Sunday, April 25, 2010

Just a Taste - April 24, 2010

Today's program was a rebroadcast of the first in the current series. The original broadcast date was December 19, 2009. You can find the playlist by going to the archive.

The next program (May 1) will be a new one, spotlight artist as yet unchosen.

In the meantime, join me for the Album of the Day on Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday's album is High and Ridin' by Wayne Cochran and his C.C. Riders, a good big band album from an unexpected source. Arrangements by Tony Klatka, compositions by Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Stevie Wonder, and...Bobby Gentry! The version of Ode to Billie Joe is very tasty.

Thursday's album is Live at the Jazz Workshop, the debut album by vocalist Kitty Margolis. Excellent start for a fine singer who has gone on to become one of the premier voices of the San Francisco area.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Just a Taste - April 17, 2010

hour 1

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: I’ll Remember April
Album: All Night Session! / Vol. 2 (Contemporary)

Artist: Barney Kessel
Track: This Guy’s in Love With You
Album: Feeling Free (Contemporary)

Artist: Derek Trucks
Track: Bock to Bock
Album: Soul Serenade (Columbia)

Artist: Victor Lewis
Track: Between Two Worlds
Album: Know It Today, Know It Tomorrow (Red)

Artist: Bobby Hutcherson
Track: Catta
Album: Dialogue (Blue Note)

Artist: Ron McClure
Track: Day by Day
Album: Pink Cloud (Naxos Jazz)

Artist: Cold Blood
Track: You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Album: Thriller! (Reprise)

Artist: Wayne Cochran and His C. C. Riders
Track: I Was Made to Love Her
Album: High and Ridin’ (Bethlehem)

Artist: Buddy Rich
Track: Up Tight
Album: Swingin’ New Big Band (Pacific Jazz)

Artist: Stéphane Grappelli
Track: Isn’t She Lovely?
Album: Vintage Grappelli (Concord)

hour 2

Artist: Miles Davis
Track: Footprints
Album: Miles Smiles (Columbia)

Artist: Chick Corea-Gary Burton
Track: Love Castle
Album: Native Sense (Concord/Stretch)

Artist: New West Guitar Quartet
Track: Are We There Yet?
Album: Wide Awake (Artsong)

Artist: Stéphane Grappelli/Svend Asmussen/Jean-Luc Ponty
Track: Summit Soul
Album: Violin Summit (Prestige)

Artist: Eddie South
Track: Rose Room
Album: The Dark Angel of the Fiddle (Trip)

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

Artist: Marty Grosz-Wayne Wright
Track: Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Album: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking (Aviva)

Artist: Oscar “Buddy” Woods
Track: Baton Rouge Rag
Album: 50 Years of Jazz Guitar (Columbia)

Artist: Remo Palmier
Track: Corner of the Sky
Album: Remo Palmier (Concord)

Artist: Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang)
Track: Hot Fingers
Album: The Original Guitar Wizard (Proper)

Artist: Benny “King” Nawahi
Track: Hawaiian Capers
Album: 50 Years of Jazz Guitar (Columbia)

hour 3

Spotlight artist: Hampton Hawes

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: Blue ‘n Boogie
Album: All Night Session, Vol. 2 (Contemporary)

Artist: Shorty Rogers w/ Hampton Hawes
Track: Powder Puff
Album: West Coast Jazz (Proper)

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

Artist: Hampton Hawes-Martial Solal
Track: Godchild
Album: Key for Two (Affinity)

Artist: Art Farmer w/ Hampton Hawes
Track: Namely You
Album: On the Road (Contemporary)

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: Sweet Sue
Album: Four! (Contemporary)

Artist: Hampton Hawes
Track: Up Blues
Album: Four! (Contemporary)

Artist: Shorty Rogers w/ Hampton Hawes
Track: Apropos
Album: West Coast Jazz (Proper)

Artist: Sonny Stitt w/ Hampton Hawes
Track: Speculation
Album: So Doggone Good (Prestige)

Artist: Hampton Hawes-Martial Solal
Track: Key for Two
Album: Key for Two (Affinity)

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Just a Taste - April 10, 2010

hour 1

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: I Got Rhythm
Album: High Standards (Concord)

Artist: Charlie Ventura w/ Jackie & Roy
Track: I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Our Love Rolls On
Album: Full Circle (Contemporary)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Kiss and Run
Album: In the Spotlight (ABC-Paramount)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: East of Suez
Album: East of Suez (Concord)

Artist: Bill Holman
Track: Back to Minors
Album: Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman, & Rosolino (Mosaic)

Artist: Raul de Souza
Track: Canto de Ossanha
Album: Colors (Milestone)

Artist: Eric Kloss
Track: Summertime
Album: In the Land of the Giants (Prestige)

Artist: Jimmy Raney
Track: Get Out of Town
Album: The Influence (Xanadu)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: It’s So Peaceful in the Country
Album: East of Suez (Concord)

Artist: Art Pepper
Track: Whims of Chambers
Album: Gettin’ Together (Contemporary)

Artist: Bill Holman
Track: Jughaid
Album: Kenton Presents Cooper, Holman, & Rosolino (Mosaic)

hour 2

Artist: George Benson
Track: So What
Album: Beyond the Blue Horizon (CTI/CBS)

Artist: Mike Mainieri-Warren Bernhardt
Track: I’ll Sing You Softly
Album: Free Smiles (Arista Novus)

Artist: Red Garland
Track: Oleo
Album: Crossings (Galaxy)

Artist: James L. Dean Big Band
Track: Last Train from Overbrook
Album: Swingin’ at the Whiskey Café (Cexton)

Artist: Ray Drummond
Track: Blues African
Album: Excursion (Arabesque)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Peter Lorre
Album: Bogie (Fantasy)

Artist: Emily Remler
Track: Catwalk
Album: Compositions/Retrospective, Vol. Two (Concord)

Artist: Jack Wilson
Track: The Sphinx
Album: Something Personal (Blue Note)

hour 3

Spotlight artists: Jackie Cain & Roy Kral

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Free and Easy
Album: Free and Easy (ABC-Paramount)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Line for Lyons
Album: Full Circle (Contemporary)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Key Largo
Album: Bogie (Fantasy)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Two Peas in a Pod
Album: In the Spotlight (ABC-Paramount)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Loving You
Album: High Standards (Concord)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: I Love You Real
Album: The ABC-Paramount Years (Koch)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block
Album: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Black Lion)

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

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Album: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Black Lion)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Don’t Be Blue
Album: East of Suez (Concord)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Daahoud
Album: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Black Lion)

Artist: Charlie Ventura w/ Jackie Cain
Track: Over the Rainbow
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Charlie Ventura w/ Jackie & Roy
Track: Euphoria
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Never in a Single Year
Album: Full Circle (Contemporary)

Artist: Jackie & Roy
Track: Pent Up House
Album: Free and Easy (ABC-Paramount)

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Encore broadcasts & Album of the Day

The encore broadcast of Just a Taste has been moved to Wednesday evenings at 8:00 PM (Pacific). I hope you'll join me then...

...and at noon (Pacific) for the Album of the Day. I've done a few of them already, and there are more in the queue. It's a fun opportunity to hear an album in its entirety, perhaps one with which you're not familiar. The albums for the week are listed on the KRML home page.

As always, I'd be delighted to hear from listeners via e-mail. There's an e-mail link at the top of this blog page, just under my photograph. I'll try to acknowledge or respond as quickly as I can.

Just a Taste - April 3, 2010

hour 1

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Divertimento – 1st Movement
Album: Music to Listen to Red Norvo By (Contemporary)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Jivin’ the Jeep
Album: Knockin on Wood (ASV)

Artist: Ross Tompkins & Red Norvo
Track: How About You?
Album: Red & Ross (Concord)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Move
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)

Artist: Count Basie
Track: Rock-a-Bye Basie
Album: The Best of Basie (Roulette)

Artist: Greg Hatza
Track: Midnight Freight
Album: The Greg Hatza Organization (Palmetto Jazz)

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

Artist: Ted Curson
Track: Reava’s Waltza
Album: Tears for Dolphy (Arista Freedom)

Artist: Toshiko Akiyoshi
Track: Quadrille, Anyone?
Album: At Maybeck, Volume 36 (Concord)

Artist: Eric Dolphy
Track: Gazzelloni
Album: Out to Lunch (Blue Note)

hour 2

Artist: Carla Bley
Track: The Lord Is Listenin’ to Ya, Hallelujah!
Album: Songs with Legs (WATT)

Artist: Donald Byrd
Track: Christo Redentor
Album: A New Perspective (Blue Note)

Artist: Pete Christlieb
Track: Adam’s Apple
Album: Kellys Heroes (CARS)

Artist: Kronos Quartet
Track: Off Minor/Epistrophy
Album: Monk Suite (Landmark)

Artist: Thelonious Monk
Track: Think of One
Album: Criss Cross (Columbia)

Artist: Kronos Quartet w/ Jim Hall
Track: Turn Out the Stars
Album: Music of Bill Evans (Landmark)

Artist: Bud Shank
Track: Elizete
Album: Brasamba (Pacific Jazz)

Artist: Wes Montgomery
Track: Hymn for Carl
Album: Beginnings (Blue Note)

Artist: Dave McKenna w/ Dick Johnson
Track: Morning
Album: Piano Mover (Concord)

hour 3

spotlight artist: Red Norvo

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Paying the Dues Blues
Album: Music to Listen to Red Norvo By (Contemporary)

Artist: Red Norvo w/ Dizzy & Bird
Track: Congo Blues
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Dance of the Octopus
Album: Knockin’ on Wood (ASV)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Lullaby of Birdland
Album: Tal Farlow / Guitar Player (Prestige)

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

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: What Is This Thing Called Love?
Album: Tal Farlow / Guitar Player (Prestige)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Hole in the Wall
Album: Knockin’ on Wood (ASV)

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

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: I Surrender, Dear (1934)
Album: Red Norvo and His All Stars (Epic)

Artist: Teddy Wilson w/ Red Norvo
Track: Just a Mood
Album: Knockin’ on Wood (ASV)

Artist: Woody Herman w/ Red Norvo
Track: I Surrender, Dear (1946)
Album: The Thundering Herds (Columbia)

Artist: Benny Goodman w/ Red Norvo
Track: Slipped Disc
Album: Knockin’ on Wood (ASV)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You
Album: Hi-Five, Vol. 1 (RCA Victor 45 RPM EP)

Artist: Red Norvo
Track: Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
Album: The Modern Red Norvo (Savoy)