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New Releases, Valentines Day, Plus Birthday Celebrations for Blanche Calloway, Carole King & More

By Mary Foster Conklin | A Broad Spectrum
February 20, 2023
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This broadcast celebrates Valentines Day, Juno nominees and more, with new releases from Rachel Therrien, Simone Kopmajer and the Tony Kadleck Big Band, plus birthday shoutouts to Blanche Calloway, Carole King, Marsha Heydt, Jen Allen, Sharel Cassity and Carmen Staff, 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

Marsha Heydt and the Project of Love "Diggin' the Day" from Diggin' the Day (Self Released) 00:00
Ann Hampton Callaway "I Love Being Here With You" from Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! (Palmetto Records) 05:02
Host speaks 08:48
Blanche Calloway "I Gotta Swing" from Blanche Calloway (Doxy Collection) (Doxy) 11:39
Cecile McLorin Salvant "Growlin' Dan" from For One To Love (Mack Avenue) 14:23
Blanche Calloway "Last Dollar" from Classic Blanche (Vintage Music Association) 18:47
Host speaks 21:45
Jen Allen "Prickly Pear" from Sifting Grace (Next Level Records) 24:41
Lezlie Harrison "People Make The World Go Round" from Soul Book, Vol. 1 (Pure Tones of Soul) 30:21
Host speaks 37:01
The String Queens "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" from RISE (Self Released) 39:32
Judy Wexler "Up On the Roof" from Back To the Garden (Jewel City Jazz) 42:16
Dena DeRose "So Far Away" from United (HighNote) 46:52
Host speaks 52:52
Rachel Therrien "The Wizard" from Mi Hogar (Outside In Music) 53:50
Altoizm (Greg Ward, Sharel Cassity, Rajiv Halim) "Thoroughbred" from Altoizm (AFAR Music) 1:00:00
Sue Maskaleris "Valentine's Day For One" from Love Is the Key (Jazilian Records) 1:06:45
Host speaks 1:10:48
Carmen Staaf & Allison Miller "Birds" from Nearness (Sunnyside) 1:13:29
Simone Kopmajer "Until It's Time For You To Go" from With Love (Self Released) 1:18:30
Host speaks 1:24:02
Carn Davidson 9 "Wisely If Sincerely" from The History of Us (Three Pines Records) 1:26:18
Caity Gyorgy (feat. Laura Anglade) "The Feeling Is Mutual" from Featuring (la reserve) 1:33:28
Allan Harris "Haven't We Met?" from Black Bar Jukebox (Love Production Records) 1:37:41
Host speaks 1:40:59
Tony Kadleck Big Band "Both Sides Now" from Sides (Alternate Side Records) 1:43:49
Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding "A Wish" from Alive At the Village Vanguard (Palmetto) 1:50:19
Host speaks 1:54:51
Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is In the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (PNR) 1:56:39

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