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Celebrating Jazz Foremothers Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie and Shirley Horn
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- The DIVA Jazz Orchestra "Pure Imagination" from The DIVA Jazz Orchestra Swings Broadway (Diva Jazz) 00:00
- USAF Airmen of Note feat. Diane Schuur " Besame Mucho" from 2022 Jazz Heritage Series (Self Released) 06:35
- Host speaks 13:47
- Alison Shearer "On Awakening" from View From Above (Self Released) 14:55
- Mark Winkler "In Another Way" from Late Bloomin Jazzman (Café Pacific) 20:56
- San Gabriel 7 feat. Sinne Eeg "Rocket Blues" from Under the Stars (Self Released) 24:35
- Host speaks 28:07
- Duke Ellington "Trumpets No End (Blue Skies)" from Carnegie Hall Live Concert 1947 (Prestige) 29:27
- Lorraine Feather "Imaginary Guy" from Such Sweet Thunder: Music of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (Sanctuary Records) 32:45
- Lauren White "I'm Gonna Go Fishin" from Out of the Past: Jazz & Noir (Café Pacific) 36:05
- Host speaks 39:32
- Branford Marsalis "Hear Me Talking To You" from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Music from the Netflix Film) (Milan Records) 40:24
- Ma Rainey "Yonder Come The Blues" from Blues Masters Vol. 11: Classic Blues Women (Rhino) 44:49
- Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos, Rebecca Martin, Larry Grenadier "Willow Weep For Me" from After Midnight (OJM) 47:50
- Host speaks 52:59
- Sven Anderson "Sir Tyner" from Doc's Holiday (Self Released) 54:50
- Ella Fitzgerald "Billie's Bounce" from Montreux '77 (Original Jazz Classics) 1:00:00
- Ella Fitzgerald "Rough Ridin'" from Rhythm Is My Business (Verve/Polygram) 1:04:46
- Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass "I Want a Little Girl" from Easy Living (Pablo) 1:07:34
- Host speaks 1:10:19
- Emily Remler "Sweet Georgie Fame" from East to Wes (Concord Jazz) 1:11:58
- Blossom Dearie/Mike Renzi "I Don't Remember" from Tweedledum And Tweedledee (Daffodil) 1:17:21
- Jackie Messina "Quiet Now" from Necessary Arrangements (Self Released) 1:21:11
- Host speaks 1:25:43
- Lynne Arriale Trio "Honor" from The Lights Are Always On (Challenge) 1:27:05
- Shirley Horn "Forget Me" from May The Music Never End (Universal/Verve) 1:31:16
- Shirley Horn "Come In From the Rain" from The Main Ingredient (Verve) 1:34:40
- Host speaks 1:39:22
- Roxy Coss "Part III The Heart" from Disparate Parts (Outside In) 1:40:18
- Deanne Matley "If You Were Here Today" from The Alberta Lounge (Barbette Records) 1:44:55
- The Grace Fox Big Band "Stars" from Eleven O'Seven (Self Released) 1:48:41
- Host speaks 1:55:21
- Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is In the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (PNR ) 1:56:37
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