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on March 6, 2010 @ 1:49 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Franz Schubert/Tokyo String Quartet: String Quartet No. 12 “Quartettsatz”; Brahms Complete String Quartets/Schubert (VoxBox)
2. John Williams/Branford Marsalis/North Carolina Symphony/Grant Llewellyn: Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra; American Spectrum (BIS)
3. Alan Sondheim/All-770: Think Synk 4 4; T’other Little Tune (ESP-Disk)
4. Julius Hemphill Sextet: What I Know Now; At Dr. King’s Table (New World)
5. Benjamin Britten/Sorrel Quartet: String Quartet No. 2; Britten - String Quartets (Chandos)
6. Arvo Pärt/Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten; Music From Estonia (Chandos)
7. Iannis Xenakis/ST-X Ensemble/Henry Bornstein: Xas; Xenakis - Ensemble Music 2 (mode)
8. Steven Mackey/Prism Quartet/Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral; Bolcom/Mackey Concertos for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (Innova Recordings)
Out theme: Toby Twining/Margaret Leng Tan: Nightmare Rag; The Art of the Toy Piano (Philips)
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on February 27, 2010 @ 4:40 am | 1 Comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Thelonious Monk: Well You Needn’t; Monk’s Music (Riverside)
2. Charles Mingus: Reincarnation of a Lovebird; The Clown (Atlantic)
3. Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow; Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 (ESP Disk)
4. Aretha Franklin: Mary, Don’t You Weep; Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
5-6. Count Basie (Jones-Smith, Inc.): Oh, Lady Be Good; Evenin’; Super Chief (Columbia)
7. Count Basie: Taxi War Dance; America’s #1 Band (Columbia/Legacy)
8. Dietrich Buxtehude/Daniel Taylor: Klag-Lied; Lamento (Atma)
9. Sonny Rollins: Blues for Philly Joe; Newk’s Time (Blue Note)
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/RIAS Chamber Choir/Ferenc Fricsay/Maria Stader: Kyrie; Great Mass in C Minor (DGG)
11. Louis Armstrong: Tight Like This; Hot Fives and Sevens (Columbia)
12. Fats Waller: Your Feet’s Too Big; The Very Best of Fats Waller (Columbia)
13. Charlie Christian/Dizzy Gillespie/Thelonious Monk: Swing to Bop; The Immortal Charlie Christian (Essential Media Group)
14. Charlie Parker/Jay McShann: Hootie Blues; The Charlie Parker Story (Black Label)
15. Johann Sebastian Bach/The Monteverdi Choir/The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner: O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht; Cantatas BWV 106, 118/231, 198 (Arkhiv)
16. Ben Webster/Harry “Sweets” Edison: Sunrise Blues; Essential Sextet Jazz Masters (Stardust)
17. Duke Ellington/John Coltrane: My Little Brown Book; Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse)
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on February 19, 2010 @ 10:02 pm | Post a comment
Opening Theme: Sergei Prokofiev/San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas: Dance of the Knights; Romeo and Juliet (RCA Red Seal)
1. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Yevgeny Mravinsky: Symphony No. 5; Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 (DGG)
2. Sergei Prokofiev/San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas: Romeo and Juliet [excerpts]; Romeo and Juliet (RCA Red Seal)
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on February 13, 2010 @ 3:29 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Endangered Species; Song X: Twentieth Anniversary (Nonesuch)
2. Ingram Marshall/Kronos Quartet: Fog Trope II in F; Kingdom Come (Nonesuch)
3. John Adams/St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/David Robinson: Doctor Atomic Symphony; Doctor Atomic Symphony/Guide to Strange Places (Nonesuch)
4. Gyorgi Ligeti/Berlin Philharmonic/London Vocals/Jonathan Nott: Requiem; The Ligeti Project IV (Teldec)
5. Aretha Franklin: Wholy Holy; Amazing Grace (Atlantic)
6. Terry Riley/Kronos Quartet/Wu Han: The Cusp of Magic [title tune] Nonesuch
7. Julius Hemphill/K. Curtis Lyle: Drunk on God; Julius Hemphill Big Band (Elektra Musician)
Out theme: The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Strawberry Mango; Coming Home Jamaica (WEA/Atlantic)
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on February 6, 2010 @ 10:52 pm | Post a comment
Opening Theme: The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Joe Locke: Like Joe; Force of Four (Origin)
2. Jon Hassell: Darbari Bridge; Maarifa Street (Nyen Music)
3. Sergei Prokofiev/St. Petersburg Philharmonic/Yuri Temirkanov: Symphony No. 1 “Classical”; Symphony Nos. 1 & 5 (RCA)
4-6. The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tnoona; Fanfare for the Warriors; The Key; Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic)
7. Dmitri Shostakovich/Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein:
Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 1 – Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad” (DGG)
8 – 9. Laurie Anderson: Poison; Night in Baghdad; Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Warner)
10. Jordi Savall/Antoine Charpentier: Nuit; Invocation à la Nuit (Alia Vox)
11. Benjamin Britten/Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Ronald Thomas: Prelude and Fugue; Britten – Music for Strings (Chandos)
Out theme: Lester Bowie/Brass Fantasy: One Love; When the Spirit Returns (Birdology)
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on January 30, 2010 @ 4:40 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Dmitri Shostakovich/Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra, and Chorus/Valery Gergiev/Vladislav Sulimsky: Interlude, “Brrr, Brrr, Brrr”; The Nose (Mariinsky)
1. Anne Akiko Meyers/Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel; Smile (Koch)
2. Sergei Prokofiev/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Yuri Temirkanov: Symphony No. 5 [title tune] (RCA Red Seal)
3. Dmitri Shostakovich/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Yevgeny Mravinsky: Symphony No. 10 [title tune] (Erato)
4. Sonny Rollins: Way Out West [title tune] (Contemporary/OJC)
5. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Are You Real?; Moanin (Blue Note)
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on January 23, 2010 @ 2:51 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Jaleel Shaw: The Flipside; Optimism (Change)
2. Tozan Nakao (composer)/Hozan Yamamoto (shakuhachi): Kogarashi; Music of the Shakuhachi (JVC)
3. John Williams/Matthieu Delage/Orchestre Départemental Des Sapeurs-pompier des Yvelines/Richard Regel: Catch Me if You Can; Esquisses (Corelia)
4. John Coltrane: Ascension (excerpt: John Tchicai) [title tune] (Impulse)
5. Ralph Shapey/London Sinfonietta/Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago/Rich Fidoli: Rituals II; The Covenant – Rituals – Incantations (CRI)
6. Jacques Ibert/Branford Marsalis/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Concertino 3rd mvt.; Creation (Sony)
7. Lili Boulanger/BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier: D’un matin de printemps; Faust et Hélène (Chandos)
8. Louis Armstrong/Earl Hines: Weather Bird; Hot Fives and Sevens (Columbia)
9. Michael Gandolfi/Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose: Themes from a Midsummer Night; Y2K Compliant (BMOP Sounds)
10. Erik Satie/Alexandre Tharaud: Trois Morceaux en forme de poire; Avant-dernières pensées (Harmonia Mundi)
11. Lhasa de Sela: J’Arrive à La Ville; The Living Road (Nettwerk)
12 – 14. Lhasa de Sela: What Kind of Heart; Love Came Here; I’m Going In; Lhasa (Nettwerk)
15. Branford Marsalis: Eternal [title tune] (Marsalis Music)
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on January 16, 2010 @ 2:19 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Dmitri Shostakovich/Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra, and Chorus/Valery Gergiev/Vladislav Sulimsky: Interlude, “Brrr, Brrr, Brrr”; The Nose (Mariinsky)
1. Sergei Prokofiev/Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi: Symphony No. 7 [title tune] (Chandos)
2. Dmitri Shostakovich/Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra/Yevgeny Mravinsky: Symphony No. 8 [title tune] (BBC)
3. Jean-Philippe Rameau/Alexandre Tharaud: Suite en La; Alexandre Tharaud Joue/Plays Rameau (Harmonia Mundi)
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on January 8, 2010 @ 10:42 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Hampton Hawes: Sunny; At the Piano (Contemporary/OJC)
2. Steve Kuhn: The Island; Oceans in the Sky (Sunnyside)
3. Carolyn Yarnell: The Same Sky; Sonic Vision (Tzadik)
4. Steve Kuhn: Lotus Blossom; Oceans in the Sky (Sunnyside)
5. Hampton Hawes: Soul Sign Eight; At the Piano (Contemporary/OJC)
6. Steve Kuhn: Sunny; Love Walked In (Sunnyside)
7. Charlie Parker et al: Funky Blues; The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve (Verve)
8. Julius Hemphill: The Hard Blues; Coon Bidness (Mbari/Arista/Freedom) 9– 12. Duke Ellington/Paul Gonsalves: Take the “A” Train; Jam with Sam; Caravan; Ready, Go; Duke Ellington Featuring Paul Gonsalves (Fantasy)
13. Charlie Parker: Slow Boat to China; The Comprehensive Charlie Parker - Live Performances Volume 1 (ESP’Disk)
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on January 2, 2010 @ 12:39 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Dmitri Shostakovich/Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra, and Chorus/Valery Gergiev/Vladislav Sulimsky: Interlude; “Brr, Brr, Brr, brr”; The Nose (Mariinsky)
1. Sergei Prokofiev/Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi: Symphony No. 6 [title tune] (Chandos)
2. Leonard Bernstein/Columbia Jazz Combo/Benny Goodman: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs: Benny Goodman Collector’s Edition – Compositions & Collaborations (Columbia)
3. Igor Stravinsky/Columbia Jazz Combo/Benny Goodman: Ebony Concerto; Benny Goodman Collector’s Edition – Compositions & Collaborations (Columbia)
4. Igor Stravinsky/London Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas: Symphony in C; Stravinsky – Symphonies (Sony)
5. Arthur Honegger/The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Neeme Järvi: Symphony No. 5 ‘Di tre re’; Honegger – Symphony No. 3, No. 5, Pacific 231 (Chandos)