Salutes to Ma Rainey, Ella Fitzgerald and Blossom Dearie

Playlist

• Toots Thielemans "Strutting With Some Barbecue" from Smooth and Easy (Smith & Co.) 00:00
• Cat Conner "Waiting On the Moon" from Cat House (Cat Tales Records) 04:30Time Marker
• Claire Martin "Timeline" from Believin' It (Linn) 06:58
• Host speaks 10:32
• Regina Carter "See See Rider" from Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks) 12:30
• Ma Rainey "See See Rider Blues" from An Introduction to Ma Rainey (Fuel 2000) 17:43
• Ma Rainey "Countin' The Blues" from Blues Masters, Vol. 11, Classic Blues Women (Wea Corp) 21:00
• Carmen Twillie "Prove It On Me" from Bessie-Music from the HBO Film (Sony Legacy) 24:19
• Host speaks 27:04
• Dorothy Donegan "Donegan's Blues" from The Explosive Dorothy Donegan (Audiophile) 29:26
• Double Bass/Double Voice "Woke Up This Morning/This Little Light Of Mine" from Ribbon In the Sky (Self released) 35:18
• Becca Stevens "Queen Mab" from Regina (Ground Up Music LLC) 40:38
• Rebecca Martin & Guillermo Klein"To Make the Most of Today" from The Upstate Project (Sunnyside) 46:05
• Host speaks 51:50
• Ellen Rowe "Game Set and Match" from Momentum-Portraits of Women In Motion (Smokin Sleddog Records) 53:20
• Akiko Tsuruga "Peachie" from So Cute, So Bad (Self released) 1:00:03
• Norah Jones "Court and Spark" from Joni 75-A Birthday Celebration (Decca) 1:07:32
• Carol Bach-y-Rita "The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines" from Minha Casa/My House (Self released) 1:10:49
• Joni Mitchell "A Chair in the Sky" from Mingus (Elektra Off Roster) 1:13:55
• Host speaks 1:20:34
• Andrea Brachfeld "Steppin'" from If Not Now, When? (Jazzheads) 1:23:17
• Nancy Kelly "Again" from Remembering Mark Murphy (SubCat Records) 1:26:40
• Kendra Shank & Deanna Witkowski "There Is a Balm In Gilead" from Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns (Tilapea) 1:38:24
• Hilary Gardner "No One After You" from The Great City (Anzic) 1:42:44
• Luciana Souza "Paris" from The Book of Longing (Sunnyside) 1:45:56
• Host speaks 1:49:07
• Five Play "Circles" from Live at the Firehouse (5Play2019) 1:51:40
• Lioness "Think" from Pride & Joy (Posi-Tone) 1:59:44
• Ella Fitzgerald "Joe William's Blues" from Ella at Zardi's (Verve) 2:01:57
• Ella Fitzgerald "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" from Montreux '77 (Pablo) 2:04:19
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong "Learnin' the Blues" from Ella and Louis Again (Verve) 2:08:44
• Host speaks 2:15:57
• Mary Ann McSweeney "Urban Fado" from Urban Fado (Self released) 2:18:23
• Lara Downes (featuring Magos Herrera) "Arrorro Mi Nina" from Holes In the Sky (Sony Masterworks) 2:22:43
• Cristina Morrison "Dos Gardenias" from Impredecible-Voces de Mujer (Baroness Records) 2:26:18
• Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini "Mandingueira" from Setting Rays of Sun (Self released) 2:31:36
• Host speaks 2:35:28Time Marker
• Leni Stern "Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp" from Time and Love: the Music of Laura Nyro (Astor Place) 2:38:00
• Barbara Streisand "Time And Love" from Stoney End (Columbia) 2:42:45
• Mark Winkler "And When I Die" from The Laura Nyro Project (Café Pacific) 2:46:22
• Host speaks 2:51:37
• Naomi Moon Siegel "Jeannine's Joy" from Live At Earshot (Slow and Steady) 2:52:57
• Emily Remler "Sweet Georgie Fame" from East To Wes (Concord) 2:59:50
• Blossom Dearie "Hey John" from Blossom's Own Treasures (Daffodil Records) 3:05:28
• Ed Reed "Inside a Silent Tear" from Born to Be Blue (Blue Shorts) 3:08:41
• Ellynne Rey "I Thought I Heard a Hummingbird" from The Birdsongs Project (Self released) 3:14:02
• Host speaks 3:20:10
• Ulysses Owens, Jr. "Oh Freedom" from Songs of Freedom (Resilience) 3:22:18
• Bob Dorough "Evenin' Wearies" from Small Day Tomorrow (Candid Productions) 3:26:43
• Kat Edmonson "Sparkle and Shine" from Old Fashioned Gal (MRI) 3:31:45
• Lorraine Feather "A Peaceful Kingdom" from Such Sweet Thunder (Sanctuary) 3:35:07
• Host speaks 3:38:59
• Kait Dunton "Thread Suite 3" from Planet D'earth (Real and Imaginary Music) 3:40:53
• Lauren White "Slow Down" from Life In the Modern World (Café Pacific) 3:43:55
• Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" from The Newest Sound You Never Heard (A-Side Records) 3:48:03
• Host speaks 3:53:48
• Mimi Fox "Against the Grain" from This Bird Still Flies (Origin) 3:56:25