Just a Taste - October 18, 2007

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: In the Middle of a Kiss
Album: Zoot at Ease (Famous Door)

Artist: Gary Burton
Track: B & G
Album: Next Generation (Concord)

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: Come Rain or Come Shine
Album: Somebody Loves Me (Denon)

Artist: Charles Mingus
Track: Dizzy Moods
Album: Tijuana Moods (RCA)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Swedish Pastry
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)

Artist: Django Reinhardt
Track: Improvisation No. 3
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Turtle Island Quartet
Track: Moment's Notice
Album: A Love Supreme (Telarc)

Artist: Red Garland
Track: Soft Winds
Album: The Red Garland Quintets (Prestige)

Artist: Scott Hamilton-Bucky Pizzarelli
Track: Dream of You
Album: The Red Door (Concord)

Artist: Blue Mitchell
Track: Straight Up and Down
Album: The Best of Chick Corea (Blue Note)

Artist: Jay Leonhart-Joe Beck-Gary Burton-Terry Clarke
Track: Cottontail
Album: Four Duke (LaserLight)

Artist: Pamela York
Track: All Too Soon (for Anna)
Album: The Way of Time (Jazzful Heart)

Artist: Gerald Wilson
Track: Latin Swing
Album: Monterey Moods (Mack Avenue)

Artist: Eddie Higgins
Track: 'Tis Autumn
Album: Zoot's Hymns (Sunnyside)

Artist: Buddy Childers
Track: What's New?
Album: West Coast Quintet (Candid)

Artist: Hank Garland
Track: Three-Four, the Blues
Album: Move! (Euphoria Jazz)

Just a Taste - October 11, 2007

Artist: Charles Mingus
Track: Ysabel's Table Dance
Album: Tijuana Moods (RCA)

Artist: Django Reinhardt-Stéphane Grappelli
Track: Sweet Georgia Brown
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Godchild (alternate take)
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)

Artist: Dave Brubeck
Track: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Album: Tritonis (Concord)

Artist: Bring Back Pluto
Track: Nine
Album: Nine (Bring Back Pluto)

Artist: Kenny Burrell
Track: Tin Tin Deo
Album: Kenny Burrell (Concord Jazz Heritage)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band
Track: Off Minor
Album: Dizzy's Business (MCG)

Artist: Gus Viseur's Music
Track: Automne
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Turtle Island Quartet
Track: My Favorite Things
Album: A Love Supreme (Telarc)

Artist: Miles Davis
Track: Autumn Leaves
Album: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Get Happy (alternate take)
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)

Artist: Bob Mintzer Big Band
Track: Not Quite Yet
Album: Old School: New Lessons (MCG)

Artist: Scott Hamilton-Bucky Pizzarelli
Track: The Red Door
Album: The Red Door (Concord)

Artist: Chris Potter
Track: This Will Be
Album: Vertigo (Concord)

Artist: Henri Crolla
Track: Yardbird Suite
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Some days off/Photo ops

This year I'll be showing my photography in the Open Studios Art Tour (see www.ccscc.org, the web site for the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County). Open Studios takes place on the first three weekends of October, so I won't be doing "Combo Plate" on Friday the 5th, 12th, or 19th. I will be doing "Just a Taste" on the 4th, 11th, and 18th.

I'd be delighted to have any listeners come up and say hello, look at my work, and (I hope) purchase a piece. Most of my photographs are nature-oriented (birds, wildlife, landscapes), but I'll also have a few historic jazz photographs from the Newport Jazz Festivals of the mid-60s.

Speaking of jazz photographs, one of mine appears on the cover of Biff Smith's new "Solo Piano" CD.

One more absence: My mother-in-law will be visiting, so I won't be doing either program on the 25th and 26th.

Back to normal, if there is such a thing, in November.

Just a Taste - October 4, 2007

Artist: Barbara Dennerlein
Track: It Just So Happens
Album: Straight Ahead! (enja)

Artist: Carla Bley
Track: Sing Me Softly of the Blues
Album: Dinner Music (Watt)

Artist: Regina Carter
Track: Anitra's Dance
Album: I'll Be Seeing You (Verve)

Artist: Diana Krall
Track: 42nd Street
Album: Stepping out (JustinTime)

Artist: Emily Remler
Track: Afro Blue
Album: Retrospective, Vol. 1—Standards (Concord)

Artist: Renee Rosnes
Track: Abstraction Blue (for Georgia O'Keeffe)
Album: As We Are Now (Blue Note)

Artist: Pamela York
Track: East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)
Album: The Way of Time (Jazzful Heart)

Artist: Anat Cohen
Track: You Never Told Me that You Care
Album: Noir (Anzic)

Artist: Friedrich Gulda
Track: The Veiled Old Land
Album: From Vienna with Jazz! (Columbia)

Artist: Martin Taylor
Track: Swing 42
Album: Spirit of Django (Honest)

Artist: Eddy Louiss-Richard Galliano
Track: Framboise
Album: Face to Face (Dreyfus Jazz)

Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Track: The Red Door
Album: Two Times Four Plus Six (Jazz Band)

Artist: Pamela York
Track: Sphere of Influence
Album: The Way of Time (Jazzful Heart)