Just a Taste - June 12, 2010

Consider yourselves fortunate. While I was roasting in the California coastal heat (usually a contradiction in terms), you got to listen to this:

hour 1

Artist: Randy Weston w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Berkshire Blues
Album: African Cookbook (Atlantic)

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: Black and Blue
Album: Exultation! (Prestige)

Artist: Charles Mingus w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Open Letter to Duke
Album: Mingus Ah Um [Legacy Edition] (Columbia)

Artist: Duke Pearson
Track: Amanda
Album: Wahoo (Blue Note)

Artist: Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band
Track: I Found a New Baby
Album: Live in Arizona (MAJB)

Artist: Jimmy Rowles
Track: The Blues (Take 1)
Album: Let’s Get Acquainted with Jazz (VSOP)

Artist: Bill Evans
Track: Orbit (Unless It’s You)
Album: A Simple Matter of Conviction (Verve)

Artist: Sphere
Track: Tayamisha
Album: Sphere on Tour (RED)

Artist: Graham Dechter
Track: Right on Time (D-flat tune)
Album: Right on Time (Capri)

hour 2

Artist: Don Ellis
Track: Thetis
Album: Live in 3 2/3 / 4 Time (Pacific Jazz)

Artist: Jessica Williams
Track: Blue Tuesday
Album: At Maybeck, Vol. 21 (Concord)

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

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: Den Tex
Album: Back from the Gig (Blue Note)

Artist: Charles Mingus w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Jelly Roll
Album: Mingus Ah Um [Legacy Edition] (Columbia)

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: No Land’s Man
Album: Exultation! (Prestige)

Artist: Chico Hamilton
Track: A Different Journey
Album: A Different Journey (Reprise)

Artist: Tom Harrell-George Robert
Track: Streets
Album: Cape Verde (Mons)

hour 3

spotlight artist: Booker Ervin

Artist: Horace Parlan w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Back from the Gig
Album: Booker Ervin: Back from the Gig (Blue Note)

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: Grant’s Stand
Album: The Freedom Book (Prestige)

Artist: Teddy Charles w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Scoochie
Album: Booker Little- Booker Ervin: Sounds of Inner City (TCB)

Artist: Charles Mingus w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Boogie Stop Shuffle
Album: Mingus Ah Um [Legacy Edition] (Columbia)

Artist: Randy Weston w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Portrait of Vivian
Album: African Cookbook (Atlantic)

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: Lynn’s Tune
Album: Back from the Gig (Blue Note)

Artist: Eric Kloss w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Sock It to Me, Socrates
Album: In the Land of the Giants (Prestige)

Artist: Charles Mingus w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Song with Orange
Album: Mingus Ah Um [Legacy Edition] (Columbia)

Artist: Teddy Charles w/ Booker Ervin
Track: Cycles
Album: Booker Little- Booker Ervin: Sounds of Inner City (TCB)

Artist: Booker Ervin
Track: Mour
Album: Exultation! (Prestige)