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)

Oddly, while I didn’t feel like this week’s show had much of a plan or much continuity, I got a lot of good feedback, including a couple of phone calls.  Listeners reported enjoying the Yamamoto/Drake duet (“Circular Movement”) and the Dave Douglas track (“The Real Roscoe”).

complete program (139 MB, 2 hrs 32 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

George Schuller’s Circle Wide: “Common Mama” – Like Before, Somewhat After (Playscape)
Henry Threadgill’s Zooid: “Did You See That” – Up Popped the Two Lips (Pi)
Steuart Liebig Tee-Tot Quartet: “07-04-00” – Always Outnumbered (pfMentum)
Dexter Gordon: “Love For Sale” – Go! (Blue Note)
Mario Pavone Double Tenor Quintet: “Tomes” – Ancestors (Playscape)
T.P. Orchestre Poly-rhythmo De Cotonou: “Aihe Ni Kpe We” – The Kings of Benin Urban Groove 1972-80 (Soundway)
Herbie Hancock: “Chameleon” – Flood (Columbia)
Los Zafiros: “Bossa Cubana” – Bossa Cubana (Nonesuch)
Triptych Myth: “All Up In It” – The Beautiful (AUM Fidelity)
Dave Holland Sextet: “Double Vision” – Pass It On (Dare 2)
Prince Lasha: “Mary” – Inside Story (Inner City)
Ronnie Boykins: “The Will Come, Is Now” – The Will Come, Is Now (ESP Disk)
Myra Melford Be Bread: “Yellow Are Crowds of Flowers, ii” – The Image of Your Body (Cryptogramophone)
Eri Yamamoto / Hamid Drake: “Circular Movement” – Duologue (AUM Fidelity)
Duology: “Qusim” – Golden Atoms (Soul Note)
Pierre Dørge’s New Jungle Orchestra: “Lullaby for Tchicai” – Giraf (Dacapo)
Ab Baars Trio and Ken Vandermark: “Honest John” – Goofy June Bug (Stichting Wig)
Dave Douglas: “The Real Roscoe” – Keystone (Greenleaf)
Szilárd Mezei Ensemble: “Cirkula (Circle Saw)” – Nád (Reed) (Red Toucan)