9/02 

Wayne Shorter – All Seeing Eye – The All Seeing Eye – Blue Note
Damon Short / Paul Scea – Brainstorm – WiW – Depth Perception
Paul Rutherford – Trombolenium – Red Rose Afternoon 2 – Emanem
Famoudou Don Moye / Tatsu Aoki – A Symphony of Cities – Ode to Wilbur Ware – Southport
John Russell – From Next to Last – Back Seat Witch – Emanem
Madisalsa – From the Caribbean to the Heart [Del Caribe al Corazon] – Afro Blue – Stellar 

8/16/02 

Rich Halley – Coyotes in the City – Green Dusk – Louie Records
MJT+3* – Message from Walton Street – No Man’s Land – Koch Jazz
Shelly Manne – Boss Sounds! – Idle One – Koch Jazz
The Young Lions [Morgan, Shorter, Strozier, Hayes, Timmons, Cranshaw] – Seeds of Sin &
   Scourn’ - Suite Beat  [Vee Jay reissue]
Frank Strozier – Fantastic Frank Strozier – Waltz of the Demons & Runnin’– Koch Jazz
Jerry Jerome – Something Borrowed, Something Blue – I Want to Be Happy – Arbors

  *the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th cuts are a tribute to Frank Strozier, alto saxophonist
 

8/23/02 

Jeff Song and Lowbrow – Diasporama – War Brides & Siblings I, II, III – Stellar

Stellar Sampler* : Madisalsa, El Cuaro De Tula; Bob Levy, Did You Ever Cross Over to Snedens?; TWQ, Good Night Irene; Nancy King/Steve Christofferson, Lazy Afternoon; Janet Planet/Tom Theabo, Waters of March; Chum [Matt Turner], Misfortune Cookie; Janet Planet /Urban World, Smile; Come Rain or Come Shine; John Harmon, Taos Pueblo

    *Stellar Sound Productions Sampler: www.janetplanet.com/stellar

 
8/30/02

Urs Leimbruber – Lines – Open – hatART
King Ubu Orchestra – Binaurality – Translation #6 – FMP
Fritz Hauser – Solodrumming – Traumbiilder – hatART
Franz Koglmann – Orte Der Geometrie – Der Gast, The Short Life of Barbara Monk, & In Between – hatART          *all three cuts feature pianist Ran Blake as guest artist

George Flynn – Derus Simples – Parts 5,6, and 7 [Deoffrey Madge, pianist] - Southport




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