“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!
WRCJ “Swing Set” playlist July 5, 2020
Air Time – Song Title – Artist/Group – Album Title – Album Label – Song Length
Our “Swing Set” theme tonight – “Let Freedom Swing”. I didn’t come up with the phrase. I “borrowed” it from one the greatest: Wynton Marsalis from Jazz At Lincoln Center. That’s a motto in jazz – if you’re going to borrow an idea, borrow from the best. Some of the best aspects of American music were highlighted in the program: composers Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, George and Ira Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Some of America’s most memorable jazz artists were on the list as well: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Thank you for choosing to spend time with WRCJ over the holiday weekend and thanks for all you do to make the music happen on WRCJ.
7:00 – Fanfare For The Common Man – Woody Herman And His Thundering Herd – Woody Herman Remembered :The Authorized Biography – Leisure Music Group – 6:31
7:08:31 – Strike Up the Band – Chris Connor – Chris Connor Sings The George Gershwin Almanac Of Song – Atlantic Jazz – 2:31
7:11:02 – Yankee Doodle Rhythm – Dick Hyman And Tom Pletcher – If Bix Played Gershwin – Arbors Records – 2:44
7:13:46 – Of Thee I Sing – Ella Fitzgerald – Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbooks – Verve/Polygram – 3:07
7:16:53 – I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise – Patti Austin – Avant Gershwin – Rendezvous Music – 6:11
7:25:04 – America – Bill Charlap Trio – Somewhere: The Songs Of Leonard Bernstein – Blue Note Records – 3:25
7:28:29 – Cool – Stan Kenton And His Orchestra – Kenton’s West Side Story – Capitol Records – 4:30
7:33:59 – I Feel Pretty – The Bird Of Paradise Orchestra – Bingo! – BOPO/PKO Records – 5:50
7:41:49 – Beale Street Blues – Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy – Columbia/Legacy – 4:56
7:46:45 – Satchelmouth Swing – Louis Armstrong – The Complete Decca Studio Master Takes: 1935-1939 – Definitive Records – 2:41
7:49:26 – Portrait Of Louis Armstrong – Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Portraits By Ellington – Columbia – 3:49
7:55:15 – American Patrol – Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – The Essential Glenn Miller – Bluebird/Legacy – 3:16
7:58:31 – Where Or When – Claude Thornhill – Claude Thornhill, Volume 1: Snowfall – Hep Records – 2:58
8:01:29 – Chattanooga Choo-Choo – Claude Thornhill – Claude Thornhill, Volume 2: Autumn Nocturne – Hep Records – 3:06
8:04:35 – Jumpin’ At The Woodside – Count Basie And His Orchestra – The Complete Decca Recordings – 3:07
8:07:42 – Sepian Bounce – Various Artists/Jay McShann With Charlie Parker – Black Legends Of Jazz – Decca Jazz/GRP – 3:06
8:12:48 – Black And Tan Fantasy – Duke Ellington – Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete) – Sony Music Japan International – 6:20
8:19:08 – New World A-Comin’ (Previously Unreleased) – Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington: The Centennial Edition, The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) – RCA Victor – 8:18
8:29:26 – Bourbon Street Parade – Paul Barbarin – Paul Barbarin And His New Orleans Jazz – Atlantic Jazz – 6:00
8:35:26 – Tailgate Ramble – Marcus Belgrave – You Don’t Know Me: Marcus Belgrave Presents A Tribute To New Orleans, Ray Charles And The Great Ladies Of Song – Detroit Jazz Musicians Co-Op – 4:05
8:39:31 – Bucket’s Got A Hole In It – Derrick Shezbie – The Ghost Of Buddy Bolden – Clubhouse Records – 4:27
8:45:28 – Still I Rise – Derrick Gardner And The Big Dig! Band – Still I Rise – Impact Jazz – 7:52
8:53:20 – Lean On Me – Lynne Arriale Trio – Arise – Motéma Music – 6:28
