WUOT Jazz - "Improvisations"
Monday-Friday, 6:30 p.m.

Improvisations is produced and hosted locally by John Habel, Todd Steed, Paul Parris, and Chris Woodhull. Playlists, when they are available, are usually posted a day or so after air.
Questions? Email improv@utk.edu

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Sadly Missed

Cy Anders, longtime WUOT jazz host, and in recent years the host of Friday evening's Improvisations, passed away unexpectedly on March 17.
Cy will be greatly missed by everyone at WUOT - he was indeed a kind and good soul. As one of our staff members said "Cy cannot be replaced."

 

 

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OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2009   (Grid: Monday-Friday)  

NOTE: No playlists posted the week of the fund drive, Oct. 19-23    

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11/2	11/3	11/4	11/5	11/6

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

TAL FARLOW: Taking A Chance On Love, from The Swinging Guitar (Verve 314 559 515 2)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: Fiddler On The Roof, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capital 12309)

DUKE ELLINGTON: Get It Southern Style, from The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (Mosaic 235)

DUKE ELLINGTON: Echoes Of Harlem, from The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (Mosaic 235)

TAL FARLOW: Meteor, from The Swinging Guitar (Verve 314 559 515 2)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: Goodbye Charlie, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capital 12309)

TEDDY WILSON: After You’ve Gone, from The Columbia Jazz Piano Mood Sessions (Mosaic MD7 199)

BILL CLIFTON: It’s Easy To Remember, from The Columbia Jazz Piano Mood Sessions (Mosaic MD7 199)

THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: Django, from Ken Burns Jazz/The Story of American Music (Columbia 61432)

GERI ALLEN/ DAVE HOLLAND/ JACK DEJOHNETTE:  Mounts And Mountains, from The Life Of A Song (TELARC 83598)

DAVE BRUBECK: Take Five, from Jazz Moods-Cool (Columbia CK 90964)

HORACE SLIVER: Doodlin, from Ken Burns Jazz/The Story of American Music (Columbia 61432)

HOLSHOUSER/BENNINK/MOORE: Bafia Waltz, from Bafia Waltz (Balfa Bros)

HOLSHOUSER/BENNINK/MOORE: Rosetta, from Bafia Waltz (Balfa Bros)

CLUSONE 3: The Buzzard Song, from Clusone 3 (Rara Avis)

October 5, 2009

NAT ADDERLY: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, from Live at the Floating Jazz Festival 1994 (Chiaroscuro CR(D) 334)

WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET: Let’s Get it On, from Rhythm and Blues (Elektra/Musician 60864-2)

DON GROLNICK: The Cost of Living, from Nighttown (Blue Note 98689 2 6)

GRANT GREEN: Go Down Moses, from Feelin’ the Spirit (Blue Note 7 46822 2)

NAT ADDERLEY: Walls of Jericho, from Sayin’ Somethin’ (Atlantic SD 1460 LP)

ABDULLAH IBRAHIM: Black Lightning, from Voice of Africa (Kaz LP 101)

SIDSEL ENDRESEN/BUGGE WESSELTOFT: Birds, from Out Here, In There (Jazzland 017 368-2)

CHARLES MINGUS: Better Git it in Your Soul, from Mingus Ah Um (Columbia/Legacy 88697 53436 2)

DON BYRON: Cleo’s Mood, from Do the Boomerang (Blue Note 09463 41094 2 0)

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY/MILT JACKSON: Groovin’ High, from Things are Getting Better (Riverside LP OJC-032)

NINA SIMONE: I think it’s Going to Rain Today, from Nina Simone and Piano (RCA LP LSP-4102)

WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET: Try a Little Tenderness (same as above)

TUESDAY, OCT. 6

MILES DAVIS:  So What, from Kind of Blue (50th Anniversary Edition)  (Columbia 86829)

JOHN COLTRANE: Gaint Steps, from Giant Steps (Atlantic R2 75203)

JFJO: Julia, from One Day In Brooklyn (KIN 00001)

WES MONTGOMERY: Four On Six, from Smokin’ At The Half Note (Verve BOO03934-02)

ALICE COLTRANE: The Sun, from The Impulse Story (Impulse 8006562 02)

KENNY GARRETT: Sketches Of MD, from Live At The Iridium (Mac 1042)

JFJO: Drethoven, from One Day In Brooklyn (KIN 00001)

CLUSONE 3: The Song Is Ended, from Soft Lights And Sweet Music (hat art CD 6163)

CLUSONE 3: Anything I Can Do, I Can Do Better: from Soft Lights And Sweet Music (hat art CD 6163)

TAL FARLOW: You Stepped Out Of A Dream, from The Swinging Guitar (Verve 314 559 515 2)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: To Life, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capital 12309)

KENNY GARRETT: Happy People, from Live At The Iridium (Mac 1042)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: Now I Have Everything, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capital 12309)

Wednesday, October 7

CHARLIE HADEN'S QUARTET WEST: Lady in the Lake, from Haunted Heart (Verve 314 513 078-2)

JACK WILSON: Most Unsoulful Woman, from Something Personal (Blue Note CDP 7243 8 52436 2 2)

MAL WALDRON: Minoat, from Moods (Enja 79629)

WILLEM BREUKER KOLLEKTIEF: Women's Voting Rights, from Kollektief (About Time 1006)

HERBIE HANCOCK: Succotash, from Inventions and Dimensions (Blue Note CDP 7 84147 2)

BOBBY WATSON QUARTET: Love Remains, from Love Remains (Red 123212-2)

BRAD MEHLDAU: She's Leaving Home, from Day is Done (Nonesuch 79910-2)

PAUL BLEY-JESPER LUNDGAARD: Music Matador, from Live (Steeplechase 31223)

RAY ANDERSON: Brother Can You Spare A Dime?, from Every One of Us (Gramavision 79471)

BILL FRISELL: Egg Radio, from Quartet (Nonesuch 79401-2)

JENNY SCHEINMAN: Tango for Luna, from Shalagaster (Tzadik 7709)

PETER EPSTEIN-BRAD SHEPIK-MATT KILMER: Miro, from Lingua Franca (Songlines 1555-2)

 

THURSDAY OCT. 8

MONK’S MUSIC TRIO: Ruby My Dear, from Monk On Mondays (CMB CB 102843)

KIETH JARRETT: Paris, part 2, from Paris/London Testament (ECM 2130 32)

ANOUAR BRAHEM: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita, from The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (ECM 2075)

BILL FRISELL: Imagination, from History/Mystery (Nonesuch)

KIETH JARRETT: London, part 1, from Paris/London Testament (ECM 2130 32)

CLUSONE 3: El Condor Pasa: from Soft Lights And Sweet Music (hat art CD 6163)

WILL HOLSHOUSER TRIO:  Reed Song, from Reed Song (Clean Feed 05)

BILL FRISELL: Jackie-ing, from History/Mystery (Nonesuch)

ANOUAR BRAHEM: The Lover Of Beirut, from The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (ECM 2075)

ETHAN IVERSON: I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, from Deconstruction Zone (FSNT 047 CD)

COUNT BASIE: Oh, Lady Be Good, from Count Basie And the Kansas City 7 (Impulse 202)

October 12, 2009

THELONIOUS MONK: Off Minor, from The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (Jazz Classics OJCCD-135-2)

ALAN BROADBENT: Blue in Green, from Every Time I Think of You (Artistry ART 7111)

LESTER YOUNG & THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO: Ad Lib Blues, from Lester Young & the Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve 314 521 451-2)

DON BYRON: Creepin’, from A Fine Line (Blue Note 26801)

THELONIOUS MONK: Stuffy Turkey, from It’s Monk’s Time (Columbia/Legacy CK 63532)

MINGUS BIG BAND: Pedal Point Blues, from I am Three (Mingus Music SCC 3029)

DAVID MURRAY/RANDY WESTON: Mbizo, from The Healers (Black Saint 120-118-1)

DON BYRON: It’s Over (same as above)

THELONIOUS MONK: Brilliant Corners, from Brilliant Corners (Riverside 226/OJCCD-026-2)

DON GROLNICK: Heart of Darkness, from Nighttown (Blue Note 98689)

DON BYRON: Larghetto (same as above)

THELONIOUS MONK: Functional, from Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (Jazzland OJC-039 LP)

TUESDAY, OCT. 13

HELEN MERRILL: You’re My Thrill, from The Dick Katz Sessions (1019)

DUKE ELLINGTON: Body And Soul, from The Cosmic Scene (Mosaic 1001)

BILL EVANS: My Foolish Heart, from Live At the Village Vanguard (Riverside 44452)

WAYNE SHORTER: Infant Eyes, from Speak No Evil (Blue Note CDP 546509)

RED GARLAND: If I Were A Bell, from Red Garland’s Piano (Prestige PRCD 8109-2)

BILL EVANS: My Romance, from Live At the Village Vanguard (Riverside 44452)

KENNY DORHAM: Whistle stop, from Whistle Stop (Blue Note 7243 5 25846 2 0)

JOANNE BRACKEEN: Popsicle Illusion, from Popsicle Illusion (Arkadia Jazz 70372)

VIJAY IYER TRIO: Somewhere, from Historicity (ACT 9489 2)

VIJAY IYER TRIO: Segment For Sentiment 2, from Historicity (ACT 9489 2)

THELONIOUS MONK: Let’s Cool One, from The Measure of Monk (Starbucks Entertainment)

CARLA BLEY: Five, from The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (Watt/34)

Wednesday, October 14

STEVE LACY: Ask Me Now, from Reflections (New Jazz OJCCD-063-2)

RANDY WESTON: Berkshire Blues, from African Cookbook (Koch 8517)

ALBERT MANGELSDORFF QUINTET: Sakura Waltz, from Now Jazz Ramwong (Bellaphon 71001)

CHARLES MINGUS: OP: Tribute to Oscar Pettiford, from Paris TNP (Ulysse Musique 1003)

CHARLIE HADEN'S QUARTET WEST: Our Spanish Love Song, from Always Say Goodbye (Verve 314 521 501-2)

JOE LOVANO: Fort Worth, from From the Soul (Blue Note CDP 7 98363 2)

FREDDIE HUBBARD: Santa Anna Winds, from Outpost (Enja 3092-2)

DON CHERRY: Prayer, from Dona Nostra (ECM 1448)

BOBO STENSON TRIO: Don's Kora Song, from Cantando (ECM 2023)

HENRI TEXIER: Leila, from Blue Wind Story (Label Bleu LBLC 6700/01)

JOHN SURMAN QUARTET: Across the Bridge, from Stranger than Fiction (ECM 1534)

PAUL BLEY: Ida Lupino, from Open, To Love (ECM 1023)

THURSDAY, OCT. 15

STANLEY CLARKE:  Sakura, from Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up 1)

BEN ALLISON: Broke, from Think Free (Palmetto 146)

WILL HOLSHOUSER TRIO: Reed Song, from Reed Song (Clean Feed 05)

ENRICO RAVA: Thank You, Come Again, from New York Days (ECM 2064)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: Sewing Machine, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capitol 12309)

KENNY GARRETT: The Ring, from Live At The Iridium (Mac 1042)

CANNONBALL ADDERLY: To Life, from Fiddler On The Roof (Capitol 12309)

BEN ALLISON: Peace Pipe, from Think Free (Palmetto 146)

STANLEY CLARKE:  Sicilian Blue, from Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up 1)

ENRICO RAVA: Luna Urbana, from New York Days (ECM 2064)

TAL FARLOW: Like Someone In Love, from the Swinging Guitar Of Tal Farlow (Verve 515-2)

KENNY GARRETT: Wayne's Thing, from Live At The Iridium (Mac 1042)

 

Monday, October 26, 2009

SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA: El is a Sound of Joy, from Super-Sonic Jazz (Evidence ECD 22015-2)

DAVE HOLLAND QUARTET: Conference of the Birds, from Conference of the Birds (ECM 1027)

MIGUEL ZENON: Santo, from Awake (Marsalis Music 74946-0009-2)

CHARLES MINGUS: Orange was the Color of Her Dress; then Silk Blues, from Mingus Plays Piano (MCA/Impulse MFCD 783)

SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA: India (same as above)

MILES DAVIS: In a Silent Way, from The Complete in a Silent Way Sessions (Columbia/Legacy C3K 50921)

MILES DAVIS: It’s about that Time (same as above)

E.S.T: Strange Place for Snow, from Strange Place for Snow (Columbia CK 86545)

SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA: Sunology, Part 2 (same as above)

CHARLES MINGUS: Compositional Theme Story (same as above)

CASSANDRA WILSON: Dust my Broom, from Loverly (Blue Note 07699)

GIANLUIGI TROVESI: Hercab, from Dedalo (Enja ENJ-9419-2)

 

TUESDAY, OCT. 27

DJANGO REINHARDT: After You’ve Gone, from The Gipsy Genius (Giants of Jazz 2019)

SARAH VAUGHN: Interlude, from Ken Burns Jazz, The Definitive Sarah Vaughn (Verve 314 549 0882)

DUKE ELLINGTON: Prelude To A Kiss, from Indigos (Columbia CK 4444)

MADELEINE PEYROUX: Bare Bones, from Bare Bones (Rounder 3070 2)

THE JAZZ MESSENGERS: Little Melonae, from Hard Bop (Mosaic 1005)

MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO:  Jitterbug Waltz, from New Orleans Meets Harlem (J-Master Records 1)

MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO:  Ba-Lue Boivar A-Lues-Are, from New Orleans Meets Harlem (J-Master Records 1)

THELONIOUS MONK: Hackensack, from The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside Box Set, RCD 022 2)

BILL FRISELL: Think, from Disfarmer (Nonesuch)

BILL FRISELL: Drink, from Disfarmer (Nonesuch)

GRANT GREEN: I Wish You Love, from Street Of Dreams (Blue Note CDP 7243821290 2 8)

MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO:  Black And Tan Fantasy, from New Orleans Meets Harlem (J-Master Records 1)

BILL EVANS: Round Midnight, from Bill Evans Trio at Shelly’s Manne-Hole, Hollywood, California (Riverside OJC20 263-2)

VIJAY IYER TRIO: Somewhere, from Historicity (ACT 9489 2)

Wednesday, October 28

YUSEF LATEEF: In The Evening, from The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic 32059)

NAT ADDERLEY: Fortune's Child, from A Little New York Midtown Music (Galaxy 5120)

BOBBY HUTCHERSON: Delilah, from Skyline (Verve 314 559 616-2)

GINGER BAKER: Cyril Davies, from Coward of the County (Atlantic 83168-2)

WAYNE HORVITZ: Waltz from the Oven, from Sweeter Than The Day (Songlines 1536-5)

GIL EVANS: Zee Zee, from Svengali (Atlantic 1643)

EITHER/ORCHESTRA: Premonitions, from The Half Life of Desire (Accurate 3242)

KENNY BARRON: Passion Flower, from Spirit Song (Verve 314 543 180-2)

BOBO STENSON TRIO: Don's Kora Song, from Cantando (ECM 2023)

STEVE LACY-RICARDO FASSI: Esteem, from Dummy (Splasch 843.2)

EDWARD VESALA: Frozen Melody, from Lumi (ECM 1339)

BARNEY WILEN: Poinciana, from Wild Dogs of the Ruwenzori (Ida 020)

November 2, 2009

JOHN COLTRANE: Alabama, from Live at Birdland (MCA/Impulse MCAD-33109)

GIANLUIGI TROVESI: From G to G, from Dedalo (Enja ENJ-949 2)

ELLA FITZGERALD: Trouble in Mind, from These are the Blues (Verve 829-536-2)

ELLA FITZGERALD: How Long, How Long Blues (same as above)

TETE MONTOLIU: Por el Amor du una Mujer, from Boleros (Ensayo ENY-CD-9770)

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: Greensleeves, from Ballads, (Deluxe Edition) (Impulse 314 589 548-2)

DINAH WASHINGTON: After You’ve Gone, from The Bessie Smith Songbook (PolyGram 826 663-2)

DINAH WASHINGTON: Back Water Blues (same as above)

KEITH JARRETT: Shenandoah, from The Melody at Night, with You (ECM 1675)

ENRICO PIERANUNZI: La Strada, from Fellini Jazz (CamJazz CAM 5002)

JOHN COLTRANE: Afro-Blue (same as above)

GRACHAN MONCUR III: Thandiwa, from Some Other Stuff (Blue Note 32092 24)

E.S.T. (ESBJORN SVENSSON TRIO): Dodge the Dodo, from Somewhere Else Before (Columbia CK 85834)

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET: It’s Easy to Remember (same as above)

Tuesday, Nov. 3

JOHN ABERCROMBIE QUARTET: Anniversary Waltz, from Wait Til You See her (ECM 2101)

MIGUEL ZENON: Calle Calma, from Esta Plena (Marsalis Music 74946 00120)

MIGUEL ZENON: Despedida, from Esta Plena (Marsalis Music 74946 00120)

ETHAN IVERSON: This Song Is You, from Deconstruction Zone (FSNT 047 CD)

BILL EVANS TRIO: Sugar Plum, from Live In Switzerland 1975 (69232 Gambit Records)

CYRUS CHESTNUT: Peace, from Spirit (JLP901001)

GRANT GREEN: My Funny Valentine, from Grandstand (Blue Note 80913)

HAROLD LAND: On A Little Street In Singapore, from In New York/ Eastward Ho! (Jazzland 933)

MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA: Cerulean Skies, from Sky Blue (A50065) (Maria Schneider) (8.06)

CYRUS CHESTNUT: Lift Every Voice And Sing, from Spirit (JLP901001)

Wednesday, November 4

BENGT BERGER: Kora Song, from Thums Up (Caprice 21361)

BRAD SHEPIK: Asilah, from The Well (Songlines 1531)

JOHN ABERCROMBIE: Line Up, from Wait Till You See Her (ECM 2102)

AZIMUTH: How It Was Then, from How It Was Then Never Again (ECM 1538)

CHARLES LLOYD: Dorotea's Studio, from Voice in the Night (ECM 1674)

DAVID MURRAY TRIO: Chelsea Bridge, from The Hill (Black Saint 120110-2)

STEVE LACY TRIO: Clichés, from The Holy La (Freelance 0201)

JAN GARBAREK-BOBO STENSON QUARTET: Witchi-Tai-To, from Witchi-Tai-To (ECM 1041)

BOBO STENSON TRIO: My Man's Gone Now, from Reflections (ECM 1516)

MILES DAVIS: Fall, from Nefertiti (Columbia/Legacy CK 65681)

ANTHONY COLEMAN: Quando El Rey Nimrod, from Sephardic Tinge (Tzadik TZ 7102)

JOHN ZORN: Mala Suerte, from Filmworks XXIII (Tzadik 7373)