Just a Taste - February 28, 2008

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Four Brothers
Album: Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary)

Artist: Barney Kessel
Track: Blues Up, Down & All Around
Album: Feeling Free (Contemporary)

Artist: Pratt Brothers Big Band
Track: Waterjug
Album: 16 Men & A Chick Singer Swingin' (CAP)

Artist: Bill Holman
Track: Misterioso
Album: Brilliant Corners (JVC)

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

Artist: Cal Collins
Track: Blue Prelude
Album: In San Francisco (Concord)

Artist: Sonny Stitt-Harry "Sweets" Edison-Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Track: Lester Leaps In
Album: Sonny, Sweets & Jaws (Who's Who in Jazz)

Artist: Scott Hamilton
Track: New York Blizzard Blues
Album: The Grand Appearance (Progressive)

Artist: Pepper Adams
Track: Jitterbug Waltz
Album: Ephemera (Zim)

Artist: Sarane Ferret
Track: Cocktail Swing
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Jean-Pierre Sasson
Track: Artillerie Lourde
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Frank Ottersen
Track: Opus 1
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Svenska Hotkvintetten
Track: Opus 5
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Cal Collins
Track: The Gypsy
Album: By Myself (Concord)

Artist: Oscar Aleman
Track: Dear Old Southland
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Sam Rivers
Track: Ellipsis
Album: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)

Artist: Buddy De Franco
Track: Blues Connotation
Album: Blues Bag (Vee-Jay)

Artist: David "Fathead" Newman
Track: Tin Tin Deo
Album: Fathead (Atlantic)

Artist: Metronome All-Stars
Track: Leap Here
Album: The Dizzy Gillespie Story (Proper)

Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Track: Half Nelson
Album: Jeru (Proper)

Combo Plate - February 22, 2008

Artist: Lester Young
Track: I Got Rhythm
Album: Lester Young and the Kansas City 5 (Commodore)

Artist: Sam Rivers
Track: Downstairs Blues Upstairs
Album: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)

Artist: Chris Potter
Track: Et Tu, Bruté
Album: Unspoken (Concord)

Artist: Pepper Adams
Track: Civilization and Its Discontents
Album: Ephemera (Zim)

Artist: Buddy De Franco
Track: Rain Dance
Album: Blues Bag (Vee-Jay)

Artist: Woody Herman
Track: A Taste of Honey
Album: Mosaic Select 31: Woody Herman (Mosaic)

Artist: Artie Shaw
Track: Little Jazz
Album: 1945 Spotlight Bands Broadcasts (JazzUnlimited)

Artist: Tubby Hayes
Track: Rhythm-a-ning
Album: Quartet in Scandinavia (Storyville)

Artist: Al Haig
Track: Summertime
Album: Piano Interpretation (SeaBreeze)

Artist: Ben Webster
Track: Prisoner of Love
Album: Jazz 'Round Midnight (Verve)

Artist: Richie Kamuca
Track: When Day Is Done
Album: Richard Kamuca: 1976 (Jazzz)

Artist: Sam Rivers
Track: Beatrice
Album: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)

Artist: Charles Lloyd
Track: The Days of Wine and Roses
Album: Discovery! (Columbia)

Artist: Stan Getz
Track: Mona
Album: Dynasty (Verve)

Artist: Lester Young
Track: Them There Eyes
Album: Lester Young and the Kansas City 5 (Commodore)

Just a Taste - February 21, 2008

Artist: Duke Pearson
Track: Ready When You Are, C.B.
Album: Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Blue Note)

Artist: Pepper Adams
Track: Bouncing with Bud
Album: Ephemera (Zim)

Artist: Artie Shaw
Track: Scuttlebutt
Album: 1945 Spotlight Bands Broadcasts (Jazz Unlimited)

Artist: Tubby Hayes
Track: C Minor Bird
Album: Quartet in Scandinavia (Storyville)

Artist: Chick Corea
Track: Windows
Album: Inner Space (Atlantic)

Artist: Elvin Jones
Track: Dear John C
Album: Dear John C (Impulse)

Artist: Lester Young
Track: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Album: Lester Young and Kansas City 5 (Commodore)

Artist: Miles Davis
Track: Paraphernalia
Album: Miles in the Sky (Columbia)

Artist: Roger Kellaway
Track: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Album: Jazz Portrait of Roger Kellaway (Regina)

Artist: Herbie Hancock
Track: I'm an Old Cowhand
Album: Jammin' with Herbie Hancock (TCB)

Artist: Charles Mingus
Track: Pithecanthropus Erectus
Album: Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Prestige)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Track: Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia"
Album: (Philips)

Artist: Miroslav Vitous
Track: Infinite Search
Album: Infinite Search (Embryo)

Artist: Stéphane Grappelli
Track: Swing 42
Album: Vintage Grappelli (Concord)

Combo Plate - February 15, 2008

Artist: Bill Berry
Track: Cottontail
Album: Hello Rev (Concord)

Artist: Bobby Bland
Track: Your Friends
Album: Here's the Man!!! (Duke)

Artist: Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band
Track: Tuning Up
Album: Road Time (RCA)

Artist: Al Haig
Track: If You Could See Me Now
Album: Invitation (Spotlite)

Artist: Stan Getz
Track: El Sueño
Album: The Lost Sessions (Verve)

Artist: Gary Burton
Track: Turn of the Century
Album: Throb (Atlantic)

Artist: Lester Young-Nat Cole-Buddy Rich
Track: Mean to Me
Album: Giants Three (Verve)

Artist: Rio Nido
Track: I Like to Riff
Album: I Like to Riff (Shadow)

Artist: Lionel Hampton
Track: Sweethearts on Parade
Album: The Lionel Hampton Story (Proper)

Artist: Lester Young
Track: Boogie-Woogie
Album: The Lester Young Story, Vol. 1 (Columbia)

Artist: Duke Robillard
Track: Shufflin' with Some Barbeque
Album: Swing (Rounder)

Artist: Lionel Hampton w/ Bing Crosby
Track: Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie
Album: The Lionel Hampton Story (Proper)

Artist: Scott Hamilton
Track: Move
Album: Jazz Signatures (Concord)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Move
Album: Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary)

Artist: Red Rodney
Track: You Better Go Now
Album: The Red Arrow (Onyx)

Artist: Gary Burton-Chick Corea
Track: Sweet and Lovely
Album: The New Crystal Silence (Concord)

Artist: Brad Steinwehe Jazz Orchestra
Track: Perpendicular to Reality
Album: Nutville (SeaBreeze)

Artist: Anat Cohen
Track: Bebê
Album: Noir (Anzic)

Just a Taste - February 14, 2008

Artist: Scott Hamilton
Track: Warren's Rush
Album: Swinging Young Scott (Famous Door)

Artist: Lester Young, Nat Cole & Buddy Rich
Track: I've Found a New Baby
Album: Giants Three (Verve)

Artist: Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane
Track: Bye-ya
Album: at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)

Artist: Stan Getz
Track: Soul Eyes
Album: The Lost Sessions (Verve)

Artist: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Track: The Days of Wine and Roses
Album: Friends Forever (Milestone)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Diane
Album: Gettin' Together (Contemporary)

Artist: George Barnes
Track: Blue Lou
Album: Hittin' on All Six (Proper)

Artist: Fapy Lafertin
Track: I Can't Get Started
Album: Fine & Dandy (Iris Music)

Artist: Red Rodney
Track: Box 2000
Album: The Red Arrow (Onyx)

Artist: Barbara Dennerlein
Track: Stormy Weather Blues
Album: Straight Ahead! (enja)

Artist: Kenny Clarke
Track: Eronel
Album: Klook's the Man (Proper)

Artist: Duke Pearson
Track: Bedouin
Album: Wahoo! (Blue Note)

Artist: Sony Holland
Track: My Funny Valentine
Album: Swing, Bossas, Ballads & Blues (Van Ness)

Artist: Lester Young
Track: Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Album: Lester Young and the Kansas City Five (Commodore)

Artist: Scott Hamilton
Track: Taking a Chance on Love
Album: Our Delight! (Woodville)

Artist: Oscar Peterson
Track: Dancing on the Ceiling
Album: Tracks (MPS)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: 'Round Midnight
Album: Modern Jazz Classics (Contemporary)

Combo Plate - February 8, 2008

Artist: Charles Mingus
Track: Moanin'
Album: Blues and Roots (Atlantic)

Artist: Ira Sullivan
Track: Vento Bravo
Album: Peace (Galaxy)

Artist: John Colianni
Track: Heart Shaped Box
Album: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall # 37 (Concord)

Artist: Brad Mehldau
Track: Resignation
Album: Elegiac Cycle (Warner Brothers)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Everything I've Got Belongs to You
Album: Hi-five (RCA Victor EP)

Artist: Charlie Ventura
Track: Charlie's Parley
Album: An Evening with Charlie Ventura (Norgran EP)

Artist: Toots Thielemans
Track: Cocktails for Two
Album: The Amazing Toots Thielemans (Columbia EP)

Artist: Teddy Edwards
Track: Rosetta
Album: Ladies Man (HighNote)

Artist: Gene Krupa
Track: Jumpin' at the Woodside
Album: hey...here's gene krupa! (Verve)

Artist: Gene Krupa
Track: Second Helping Blues
Album: Gene Krupa Sextet (Clef EP)

Artist: Bobby Shew
Track: Blue
Album: outstanding in his field... (Inner City)

Artist: Along Came Betty
Track: Grolnick
Album: Apple Brown Betty (Along Came Betty)

Artist: Martin Taylor
Track: I Remember Clifford
Album: In Concert (Milestone)

Artist: Harold Land-Blue Mitchell
Track: Inner Voice
Album: Mapenzi (Concord)

Artist: Chick Corea-Gary Burton
Track: La Fiesta
Album: The New Crystal Silence (Concord)

Artist: Gary Burton
Track: Straight Up and Down
Album: Like Minds (Concord)

Just a Taste - February 7, 2008

"Something special for the Clambake."

This weekend at Pebble Beach: the AT&T National Pro-Am Golf Tournament, formerly known as "the Crosby" (after Bing), or just "the Clambake."

Artist: Bing Crosby-Jack Teagarden-Mary Martin
Track: The Waiter, the Porter, and the Upstairs Maid
Album: Bing Crosby & Friends (ASV)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Louis Armstrong
Track: Now You Has Jazz
Album: Great Jazz Singers (EMI)

Artist: Bing Crosby w/ Paul Whiteman
Track: Changes
Album: Bix Lives! (RCA)

Artist: Boswell Sisters
Track: It's the Girl
Album: Everybody Loves My Baby (ProArte)

Artist: Rio Nido
Track: Crazy People
Album: I Like to Riff (Shadow)

Artist: Boswell Sisters
Track: Shuffle Off to Buffalo
Album: Everybody Loves My Baby (ProArte)

Artist: Boswell Sisters
Track: Forty-second Street
Album: That's How Rhythm Was Born (Columbia)

Artist: Matt Dennis
Track: Will You Still Be Mine?
Album: Matt Dennis Plays and Sings Matt Dennis (Fresh Sound)

Artist: Johnny Mercer
Track: G.I. Jive
Album: More of the Best (LaserLight)

Artist: Harold Arlen
Track: Stormy Weather
Album: The Song Is...Harold Arlen (ASV)

Artist: Harold Arlen
Track: Ill Wind
Album: The Song Is...Harold Arlen (ASV)

Artist: Dick Powell
Track: Speaking of the Weather
Album: The Song Is...Harold Arlen (ASV)

Artist: Toni Tennille
Track: You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Album: Things Are Swingin' (Purebred)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Duke Ellington
Track: St. Louis Blues
Album: Bing Crosby & Friends (ASV)

Artist: Nancy Harrow
Track: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
Album: Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (Candid)

Artist: Peggy Lee
Track: Why Don't You Do Right?
Album: Why Don't You Do Right? (ASV)

Artist: Rio Nido
Track: Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love
Album: I Like to Riff (Shadow)

Artist: Red Norvo w/ Mildred Bailey
Track: A Porter's Love Song to Chamber Maid
Album: Knockin' on Wood (ASV)

Artist: Geoff Muldaur
Track: Livin' in the Sunlight
Album: Having a Wonderful Time (Reprise)

Artist: Mark Murphy
Track: There'll Be Some Changes Made
Album: Living Room (Muse)

Artist: Jimmie Lunceford
Track: 'Tain't What You Do
Album: Rhythm Is Our Business (ASV)

Artist: Dan Hicks
Track: Vinnie's Lookin' Good
Album: It Happened One Bite (Warner Brothers)

Artist: Bing Crosby w/ Paul Whiteman
Track: You Took Advantage of Me
Album: Bix Lives! (RCA)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Mills Brothers-Boswell Sisters
Track: Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Album: Bing Crosby & Friends (ASV)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Boswell Sisters
Track: Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long
Album: Everybody Loves My Baby (ProArte)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Connie Boswell
Track: An Apple for Teacher
Album: Bing Crosby & Friends (ASV)

Artist: Bing Crosby-Johnny Mercer
Track: Mr. Meadowlark
Album: Johnny Mercer: Some of the Best (LaserLight)

Artist: Bing & Dixie Lee Crosby
Track: A Fine Romance
Album: Bing Crosby & Friends (ASV)

Combo Plate - February 1, 2008

Artist: Freddie Hubbard
Track: Bolivia
Album: Bolivia (MusicMasters)

Artist: Gary Burton-Chick Corea
Track: Waltz for Debby
Album: The New Crystal Silence (Concord)

Artist: Ben Aronov-Jay Leonhart
Track: Como en Vietnam
Album: Alone Together (WolfRose)

Artist: Oscar Aleman
Track: Camiños Cruzados
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Oscar Aleman
Track: Jeepers Creepers
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Django Reinhart-Stéphane Grappelli
Track: How High the Moon
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Jean Bonal
Track: Mélodie au Crépuscule
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Eric Alexander
Track: The Temple of Olympic Zeus
Album: Temple of Olympic Zeus (HighNote)

Artist: Chet Baker-Art Pepper-Richie Kamuca
Track: Minor Yours
Album: The Route (Pacific Jazz)

Artist: Clifford Brown
Track: You Go to My Head
Album: Best Coast Jazz (EmArcy)

Artist: James Carter
Track: Sandu
Album: Jurassic Classics (DIW)

Artist: Catro
Track: A Minor Change
Album: Catro (CatroJazz)

Artist: Mark Murphy
Track: Maxine
Album: Living Room (Muse)

Artist: Chick Corea-Gary Burton
Track: La Fiesta
Album: The New Crystal Silence (Concord)