This show recaps our Friday night hitting the NYC jazz clubs. We saw Donald Harrison's Treme show, Joel Holmes Trio and The John Fedchock NY Sextet (featuring Walt Weiskopf). It was a great night and doing this show lets me share some of that music with you. Please note that apparently I was looking at the wrong liner notes when I gave the personnel for the Donald Harrison tracks. See below for the impressive lineup on those tracks.

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The Burners (Extended) - Donald Harrison, Eric Reed, Christian Scott, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham & Mulgrew Miller

Track ~ Artist ~ Album
Mr. PC ~ Joel Holmes ~ African Skies
African Skies ~ Joel Holmes ~ African Skies
Line of Flight ~ Steve Davis ~ Outlook
Dizzy Spells/Jay Walking ~ Walt Weiskopf Quartet ~ Live
Well You Needn't ~ Donald Harrison ~ The Burners
Drum Line ~ Donald Harrison ~ The Burners
I'm the Big Chief of Congo Square ~ Donald Harrison ~ The Burners

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Its sort of a tradition on Father's Day to begin the show with Horace Silver's classic Song For My Father. Cannonball's cool One For Daddy-O continues on that theme. Next up is a Curtis Brothers set to get us ready for their live gig that evening. Later in the show we have a set as requested by my lovely wife Claire featuring Ornette Coleman's unique take on the blues, Dave Douglas and Stan Getz with Chick Corea. The show concludes with a rousing performance of Sweet Georgia Brown by clarinetist Anat Cohen.

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Featured album Blood-Spirit-Land-Water-Freedom

Track ~ Artist ~ Album
Song for My Father ~ Horace Silver ~ Song For My Father
One For Daddy-O ~ Cannonball Adderley ~ Somethin' Else
Op 25 No 2 ~ Curtis Brothers Quartet ~ Blood-Spirit-Land-Water-Freedom
Sudan and Darfur ~ Insight ~ A Genesis
Mizu (Aqua) ~ Steven Kroon ~ Without a Doubt
Herbs and Roots ~ Joshua Redman Quartet ~ Spirit of the Moment
Turnaround ~ Ornette Coleman ~ Sound Grammer
Porto Alegre ~ Dave Douglas ~ Freak In
Five Hundred Miles High ~ Stan Getz ~ Captain Marvel
Sweet Georgia Brown ~ Anat Cohen ~ Clarinetwork

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This podcast is a reprise of a podcast from May 16 2010, due to a preemption of my radio show this week.

Tenor saxophone is front and center on this show. We'll hear some jazz artists from today's generation of tenor players along with some grand masters of the past. Representing players on the scene today are Marcus Strickland, Jimmy Greene and Abraham Burton. Of course there are so many great players out there, that it would be impossible to hear them all on one broadcast. From the past, two of the greatest are represented here with Ben Webster and Lester Young.

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Idiosyncrasies on amazon.com	Soulmates on Amazon.com

Track * Artist * Album
The Child * Marcus Strickland * Idiosycracies
Middleman * Marcus Strickland * Idiosycracies
Love In Action * Jimmy Greene * Mission Statement
Forbidden Fruit * Abraham Burton Eric McPherson Quartet * Cause and Effect
How High the Moon * Ben Webster * At Ronnie Scott 1964
Trav'lin' Light * Ben Webster * Soulmates
Soulmates * Ben Webster * Soulmates
Ad Lib Blues * Lester Young * Tea for Two
Jean De Fleur * Grant Green * Idle Moments

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Quite an eclectic show. It all starts off with some swinging Joshua Redman, early in his career (1995). It continues with some New Orleans sounds from Skerik and John Ellis. Then we begin our ascent into the avant garde with Greg Osby and then full out (out to lunch) with Eric Dolphy. We then come back down to earth with some gorgeous piano work from Yoko Miwa to conclude this show.

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Out To Lunch on amazon.com

Track ~ Artist ~ Album
Jig-A-Jug ~ Joshua Redman Quartet ~ Spirit of the Moment: Live at Village Vangard
Just In Time ~ Joshua Redman Quartet ~ Spirit of the Moment: Live at Village Vangard
Summer Pudding ~ Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet ~ Husky
Fauxfessor ~ John Ellis and Double Wide ~ Puppet Mischief
Optimism ~ Greg Osby ~ Nine Levels
Hat and Beard ~ Eric Dolphy ~ Out To Lunch
La Estacion ~ Yoko Miwa ~ Canopy of Stars
Golden Slumber ~ Yoko Miwa ~ The Day We Said Goodbye

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