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A look at jazz’s legendary songwriting teams who stand behind some of the most popular standards of our day, and a look at that special duo who created one of the most unique big band sounds of the era. We’ll talk with Billy Strayhorn biographer David Hajdu about Ellington and Strayhorn’s deep personal and musical relationship, take a look at what made the Gershwin Brothers tick, and explore why jazzers are still fascinated with the music of legendary Tin Pan Alley duo Rogers and Hart. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: David Hajdu, Kevin Cole, Kurt Elling

Music

• Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Chelsea Bridge”
• Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Take the ‘A’ Train”
• Ella Fitzgerald “This Can’t Be Love”
• Ella Fitzgerald “Manhattan”
• Miles Davis “My Funny Valentine”
• Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan “The Lady is a Tramp”
• Billie Holiday “A Foggy Day”
• Oscar Peterson Trio “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Blues Backstage”
• Eddie Jefferson “Body and Soul”
• Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”
• Eddie Jefferson “Parker's Mood (Bless My Soul)”
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Two for the Blues”
• Kurt Elling “Tanya Jean”
• Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Passion Flower”
• Billy Strayhorn “Lush Life”

Original Air Date: June 1, 2012

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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A celebration of the life and music of multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, his eccentric stage persona, and Rahsaan’s widow Dorthaan Kirk talks about his heroic return to the stage after suffering a stroke. We’ll also chat with biographer John Kruth about Kirk’s life and art from his unequaled ability to make music on many instruments at once, to his politically-charged performances, and explore whether the jazz world has finally given this unsung hero his due.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: John Kruth, Dorthaan Kirk

Music

• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “The Call”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Jack the Ripper”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Domino”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “The Inflated Tear”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Medley: Going Home / Sentimental Journey / In Monument / Lover”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Hip Chops”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Serenade To A Cuckoo”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Bright Moments”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “You Did It, You Did It”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “3-In-1 Without the Oil”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “The Creole Love Call”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Fugue’n and Alludin’”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “The Black and Crazy Blues”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “When the Sun Comes Out” 

Original Air Date: July 28, 2012

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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Our salute to jazz Americana with jazz’s history on the Broadway stage, explore the role jazz musicians played in shaping the glory years of the USO, and hear how musicians have strived to capture that distinctive “American” sound. We’ll talk with Irving Berlin biographer Laurence Bergreen about the rags to riches story of one of America’s greatest songwriters, a look at the American musical that helped revive jazzers interest in the American stage, and our producer Lou Blouin picks some of the best and strangest moments in jazzers’ struggle to define the American experience. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Laurence Bergreen, Lou Blouin

Music

• Kate Smith “God Bless America”
• Ella Fitzgerald “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings “This Land Is Your Land”
• Louis Armstrong “Alexander's Ragtime Band”
• Irving Berlin “Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” 
• Ella Fitzgerald “Blue Skies”
• Benny Goodman Trio “Puttin’ on the Ritz”
• Billie Holiday “How Deep Is the Ocean”
• Bob Hope in Strictly G.I. 
• The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
• The Andrews Sisters “The Blonde Sailor”
• The Andrews Sisters “(I’m Gettin’) Corns For My Country”
• Ray Charles “America the Beautiful”
• Jimi Hendrix “The Star-Spangled Banner”
• Frank Sinatra in The House I Live In
• Frank Sinatra “The House I Live In”
• Charlie Haden “Song for Ché”
• Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra “Blue Anthem”
• Charlie Haden “Single Girl, Married Girl”
• Charlie Haden and Jack Black “Old Joe Clark”
• Bill Frisell “Struggle”
• Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong “The Beautiful American”
• Bill Frisell “Focus”
• Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny “Is This America?” 
• Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim “America” from West Side Story
• Sarah Vaughan “Maria” from West Side Story
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Tonight” from West Side Story
• Stan Kenton “Something's Coming” from West Side Story
• Oscar Peterson Trio “Jet Song” from West Side Story

Original Air Date: April 13, 2014

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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We continue our tour of America’s “Great Jazz Cities” with the history of Local 274’s influence on jazz in the city,  music from Hammond B3 organ pioneer Jimmy Smith, and the brilliant and tragic story of Philadelphia favorite son Clifford Brown. We’ll also get to know the Philadelphia guitar-violin duo that beat Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli to the punch, and our chat with historian Diane Turner gets into the details about how union politics shaped the Philly jazz scene. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Diane Turner, Mike Peters, Pete Fallico, Charles Carson

Music

• McCoy Tyner “Contemplation”
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet “Step Lightly (Junior’s Arrival)”
• Nina Simone “Love Me or Leave Me”
• Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Stringing the Blues”
• Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Goin’ Places”
• Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Wild Cat”
• Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Doin’ Things”
• Melody Gardot “All I Need is Love”
• Jimmy Smith “The Sermon”
• Jimmy Smith “The Champ” 
• Jimmy Smith “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
• Jimmy Smith “The Organ Grinder’s Swing”
• Jo Jones “Philadelphia Bound” 
• McCoy Tyner “Utopia”
• John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison “After the Rain”
• Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan “I See Your Face Before Me”
• Art Blakey “A Night In Tunisia” 
• Clifford Brown “Brownie Speaks”
• Clifford Brown “Easy Living”
• Clifford Brown “The Scene is Clean”
• Clifford Brown “Brownie Eyes”
• Clifford Brown “Joy Spring”
• Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet “Swingin’” 

Original Air Date: June 9, 2012

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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A laid back look at the world of cool jazz, the people who shaped it, and how their revolution helped spark a mid-century East coast/West Coast rivalry in jazz. We’ll talk with our jazz historian Lewis Porter about the birth of the “cool” aesthetic in jazz, listen to some of the champions of the cool sound, and get to know the cool, quirky and often unsung saxophonist who shaped the sound of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Lewis Porter, Doug Ramsey

Music

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Unsquare Dance”
• Chris Connor “Get Out of Town”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “The Lady is a Tramp”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Godchild”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Venus de Milo”
• Lester Young “These Foolish Things”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Frenesi” 
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “The Way You Look Tonight” 
• Anita O'Day “My Heart Belongs To Daddy”
• Chris Connor “I Get A Kick Out Of You”
• Peggy Lee “Fever”
• Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day”
• Chris Connor “Moon Ray”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Jeru”
• Claude Thornhill “Robbin's Nest”
• Miles Davis “Boplicity”
• Miles Davis “Blues for Pablo” 
• Miles Davis “Concierto de Aranjuez”
• Miles Davis “Will O’ the Wisp”
• Miles Davis and Gil Evans “Summertime” 
• Miles Davis and Gil Evans “I Loves You, Porgy”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “I'm Beginning to See the Light”
• Dave Brubeck “I'm In a Dancing Mood”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Walkin’ Shoes
• Art Pepper “Birks Works”
• Chet Baker “That Old Feeling”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Let's Fall in Love”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Audrey”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Blue Rondo à la Turk”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Three to Get Ready”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Jeepers Creepers”

Original Air Date: November 28, 2011

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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A musical feast dedicated to some of the best food themed jazz with stories and sounds from the kitchen at one of New York’s hottest clubs, and the favorite dishes of some of the biggest icons in jazz. We’ll listen to music from the undisputed king of food jazz, talk with John Colbert who owned the oldest continually operating jazz club in the world, and hear from Lorraine Gordon whose office is the kitchen at the Village Vanguard.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Lorraine Gordon, John Colbert, Phil Murray

Music

• Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “In the Kitchen”
• Nina Simone “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
• Nat King Cole Trio “The Frim Fram Sauce”
• Louis Jordan “Hungry Man” 
• Louis Jordan “Ration Blues”
• Louis Jordan “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
• Louis Jordan “Beans and Cornbread”
• James Brown “Mother Popcorn”
• Fats Waller “All That Meat And No Potatoes”
• Fats Waller “Smashing Thirds”
• Jimmy Smith “Mack the Knife”
• James Carter “Sack Full of Dreams”
• Shirley Horn “Peel Me A Grape”
• Frank Zappa “Call Any Vegetable”
• Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House”
• Thelonious Monk “Tea for Two”
• Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man”
• Rosemary Clooney “Mangos”
• The Andrews Sisters “Hold Tight”
• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster “Tangerine”

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

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A celebration of the life and music of the legendary and prolific composer Duke Ellington, whose six decade long career created some of the most iconic music in American history. We'll explore the stories and songs behind his politically charged musicals, hear how international tours pushed him to infuse his music with Latin rhythms to Middle Eastern melodies, and learn more about Ellington’s unexpected comeback and his later years composing sacred suites. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.

Episode Transcript

Content Warning: use of dated derogatory racial terms in some historical quotes

Host: Jeff Haas

Music

• Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
• Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa” from Far East Suite
• Duke Ellington and Alice Babs “Heaven”
• Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag”
• Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag”
• Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Take the ‘A’ Train”
• Duke Ellington “Prelude to a Kiss”
• Medeski Martin & Wood “Caravan”
• Duke Ellington “Conga Brava”
• Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol “Caravan”
• Duke Ellington “Amad” from Far East Suite
• Duke Ellington “Single Petal Of A Rose”
• Stevie Wonder “Sir Duke”
• Duke Ellington “Retrospection”
• Duke Ellington “Perdido”
• Duke Ellington “Reflections in D”
• Junko Onishi Quintet and Marcus Belgrave “Take the ‘A’ Train”
• Duke Ellington “Chelsea Bridge”
• Duke Ellington “Come Sunday”
• Charles Mingus “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love”
• Announcements from The Newport Jazz Festival
• Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy”
• Duke Ellington “Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue”

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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A celebration of the brilliant and tumultuous life of Chet Baker from his unlikely breakthrough as one of the most popular trumpeters of the 1950s to the drug addiction which nearly unraveled his career. We’ll chat with Baker biographer James Gavin about Chet’s life and music, explore Chet’s surprising work as a jazz vocalist, and trace his role in bringing new life to one of jazz’s most treasured standards.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: detailed descriptions of injury and drug addiction

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: James Gavin 

Music

• Chet Baker “Let’s Get Lost”
• Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day”
• Chet Baker “Isn’t It Romantic?”
• Chet Baker “Sweet Lorraine”
• Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Moon Love”
• Chet Baker “Boudoir”
• Chet Baker “Little Girl Blue”
• Chet Baker “That Old Feeling”
• Chet Baker “My Ideal”
• Chet Baker “It’s Always You”
• Chet Baker “Like Someone In Love”
• Chet Baker “I Fall In Love Too Easily”
• Chet Baker “There Will Never Be Another You”
• Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Maid In Mexico”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “My Funny Valentine”
• Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine”
• Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine (Live)”
• Chet Baker “It Never Entered My Mind”
• Chet Baker “Everything Happens to Me”

Original Air Date: March 31, 2012

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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We delve into the shared history of jazz and spirituality with the spiritual side of sax titan John Coltrane, the gospel roots of jazz, and the sacred music of jazz icon Duke Ellington. We’ll also chat with a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band about the unique New Orleans spiritual tradition that is the jazz funeral.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Leonard Brown, Emmett Price, Bill Sears, Roger Lewis

Music

• John Coltrane “Slowtrane”
• Johnny Griffin Orchestra “Wade in the Water”
• John Zorn’s “Eitan”
• Anthony Butler “My God Is a Mighty Man”
• Andrew Dorsey “If You See My Savior”
• Andrew Dorsey “Peace In The Valley”
• Louis Armstrong “When The Saints Go Marching In”
• Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers “Moanin’”
• Aretha Franklin “Save Me”
• Jimmy Smith “The Sermon”
• Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers “Peace In The Valley”
• Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo”
• Duke Ellington “Come Sunday”
• Duke Ellington “In The Beginning”
• Duke Ellington “Heaven”
• Duke Ellington “Is God A Three-Letter-Word For Love?” 
• Duke Ellington “Every Man Prays In His Own Language” 
• Charlie Haden “Go Down, Moses”
• John Coltrane “The Damned Don’t Cry”
• John Coltrane “Song Of The Underground Railroad”
• John Coltrane “Spiritual”
• John Coltrane “Crescent”
• John Coltrane “Part I - Acknowledgement”
• John Coltrane “Song of Praise”
• Alice Coltrane “Shiva-Loka”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Amazing Grace”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Just A Closer Walk With Thee”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “I Shall Not Be Moved”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “What A Friend We Have In Jesus”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “John The Revelator”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus”

Original Air Date: December 4, 2011

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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A celebration of the complicated life and innovative music of Charles Mingus whose powerful voice for civil rights and hot temper earned him the reputation as “The Angry Man of Jazz.”  

We’ll talk with his widow Sue Mingus about her husband's compositional genius, explore his music and virtuosic bass playing, hear the story behind his legendary collaboration with Joni Mitchell, and learn about the efforts to keep the legacy of Mingus’s music alive. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Sue Mingus

Music

• Charles Mingus “Moanin’”
• Charles Mingus “Prayer for Passive Resistance”
• Charles Mingus “II B.S.”
• Charles Mingus “Free Cell Block F, ‘Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
• Duke Ellington “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
• Charles Mingus “Pithecanthropus Erectus”
• Charles Mingus “Reincarnation of a Lovebird”
• Charles Mingus “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue”
• Charles Mingus “Better Git It in Your Soul”
• Charles Mingus “Boogie Stop Shuffle”
• Charles Mingus “So Long Eric”
• Charles Mingus “Freedom”
• Deborah Harry and Andy Summers “Weird Nightmare”
• Mingus Big Band “Eat That Chicken (Paella)”
• Charles Mingus “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” 
• Charles Mingus “Freedom, Pt. 2 (Clark In the Dark)”
• Charles Mingus “Pedal Point Blues”
• Mingus Big Band “Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
• Charles Mingus and Joni Mitchell “The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines”
• Charles Mingus and Joni Mitchell “God Must Be a Boogie Man”
• Charles Mingus “Oscar Pettiford”
• Charles Mingus “Peggy's Blue Skylight”

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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Jazz and r&b both have a long history of protest songs and artists who were also potent political activists not only in the USA, but across the globe. We’ll explore how some of jazz’s most important musical pioneers wrote both subversive instrumental suites and outright angry musical manifestos, hear how American swing music became the unlikely soundtrack to an underground youth movement in Nazi Germany, and learn how the mellow sounds of the bossa nova grew into one of Latin America's most powerful protest idioms. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: use of dated derogatory racial terms in some Louis Armstrong lyrics and interview quotes, and a clip from the movie Swing Kids

Host: Jeff Haas

Music

• Bob Dylan “Masters of War”
• Nina Simone “Old Jim Crow”
• Max Roach “Freedom Day”
• Louis Armstrong “A Kiss To Build A Dream On”
• Louis Armstrong “The Old Folks At Home”
• Louis Armstrong “Summertime”
• Louis Armstrong “Black and Blue”
• Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
• Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
• Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddamn”
• Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus” 
• John Coltrane “Alabama”
• Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
• Edwin Starr “War”
• Antônio Carlos Jobim “The Girl from Ipanema”
• Nara Leão “Opinião”
• Caetano Veloso “Enquanto Seu Lobo Não Vem”
• Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come”
• Benny Goodman “Flat Foot Floogee”
• Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
• Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
• Charlie Haden “Song for Ché”
• Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra “This is not America”

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

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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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A look at the shared frontiers of jazz and literature from the many ways jazz shaped the world of poetry and vice versa, and hear how jazz critics have shaped our understanding of the music for the last hundred years. We’ll talk with poet Sascha Feinstein and literature historian Michael Borshuk about how everyone from the Beat writers of the 1950s to the civil-rights minded poets of the 1960s found their muses in the world of jazz, take a look at the life and work of the “jazz poet” Langston Hughes, and chat with our resident jazz historian Lewis Porter about how jazz critics have influenced the public’s perception of jazz for better and worse. 

Guest Speaker correction: Sascha Feinstein is not Co-Director of Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts for 7 years, and has been Director of Creative Writing at Lycoming College since 1995.

Episode Transcript

Host:  Jeff Haas

Guests: Sascha Feinstein, Michael Borshuk, Paul McCann, Lewis Porter

Music

• Duke Ellington “Weary Blues”
• Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen “Charlie Parker”
• Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald / Billy Strayhorn “Something to Live For”
• John Coltrane “All or Nothing at All”
• Jack Kerouac “The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma” 
• Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus and the Horace Parlan Quintet “Good Morning / Harlem”
• Langston Hughes with Leonard Feather's All-Star Sextet “The Weary Blues”
• Don Byron and Sadiq “I Cannot Commit”
• Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus and the Horace Parlan Quintet “Same in Blues / Comment on Curb”
• Charlie Parker “Billie’s Bounce”

Original Air Date: May 26, 2012

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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A celebration of the life and legend of jazz great Thelonious Monk from his pioneering days as a bebop revolutionary, and hear how he was both a great mentor and family man from his son, T. S. We’ll talk with biographer Robin Kelley about Monk’s life and music, explore how Monk’s battle with mental illness shaped his life and career, and hear how Monk’s masterpiece “‘Round Midnight” became the most recorded jazz standard of all time.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Robin Kelley, T. S. Monk

Music

• Thelonious Monk “Ruby, My Dear”
• Thelonious Monk “Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 2)”
• Thelonious Monk “Bye-Ya”
• Thelonious Monk “Thelonious”
• Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight”
• Thelonious Monk “Monk’s Mood”
• Thelonious Monk “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are” 
• Thelonious Monk “Blue Monk”
• Thelonious Monk “Four in One”
• Thelonious Monk “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
• Thelonious Monk “Off Minor”
• Thelonious Monk “Teo”
• Thelonious Monk “Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 1)”
• Miles Davis “‘Round Midnight”
• Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight (Live, from Straight, No Chaser)”
• Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight (debut recording)” 
• Joe Pass “‘Round Midnight”
• Thelonious Monk Trio “Bemsha Swing”
• Thelonious Monk “Crepuscule with Nellie”
• Thelonious Monk “Little Rootie Tootie”

Original Air Date: November 23, 2012

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

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We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the long-lost jazz and blues traditions of St. Louis, from the turn-of-the-century Mississippi River riverboat economy to St. Louis’ favorite son Miles Davis growing up in the Gateway City. We’ll talk with historian Kevin Belford about St. Louis’ rich blues heritage that got written out of the jazz history books, explore how Father of the Blues W.C. Handy’s hard luck time in St. Louis inspired one of the music’s all time classics, and hear how the blues spread from this city across the country.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Kevin Belford, Phillip Dunlap, Ben Cawthra

Music

• Big Joe Williams “Baby Please Don't Go”
• Robert Nighthawk “Crying Won’t Help You”
• Jimmy Forrest “Night Train”
• George E. Lee “Won’t You Come Over To My House?”
• Scott Joplin “Pine Apple Rag”
• Fate Marable “Frankie and Johnny”
• Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra “Singin’ The Blues”
• Chas Creath “I Woke Up Cold In Hand”
• Miles Davis “If I Were a Bell”
• Dewey Jackson and His Peacock Orchestra “She's Crying for Me”
• Miles Davis “I Thought About You”
• Miles Davis “Old Folks”
• Peggy Lee “You Came a Long Way from St. Louis”
• Chet Atkins “Memphis Blues”
• Art Tatum “St. Louis Blues”
• Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues”
• Billy Eckstine “St. Louis Blues”
• Dizzy Gillespie “St. Louis Blues”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “St. Louis Blues”
• Stump Johnson “Blues for Lindy”

To see some of the artwork in Kevin Belford’s book, Devil at the Confluence, go to the Devil at the Confluence blog.

Original Air Date: May 4, 2012

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

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Blue Note Records is the label synonymous with the best in jazz since 1939, and from its unique mystique around its sound and up and down history, we’ll learn how Blue Note is still relevant to jazz and non-jazz fans today. We’ll talk with veteran Blue Note man Michael Cuscuna about the label’s humble beginnings in a New York apartment, the rise of the so-called Blue Note sound in the 1950s, how commercial success ironically led to Blue Note’s undoing in the 1960s, and explore how the photography of Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff shaped the Blue Note mystique. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Michael Cuscuna, Ben Cawthra

Music

• Jackie McLean “Blue Condition”
• John Coltrane “Blue Train”
• Albert Ammons “Bass Goin’ Crazy”
• Ike Quebec “A Light Reprieve”
• Ike Quebec “Blue Monday”
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Nica’s Dream”
• Thelonious Monk “'Round Midnight”
• Horace Silver “Song For My Father”
• Horace Silver “Sanctimonious Sam”
• Milt Jackson “Lily”
• Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil”
• Lee Morgan “The Sidewinder”
• Norah Jones “Chasing Pirates”
• Lionel Loueke “Ami O”
• Stanley Turrentine “Blues for Del”

Original Air Date: April 17, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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We celebrate Halloween by exploring jazz’s spooky side with plenty of the best scary music and mysterious legends surrounding some unlucky jazzers. We’ll talk with mystery writer Bill Moody about the real-life jazz mysteries that inspire his novels, visit the cemetery in the Bronx that’s become the final resting place for an A-list of bygone jazz legends, and hear the myth and truth behind bluesman Robert Johnson’s notorious deal with the devil.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Bill Moody, Susan Olsen, Lou Blouin

Music

• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Halloween Spooks”
• Jelly Roll Morton “Dead Man’s Blues”
• Nellie McKay “Zombie”
• Robert Johnson “Me and the Devil Blues”
• Robert Johnson “If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day”
• Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues”
• Robert Johnson “Hellhound on My Trail”
• Louis Armstrong “Skeleton in the Closet”
• Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
• Screamin Jay Hawkins “Whistling Past the Graveyard”
• Miles Davis “All Blues”
• Miles Davis “Solar”
• Duke Ellington “Black Beauty (Portrait of Flo Mills)” 
• Lionel Hampton “Flying Home”
• Squirrel Nut Zippers “Ghost of Stephen Foster”
• Otis Redding “Trick Or Treat”
• Mel Tormé “The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)”
• Philly Joe Jones “Blues for Dracula”
• The Creed Taylor Orchestra “in Bedlam”
• Albert Ayler “Witches and Devils”
• Wayne Shorter “Dance Cadaverous” 
• Hoyt Curtin “Battle of the Planets Sneak-up / Battle of the Planets Bad Guys Vs. Good Guys”
• Raymond Scott “New Years Eve In a Haunted House”
• Raymond Scott “Power House”
• Kay Starr “Headless Horseman”
• Chet Baker “Old Devil Moon”
• Chet Baker “Witchcraft”
• Bill Evans “Witchcraft” 
• Chet Baker “Soft Winds” 
• Thelonious Monk “Misterioso
• Duke Ellington “Night Creature (Second Movement): Stalking Monster”

Original Air Date: October 22, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

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The fascinating intersection of jazz and psychology with an insiders’ look at the world of music therapy, and examining how jazz in particular is well suited to helping non-musicians reach their real life recovery goals. We’ll talk with jazz pianist Kenny Werner about how his self-styled, self-help manifesto for musical breakthroughs became a must-read for musicians of all stripes, chat with psychologist Judith Schlesinger about her new book that’s finally putting the long-taken-for-granted link between insanity and creativity through its intellectual paces, and get an insiders’ look at the world of music therapy with Dr. Kenneth Aigen of Temple University.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Kenny Werner, Judith Schlesinger, Kenneth Aigen

Music

• Duke Ellington “Blues In Blueprint”
• Duke Ellington “The Swingers Get the Blues, Too”
• Ella Fitzgerald “Mood Indigo”
• Diana Krall “Crazy”
• Joni Mitchell “Twisted” 
• Thelonious Monk “Rhythm-A-Ning”
• Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
• Charlie Parker “Relaxin’ at Camarillo”
• Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”
• Kenny Werner “New Amsterdam”

Original Air Date: April 28, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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From 1930s dance culture sparking the big band revolution, through the politics of race shaping the music, it’s the rise, fall, and legacy of the big bands. We’ll talk with music historian Jeffery Magee about the rich history of big bands, discover why the big band sound is still finding a home in communities across America well past the heyday of swing, and go in search of music from the more experimental side of the big band sound.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Jeffery Magee, Tom Cunniffe, Mike Hunter, Zach Cody

Music

• Count Basie “Boogie Woogie”
• Duke Ellington “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”
• Jimmy Smith  and Lalo Schifrin “The Cat”
• Duke Ellington “Rockin’ In Rhythm”
• Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
• Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy”
• Artie Shaw “The Continental”
• Billy Eckstine “Oop Bop Sh' Bam”
• Tito Puente “Rumba on the Patio” 
• Duke Ellington “Jungle Nights in Harlem”
• Duke Ellington “Blues in Orbit”
• Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
• Benny Goodman “Blue Skies”
• Count Basie “Tickle Toe”
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Tickle Toe”
• Harry Roy “The Man From Harlem”
• Boyd Raeburn “Body and Soul”
• Sun Ra “Space is the Place”
• Duke Ellington “Creole Rhapsody”
• Duke Ellington “The Telecasters”
• Duke Ellington “Blue Pepper”
• Stan Kenton “Egdon Heath”
• Toshiko Akiyoshi “Kogun”
• Duke Ellington “Amad”
• Charles Mingues “Solo Dancer”
• Duke Ellington “Ain't Misbehavin’”
• Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
• The Masters of Music Big Band “Fly Me to the Moon”
• Count Basie “Lil’ Darlin’”
• Erskine Hopkins “Tuxedo Junction”

Original Air Date: July 8, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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A celebration of the life and music of John Coltrane from his early roots growing up in rural North Carolina through his redemption and transformation from heroin addict to spiritual icon. We’ll talk with our jazz historian and renowned Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter about Trane’s early roots and get to know the softer side of John Coltrane the balladeer, retell John Coltrane’s redemption story, and sit down for a conversation with Ravi Coltrane about how his father’s music unexpectedly inspired him to carry on the family legacy.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: in-depth discussion of heroin addiction, recovery, and death.

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Lewis Porter, Ravi Coltrane

Music

• John Coltrane “Slowtrane”
• John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Pt. II - Resolution”
• John Coltrane “My Favorite Things”
• John Coltrane “Everytime We Say Goodbye”
• John Coltrane “While My Lady Sleeps”
• John Coltrane “Impressions”
• John Coltrane “Up 'Gainst the Wall”
• John Coltrane “Say it (Over and Over Again)”
• John Coltrane “Peace on Earth”
• John Coltrane “Chronic Blues”
• John Coltrane “Blue Train”
• Miles Davis “All Blues”
• John Coltrane “Giant Steps”
• John Coltrane “Naima”
• John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Part IV: Psalm”
• John Coltrane “Mr. Syms”
• John Coltrane “Lonnie's Lament”
• John Coltrane “After the Rain”
• Alice Coltrane and Ravi Coltrane “Crescent”

Original Air Date: January 16, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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Stories and sounds from jazz’s history overseas from the U.S. State Department using jazz as a weapon in the Cold War, the music’s extensive history in other countries, and learn how Israel is producing some of the best modern jazz musicians. We’ll talk with Israeli jazzer Anat Cohen about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent, take a look at the nearly hundred-year-old history of jazz in Japan, and explore Europe’s version of the 1920s Jazz Age.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Penny Von Eschen, Lewis Porter, E. Taylor Atkins, Anat Cohen

Music

• Duke Ellington “Ad Lib on Nippon” 
• Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa”
• Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Tiger Rag”
• Josephine Baker “Si J'etais Blanche”
• Artie Shaw “Nightmare” 
• Charlie Parker “Anthropology”
• Komeda “Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby, Part 1”
• Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train”
• Duke Ellington “Satin Doll”
• Josephine Baker “Revoir Paris”
• Danilo Perez “Panama Blues”
• Toshiko Akiyoshi “Blues for Toshiko”
• Sarah Vaughan “April in Paris”
• Dave Brubeck “Calcutta Blues” 
• Duke Ellington “Bluebird of Delhi”
• 3 Cohens “U-Valley”
• Anat Cohen “La Comparsa” 

Original Air Date: June 17, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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A celebration of the life and legend of the great Les Paul by talking with rock icon Steve Miller about his memories of his legendary godfather, and how the many famous inventions of the Wizard of Waukesha transformed 20th-century music. We’ll find out how Les Paul shaped Miller’s own life as a man and musician, talk with Sue Baker of the Les Paul Foundation about Les’s life and legacy, and how Les Paul’s inventions are still having an impact on all guitar music today.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Steve Miller, Sue Baker

Music

• Les Paul “Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues”
• Les Paul “Fine and Dandy”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “St. Louis Blues”
• Les Paul “Stumbling”
• Les Paul “Caravan”
• Les Paul “Lover”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “How High the Moon”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tiger Rag”
• Les Paul “Steel Guitar Rag”
• Les Paul “Brazil”
• Led Zeppelin “Black Dog”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Three Little Words”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tennessee Waltz”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Jazz Me Blues”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “The Lonesome Road”
• Steve Miller “The Joker”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Lonely Guitar”
• Steve Miller and Les Paul “Birthday Blues” improvisation
• Les Paul and Mary Ford “Whispering”

Original Air Date: April 4, 2014

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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When the two separate paths of jazz and country cross, we get some of the most fascinating fusions in American music, from Hank Garland jazzing up the early Nashville country scene, to the development of Western Swing, and contemporary jazz takes on country classics. We’ll talk with music historian Cary Ginell about forgotten Nashville session man Hank Garland, look at the thriving Nashville jazz scene with Maxx Myrick of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, and chat with composer Andrew Bishop about his contemporary jazz take on the music of country legend Hank Williams.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Cary Ginell, Andrew Bishop, Maxx Myrick

Music

• Hank Garland “Sugarfoot Rag”
• Hank Garland “Why Not?”
• Ray Charles “Blue Moon of Kentucky” 
• Milton Brown “Girl of My Dreams”
• Milton Brown “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
• Milton Brown “Taking Off”
• Bob Wills “Orange Stomp”
• Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose”
• Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas”
• Chet Atkins and Les Paul “Caravan”
• Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
• Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams”
• Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams (and Willie Nelson)”
• Andrew Bishop “Again You Win” 
• Andrew Bishop “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
• Sonny Rollins “I'm an Old Cowhand”
• Hank Garland “Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That, Baby”
• Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”
• Roy Hall “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
• Patti Page and Hank Garland “Just Because”
• Hank Garland “All the Things You Are”
• Hank Garland “Autumn Leaves”
• Hank Garland “Three-Four the Blues”
• Bill Frisell “Disfarmer Theme”
• Elizabeth Crawford “The Nashville Tour”
• El Movimiento “El Señor Está Contigo (Reprise)”
• The Time Jumpers “Roly Poly”
• Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
• Ricky Skaggs “Gallatin Rag”
• Willie Nelson “All of Me”

Original Air Date: October 31, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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A celebration of the life and musical genius of the great Billie Holiday, traveling the hard road she took on her way to becoming one of jazz’s most beloved voices, and talk with curators and authors who continue to expose young people to Lady Day’s talents. We’ll talk with biographer Robert O’Meally about Billie’s musical genius, chat with Jazz at Lincoln Center curator Phil Schaap about the great Louis Armstrong’s role in shaping her musical voice, and talk with the best-selling author who’s channeled Billie Holiday to create a brand new version of her autobiography for young people.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: some explicit language in Carole Boston Weatherford’s read aloud poetry

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Robert O’Meally, Phil Schaap, Carole Boston Weatherford

Music

• Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
• Billie Holiday “Lover Come Back to Me”
• Billie Holiday “Them There Eyes”
• Billie Holiday “The Man I Love”
• Billie Holiday “Lover Man”
• Billie Holiday “P. S. I Love You”
• Billie Holiday “Do Your Duty”
• Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, and Ben Webster “Our Love Is Here To Stay”
• Billie Holiday “Fine And Mellow”
• Billie Holiday “Pennies From Heaven”
• Louis Armstrong “Yours And Mine”
• Billie Holiday “Yours And Mine”
• Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash”
• Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “You Can't Lose A Broken Heart”
• Billie Holiday “Everything Happens To Me”
• Billie Holiday “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
• Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
• Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
• Billie Holiday “I’ll Be Seeing You”

Original Air Date: July 16, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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Believe it or not, harmonica, accordion, flute, banjo, and even the bagpipes have all made their impact on the jazz tradition thanks to the tireless efforts of pioneers of the music making these “weird instruments” a little more mainstream. We’ll sit down for a conversation with jazz tuba pioneer Howard Johnson, explore how banjo shaped the sound of early jazz, chat with Nancy Stagnitta about how flute worked its way from the jazz margins to the jazz mainstream, and explore the life and music of jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Howard Johnson, Lewis Porter, George Manney, Nancy Stagnitta

Music

• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Kelly Blue”
• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
• Toot Thielemans “Bluesette”
• Toot Thielemans “Old Spice Whistle” 
• Bennie Moten “Elephant's Wobble”
• Ikey Robinson’s “My Four Reasons”
• Bix Beiderbecke “Singin’ the Blues”
• Vess Ossman banjo solo
• Jabbo Smith and Ikey Robinson “Michigander Blues”
• Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
• Béla Fleck and Marcus Roberts Trio “Petunia”
• Dorothy Ashby “Our Love is Here to Stay”
• Rufus Harley “Crack”
• Rufus Harley “Bagpipe Blues”
• Rufus Harley “Scotch and Soul”
• Rufus Harley “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child”
• Rufus Harley “Chim Chim Cheree”
• Yusef Lateef “Sea Breeze”
• Herbie Mann “St. Louis Blues”
• Anchorman “East Harlem Shakedown”
• Herbie Mann “Memphis Underground”
• Missus Beastly “Rahsaan Roland Kirk”
• PROJECT Trio “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk “You Did It, You Did It”
• Julius Watkins and Oscar Pettiford “The Edge of Love”
• Richard Galliano “Ruby My Dear”
• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Big Alice”
• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Svengali's Summer / Waltz”
• Howard Johnson & Gravity “Be No Evil”

Original Air Date: February 10, 2013

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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A celebration of the life and music of the great Dave Brubeck from his early days as a legendary experimental jazz musician to composing religious music, and how he defied the odds to become a jazz celebrity in the early rock and roll era and continuing to perform with his son, Chris Brubeck. We’ll talk with Dave’s son about his memories of his legendary father, take a tour of the experimental side of Dave Brubeck with our jazz historian Lewis Porter, and explore why Brubeck disbanded his legendary quartet and turned to religious music in the 1970s.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Chris Brubeck, Simon Rowe, Lewis Porter

Music

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
• Dave Brubeck “I’m In a Dancing Mood”
• Dave Brubeck “Camptown Races”
• Dave Brubeck “Love Walked In”
• Dave Brubeck “All the Things You Are”
• Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond “All the Things You Are”
• Dave Brubeck “Three to Get Ready”
• Dave Brubeck “Jeepers Creepers”
• Dave Brubeck Quartet “Maria”
• Dave Brubeck “Theme from Elementals”
• Dave Brubeck “Countdown”
• Dave Brubeck “Pennies from Heaven”
• Dave Brubeck “Indiana”
• Dave Brubeck “Blue Moon”
• Dave Brubeck “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
• Dave Brubeck “Unsquare Dance”
• Dave Brubeck “It's a Raggy Waltz”
• Dave Brubeck “Audrey”
• Dave Brubeck “40 Days”
• Dave Brubeck “Blessed are the Poor”
• Dave Brubeck “To Hope! A Celebration - XII. Our Father”
• Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong “They Say I Look Like God”
• Dave Brubeck “The Duke”
• Dave Brubeck “My Romance”

Original Air Date: April 15, 2013

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with Kansas City and the storied and sordid roots of the famed Kansas City sound, as well as a look at adopted hometown hero Count Basie and one of jazz’s most underappreciated legends: Mary Lou Williams. We’ll talk with local boy and jazz historian Chuck Haddix about the the corrupt Kansas City political boss who defied Prohibition and helped spark the city’s early jazz scene, take a look at adopted hometown hero “Count” Bill Basie’s long and winding road from Kansas City to the pinnacle of swing, and explore the life and music of one of the great Mary Lou Williams.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Chuck Haddix, Linda Dahl

Music

• Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City”
• Julia Lee “Snatch It and Grab It”
• Jay McShann “Swingmatism”
• Bennie Moten “Blue Room”
• Kevin Mahogany and James Weidman “Parker's Mood / Kansas City”
• Andy Kirk “Casey Jones Special”
• Bennie Moten “Terrific Stomp”
• Bennie Moten and Count Basie “Moten Swing”
• Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
• Jay McShann and Julia Lee “Trouble in Mind”
• Andy Kirk “Confessin’ the Blues”
• Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”
• Julia Lee “Show Me Missouri Blues”
• Count Basie “Splanky”
• Bennie Moten “Milenberg Joys”
• Bennie Moten “The Count”
• Count Basie “Roseland Shuffle”
• Count Basie “Jumpin’ at the Woodside”
• Count Basie “Every Day I Have the Blues”
• Count Basie and Joe Williams “Well, Alright, Okay, You Win”
• Lest Young and the Oscar Peterson Trio “Almost Like Being In Love”
• Andy Kirk “Froggy Bottom”
• Andy Kirk and Mary Lou Williams “Mess-A-Stomp”
• Andy Kirk “Big Jim Blues”
• Mary Lou Williams “Taurus”
• Mary Lou Williams “Libra”
• Mary Lou Williams “Anima Christi”
• Mary Lou Williams “Old Time Spiritual”
• Mary Lou Williams “Dirge Blues”
• Mary Lou Williams “Zonky”

Original Air Date: November 12, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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A celebration of the best of jazz’s great comeback stories including Duke Ellington’s legendary 1956 Newport Jazz Festival performance, and an exclusive interview with guitarist Pat Martino who survived a brain aneurysm and retook his place as one of the music’s great voices on jazz guitar. We’ll talk with jazz historian Phil Schaap about the epic saxophone solo that single-handedly propelled Duke Ellington back into jazz relevance, chat with a Chicago cabaret artist who’s committed to giving long-forgotten tunes from the Golden Age of American Song a new lease on life, and hear the triumphant story of guitarist Pat Martino.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: discussion of aneurysm and recovery.

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Phil Schaap, Justin Hayford, Bill Milkowski, Pat Martino 

Music

• Duke Ellington “Blues for New Orleans”
• Duke Ellington “The Swingers Get the Blues, Too”
• Tony Bennett “The Best Is Yet To Come”
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane “In a Sentimental Mood”
• Duke Ellington “Blues in Blueprint”
• Duke Ellington “Diminuendo in Blue”
• Duke Ellington “Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue”
• Duke Ellington “Blues in Orbit”
• Duke Ellington “Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta”
• Frank Morgan and Kenny Baron “You’ve Changed”
• Justin Hayford “You’re Awful”
• Django Reinhardt “Honeysuckle Rose”
• Django Reinhardt “Billets Doux”
• Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson and Pat Martino “A Lot of Livin to Do”
• Pat Martino “El Hombre”
• Pat Martino “East”
• Pat Martino “Footprints”
• Pat Martino “Alone Together”
• Pat Martino “Ellipsis”
• Pat Martino Quartet “Round Midnight”
• Pat Martino and Les Paul “I'm Confessin’ That I Love You”
• Pat Martino “Two of a Kind”

Original Air Date: March 23, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the sites and sounds of New Orleans jazz and its origins in the early twentieth century, the parade tradition known as Second Line, and explore how Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the New Orleans jazz scene. We’ll talk with jazz historian Bruce Raeburn about the birth of jazz in New Orleans, get to know the raucous New Orleans parade tradition that is Second Line, chat with Louis Armstrong historian Ricky Riccardi about Satchmo’s wild and wooly years growing up on the streets of the Crescent City, and see how jazz has found new life after the devastating effects from Hurricane Katrina. 

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Bruce Raeburn, Ricky Riccardi

Music

• Clifton Chenier “Tous Les Jours Mon Coeur Est Blue (Every Day I Have The Blues)”
• Treme Brass Band “Bucket's Got a Hole in it”
• Treme Brass Band “The Treme Song”
• New Birth Brass Band “Wolf Stuff”
• Sidney Bechet “Black Stick”
• Clifton Chenier “Je Marche Le Plancher (You Know It Ain't Fair)”
• Louis Armstrong “Perdido Street Blues”
• Louis Armstrong “Bucket’s Got A Hole In It”
• Treme Brass Band “Big Chief”
• Treme Brass Band “Tuba Fats”
• New Birth Brass Band “Apache”
• Dirty Dozen Brass Band “A Closer Walk”
• Hot 8 Brass Band “Skeet Skeet”
• Terence Blanchard’s “Ghosts of Congo Square”
• Galactic featuring Irma Thomas “Heart of Steel” 

Original Air Date: February 18, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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A celebration of the life and music of maestro Tito Puente, including the 1950s mambo craze that launched his meteoric rise to the top, and the many talents that made him the undisputed King of Latin Jazz. We’ll talk with Latin jazz historian Bobby Sanabria about why Tito still matters to the 20-somethings he’s teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, chat with Tito Puente’s friend and biographer Joe Conzo about Tito’s meteoric rise to the top of the mambo scene, and hear of the story behind Puente’s most famous composition and why you might not even realize it’s a Tito Puente original.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Bobby Sanabria, Joe Conzo

Music

• Tito Puente “Vibe Mambo”
• Tito Puente “Cochise”
• Tito Puente “Carnaval En Harlem”
• José Curbelo “Rumba Rumbero”
• Pupi Campo “Joe and Paul”
• Tito Puente “Abaniquito”
• Tito Puente “El Mambo Diablo”
• Tito Puente “El Cayuco”
• Tito Puente “Cuando Te Vea”
• Tito Puente “Ritual Fire Dance”
• Santana “Oye Como Va”
• Tito Puente “Para los Romberos” 
• Tito Puente “Letargo”
• Tito Punete “Más Bajo”
• Tito Puente “Sambaroco”
• Tito Puente “Lotus Land”
• Tito Puente “Hong Kong Mambo”
• Tito Puente “Como esta Miguel”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Elegua Changó”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Mambo Buddha”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Ritual Fire Dance”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Birdland After Dark”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Alegre Cha-Cha-Cha”
• Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Autumn Leaves”
• Tito Puente “Observalo”

Original Air Date: May 19, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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A lot of people probably don’t think of jazz as something that’s all that funny, but there’s more than one way to get a laugh out of all things jazz that’s guaranteed to make you smile. We’ll talk with stand-up comic Jeff Cesario about how his former life as a jazz musician helps make him a better comedian, bring in our jazz historian Lewis Porter to talk about jazz’s vaudeville roots and how jazz lost its sense of humor in the 1950s, and take a look at jazz prankster Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz stories that’ll leave you smiling.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Jeff Cesario, Lewis Porter

Music

• Bob Crosby “Big Noise from Winnetka”
• Cab Calloway “Twee-Twee-Tweet”
• Slim Gaillard “Potato Chips”
• George M. Cohan “You Won't Do Any Business if You Haven't Got a Band” 
• Josephine Baker “C’est lui”
• Ma Rainey “Oh Papa Blues”
• Bessie Smith “Sobbin’ Hearted Blues”
• Louis Armstrong “Cake Walking Babies from Home”
• Clarence Williams “Squeeze Me”
• Lester Young “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Dizzy Atmosphere”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Oop Bop Sh' Bam”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Umbrella Man”
• Carla Bley “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”
• Louis Armstrong “Heebee Jeebies”
• Charles Mingus “Spur of the Moment”
• Fats Waller “Your Feet’s Too Big”
• Thelonious Monk “Bemsha Swing”
• Count Basie “Splanky”
• Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House”
• Louis Armstrong “Cheesecake”

Original Air Date: August 6, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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A celebration of the life and extraordinary work of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to record the world changed the course of 20th century music with his legacy of over 10,000 recordings. We’ll talk with Lomax historian and archivist Don Fleming about Lomax’s groundbreaking work in the American South during the 1930s, trace Lomax’s path abroad and his efforts to record and capture the traditional music of countries across the world, talk with Todd Harvey of the Library of Congress about his efforts to preserve Lomax’s legacy, and find out how Alan’s long-held dream of providing unlimited access to his work is now becoming reality in the Internet Age. 

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: explicit lyrics on the translation of Jelly Roll Morton’s “C’était N’aut’ Can-Can, Payez Donc (If You Don't Shake, You Don't Get No Cake)”

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Don Fleming, John Szwed, Todd Harvey

Music

• Mississippi Fred McDowell “What's the Matter Now?”
• Bookmiller Shannon “The Eighth of January”
• Mississippi Fred McDowell “When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines”
• Son House “Delta Blues”
• Alan Lomax “Early in the Mornin'”
• Lead Belly “Matchbox Blues”
• Muddy Waters “Take A Walk With Me”
• Ervin Webb “I'm Goin' Home”
• Woody Guthrie “Do Re Mi”
• Alan Lomax “Lenga Serpentina (Serpent Tongue)”
• Sidney Carter “Worried Now, Won't be Worried Long”
• Boy Blue “Dimples”
• Jelly Roll Morton “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
• Jelly Roll Morton “C’était N’aut’ Can-Can, Payez Donc (If You Don't Shake, You Don't Get No Cake)”
• Lead Belly “Goodnight, Irene” 
• Muddy Waters “I Be’s Troubled”
• Georgia Turner “The Rising Sun Blues”
• The Animals “House of the Rising Sun”
• E.C. Ball “Tribulations”
• Muddy Waters “Louisiana Blues”
• Rosalie Hill “Rolled and Tumbled”

Original Air Date: April 13, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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We start our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the sites and sounds of Chicago by tracing the arrival of jazz and how it established the city's reign as America’s jazz capital during the 1920s, leading it to grow into one of the country’s richest avant garde jazz scenes. We’ll talk with the owner of the storied Green Mill Cocktail Lounge about his epic restoration of the club to its former speakeasy glory, hear how the Green Mill helped found the improv-rich tradition that is the poetry slam, and tour the bizarre outer-space-themed world of Sun Ra.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Dave Jemilo, Neil Tesser, John Szwed

Music

• Louis Armstrong “Alligator Crawl”
• Deep Blue Organ Trio “Goin’ To Town”
• Ramsey Lewis “The In Crowd”
• King Oliver “Jazzin’ Babies’ Blues”
• King Oliver ”The Trumpet's Prayer”
• Louis Armstrong “West End Blues”
• Louis Armstron “Wild Man Blues”
• Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
• Sun Ra “Space Is The Place”
• Ahmad Jamal “Poinciana (The Song of the Tree)”
• Ahmad Jamal ”Wave”
• Benny Goodman “Moonglow”
• Bix Beiderbecke “In A Mist (Bixology)”
• Ahmad Jamal “Ahmad's Blues”
• Frank Sinatra “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)”
• Von Freeman “Doin' it Right Now” 
• Sun Ra “Disco 2021”
• Sun Ra “Love in Outer Space”
• Sun Ra “Night of the Purple Moon”
• Sun Ra “On Jupiter” 
• Art Ensemble of Chicago “Dreaming of the Masters”
• Von Freeman “Sweet and Lovely” 
• Kurt Elling and Jon Hendricks “Goin’ to Chicago”
• Count Basie “Going To Chicago Blues”

Original Air Date: January 28, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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The life and music of the great Nina Simone from her roots as a gospel and classical musician to her place as one of the fiercest voices for civil rights. We’ll talk with New York Magazine’s Joe Hagan about his look inside Nina Simone’s private diaries, chat with Simone biographer Nadine Cohodas about Nina’s life and music and her role as one of the fiercest voices for civil rights, and listen to some of Nina’s best from her more than 30 year reign as the High Priestess of Soul.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Joe Hagan, Nadine Cohodas

Music

• Nina Simone “Ne me quitte pas”
• Nina Simone “Feeling Good”
• Nina Simone “My Baby Just Cares For Me (Train to Nowhere)”
• Nina Simone “The Blood”
• Nina Simone “Wild is the Wind”
• Nina Simone “Strange Fruit”
• Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddam”
• Nina Simone “Four Women”
• Nina Simone “Old Jim Crow”
• Nina Simone “Young Gifted & Black”
• Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
• Nina Simone “Gin House Blues”
• Nina Simone “Born Under a Bad Sign”
• Nina Simone “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
• Nina Simone “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
• Nina Simone “Sinnerman”

Original Air Date: November 21, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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You can’t listen to a painting or see a song, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap. We’ll explore jazz’s connection to the arts with a look at the criss-crossing paths of jazz and the visual arts with Dr. Robert O’Meally, discussing how the worlds of art and music collided during the Harlem Renaissance, explore the life and art of the jazz painter Romare Bearden, and take a look at the life and work of iconic jazz photographer William Gottlieb.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Robert O’Meally and Ben Cawthra

Music

• Von Freeman “Sweet and Lovely”
• Ella Fitzgerald / Billy Strayhorn “Chelsea Bridge”
• Duke Ellington “Transblucency”
• Thelonious Monk “Blue Monk”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Blue ‘N’ Boogie”
• Dizzy Gillespie “52nd Street Theme”
• Ella Fitzgerald “Lover Man”
• Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
• Thelonious Monk “Misterioso”
• Nat King Cole “Mona Lisa” 
• Dizzy Gillespie “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
• Dizzy Gillespie “After Hours”
• Thelonious Monk “Bemsha Swing”
• Mary Lou Williams “A Grand Nite for Swinging”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Sea Breeze”

Original Air Date: February 10, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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

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