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Swing Is In The Air
Sunday June 21st, 2020 with Bruce Walton
top doctors agree . . .

. . . that listening to jazz is effective against the Covid blues. Music today from two great artists - bass player Oscar Pettiford in the first hour, and saxman and flutist James Moody in the second.
The Man I Love (December 1943)
Coleman Hawkins Swing Four - Oscar Pettiford - Bass Hits
Pluckin' That Thing (March 1944)
Sammy Price & His Musicians - Bass Hits
Honeysuckle Rose (April 1944)
Ben Webster Quartet - Bass Hits
I Got A Date With Rhythm (April 1944)
Billy Eckstine w/the Deluxe All Stars - Bass Hits
Blue Skies (April 1944)
Ben Webster Quartet - Bass Hits
Be Bop (January 1945)
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Bass Hits
Mop Mop (February 1945)
Coleman Hawkins Quintet - Bass Hits
Something For You (January 1945)
Oscar Pettiford & His All Stars - Bass Hits
Frankie & Johnny (Decemeber 1945)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Bass Hits
Swamp Fire (September 1946)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Bass Hits
Low & Behold (OP cello, Charles Mingus bs)
Oscar Pettiford - The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (March 1949)
Oscalypso
Oscar Pettiford - Another One (August 1955)
Blues In The Closet
Oscar Pettiford - The Legendary Oscar Pettiford (Vienna, January 1959)
There Will Never Be Another You
Oscar Pettiford - The Legendary Oscar Pettiford
O.P.
The Mingus Big Band - Gunslinging Birds (1995)
Cu-Ba (October 1948)
James Moody's Modernists - Bebop Spoken Here (compilation)
Moody & Soul (Lausanne, April 1949)
James Moody - Just Moody (compilation)
Good Bait (Stockholm October 1949)
James Moody - Just Moody
I'm In The Mood For Love (Stockholm October 1949)
James Moody - Just Moody
Body And Soul (Stockholm October 1949)
James Moody - Just Moody
Deep Purple (Paris July 1951)
James Moody - Just Moody
Moody's Mode (Paris July 1951)
James Moody - Just Moody
I'm In The Mood For Love (February 1952)
King Pleasure w/Blossom Dearie - The Bebop Singers (compilation)
That Man O' Mine (April 1954)
James Moody - Just Moody
Blues In The Closet (September 1954)
James Moody - Just Moody
I've Got The Blues (January 1955)
James Moody (Eddie Jefferson vcl) - The Bebop Singers
Plus Eight
James Moody - Moody's Mood For Love (1957)
I'm In The Mood For Love
James Moody (Eddie Jefferson vcl) - Moody's Mood For Love
Savannah Calling
James Moody - The Blues And Other Colors (1969)
You Got To Pay
James Moody - The Blues And Other Colors
Gone Are The Days
James Moody - The Blues And Other Colors
Interactive CKCU
Shubham
Great selections Bruce

4:21 PM, June 21st, 2020
Dave Willis
Even Van Morrison recorded Moody's Mood

5:29 PM, June 21st, 2020
Dave Willis
including "James Moody you can come in and blow now. We're through"

5:31 PM, June 21st, 2020
Bruce Walton (host)
Thanks you both. I had forgotten about the Van M version - maybe with Georgie Fame? Anyway, cool you picked up on that.

9:30 PM, June 21st, 2020