Some notes:

• The pair of versions of “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” were motivated by the NPR Weekend Edition “What Makes It Great” segment on the tune which aired last Saturday.  In fact, they were aired from the versions offered on NPR.org since I couldn’t find any in our library!
• I continue to be very impressed by pianist Eri Yamamoto, who I first encountered in the expanded edition of William Parker’s “Raining on the Moon” group and who has two albums in our “new releases” rotation.

Oh, yeah. Also, I normalized the archived audio file for you, which should result in something which doesn’t require you to crank up the volume so much. I should have been doing that all along.

complete program (142 MB, 2 hrs 35 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

Donald Byrd: “Street Lady” – Blue Break Beats Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
Pierre Dørge and New Jungle Orchestra: “Munzun Mun” – Dancing Cheek to Cheek (Stunt)
Lucky 7s: “Farragut” – Farragut (Lakefront Digital)
Louis Moholo-Moholo and Marilyn Crispell: “Moment of Truth” – Sibanye [We Are One] (Intakt)
Johnny Dyani and Mal Waldron: “Blues for Mandela” – Some Jive Ass Boer (Jazz Unité)
Thelonious Monk: “Rhythm-a-ning” – Live at the Olympia (Hyena)
Duke Ellington: “Sloppy Joe” – Jubilee Stomp (Bluebird)
Benny Carter: “Goodbye Blues” – 1929-1933 (Classics)
Eri Yamamoto Trio: “Wonder Land” – Redwoods (AUM Fidelity)
Tom Christensen: “Your Strange Son” – New York School (Playscape)
Ehinger, Lindemann, Pitteloud: “Red / Le rouge” – ELP (Unit)
Ahmad Jamal: “Patterns” – The Awakening (Impulse)
Steve Lacy-Roswell Rudd Quartet: “Monk’s Dream” – School Days (Hat Jazz)
Septeto Rodriguez: “Baila! Gitano Baila!” – Baila! Gitano Baila! (Tzadik)
Rudy Vallee: “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
Abbey Lincoln: “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” – You Gotta Pay The Band (Polygram)
Max Roach: “Man From South Africa” – Percussion Bitter Sweet (Impulse)
Khan Jamal: “Rhythm Thang” – Cool (Porter)
Ginger Folorunso Johnson: “Egyptian Bint Al Cha Cha” – London is the Place For Me 4: African Dreams and the Piccadilly High Life (Honest Jons)
Yusef Lateef: “Psychicemotus” – Psychicemotus (Impulse)
Håkon Kornstad and Håvard Wiik: “Law Years” – The Bad and the Beautiful (Mose Robie)
Steelwool Trio: “Bowling Alley Roughs” – International Front (Okkadisk)