Combo Plate - April 25, 2008

Artist: Bobby Shew
Track: Faire Play
Album: Outstanding in His Field (Inner City)

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: Watch What Happens
Album: Zoot Sims and Friend (Classic Jazz)

Artist: Oscar Peterson-Stéphane Grappelli
Track: Walking My Baby Back Home
Album: Peterson/Grappelli (Prestige)

Artist: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Track: Kenny
Album: Friends Forever (Milestone)

Artist: Mark Murphy
Track: Our Love Rolls On
Album: Living Room (Muse)

Artist: Shorty Rogers
Track: Over the Rainbow
Album: West Coast Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Walkin' Shoes
Album: Art Pepper + Eleven (Contemporary)

Artist: Clare Fischer
Track: Miles Behind
Album: Thesaurus (Atlantic)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Track: Johnny Come Lately
Album: Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve)

Artist: Clare Fischer
Track: Pra Baden
Album: Just Me (Concord)

Artist: George Barnes
Track: Cheerful Little Earful
Album: Blues Going Up (Concord)

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

Artist: Five Play
Track: Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Album: ...Plus (Arbors)

Artist: 3 Cohens
Track: It Could Happen to You
Album: Braid (Anzic)

Artist: Grappelly/Asmussen/Smith/Ponty
Track: Summit Soul
Album: The Violin Summit (Prestige)

Artist: Oscar Alemán
Track: Just a Little Swing
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Roberta Gambarini-Hank Jones
Track: When Lights Are Low
Album: You Are There (EmArcy)

Artist: Cal Tjader
Track: Sigmund Stern Groove
Album: San Francisco Moods (Fantasy)

Artist: Stan Kenton
Track: The Meaning of the Blues
Album: Standards in Silhouette (Capitol)

Artist: Duke Ellington
Track: I'm Beginning to See the Light
Album: Piano in the Background (Columbia)

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: Double Trouble
Album: Playin' in the Yard (Prestige)

Just a Taste - April 24, 2008

Artist: Anat Cohen
Track: Carnaval de São Vicente
Album: Noir (Anzic)

Artist: Eddie South
Track: Yesterdays
Album: Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Trip)

Artist: Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band
Track: Get Out of Town
Album: Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band (Atlantic)

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

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

Artist: Fats Navarro et al
Track: High on an Open Mike
Album: The Fats Navarro Story (Proper)

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

Artist: Grappelli/Asmussen/Smith/Ponty
Track: It Don't Mean a Thing
Album: The Violin Summit (Prestige)

Artist: Didier Lockwood
Track: Giant Steps
Album: New World (Pausa)

Artist: Eddie South
Track: Rhapsody in Blue
Album: Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Trip)

Artist: Stéphane Grappelli Hot Four
Track: You Took Advantage of Me
Album: Gypsy Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Jean-Luc Ponty
Track: Renaissance
Album: Aurora (Atlantic)

Artist: Stéphane Grappelli & Jean-Luc Ponty
Track: Golden Green
Album: Ponty/Grappelli (Inner City)

Artist: Al Cohn-Zoot Sims
Track: Yardbird Suite
Album: Motoring Along (Sonet)

Artist: Roy Haynes
Track: Bullfight
Album: Thank You Thank You (Galaxy)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Maybe Next Year
Album: Smack Up (Contemporary)

Combo Plate - April 18, 2008

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: A Bit of Basie
Album: Smack Up (Contemporary)

Artist: Dr. John
Track: Come Rain or Come Shine
Album: The Brightest Smile in Town (Clean Cuts)

Artist: Mingus Dynasty
Track: Better Git Hit in Your Soul
Album: Live at Montreux (Atlantic)

Artist: Oscar Peterson
Track: Where Do We Go from Here?
Album: Great Connection (MPS)

Artist: Rio Nido
Track: Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
Album: I Like to Riff (Shadow)

Artist: Larry Young
Track: Ritha
Album: Into Somethin' (Blue Note)

Artist: Al Cohn-Zoot Sims
Track: Awful Lonely
Album: You 'n Me (EmArcy)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Rita-san
Album: No Limit (Contemporary)

Artist: Cal Collins
Track: What Is This Thing Called Love?
Album: By Myself (Concord)

Artist: Roswell Rudd-Steve Lacy
Track: Koko
Album: Monk's Dream (Verve)

Artist: Kenny Burrell
Track: In a Sentimental Mood
Album: Ellington Is Forever, Volume Two (Fantasy)

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: In a Mellow Tone
Album: "Live" in Philly (32jazz)

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

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

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Donna Lee
Album: Art Pepper + Eleven (Contemporary)

Artist: Five Play
Track: If I Only Had a Brain
Album: ...Plus (Arbors Jazz)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
Track: Annie's Dance
Album: Birks Works (Verve)

Artist: Howard Roberts
Track: Terpisichore
Album: The Movin' Man (Verve)

Artist: Duke Pearson
Track: Time after Time
Album: Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Blue Note)

Just a Taste - April 17, 2008

Artist: Art Blakey
Track: Pensativa
Album: Free for All (Blue Note)

Artist: Dr. John
Track: Delicado
Album: Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack (Clean Cuts)

Artist: Al Cohn-Zoot Sims
Track: Motoring Along
Album: Motoring Along (Sonet)

Artist: Stan Getz
Track: Con Alma
Album: Sweet Rain (Verve)

Artist: Don Ellis
Track: Alone
Album: Electric Bath (Columbia)

Artist: Duke Pearson
Track: New Time Shuffle
Album: Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Blue Note)

Artist: Rich Wetzel
Track: Coconut Champagne
Album: The Mayn Thing (Groovin' Higher)

Artist: Barry Miles
Track: Alone
Album: Barry Miles (Poppy)

Artist: Hank Garland
Track: Relaxing
Album: Move! (Euphoria Jazz)

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

Artist: McCoy Tyner
Track: The Greeting
Album: Supertrios (Milestone)

Artist: Freddie Hubbard
Track: Red Clay
Album: Red Clay (CTI)

Artist: Shelly Manne
Track: Ain't Misbehavin'
Album: Essence (Galaxy)

Artist: 3 Cohens
Track: Shoutin' Low
Album: Braid (Anzic)

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: I'll Remember April
Album: All Night Session (Contemporary)

Artist: Art Farmer
Track: Sing Me Softly of the Blues
Album: Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic)

Combo Plate - April 11, 2008

Well, there won't actually be a "Combo Plate" on April 11, at least not with me at the helm. I'll be preparing for a two-day crafts fair in Pacific Grove called Good Old Days. If you have a chance, I hope you'll stop by my booth. I'm a photographer, in case you were wondering. My subject matter is mostly nature and related subjects, but I also have some pictures that I took over forty years ago at the Newport Jazz Festival--including John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

If you can't make it to Good Old Days, join me next Thursday (the 17th) for another edition of "Just a Taste."

Just a Taste - April 10, 2008

Artist: Greg Abate
Track: Song for My Father
Album: Horace Is Here (Koko)

Artist: Ben Aronov-Jay Leonhart
Track: A Child Is Born
Album: Along Together (WolfRose)

Artist: Cal Collins
Track: Deep in a Dream
Album: In San Francisco (Concord)

Artist: Eric Alexander
Track: It's All in the Game
Album: It's All in the Game (HighNote)

Artist: Contemporary Piano Ensemble
Track: Valerie
Album: The Key Players (Columbia)

Artist: 3 Cohens
Track: Lies and Gossip
Album: Braid (Anzic)

Artist: Caribbean Jazz Project
Track: Afro Green
Album: Afro Bop Alliance (Heads Up)

Artist: Mike Longo
Track: Blue Spirits
Album: Float Like Butterfly (CAP)

Artist: Joe Lovano
Track: The Scene Is Clean
Album: 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note)

Artist: Anthony Wilson
Track: Fleur d'Ennui
Album: Savivity (Groove Note)

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

Artist: Illinois Jacquet
Track: Tickle Toe
Album: Swingin' Live (Jacquet)

Artist: Gary Burton
Track: A Dance for Most of You
Album: Next Generation (Concord)

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

Artist: Barry Miles
Track: Descent
Album: White Heat (Mainstream)

Combo Plate - April 4, 2008

Artist: Diana Krall
Track: Frim Fram Sauce
Album: All for You (Impulse)

Artist: Kitty Margolis
Track: Too Marvelous for Words
Album: Live at the Jazz Workshop (Mad-Kat)

Artist: Nat "King" Cole
Track: Orange Colored Sky
Album: Big Band Cole (Capitol)

Artist: Four Freshmen
Track: Spring Is Here
Album: Capitol Sings Rodgers and Hart (Capitol)

Artist: Roberta Gambarini
Track: Centerpiece
Album: Easy to Love (Kindred Rhythm)

Artist: Stacey Kent
Track: The Ice Hotel
Album: Breakfast on the Morning Tram (Blue Note)

Artist: Mark Murphy
Track: Living Room
Album: Jazz Standards (32Jazz)

Artist: Claire Martin
Track: River Man
Album: Take My Heart (Linn)

Artist: Ernestine Anderson
Track: Social Call
Album: The Ladies (Savoy)

Artist: Rosemary Clooney
Track: Hooray for Hollywood
Album: Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer (Concord)

Artist: Rosemary Clooney
Track: Sweet Kentucky Ham
Album: Girl Singer (Concord)

Artist: Dave Frishberg
Track: A Little Taste
Album: Classics (Concord)

Artist: Roberta Gambarini
Track: You Are There
Album: You Are There (EmArcy)

Artist: Nat "King" Cole-Johnny Mercer
Track: My Baby Likes to Bebop
Album: Jazz Encounters (Capitol)

Artist: Dave Frishberg
Track: Zoot Walks In
Album: Retromania (Arbors)

Artist: Bobbe Norris & Larry Dunlap
Track: I'd Rather Be Here
Album: Out of Nowhere (Four Directions)

Artist: Jackie Cain & Roy Kral
Track: You Smell So Good
Album: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Black Lion)

Artist: Mark Murphy
Track: November in the Snow
Album: Stolen...and Other Moments (32Jazz)

Artist: Anita O'Day
Track: Travelin' Light
Album: Jazz 'Round Midnight (Verve)

Artist: Louis Armstrong-Oscar Peterson
Track: You Go to My Head
Album: Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (Verve)

Artist: Clifford Brown w/ Helen Merrill
Track: Yesterdays
Album: Compact Jazz (Verve)

Artist: Four Freshmen
Track: Lulu's Back in Town
Album: Capitol Sings Harry Warren (Capitol)

Artist: Nancy Harrow
Track: Can't We Be Friends?
Album: Wild Women Don't get the Blues (Candid)

Artist: Nancy Wilson
Track: Satin Doll
Album: Capitol Sings Duke Ellington (Capitol)

Just a Taste - April 3, 2008

Artist: Woody Herman
Track: Mo-lasses
Album: Mosaic Select: Woody Herman (Mosaic)

Artist: Art Farmer
Track: Namely You
Album: On the Road (Contemporary)

Artist: Roy Haynes
Track: Sweet Song
Album: Thank You Thank You (Galaxy)

Artist: 3 Cohens
Track: Tfila (Prayer)
Album: Braid (Anzic)

Artist: Kenny Burrell
Track: Caravan
Album: Ellington Is Forever (Fantasy)

Artist: Marian McPartland
Track: Lonely Woman
Album: Twilight World (Concord)

Artist: Bill Evans
Track: Gloria's Step
Album: Sunday the Village Vanguard (Riverside)

Artist: Bill Evans
Track: Milestones
Album: Waltz for Debby (Riverside)

Artist: Stan Getz-Bill Evans
Track: Funkallero
Album: Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve)

Artist: Dan Balmer
Track: Greasy Kid Stuff
Album: Thanksgiving (Alt rnativ ja z [sic])

Artist: Mingus Dynasty
Track: Sketch Two
Album: Live at Montreux (Atlantic)

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie et al
Track: Tour de Force
Album: Village Vanguard Live Sessions (LaserLight)

Artist: 3 Cohens
Track: Beaches
Album: Braid (Anzic)

Artist: Shelly Manne
Track: Soon/Body and Soul
Album: Essence (Galaxy)

Artist: Woody Herman
Track: The Things We Said Today
Album: Mosaic Select: Woody Herman (Mosaic)