04 Jazz on a Clear Day

Broadcast September 28, 2014

The show was put together as a sequel to an earlier set called Mysty Jazz, and the title also borrows from the title of the classic  film of the Newport Jazz Festival of 1958, “Jazz on a Summers Day”.  The theme is live tracks, with an outdoors, festival feel and Cool, for the most part.

Title Artist Album Year
1 Air Mail Special Benny Goodman Ken Burns Jazz Series: Benny Goodman 2000
2 Jive Hoot Bob Brookmeyer Bob Brookmeyer & Friends 1964
3 E’s Flat Ah’s Flat Too Charles Mingus Blues and Roots 1959
4 Closed Door Jam Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour Larry & Lee 1995
5 Open Door Spyro Gyra In Modern Times 2001
6 Stomp And Buck Dance The Crusaders Southern Comfort 1973
7 Blue Rondo a la Turk Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959
8 Jeru Gerry Mulligan Re-Birth of the Cool 1991
9 Line For Lyons Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond Quartet 1957
10 Shadows Of Gong Gazeuse! 1976
11 Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty Herbie Mann Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty 1970
12 Birdland Weather Report Heavy Weather 1977
13 Frenchman’s Flat Larry Carlton Sleepwalk 1982
14 Captain Willie Solution The best of Solution Live 1991
15 Love Me Or Leave Me Gerry Mulligan The Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker 1953
16 Vendome Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid 1959
17 Between You And Me Jean-Luc Ponty Aurora 1975
18 Desafinado (Off Key) Stan Getz & João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto (Verve Master Edition) 1989
19 Goin’ Home The Crusaders Rural Renewal 2003
20 The Train And The River Jimmy Guiffre 3 Hollywood & Newport 1957-1958 1992