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FALL - PHAROAH SANDERS
Is that a slight nip in the air I feel…? Wishful thinking for the first week of Fall, at least down South. So we have a “cool” conversation with jazz saxophone luminary Pharaoh Sanders—the man John Coltrane called “My right arm.” Plus, a birthday tribute to Gershwin.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: September in the Rain Dinah Washington
The Dinah Washington Story, EmArcy/Mercury - It's September Johnnie Taylor
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975, Stax - Autumn Leaves Esquivel
Infinity In Sound Volumes 1 and 2, Bar/None - Autumn Leaves Dee Dee Bridgewater
Keeping Tradition, Verve - Instrumental: Gamin - Rhythmically & Humorously William Grant Still/Fritz Gearhart, violin & Paul Tardif, piano
American Violin, Koch - La Rosée (The Morning Dew) Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
Bayou Ruler, Rounder - Wind Cries Mary Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced, MCA - Josephine Snooks Eaglin
Essential Blues Guitar, House of Blues - Instrumental: Sunrise On The Mississippi Bruce Cockburn
Dart To The Heart, Columbia - INTERVIEW: Pharaoh Sanders
- Astral Traveling Pharaoh Sanders
Thembi, Impulse - Ascension John Coltrane
The Major Works of John Coltrane, Impulse - The Creator Has a Master Plan Pharaoh Sanders
Karma, Impulse - September Song Django Reinhardt
The Indispensable Django Reinhardt, RCA - Faded Love Bob Wills
For The Last Time, Liberty - Night Life Willie Nelson and B.B. King
Deuces Wild, MCA
HOUR two
- The Man I Love Milt Jackson and Joe Pass
I Got Rhythm: The Music of George Gershwin, Smithsonian Collection - The Man I Love Billie Holiday
Masters of Jazz Vol. 5: Female Vocal Classics, Rhino - Porgy Sings George Gershwin
Gershwin: Catfish Row/St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin, EMI - Summertime Has Past and Gone Bill Monroe
16 Gems, Columbia/Legacy - Autumn Serenade John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, Impulse - Yo Regresare Celia Cruz & Tito Puente
La Musica De Cuba, Music of the World - Instrumental: Schottische-Choro Villa-Lobos/Julian Bream, guitarist
Guitar Greatest Hits, RCA - St. James Infirmary Henry 'Red' Allen & Coleman Hawkins
World On A String, RCA/Bluebird - Hospital Lemonheads
Car Button Cloth, TAG - Leaves that Are Green Simon and Garfunkel
Old Friends, Columbia/Legacy - Wrong Side of His Heart Rosie Flores
Rockabilly Filly, Hightone - What Is This Thing Called Love Alice Hall
Planet Squeezebox, Ellipsis Arts - Lady be Good Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit - Instrumental: That Certain Feeling George Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Elektra/Nonesuch - Blue Moon The Marcels
Doo Wop Blue Moon, Flashback - Shine on Harvest Moon Leon Redbone
Double Time, Warner Brothers - King Harvest The Band
Across The Great Divide, Capitol - End Bed: Ricky's Theme The Beastie Boys
The In Sound From Way Out, Capitol/Grand Royal