Improvisations is produced and hosted locally by John Habel, Todd Steed, Paul Parris, and Cy Anders. Playlists, when they are available, are usually posted a day or so after air.
Questions? Email improv@utk.edu
APRIL 2008 (Grid: Monday-Friday)
Spring Membership Drive is April 7-12 - no playlists are posted during that week.
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VICTOR WOOTEN: Timers, from Palmystery (HUCD 3135)
KENNY BURRELL/JIMMY SMITH: Blue Bash, from Blue Bash (Verve 557 453 2)
OSCAR PETERSON: Easy Does It, from Plays Count Basie (Verve B00796)
THELONIOUS MONK: Blue Monk, from The Composer (Columbia CK 44297)
CANNONBALL ADDERLY: Limehouse Blues, from The Definitive Cannonball Adderly (Blue Note 723425 4004025)
SARAH VAUGHN: Poor Butterfly, from The Definitive (Verve 314 540 088 2)
BAD PLUS: My Funny Valentine, from Blunt Object, Live In Tokyo (82876811242)
HERBIE HANCOCK: Court And Spark from River, the Joni Letters (Verve B00163 02)
ELLA FITZGERALD: Miss Otis Regrets, from Best of the Songbooks (Verve 314 519 8042 2)
KERMIT RUFFINS: Skokiaan, from Kermit Ruffins Live At Vaughan’s (Basin Street Records BSR 0106)
FATS WALLER: All That Meat And No Potatoes, You Ain’t Got it (Bluebird 82876 81125 2)
DUKE ELLINGTON LEGACY: Caravan, from Thank You Uncle Edward (Renma 6400CD)
ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET: Ruby My Dear, from An Open Letter To Thelonious (ELM 19787)
THELONIOUS MONK WITH JOHN COLTRANE: Crepuscule With Nellie, from At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note Records 0946 3 935173 2 5)
THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND: Sleep Dirt, from Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Cuneiform Rune 225)
THE ED PALERMO BIG BAND: Gumbo Variations, from Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Cuneiform Rune 225)
JACK WILSON: Most Unsoulful Woman, from Something Personal (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 52436 2 2)
MAL WALDRON: Champs Elysses, from Impressions (Prestige/New Jazz OJCCD-132-2)
DEXTER GORDON: Skylark, from Biting The Apple (Steeplechase SCCD-31080)
CLIFFORD JORDAN-JOHN GILMORE: Bo-Till, from Blowing In From Chicago (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 28977 2 9)
MARK HELIAS: Mudpie Anthem, from Attack the Future (Enja ENJ-7019-2)
JOE LOVANO: Sail Away, from Quartets (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 29125 2 1)
BOBBY WATSON: Purple Flowers, from From the Heart (Palmetto PM 2130)
NAT ADDERLEY: Fortune's Child, from A Little New York Midtown Music (Galaxy OJCCD-1008-2)
JOHN COLTRANE: You Don't Know What Love Is, from Ballads (Impulse GRD 156)
DUKE ELLINGTON-JOHNNY HODGES: Wabash Blues, from Back to Back (Verve 314 521 404-2)
BOBBY WATSON: Timeless, from From the Heart (Palmetto PM 2130)
TEDDY CHARLES-SHORTY ROGERS: Bobalob, from Collaboration: West (Prestige OJCCD-122-2)
The Week of April 7 is WUOT's Spring Membership Drive - no playlists posted.
IKE QUEBEC: Buzzard Lope, from The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (Mosaic MD2-121)
MILT JACKSON/JOHN COLTRANE: The Late Late Blues, from Bags & Trane (Atlantic Jazz 1368-2)
MAL WALDRON: All Alone, from One More Time (Sketch SKE 333023)
LAWRENCE BROWN/JOHNNY HODGES: Good Queen Bess, from Lawrence Brown's All-Stars (Impulse A-89)
IKE QUEBEC: Blue Monday (same as above)
JIM McNEELY TENTET: Village Blues, from Group Therapy (Omni Tone 15101)
GERRY MULLIGAN/JOHNNY HODGES: Bunny, from Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve MG VS-6 8367)
THE CLAUDIA QUINTET: This too shall Pass, from For (Cuneiform Rune 247)
LAWRENCE BROWN/JOHNNY HODGES: Jeep's Blues (same as above)
JOAO PAULO/PETER EPSTEIN/RICARD DIAS: Bilrou, from Nascer (MA MA059A)
PIERRE DORGE & NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA: Jazz is Like a Banana, from Jazz is Like a Banana (SteepleChase SCCD 31636)
IKE QUEBEC: Mardi Gras (same as above)
MIGUEL ZENON: The Missing Piece, from Awake (Marsalis Music 74946 0009-2)
ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET: Ruby My Dear, from An Open Letter To Thelonious (ELM 19787)
HERBIE HANCOCK: Edith And The Kingpin, the Joni Letters (Verve B00163 02)
MILES DAVIS: Blue In Green, from Kind of Blue (Columbia 86829)
JOE NEWMAN: Just Squeeze Me, from Good N’ Groovy (Prestige OJCCD 185 2)
ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET: Jackie-ing, from An Open Letter To Thelonious (ELM 19787)
BRAD MEHLDAU: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was, from Art Of The Trio, Volume 1 (Warner Bros. 9 48005-2)
HERBIE HANCOCK: A Case Of You, the Joni Letters (Verve B00163 02)
STEVE KUHN TRIO: Passion Flower, from Live At Birdland (EMI 0946 3 729992 7)
CHRIS POTTER:: Closer To The Sun, from 10 (Sunnyside SSC 3074)
LIONEL LOUEKE: Light Dark, from Karibu (EMI Blue Note)
THE BAD PLUS: Tom Sawyer, from Prog (HUCD 3125)
BENNIE WALLACE: Big Jim Does the Tango For You, from Big Jim's Tango (Enja 4046-2)
JACKIE MCLEAN: Stablemates, from Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 56582 2 8)
MCCOY TYNER: Peresina, from Expansions (Blue Note CDP 7 84338 2)
KEN MCINTYRE: Sendai, from The Complete United Artists Sessions (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 57200 2 4)
RANDY WESTON: Perdido, from Berkshire Blues (Black Lion BLCD760205)
MAL WALDRON: You, from One More Time (Sketch SKE 333023)
LENNART ABERG-PETER ERSKINE: In Memoriam, from Free Spirit (Amigo 912)
PAUL BLEY-JESPER LUNDGAARD: Music Matador, from Live (Steeplechase SCCD-31223)
RALPH PETERSON: A Shade of Jade, from The Fo'tet Augmented (Criss Cross 1255)
GARY PEACOCK: Nanshi, from Eastward (Sony Music Japan SICP 996)
GREG OSBY: Sanctus, from The Invisible Hand (Blue Note CDP 7243 5 20134)
LESLIE PINTCHIK: Private Moment, from Quartets (Ambient Records 006)
LEE MORGAN: Cornbread, from Cornbread (Blue Note CDP 7 84222 2)
KNOXVILLE JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Peace For Zim, from Blues Man From Memphis (BC 1040)
CHARLES MINGUS: I X Love, from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse MCAD 39119)
LEE MORGAN: Our Man Higgins, from Cornbread (Blue Note CDP 7 84222 2)
BLUE MITCHELL: Step Lightly, from The Thing To Do (Blue Note 7243 5 94319 2 5)
LEE MORGAN: Just By Myself, from City Lights (Blue Note 0946 62676 2 3)
AUTHUR TAYLOR: Batland, from Taylor’s Wailers (Prestige OJCCD 094 2)
JACKIE McCLEAN: Cancelation, from It’s Time (Blue Note 58286)
ANAT COHEN: Lonnie’s Lament, from Poetica (Anzic 1301)
BOOKER ERVIN: Dee Da Do, from Cookin’ (Savoy Jazz SV 0150)
WYNTON MARSALIS: Sunflowers, from The Marciac Suite (Columbia CK 69877)
BALLIN' THE JACK: Echoes of Harlem, from Jungle (Knitting Factory KFR-250)
KEITH JARRETT: Paint My Heart Red, from The Carnegie Hall Concert (ECM 189/90)
LENA HORNE: Moanin' Low, from Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena, 1941-1958 (Jazz Heritage 51300Z)
LENA HORNE: I Ain't got Nothin' but the Blues (same as above)
DUKE ELLINGTON: Piano Improvisation No. 1, from Piano in the Foreground (Columbia/Legacy CK 87042)
WYNTON MARSALIS: Jungle Blues, from Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Sony Classical CK 69872)
ELLIS & BRANFORD MARSALIS: Maria, from Loved Ones (Columbia CK 67369)
GERALD WILSON: Lighthouse Blues, from The Artist Selects (Pacific Jazz 0946-3-31439)
PIERRE FAVRE ENSEMBLE: Decors, from Fleuve (ECM 1977)
DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA: Rockin' in Rhythm, from At the Alhambra (Pablo PACD-5313-2)
BALLIN' THE JACK: Mood Indigo (same as above)
TILL BRONNER: Bumpin’, from Oceana (Emarcy B0008546-02)
PIERS LAWRENCE QUARTET: Stolen Moments, from Stolen Moments (Jazznet Media JNM 0701)
TERENCE BLANCHARD: Ashe, from A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem For Katrina) (EMI Blue Note 0946 3 91532 2 0)
ENRICO RAVA: Bob The Cat, from The Words And The Days (ECM 1982)
ENRICO RAVA: Dr. Ra And Mr. Va, from The Words And The Days (ECM 1982)
HAPPY APPLE: Green Grass Stains On Wrangler Jeans, from Youth Oriented (Nato Bear Series SSC 3006)
THE GUS SPENOS QUARTET: Body And Soul, from Swing Theory
WALT WILLIAMS: Little Rootie Tootie, from Now’s The Time Big Band (MAA 1033)
JANE IRA BLOOM: Mental Weather, from Mental Weather (Outline OTL 139)
MILES DAVIS: Stella By Starlight, from In Concert (Columbia CK 93593)
STANLEY JORDON: All Blues, from State of Nature (Mac Avenue MAC 1040)
WYNTON MARSALIS: Brilliant Corners, from Marsalis Plays Monk (Columbia CK 67503)
WYNTON MARSALIS: These Are The Soulful Days, from From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (Blue Note 0946 3 73675 2 0)
BILL EVANS: Re: Person I Knew, from The Paris Concert Edition Two (Blue Note 7245 5 28673 2 5)
CHARLIE HADEN'S QUARTET WEST: Lady in the Lake, from Haunted Heart (Verve 314 513 078-2)
TOMMY FLANAGAN: Syeeda's Song Flute, from Giant Steps (Enja 4022-41)
THURMAN GREEN: Minor Blue, from Dance of the Night Creatures (Mapleshade 06032)
FRED HERSCH TRIO: Iris, from Plays (Chesky JD116)
HERBIE HANCOCK: Oliloqui Valley, from Empyrean Isles (Blue Note 7243 4 98796 2 1)
DEWEY REDMAN QUARTET: Joie De Vivre, from The Struggle Continues (ECM 1225)
ART FARMER: Fair Weather, from Modern Art (Blue Note CDP 7 84459 2)
ARCHIE SHEPP-HORACE PARLAN: How Long Blues, from Trouble In Mind (Steeplechase SCCD-31139)
DAVID MURRAY QUARTET: Chelsea Bridge, from Tenors (DIW 881)
TIM ARMACOST: Indian News, from Rhythm and Transformation (ArtistShare AS0064)
TOMMY FLANAGAN: Central Park West, from Giant Steps (Enja 4022-41)
WYNTON MARSALIS: Doin Your Thing, from From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (Blue Note 0946 3 73675 2 0)
THELONIOUS MONK: Tea For Two, from Criss Cross (Columbia CK 63537)
CHARLES MINGUS: Original Fabus Fables, from Ken Burn Jazz/Definitive Mingus (Columbia CK 61448)
THELONIOUS MONK: Mysterioso, from At The It Club (Columbia 64887)
LINDA DACHTYL: Frame For The Blues, from For Hep Cats (Chicken Coup CCP 7010)
LIONEL LOUEKE: Karibu, from Karibu (Blue Note 50999 5 12791 2)
BRUCE HORNSBY/CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE/JACK DEJOHNETTE: Un Poco Loco/Chant Song, from Camp Meeting (Legacy 88697 09663 2)
DONALD BROWN: Stranger In Paradise, from The Classic Introvert (BG 2422)
LIONEL LOUEKE: Seven Teens, from Karibu (Blue Note 50999 5 12791 2)
LINDA DACHTYL: Le Chat Blues, from For Hep Cats (Chicken Coup CCP 7010)
MILES DAVIS: Walkin’, from The Best Of Seven Steps (Columbia CK 93585)
BRUCE HORNSBY/CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE/JACK DEJOHNETTE: Stacked Mary Possum, from Camp Meeting (Legacy 88697 09663 2
THE JIMMY GUIFFRE 3: Two Kinds of Blues, from The Jimmy Guiffre 3 (Atlantic 90981-1)
NEW YORK COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: Fever, from New York Composers Orchestra (New World/Crosscurrents NW 397-2)
BOB NELL: Taking a Chance on Love, from Why I Like Coffee (New World/ Crosscurrents80419-2))
DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHNNY HODGES: Loveless Love, from Play the Blues Back to Back (Verve 823 637-2)
THE JIMMY GUIFFRE 3: Crawdad Suite (same as above)
FRED KATZ: Zen, from Classical Katz (Fivefour 24)
FRED KATZ: Science Fiction (same as above)
VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA: My Man's Gone Now, from American Rhapsody (BMG 0902 6-63258-2)
VIENNA ART ORCHESTRA: Rhapsody in Blue (same as above)
BOB NELL: EMREM, from Why I Like Coffee (same as above)
GERRY MULLIGAN & JOHNNY HODGES: 18 Carrots for Rabbit, Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve MG VS-68367)
THE JIMMY GUIFFRE 3: Gotta Dance (same as above)
ALAN PASQUA, DAVE CARPENTER, PETER ERSKINE: Just The Way You Look Tonight, from Standards (Pep CD 014)
CRAIG RUSSO: Butterfly, from In The Middle (Goot-03)
BRAD MEHLDAU: Moon River, from Art Of The Trio, Volume 2 (Warner Bros. 9466842-2)
PAUL MOTION: Show Tune, from Bill Evans (JMT 919 043 2)
ALAN PASQUA, DAVE CARPENTER, PETER ERSKINE: Dear Old Stockhom, from Standards (Pep CD 014)
ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET: Jackie-ing, from An Open Letter To Thelonious (ELM 19787)
ANAT FORT: Morning: Good, from A Long Story (ECM 1994)
BRAD MEHLDAU: Quit, The Art Of the Trio, Volume 5 (Warner 48005 2)
JOHN COLTRANE: Syeeda’s Song Flute from Giant Steps (Atlantic R2 75203)
MILES DAVIS: ESP, from Best Of The Miles Davis Quintet (1965-68) (Columbia CK 85945)
NIK BARTSCH’S RONIN: Modul 35, from Stoa (ECM 1939)
STEVE KUHN: Chalet, from Countdown (Reservoir 157)
JOSHUA REDMAN: Twilight and Beyond, from Beyond (Warner Bros. 47465-2)
JACK WALRATH: Gloomy Sunday, from Serious Hang (Muse MCD 5475)
JANE IRA BLOOM: Varo, from Sometimes the Magic (Arabesque AJ0155)
ART FARMER-BENNY GOLSON JAZZTET: Tonk, from Here and Now (Verve 314 558 052-2)
BOBBY HUTCHERSON: Theme from "Blow Up", from Oblique (Blue Note CDP 7 84444 2)
MCCOY TYNER: Contemplation, from The Real McCoy (Blue Note D 103734)
WAYNE SHORTER: House of Jade, from Juju (Blue Note 7243 4 99005 2 3)
BILL EVANS: Green Dolphin Street, from California Here I Come (Verve VE 2-2545)
DAVID MURRAY LATIN BIG BAND: Crystal, from Now Is Another Time (Justin Time 161-2)
TIM HAGANS-MARCUS PRINTUP: Byrd Like, from Hub Songs (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 59509 2 6)
TONY SCOTT-FRANCO D'ANDREA: I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, from Body and Soul (Philology 119.2)
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