Shark Jazz and Blues

  Playlist 26 March 2024 Part 2 of the Women of Jazz and Blues as part of Women’s History Month. Pre-empted by Baseball.    Zoe Rahman – For Love (6:23) Bonnie Raitt – The Road’s My Middle Name (3:31) Nina Simone – Feeling Good (2:54) Bessie Smith – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (2:57) Mamie Smith – Don’t You Advertise Your Man (3:18) Dinah Washington – Teach Me Tonight (2:48) Laufey – From the Start (2:50) Niuver – Quiéreme Mucho (4:05) Norah Jones – Turn Me On (2:35) Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (5:45) Carmen McRae – The Best Is Yet To Come (2:34) Valaida Snow – St. Louis Blues (2:28) Kirsten Edkins – Mean Greens (5:32) Shamie Royston – Sunday Nostalgia (5:56)  

Playlist 19 March 2024 Celebrating Women’s History month with an hour of jazz and blues featuring female artists.   Ella Fitzgerald – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (4:16) Artemis – The Sidewinder (5:05) Billy Holiday & Her Orchestra – Body & Soul (2:59) Anita O’Day – Fly Me To The Moon (3:46) Peggy Lee – Fever (3:20) Jocelyn Gould – Lover Come Back To Me (6:51) Amina Figarova – All We Dance (5:37) Anita Baker – Giving You The Best That I Got (3:54) Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War (4:48) Sister Rosetta Thorpe – Strange Things Happening Every Day (2:27) Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long (3:12) Diana Krall – I Love Being Here With You (5:15)   Ella Fitzgerald b. (25 April 1917) Newport News, VA; d. 1996. “Queen of Jazz.”   Spent most of her childhood in Yonkers, NY. Bing Crosby: “Man, woman or child, Ellas is the greatest.” Artemis: Renee Rosnes (piano), Anat Cohen (clarinet), Melissa Aldana (tenor sax), Ingrid Jen

  Playlist – 5 March 2024 Steve Gadd Band – Spring Song (4:54) Joey Alexander – Promise of Spring (4:30) Pat Metheny Group – Spring Ain’t Here (6:55) Dave Brubeck – Spring in Central Park (2:29) Sadao Watanabe – Early Spring (8:37) Wes Mongomery – Bumpin’ On Sunset (4:52) Bix Beiderbecke – Three Blind Mice (2:47) Ornette Coleman – Chronology (6:07) Quincy Jones and his Orchestra – Quintessence (4:22) Charles Lloyd – Sunrise (Live@Monterey) (7:30)   An article about a new historical monument honoring Indianapolis native and one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time: Wes Montgomery. Bix Beiderbecke – Singing the Blues