Host Ron Steeds takes the listener on a guided tour through the history of jazz in two hours. Tonight we travel through almost 90 years of great music.
Set 1: the 1920's, 1930's, 1940's |
Butter Finger Blues Charles Creath's Jazz-o-Matics - Jazz In St. Louis 1924-1927 - Timeless |
Woke Up With The Blues In My Fingers Lonnie Johnson - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 2 - Document |
Azure Chick Webb - Chick Webb 1935-1938 - Chronological Classics |
Was That All I Meant To You Three Peppers - Three Peppers 1937-1940 - Chronological Classics |
Behind The Eight Bar Trummy Young - Trummy Young 1944-1946 - Chronological Classics |
Lonesome Lover Blues Billy Eckstine - Mr. B And The Band - Savoy |
Moten Swing Willie Smith - Hittin' On All Six - Proper |
Set 2: the 1950's |
My Foolish Heart Gene Ammons - Early Visions - Chess |
Hip Tip Gene Ammons - Blue Gene - Prestige |
Davis Cup Jackie McLean - New Soil - Blue Note |
Set 3: the 1960's |
Each Time I Think Of You Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams - Complete Blue Note Studio Recordings - Mosaic |
Manha De Carnaval Freddie Hubbard - The Body And The Soul - Impulse! |
Voices Manfred Schoof - Voices - Bellaphon |
Fall Out Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith - Verve |
Set 4: 1970's, 1980's |
Everything But You Roland Hanna - Swing Me No Waltzes - Storyville |
Stompin' At The Savoy Andre Jaume, Joe McPhee, Raymond Boni - Songs And Dances - Celp |
Set 5: 1990's |
Skin Christy Doran, Mark Helias, Bobby Previte, Gary Thomas - Corporate Art - JMT |
My Shining Hour Valery Ponomarev - Profile - Reservoir |
Set 6: the 2000's |
In What Language Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - In What Language? - Pi Recordings |
Double Diploid Steve Swell-David Taylor Quartet - Double Diploid - CIMP |
Joy Curtis Clark - Taagi - NoBusiness |
Set 7: the 2010's |
Sudden Voyage Beledo - Dreamland Mechanism - MoonJune |
Stretch Mark Jochen Rueckert - Charm Offensive - Pirouet |
Hey my friend. Great show, as always! Did you hear my last show on the new Miles Davis bootleg, the last European tour with Coltrane. Amazing stuff, Coltrane wild and Miles superbly cool, above the fray.
9:21 PM, May 2nd, 2018