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on August 31, 2010 @ 4:05 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day Is All About; The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse)
1. Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose; Essential Five (The Restoration Project)
2. Lester Bowie/Brass Fantasy: The Birth of the Blues; The Odyssey of Funk and Popular Music (Dreyfus Jazz)
3. Richard Wagner/Eileen Farrell/New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein: Wesendonck Lieder III: Im Treibhaus; Selections from Tristan, etc. (Sony)
4. Charlie Haden/Billy Higgins/Enrico Pieranunzi: Lennie’s Pennies; First Song (Soul Note)
5. Richard Wagner/Eileen Farrell/New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein: Wesendonck Lieder V: Traume; Selections from Tristan, etc. (Sony)
6. Charles Mingus: Tijuana Gift Shop; Tijuana Moods (RCA)
7. Charles Mingus: Cumbia & Jazz Fusion [title tune] (Atlantic)
8. Edith Piaf: Hymne à l’Amour; Essential Five (The Restoration Project)
9. Keith Jarrett: Whisper Not [title tune] (ECM)
10. Johann Sebastian Bach/Lorraine Hunt Lieberson/Orchestra of Emmanuel: Cantata BWV 30: Kommt Ihd angelfochten; Lorraine at Emmanuel (Avie)
11. Colin Jacobsen/Brooklyn Rider: Brooklesca; Passport (In a Circle)
12. Gustav Mahler/Felcity Lott/Quatuour Schumann: Ich bin der Welt Abhanden; Mahler & Wagner, Rückert Lieder etc; (Aeon)
13. Charles Mingus: Flamingo; Tijuana Moods (RCA)
Out Theme: Lester Bowie/Brass Fantasy: Nessun Dorma; The Odyssey of Funk and Popular Music (Dreyfus Jazz)
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on July 24, 2010 @ 4:12 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Gustav Mahler/Vienna Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 5 (opening fanfare) [title tune] (DGG)
1. Claude Debussy/Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado: La Mer; Debussy: La Mer – Mahler: Symphony No. 2 – Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Abbado (DGG)
2. Gustav Mahler/Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado/Eteri Gvazava/Anne Larsson: Debussy: La Mer – Mahler: Symphony No. 2 – Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Abbado (DGG)
3. John Coltrane: Love; First Meditations (for quartet) (Impulse)
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on July 18, 2010 @ 6:10 pm | Post a comment
Updoc 99: Happy 150th Gus?: 77/16/10
Opening theme: Gustav Mahler/Vienna Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 5 (opening fanfare) [title tune] (DGG)
1, Gustav Mahler/London Symphony Orchestra/Klaus Tennstedt: Symphony No. 6 (4th mvt.); Mahler Symphonies 6 & 7 Live (EMI)
2. Gustav Mahler/London Symphony Orchestra/Jascha Horenstein: Symphony No. 9 (1st mvt); Mahler – Symphony No. 9, Kindertotenlieder (BBC Legends)
3 – 4. Gustav Mahler/Concertgebouw Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 9 (3rd & 4th mvts.); Mahler – Symphony No. 9 (DGG)
5. Gustav Mahler/London Symphony Orchestra/Jascha Horenstein: Symphony No. 9 (4th mvt); Horenstein - Mahler Symphony No. 9, Kindertotenlieder (BBC Legends
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on July 10, 2010 @ 12:07 pm | 1 Comment
Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic of Ju-ju (Impulse)
1. Gustav Mahler/London Symphony Orchestra/Jascha Horenstein/Margaret Price: Symphony No. 4 [title tune] (Classics For Pleasure)
2. Gustav Mahler/New York Philharmonic/Bruno Walter/Ernst Haefliger/Mildred Miller: Das Lied von der Erde [title tune] (Sony)
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on July 2, 2010 @ 8:39 pm | 1 Comment
Opening theme: Gustav Mahler/Vienna Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 5 (fanfare) [title tune] (DGG)
1. Geri Allen: The Experimental Movement; The Life of a Song (Telarc)
2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: No Moon At All; Jasmine (ECM)
3. Gustav Mahler/Jascha Horenstein/London Symphony Orchestra/Ambrosian Singers/Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir/Norma Proctor/Dennis Wick/William Lang: Symphony No. 3 [title tune] (Unicorn/Kanchana)
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on June 18, 2010 @ 10:13 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Robert Johnson: Crossroads [fragment] (guardian.co.uk)
1. Robert Johnson: Ramblin’ On My Mind; Legendary Blues Vol. 2 (Pristine Classics)
2. Safiye Ayla: Saatlarcı Başbaşı; Women of Istanbul (Traditional Crossroads)
3. Stan Getz/Kenny Barron: First Song; People Time/The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
4. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Transit; Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
5. Geri Allen: Faithful Carriers of Life; Flying Toward the Sound (Motema Music)
6. Lee Morgan: Edda; The Rumproller (Blue Note)
7. Franz Schubert/Pablo Casals [Stern, Schneider, Katins, Tortelier]: String Quintet in C Major; Schubert: String Quintet, Symphony No. 5 (Sony)
8. Stan Getz/Kenny Barron: Softly As in a Morning Sunrise; People Time/The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
9. Frédéric Chopin/Leon Fleisher: Nocturne in D Flat Major; Two Hands (Vanguard Classics)
10. Stan Getz/Kenny Barron: People Time; People Time/The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
11. Marilyn Crispell/David Rothenberg: Owl Moon; One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM)
Out theme: Robert Maxwell/The Nairobi Trio: Solfeggio; The Ernie Kovacks Show (E. & E. K. Productions)
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on June 12, 2010 @ 10:22 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues; Live and Dangerous (Columbia)
1. Antonio Vivaldi/Iona Brown/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor “Summer”; The Four Seasons (Hänssler)
2. Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Summertime; Porgy and Bess (Columbia)
3. Miles Davis/Gil Evans: Prayer - O Doctor Jesus; Porgy and Bess (Columbia)
4. Johann Sebastian Bach/Leon Fleisher: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; The Essential Leon Fleisher (Sony)
5. Olivier Messiaen/Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille/Myung-Whun Chung: Demeurer dans l’Amour; Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà (DGG)
6. Ludwig von Beethoven/Edwin Fischer: Piano Sonata No. 31 in B-flat Major Opus 110; Fischer Mozart Beethoven (Urania)
7. John Coltrane Quartet: Summertime; My Favorite Things (Atlantic)
8. Antonio Vivaldi/Iona Brown/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Concerto No. 4 in F Minor “Winter”; The Four Seasons (Hänssler)
9. Tommy Flanagan/Hank Jones: A Child is Born; Our Delights (Fantasy)
10. Claude Debussy/Branford Marsalis/English Chamber Orchestra/Andrew Litton: Romances for Saxophone (Columbia)
11. Sonny Rollins/Coleman Hawkins: Summertime; Sonny Meets Hawk (RCA)
12. Philip Glass/Richard Brubaker: Wichita Vortex Sutra; Hope Street Tunnel (Arabesque)
13. Joe Henderson/Tommy Flanagan: Bess You is My Woman Now; Porgy and Bess (Verve)
Out theme: Joe Henderson: Summertime; Porgy and Bess (Verve)
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on May 29, 2010 @ 11:36 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Paul Carr: Straight Ahead Soul [title tune] (PCJ)
2. Dave Holland Octet: Pathways [title tune] (Dare2)
3. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life; Jasmine (ECM)
4. Richard Strauss/Gundula Janowitz/Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan: On Going to Sleep; Four Last Songs, etc. (DGG)
5. Domenico Scarlatti/Leon Fleisher: Sonata in E Major; Two Hands (IndieBlu Music)
6. Richard Strauss/Gundula Janowitz/Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan: In the Gloaming; Four Last Songs, etc. (DGG)
7 – 8. Johannes Brahms/Glenn Gould: Intermezzo No. 6 in E-flat minor, No. 4 in E Major; Brahms – Ballades, Rhapsodies & Intermezzi (Sony)
9. Tommy Flanagan/Hank Jones: Autumn Leaves; Our Delights (Fantasy)
10. Gustav Mahler/Norma Proctor/London Symphony Orchestra/Jascha Horenstein: Symphony No. 3, 4th mvt, Misterioso; Mahler Symphony No. 3 (Unicorn Kanchana)
11. Ralph Towner/Paolo Fresu: Two Miniatures; Chiaroscuro (ECM)
12. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden; Body and Soul; Jasmine (ECM)
13. Jean Sibelius/Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä: Tapiola; Symphonies No. 6 & 7, Tapiola (BIS)
14. Tommy Flanagan/Hank Jones: Jordu; Our Delights (Fantasy)
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on May 22, 2010 @ 9:53 am | 3 Comments
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Hank Jones/Great Jazz Trio: A Child is Born; Someday My Prince Will Come (Eighty Eight’s/Columbia)
2. Moondog (Louis Hardin)/London Saxophonic: Novette No. 1; Sax Pax for a Sax (Roof Music/Zebralution)
3. Hank Jones/Great Jazz Trio: Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise; Someday My Prince Will Come (Eighty Eight’s/Columbia)
4. Dave Holland Octet: How’s Never?; Pathways (Dare2)
5. Moondog (Louis Hardin)/London Saxophonic: Sandalwood; Sax Pax for a Sax (Roof Music/Zebralution)
6. Jordi Savall/Yair Dalal/Hesperion XXI: Las Estrellas De Los Cielos; Diaspora Sefardi (Alia Vox)
7. Moondog (Louis Hardin)/London Saxophonic: Bird’s Lament; Sax Pax for a Sax (Roof Music/Zebralution)
8. Hank Jones/Great Jazz Trio: Caravan; Someday My Prince Will Come (Eighty Eight’s/Columbia)
9. Jennifer Higdon/Xiaohan Wang: Secret and Glass Gardens; 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Semifinal Round (Van Cliburn Foundation)
10. Grazyna Bacewicz/Joanna Kurkowicz/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Lukasz Borowicz: Violin Concerto No. 7; Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 7 (Chandos)
11. Dave Holland Octet: Sea of Marmara; Pathways (Dare2)
12. Hariprasad Chaurasia/Fazal Kureshi: Dhun in Raga Mishra Pilu; Raga Darbari Kanada (Nimbus)
13. Thelonious Monk: These Foolish Things; The London Sessions (Black Lion)
14. Moondog (Louis Hardin)/London Saxophonic: Paris; Sax Pax for a Sax (Roof Music/Zebralution)
Out theme: Charlie Haden/Hank Jones: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Steal Away (Verve)
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on May 15, 2010 @ 11:33 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic if Ju-Ju (Impulse)
1. Charles Mingus: Meditation (For a Pair of Wirecutters); Right Now – Live at the Jazz Workshop (Fantasy/OJC)
2. Jennifer Higdon/Jennifer Koh/Reiki Uchida: String Poetic – Blue Hills of Mist; String Poetic (Çedille)
3. David S. Ware: Reflection; Shakti (Aum Productions)
4. Kayhan Kalhor/Brooklyn Rider: Parvaz; Silent City (World Village)
5. Grazyna Bacewicz/Joanna Kurkowicz/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Lukasz Borowicz: Violin Concerto No. 3; Bacewicz Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 7 (Chandos)
6. Sofia Gubaidulina/Stockholm Royal Symphony Orchestra/Gennady Rozhdestvensky: Symphony: Stimmen . . . Verstummen; Symphony - Stufen (Chandos)
7. Steve Kuhn: With Gratitude; Mostly Coltrane (ECM)