“Sunday Night Swing Set with Linda Yohn” – Sundays 7p to 9p
To listen to an interview with Linda Yohn, conducted by Peter Whorf, click here.
Veteran jazz broadcaster Linda Yohn has joined 90.9 for a weekly program of swinging jazz standards. Swing is an elusive but essential jazz element. It is hard to define, but you know it when you hear it. Swing can be a sweet singer with a tasty small group, a blistering big band, a sublime piano trio, two tenor saxophones pursuing each other riff after riff, a highly syncopated Latin groove, a classic 1940s chestnut, a lusty blues-based vocalist rocking a gutsy big band, a crystalline vibraphone-based improvisation or a current elegant swing ensemble with inspirations and variations. The possibilities are endless!
WRCJ “Swing Set” Playlist February 5, 2023
For Black History Month, we focused on early jazz composers and arrangers. Swinging sounds of today came from 2023 jazz Grammy nominees. 100 years of jazz!
Air Time – Artist/Group – Song Title – Album Title – Album Label – Song Length
7:00:00 – Scott Joplin – The Entertainer – The Entertainer: Scott Joplin Piano Rolls – Shout! Factory – 3:31
7:03:31 – Marcus Roberts – Maple Leaf Rag – The Joy Of Joplin – Sony Classical – 3:05
7:09:00 – Jelly Roll Morton – Sidewalk Blues – Birth Of The Hot: The Classic “Red Hot” Peppers Sessions, 1926-27 – Bluebird/RCA/BMG Records – 3:30
7:12:30 – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band – Snake Rag – Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, 1923-1934 – Columbia/Legacy/Smithsonian Institution Press – 3:18
7:15:48 – Various Artists/King Oliver And His Dixie Syncopators – Sugar Foot Stomp – Classic Jazz: The Twenties – Time Life Music/Sony Music Special Products – 2:56
7:18:44 – King Oliver And His Orchestra – Shake It And Break It – King Oliver: The New York Sessions (1929-1930) – Bluebird/RCA/BMG Records – 2:31
7:24:00 – Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra – The Stampede – The Fletcher Henderson Story: A Study In Frustration – Poll Winners Records – 3:19
7:27:19 – Chick Webb And His Orchestra – Dog Bottom – The Chronological Chick Webb And His Orchestra, 1929-1934 – Classics Records – 2:40
7:30:59 – Various Artists/Tiny Parham And His Musicians – Jungle Crawl – Hot Jazz: New York And Chicago Jazz Recordings, Digitally Remastered (1928-1930) – Hermes/Nimbus Records – 3:30
7:34:29 – Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra – The Mooche – Duke Ellington: The Essential Collection, 1927- 1962 – Columbia/Legacy/Sony Musical Entertainment – 3:13
7:40:00 – The Baylor Project – Tenderly – The Evening: Live At Apparatus – Be A Light Records – 8:18
7:48:18 – Samara Joy – I’m Confessin’ That I Love You – Linger Awhile – Verve Label Group/BMG Recordings – 5:05
7:53:23 – Cecile McLorin Salvant – Moon Song – Ghost Song – Nonesuch Records/Warner Music Group – 3:05
7:58:00 – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – I’d Love It – Put It There: McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Volume 1 (1928-29) – Frog Records – 3:07
8:01:17 – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – Cotton Picker’s Scat – Cotton Picker’s Scat: McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Volume 2 (1930) – Frog Records – 2:47
8:04:04 – Various Artists/George E. Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra – Paseo Street Strut – The Real Kansas City Of The ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s – Columbia/Legacy – 2:43
8:06:47 – Various Artists/Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra – Prince Of Wails – The Real Kansas City Of The ‘20s, ‘30s, ‘40s – Columbia/Legacy – 2:52
8:12:00 – Emmet Cohen – Finger Buster – Uptown In Orbit – Mack Avenue Music Group – 4:13
8:16:13 – Willie “The Lion” Smith – Sneakaway – Piano Solos: Willie “The Lion” Smith (Original Compositions And Interpretations – Commodore Jazz Classic/Essex Entertainment – 2:33
8:18:46 – James P. Johnson – You’ve Got To Be Modernistic – Snowy Morning Blues: The Original Decca Recordings – Decca Jazz/GRP/MCA Records – 3:14
8:22:00 – Fats Waller – Handful Of Keys – The Very Best Of Fats Waller – RCA Victor/BMG Entertainment – 2:54
8:26:00 – Sidney Bechet (The New Orleans Feetwarmers) – I Want You Tonight – The Complete Sidney Bechet, Volumes 1&2 (1932-1941) – RCA Jazz Tribune/BMG Music – 3:07
8:29:07 – Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra – Hobo, You Can’t Ride This Train – Young Louis Armstrong (1930-1933) – RCA Jazz Tribune/BMG Music – 3:02
8:33:09 – Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five – King Of The Zulus – Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (1923-1934) – Columbia/Legacy/Smithsonian Institution Press – 3:06
8:38:00 – Delfeayo Marsalis’ Uptown Jazz Orchestra – Midnight At The Zulu Ball – Uptown On Mardi Gras Day – Troubadour Jass Records – 5:37
8:43:37 – Tbone Paxton – Milenburg Joys – Joys – Eastlawn Records – 4:59
8:48:36 – Kid Ory (Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five) – Muskrat Ramble – Ory’s Creole Trombone (Greatest Recordings 1922-1944) – ASW Living Era – 2:40
8:53:00 – Generation Gap Orchestra – Until – Steven Feifke And Bijon Watson Present Generation Gap Orchestra – Cellar Music Group – 7:15
