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on November 15, 2011 @ 2:25 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse)
1. Roy Haynes: All the Bars Are Open: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
2. Sarah Vaughan: Shulie-a-Bop; The Ultimate Sarah Vaughan (Verve)
3. Roy Haynes: Equipoise: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
4. Pat Metheny: All the Things You Are; Question and Answer (Nonesuch)
5. Roy Haynes: Moon Ray; Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
6. Roy Haynes: Passion Dance: Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
7. Roy Haynes: Raoul; Out of the Afternoon (Impulse)
8. Clifford Brown: Laura; Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy/Verve)
9. Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Delilah; The Emarcy Master Takes (Hip-o-Select)
10. Clifford Brown: Stardust; Clifford Brown With Strings (Emarcy/Verve)
11. Clifford Brown/Max Roach: Joy Spring; The Emarcy Master Takes (Hip-o-Select)
12. Elliott Carter/Ole Böhn/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen:Violin Concerto; American Classics (EMI)
13. Kronos Quartet/Alim & Fargana Qasimov/Homayum Sakhi: Kohlen Atım; Rainbow – Music of Central Asia Vol, 8 (Smithsonian Folkways)
14. Olivier Messiaen/Peter Serkin: Je dors, mais mon coeur veille; Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant Jésus (RCA)
Out theme; Art Ensemble of Chicago: Strawberry Mango; Coming Home Jamaica (WB)
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on November 8, 2011 @ 1:54 pm | 4 Comments
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Ninth Room; Tutankhamun (Black Lion)
1.Miles Davis: Karlsruhe. Germany – November 7, 1967 (Agitation, Footprints, I Fall in Love Too Easily, Walkin’, Gingerbread Boy, The Theme); Live in Europe ’67 (Columbia DVD)
2– 3. Miles Davis: Tadd Dameron Quintet: Rifftide, Good Bait; Paris Festival International de Jazz – May, 1949 (Columbia)
4 – 5. Miles Davis: The Serpent’s Tooth, Veird Blues; Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings (Prestige)
6. Miles Davis: First Set (Directions, Spanish Key, Masqualero, It’s About That Time/The Theme); Live at the Fillmore East March 7 1970 (Columbia)
7. Charlie Parker: K.C. Blues; The Essential Charlie Parker (Verve)
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on November 1, 2011 @ 12:26 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Don Cherry: Complete Communion, And Now, Golden Heart, Remembrance; Complete Communion (Blue Note)
2. Mieceslaw (Moises) Weinberg/Sergey Ostrovsky/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling: Violin Concertino Op. 42; Russian Violin Concertos (Naxos)
3. Witold Lutoslawski/Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen: Symphony No. 4; Lutoslawski - Symphonies 3&4, etc. (Columbia)
4. Don Cherry: Elephantasy, Our Feelings, Bismillah, Wind Sand and Stars ; Complete Communion (Blue Note)
5. Ahmed Adnan Saygun/Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Ari Rasilainen: Symphony No. 2; Saygun - Symphonies Nos. 1&2 (CPO)
6. Franco Serdar Erbaşı: Hıcaz Taksim; Ney İle Solo Taksimler (Columbia)
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on October 26, 2011 @ 12:33 pm | 2 Comments
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Ben Webster: Midnight Blue; See You at the Fair (Impulse)
2. Gabriel Kahane: Great Lakes; Where Are the Arms (2nd Story Sound)
3. Amira: Jano Mori; Amulette (World Village UK)
4. Shmon Arslan: Diarbakır Divan; To What Strange Place – The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora 1916-1929 (Tompkins Square)
5. Spottiswoode and his Enemies: I’d Even Follow You to Philadelphia; Wild Goosechase Expedition (Old Soul)
6. Dexter Gordon: Lady Iris B; Clubhouse (Blue Note)
7. Luca Marenzio/La Venexiana: Solo E Pensoso; Il Nono Libro De Madrigali (Glassa)
8. Ben Webster: Where Are You?; Soulville (Verve)
9. Josquin Des Prez/Hilliard Ensemble: Absalon, fili mi; Josquin (Virgin)
10. Franco Serdar Erbaşı: Saba Taksim; Ney İle Solo Taksimler (Columbia)
11. Ben Webster: Soulville [title tune] (Verve)
12. Heinrich Schütz/Concerto Palatino/John Potter: Absalon, fili mi; Symphoniae Sacrae 1629 (Accent)
13. Dexter Gordon: Soy Califa; A Swingin’ Affair (Blue Note)
14. George Ivanovich Gurdjieff/Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble/Levon Eskenian: Sayyid Chant and Dance No. 10; Music of G.I. Gurdjieff (ECM)
15. Ben Webster: Stardust; Ben Webster Plays Ballads (Storyville)
16. Sergei Prokofiev/Pavel Haas Quartet: String Quartet No. 2; Prokofiev -String Quartets, Sonata for 2 Violins (Supraphon)
Out theme: Gabriel Fauré: Pavane; Fauré Requiem, Pavane; Duruflé Requiem (EMI)
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on October 15, 2011 @ 3:15 pm | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. John Coltrane: Ogunde; Expression (Impulse)
2. John Coltrane: Stellar Regions [title tune] (Impulse)
3. Gustav Mahler/Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado: Symphony No. 9 [title tune] (Accentus/Arte Blu-Ray)
4. John Coltrane: Expression [title tune] (Impulse)
5. Christoph Willibald Gluck/Orchestra Teatro Della Scala/Wilhelm Furtwängler: Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Orfeo ed Euridice (Urania)
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on October 11, 2011 @ 3:16 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago; The Ninth Room; Tutankhamun (Black Lion)
1. Charles Ives/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas: Three Places in New England; Ives – Ruggles – Piston (DGG)
2. Louis Armstrong: Potato Head Blues; The Complete Hot Fives & Sevens (Columbia)
3. Toru Takemitsu/Petri Alanko/Tapiola Sinfonietta/Okko Kamu: Toward the Sea II; 20th Century Music for Flute and Orchestra (Naxos)
4. Thomas Adès/Anthony Marwood/Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Violin Concerto – Rings, Paths, Rounds; Tevot -Violin Concerto - Couperin Dances (EMI)
5. Johann Sebastian Bach/Angela Hewitt: French Suite #5 in G; The French Suites (Hyperion)
6. Sally Beamish/John Harle/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Ola Rudner: The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone; The Imagined Sound, etc. (BIS)
7. Elliott Carter/London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen: Three Occasions for Orchestra; Three Occasions – Violin Concerto - Concerto for Orchestra (EMI)
8. Louis Armstrong: Cornet Chop Suey; The Complete Hot Fives & Sevens (Columbia)
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on September 27, 2011 @ 12:17 pm | Post a comment
1. Sonny Rollins: Blue Room; On Impulse (Impulse)
2. Sonny Rollins: 52nd Street Theme (Alternate); The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA)
3. Sonny Rollins: Sonnymoon for Two; A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)]
4. Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness (Tama 2000); Road Shows Vol. 1 (Emarcy/Doxy)
5. Sonny Rollins: Easy Living (Warsaw 1980); Road Shows Vol. 1 (Emarcy/Doxy)
6. Sonny Rollins: Lover (Doxy download)
7. Sonny Rollins: Pent-Up House; Three Giants (Prestige)
8. Dizzy Gillespie: The Eternal Triangle; Sonny Side Up (Verve)
9. Sonny Rollins: The Freedom Suite; The Freelance Years (Riverside)
10. Sonny Rollins: Alfie’s Theme Differently; Alfie (Impulse)
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on September 20, 2011 @ 12:52 pm | Post a comment
1. Sonny Rollins: Dearly Beloved; The Freelance Years (Riverside)
2. Sonny Rollins: I Can’t Get Started; Road Shows Vol. 2 (Emarcy)
3. Sonny Rollins (w/Ornette Coleman): Sonnymoon for Two; Road Shows Vol. 2 (Emarcy)
4. Sonny Rollins/Don Cherry Quartet: On Green Dolphin Street; Complete Paris Concert 1963 (Gambit Spain)
5. The Rolling Stones: Neighbors; Tattoo You (Virgin)
6. Leonard Cohen/Sonny Rollins: Who By Fire (Dave Sanborn/Hal Wilner/Night Music/youtube)
7. The Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend; Tattoo You (Virgin)
8. Sonny Rollins: A Night in Tunisia; A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
9. Sonny Rollins: There Will Never Be Another You; The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA)
10. Sonny Rollins: Misterioso; Sonny Rollins Volume 2 (Blue Note)
11. Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Rollins: Wheatleigh Hall; Duets (Verve)
12. Sonny Rollins: I Could Write a Book; The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA)
13. Sonny Rollins: Rain Check; Road Shows Vol. 2 (Emarcy)
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on September 13, 2011 @ 11:41 am | Post a comment
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1. Gabriel Fauré/David Willcocks/New Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Chilcott/John Carol Case: Requiem; Fauré – Duruflé – Requiems (EMI)
2. John Coltrane: Alabama; Coltrane Live at Birdland (Impulse)
3. Dietrich Buxtehude/Daniel Taylor/Theatre of Early Music; Klag-Lied Lamento (Alma Classique)
4. Branford Marsalis: Requiem; Contemporary Jazz (Sony)
5. Ludwig von Beethoven/Berlin Philharmonic/Eugen Jochum: Symphony
No. 3 “Eroica”, 2nd mvt. “Marcia Funebre”; Beethoven - The 9 Symphonies - Jochum (DGG)
6. Igor Stravinsky/SWD Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/WDR Rundfunkchor Köln/Michael Gielen: Symphony of Psalms; Stravinsky: Symphonies (Hänssler)
7. Richard Wagner/Wiener Philharmoniker/Wilhelm Furtwängler: Siegfried’s Funeral Music; Wagner – Orchestral Music (EMI)
8. Louis Armstrong: Sweethearts on Parade; The Big Band Recordings 1930 – 1932 (JSP)
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on September 6, 2011 @ 1:00 pm | Post a 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/BBC Chorus & Choral Society, et al/Jascha Horenstein: Symphony No. 8, 1st mvt.; Mahler - Symphony No. 8/Horenstein (BBC Legends)
2. Miles Davis: Second Set (Directions, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down, Bitches Brew, Spanish Key, It’s About That Time, The Theme); Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) (Columbia/Sony)
3. Haflidi Hallgrimsson/Truls Mørk/Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John Storgårds: Cello Concerto Opus 29; Truls Mørk Plays Hallgrimsson (Ondine)
4. Miles Davis: Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony; Water Babies (Columbia)
Out theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Strawberry Mango; Coming Home Jamaica (WB/Atlantic)