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New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More

By Mary Foster Conklin | A Broad Spectrum
May 8, 2023
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This broadcast includes new releases from the JOI (Jazz Outreach Initiative) Jazz Orchestra, Luis Russell and Grace Garland, plus birthday shoutouts to Blossom Dearie, Ma Rainey, Rebecca Martin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they can continue to distract, comfort, provoke and inspire.

Playlist

Emily Remler "Sweet Georgie Fame" from East to Wes (Concord Jazz) 00:00
Blossom Dearie "Sunday Afternoon" from Blossom's Own Treasures (Daffodil) 05:31
Blossom Dearie and Mike Renzi "I Don't Remember" from Tweedledum And Tweedledee (Daffodil) 09:07
Host speaks 12:58
JOI Jazz Orchestra "Days On End" from A JOIful Noizz (Jazz Outreach Initiative) 14:27
Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos, Rebecca Martin, Larry Grenadier "Willow Weep For Me" from After Midnight (OJM) 20:08
Lauren Henderson "Conjuring" from Conjuring (Brontosaurus Records) 26:20
Host speaks 29:51
Geri Allen & The Mary Lou Williams Collective "Taurus" from Zodiac Suite: Revisited (Mary Records) 31:12
Lorraine Feather "Rhythm, Go 'Way" from Such Sweet Thunder: Music of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (Sanctuary Records) 35:18
Dr. John "I'm Gonna Go Fishin" from Duke Elegant (Parlophone Records) 39:59
Host speaks 44:51
Yelena Eckemoff "Breakfast for Two" from Lonely Man and His Fish (L and H Production) 45:56
Luis Russell (feat. Louis Armstrong) "Them There Eyes" from At the Swing Cats Ball Newly Discovered Recordings From The Closet—Vol. 1—1938-1940 (Dot Time Legends) 49:32
Host speaks 53:00
Randy Napoleon "CC Rider" from Soon (Detroit Music Factory) 53:57
Toots Thielemans "Strutting With Some Barbecue" from Smooth and Easy (Smith & Co.) 1:00:00
Lili Añel "Better Days" from Better Days Remastered (Self Released) 1:04:31
Roz Corral "I'll Never Be the Same" from Telling Tales (Blujazz) 1:09:42
Host speaks 1:14:16
Eric Krasno, Stanton Moore (Krasno Moore Project) "Carried Away" from Book of Queens (Concord Jazz) 1:15:28
Grace Garland "But You Do Gotta" from Lady G!'s Braless Seclusion (Self Released) 1:18:59
Hailey Brinnel "Candy" from Beautiful Tomorrow (Outside In) 1:21:37
Host speaks 1:24:23
Cecilia Smith "Miss D.D." from The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Small Ensemble Repertoire Vol. 1 (Innova Recordings) 1:25:20
Ella Fitzgerald "What's Your Story Morning Glory" from Ella Swings Lightly (Verve) 1:31:40
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra "Rock it For Me" from The Early Years—Part 1 (1935-1938) (Decca) 1:34:18
Ella Fitzgerald "You Don't Know My Mind" from These Are the Blues (Verve) 1:37:25
Host speaks 1:42:15
Joy Lapps "Fly" from Girl In the Yard (Self Released) 1:43:27
Monika Herzig & Janiece Jaffe "Help Me" from Both Sides of Joni (Acme) 1:48:49
Host speaks 1:56:07
Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is In the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (PNR) 1:56:45

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