“Sunday Night Swing Set with Linda Yohn” – Sundays 7p to 9p
Veteran jazz broadcaster Linda Yohn has joined WRCJ for 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!
This “Swing Set” playlist was inspired by episode 8 of Ken Burns: Jazz which airs Thursday at 10 p.m. on WTVS, Channel 56. The segment covers jazz from the late 1940s to the mid 1950s. That era includes the ascendence of Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck. Miles Davis was the WRCJ “Jazz Innovator” for February 21st. We covered him from the ‘40s to the ‘50s. We featured two strong women for the birthdays and Black History Month: Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone. Thank you for listening and being part of WRCJ’s Black History Month commemoration.
Airtime – Artist/Group – Song Title – Album Title – Album Label – Song Length
7:00:00 – Miles Davis – So What – Kind Of Blue – Columbia/Legacy – 9:25
7:12:00 – Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me – Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles – Bethlehem/BMG – 3:39
7:15:39 – Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free – The Essential Nina Simone – RCA/Sony/Legacy – 3:09
7:20:00 – Nancy Wilson – The Best Is Yet To Come – Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues – Capitol Jazz – 2:20
7:22:20 – Nancy Wilson – Guess Who I Saw Today? – The Very Best Of Nancy Wilson: The Capitol Recordings 1960-1976 – 3:22
7:27:00 – Billie Holiday – Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore Recordings – 3:13
7:30:13 – Billie Holiday – But Beautiful – Lady In Satin – Columbia/Legacy – 4:32
7:36:30 – Charlie Parker – Now’s The Time – The Immortal Charlie Parker – Savoy Jazz – 3:12
7:39:42 – Miles Davis Nonet – Boplicity – Birth Of the Cool – Capitol Jazz – 2:59
7:42:41 – Gerry Mulligan – Blues For Tiny – California Concerts, Volume 2 – Pacific Jazz Records – 5:16
7:50:00 – Dave Brubeck – You Go To My Head – Dave Brubeck Plays For Lovers – Fantasy/Concord Music Group – 7:53
7:57:53 – The Modern Jazz Quartet – Vendome – The Modern Jazz Quartet: MJQ40 – Atlantic Jazz – 3:14
8:02:00 – The George Shearing Quintet – Lullaby Of Birdland – George Shearing: Verve Jazz Masters 57 – Verve/Polygram – 2:42
8:04:42 – Django Reinhardt – Djangology – The Indispensable Django Reinhardt (1949-195) – RCA Jazz Tribune – 2:47
8:10:00 – Jazz At Lincoln Center Septet With Wynton Marsalis – Be Present – The Democracy! Suite – Blue Engine Records – 5:13
8:15:13 – Professor Cunningham And His Old School – Lockdown Blues – The Lockdown Blues – Arbors Records – 3:27
8:18:40 – Wayne Alpern With The Dorian Wind Quintet – Ornithology – Jukebox – www.waynealpern.com – 2:41
8:24:00 – Veronica Swift – You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught – This Bitter Earth – Mack Avenue Music Group – 5:14
8:29:44 – Nancy Wilson – Happy Talk – Nancy Wilson And Cannonball Adderley – Capitol Jazz – 2:21
8:32:05 – Nina Simone – Feeling Good (From The Roar Of The Greasepaint) – Compact Jazz – Mercury/Polygram Classics – 2:57
8:35:02 – Nina Simone – Old Jim Crow – In Concert/I Put A Spell On You – Mercury/PolyGram Classics And Jazz – 2:38
8:40:00 – The Miles Davis Quintet – Four – The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions – Prestige Records/Concord Music Group – 7:18
8:47:18 – Miles Davis With The Gil Evans Orchestra – Blues For Pablo – Miles Ahead/Miles Davis +19 – Poll Winners Records – 5:19
8:53:00 – Mark Murphy – Be-Bop Lives (Boplicity) – Mark Murphy: Stolen And Other Moments – 32 Jazz – 6:35
