“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!
Air Time – Artist/Group – Song Title – Album Title – Album Label – Song Length
WRCJ and Detroit Public Television: WTVS/Channel 56 are in the same organization. Both stations have a strong commitment to jazz on the air. Detroit Public Television has produced many great local jazz programs and segments along with airing PBS programs on jazz. Detroit Public Television is now presenting the 20th anniversary screening “Ken Burns Jazz”. Tonight’s “Swing Set” was a parallel to segments 2 and 3 of “Ken Burns Jazz” covering jazz in the 1920s and early ‘30s. Some fresh music made the mix as well – notably the two introspective pieces by Clifton Anderson and Billy Childs dedicated with reverence to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank you for listening and loving jazz on WRCJ and Detroit Public Television.
7:00:00 – Benny Goodman And His Orchestra – Sing, Sing, Sing – The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert – Columbia/Legacy – 12:02
7:14:30 – Jelly Roll Morton – Jungle Blues – The Birth Of The Hot: The Classic Chicago “Red Hot Peppers” Sessions 1926-27 – RCA/Bluebird – 3:26
7:17:56 – Various Artists/King Oliver’s Jazz Band – Sugarfoot Stomp – Black Legends Of Jazz: The Original Decca Recordings – Decca Jazz/GRP – 2:56
7:20:52 – Bix Beiderbecke With Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra – My Pretty Girl – Bix Beiderbecke With Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra, 1924-1927 – Retrieval/Challenge Records – 2:38
7:23:30 – Bix Beiderbecke – Way Down Yonder In New Orleans – Bix Beiderbecke, Volume 1: Singin’ The Blues – Columbia Jazz Masterpieces – 2:50
7:29:00 – Juliet Kurtzman And Pete Malinverni – In A Mist – Candlelight: Love In The Time Of Cholera – www.petemalinverni.com – 4:39
7:34:09 – Emmet Cohen – Dardanella – Future Stride – Mack Avenue Music Group – 5:24
7:39:33 – Tbone Paxton & The RJ Spangler Quartet – Petite Fleur – Back In Your Own Backyard – Detroit Music Factory – 6:22
7:48:00 – Bessie Smith – You’ve Been A Good Old Wagon – Bessie Smith: The Collection – Columbia Jazz Masterpieces – 3:27
7:51:27 – Maggie Smith/Louis Armstrong – Anybody Here Want To Try My Cabbage? – Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934 – Columbia Legacy/Smithsonian Institution Press – 3:19
7:54:46 – Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five – Skid-Dat-De-Dat – Louis Armstrong: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934 – Columbia Legacy/Smithsonian Institution Press – 3:01
8:00 – Clifton Anderson – A House Is Not A Home – Been Down This Road Before – Ropeadope/What We Do Music – 7:10
8:07:10 – Billy Childs – Acceptance – Acceptance – Mack Avenue Music Group – 7:10
8:16:20 – Kid Ory/Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra – Ory’s Creole Trombone – Ory’s Creole Trombone: Greatest Recordings 1922-1944 – Academy Sound Vison/Living Era – 3:21
8:19:41 – McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – Put It There – “Put It There”: McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Volume 1 1928-29 – Frog Records – 2:47
8:22:28 – Duke Ellington And The Washingtonians – Black And Tan Fantasy – The Duke: Duke Ellington, The Essential Collection 1927-1962 – Columbia/Legacy – 3:23
8:25:51 – Various Artists/Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra – House Of David Blues – An Anthology Of Big Band Swing – Decca Jazz/GRP – 3:07
8:31:00 – Smoking Time Jazz Club – Farewell Blues – Mean Tones & High Notes – www.smokingtimejazzclub.com – 5:26
8:36:26 – The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra – Jitterbug Waltz – The Third Quarter – Walking Path Records – 5:17
8:41:43 – Jimmy Smith – In A Mellow Tone – Bashin’: The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith – Verve/Polygram – 4:27
8:46:10 – Joe Williams And Harry “Sweets” Edison – Sometimes I’m Happy – The Complete Small Group Sessions – American Jazz Classics – 2:47
8:50:30 – Wendell Harrison Tribe – Wandering Thoughts – Get Up Off Your Knees – Tribe/WenHa Records – 7:30
8:58:00 – Sidney Bechet – Really The Blues – The Complete Sidney Bechet, Volume 1&2 (1932-1941) – RCA Jazz Tribune – 3:37
