Building a Jazz Library - S02E04

Music from the essential jazz recordings for building your jazz library with picks from jazz historians, jazz fans, and jazz insiders. We’ll listen to music from the best albums of jazz heavyweights, tune in to a few more obscure recordings, and give tips on how to complete your very own jazz library, whether you’re new to the music or one of its most hardcore listeners. 

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Bill Sears, Matt Visser, Myles Weinstein

 

Music

• Charlie Parker “Ornithology” 
• Duke Ellington “Isfahan”
• Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
• Miles Davis “All Blues”
• Duke Ellington “Jack the Bear” 
• Duke Ellington “Cotton Tail” 
• John Coltrane “Lonnie’s Lament” 
• John Coltrane “Wise One”
• Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus “A Night in Tunisia (Live)”
• Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus “Salt Peanuts” 
• John Coltrane “Naima”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
• Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry “Lonely Woman”
• Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus” 
• Charles Mingus “Boogie Stop Shuffle” 
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk”
• Louis Armstrong “Perdido Street Blues”
• Miles Davis “Yesternow”
• Billy Harper “Priestess”
• Alice Coltrane “Ptah, The El Daoud”
• Miles Davis “Right Off”
• Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
• Herbie Mann “Memphis Underground” 
• Stefon Harris & Blackout “Gone”
• Vijay Iyer “Dogon A.D.”
• Kenny Barron “Memories of You”
• Vijay Iyer “Galang”

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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