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You know the drill from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s lists. I wasn't originally planning on doing a 60s list, hence why it's appearing out of order, but I enjoyed making the other ones so I decided to put one together. Several greats knocked off because they were featured on previous lists, including John Handy, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton, Alice Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, and Miles Davis. This means some obvious classics were lost (Maiden Voyage, Inner Urge, Nefertiti, Hub-Tones), but I kind of like that because it gives me a chance to promote other lesser known but great albums. Also cut were Sonny Rollins, Andrew Hill, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wes Montgomery, Oliver Nelson, Albert Ayler, Lee Morgan, and some wild free jazz blasts from the BYG label including albums by Dave Burrell and Alan Silva.

Autumn - Don Ellis And His Orchestra (1968 Columbia)
Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith (1960 Blue Note)
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ESB Jazz Radio - New and upcoming releases - January 2012

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Artist: Lee Ritenour
Album: Masterpieces-Best of the Grp Years (Jazz Club)
Release Date: 06 Apr 2012



Artist: Bill Evans
Album: Bill Evans Trio With Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
Album: Radio Music Society:Deluxe
Release Date: 27 Mar 2012



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Artist: Toots Thielemans
Album: Yesterday & Today
Release Date: 26 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ben Webster
Album: In a Mellotone
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Ken Navarro
Album: Test of Time
Release Date: 20 Mar 2012



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Artist: Esperanza Spalding
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Two hour program focused on the nature of riffs.

Swing Plus #190
1/31/12 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AZ time
http://www.kbrpradio.com

1-Riff Time – Erskine Hawkins
2-I Like To Riff – Charlie Barnet
3-Ridin’ A Riff – Earl Hines
4-Just A Riff – Sid Catlett & Ben Webster
5-Roy’s Riff – Roy Eldridge
6-A Handful Of Riffs – Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang
7-Rhythm In A Riff – Lucky Thompson
8-Riff’n Drill (live) – Duke Ellington
9-Eight Bar Riff (live) – Harry James
10-32 Bar Riff With Rusty’s Taps (176 bpm) – Dean Mora & Rusty Frank
11-Otto, Make That Riff Staccato – Gene Krupa & Irene Daye
12-Riffin’ The Blues – Lil Hardin
13-Riffin’ Boogie – Sammy Price
14-Boppin’ A Riff – Bud Powell, Sonny Stitt & Fats Navarro
15-Intermission Riff – CSULB Vocal Jazz Ensemble
16-Riff Interlude – Count Basie
17-Easy To Riff – Buck Clayton
18-Riff City – Slim Gaillard
19-Mellow Reeni Riff – King Perry
20-Rifftide (live) – Al Cohn
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A sampling of the music of Harold Arlen, including a couple of his own performances.

Swing Plus #189
1/24/12 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AZ time
http://www.kbrpradio.com

1-Over The Rainbow – Teddy Grace
2-Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead – Glenn Miller
3-That Old Black Magic – Sidney Bechet
4-A Sleeping Bee (live) – Blossom Dearie
5-Get Happy – Coleman Hawkins
6-Accentuate The Positive (live) – Duke Ellington
7-I’ve Got The World On A String – Anita O’Day
8-Stormy Weather (take 2) – Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden
9-Ill Wind (You’re Blowin’ Me No Good) – Lawrence Brown
10-When The Sun Comes Out (live) – Benny Goodman & Peggy Lee
11-Come Rain Or Come Shine – Maxine Sullivan
12-It’s Only A Paper Moon – John Kirby
13-Out Of This World – Boyd Raeburn
14-Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea – Ada Moore & Jimmy Rushing
15-Hooray For Love – Harold Arlen
16-Down With Love – Lee Wiley
17-Let’s Fall In Love – Lester Young
18-Blues In the Night – Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
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A show focused on tributes to performance venues of the big band era.

Swing Plus #188
1/17/12 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AZ time
http://www.kbrpradio.com

1-Puttin’ On The Ritz 1930 – Fred Astaire
2-Riffin’ At The Ritz – Benny Goodman
3-The Onyx Hop – Frankie Newton
4-Onyx Club Revue – Joe Venuti
5-Swingin’ At The Cotton Club – Three Peppers
6-A Night At The Cotton Club pt 1 & 2 – Duke Ellington
7-Roseland Shuffle live – Count Basie
8-Knockin’ At The Famous Door – Charlie Barnet
9-Stompin’ At The Savoy – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
10-Rock Savoy, Rock – Andrew Tibbs
11-Siesta At The Fiesta – Jimmie Lunceford
12-Jumpin’ At The Deuces – Slam Stewart & Erroll Garner
13-Glen Island Special live – Glenn Miller
14-Meadowbrook Shuffle – Jan Savitt
15-Apex Blues – Jimmie Noone
16-Grand Terrace Shuffle – Earl Hines
17-Grand Terrace Swing – Fletcher Henderson
18-Pantin’ In The Panther Room – Fats Waller
19-Edgewater Beach – Joe Bushkin
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New songs for the new year. On 12/27/11 show did a replay of the interview with my grandmother.

Swing Plus #186
1/3/12 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm AZ time
http://www.kbrpradio.com

1-Get Yourself A New Broom (And Sweep Those Blues Away) – Duke Ellington
2-Sing A New Song – Gene Kardos
3-The New Call Of The Freaks – Luis Russell
4-I Found A New Way To Go To Town – Don Redman
5-I Want A New Romance – Bunny Berigan
6-I’ve A Strange New Rhythm In My Heart – Artie Shaw
7-I’ve Got A New Lease On Love – Fats Waller
8-You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me – George Wettling
9-I Found A New Baby – Roy Eldridge
10-I Found A New Boogie – George Shearing
11-A New Shade Of Blues (live) – Ella Fitzgerald
12-With Someone New – Woody Herman
13-It’s All So New To Me – Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey
14-New Style Baby – Jay McShann & Jimmy Witherspoon
15-The New Look – Leo Parker
16-The New Look Blues – Cats & The Fiddle
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This is the first part of my "favourite albums per year" series, which I'm going to list decade-wise.
Here I included the year 1959 though, because I just had to.
It will always feature 5 albums per year (exceptions were made in the years 1959 to 1962, because there I don't know that much yet).
This list (and the further lists) will reflect my opinion of the albums I think are the best and of course which are my favourite ones in these years.
It is my first take on ranking those albums, so it could be that the ranking will change slightly after some time.
The number ones though will be pretty steady in most cases.

Please tell me what you think about it, tell me if I have overlooked something or whatever is on your mind.
Recommendations are welcome and appreciated as always.



1959
1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um


1960
1. John Coltrane - Giant Steps


1961
1. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things


1962
1. Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia
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Дорогие друзья и все, кто читают эту заметку! Вот и стучится в двери предновогодняя суета, предстоят ещё сложнейшие 2 последние недели года. Чуть ранее я уже начал подводить итоги года. Скоро вы сможете лицезреть мой главный чарт уходящего года - итоговый топ-100 песен. А пока его участники делают свои последние рывки и падения предлагаю ознакомиться с ретро-топом этого года. Здесь и песни, открытые мной в этом году и подзабытые песни, которыми я заслушивался предыдущие годы, и те песни, что я открыл в прошлом году и по инерции слушал в этом. Ну и как говорит какой-нибудь мажор блондинке на заднем сидении машины: "Довольно болтовни, займёмся делом"

220. Yazz and Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up (1988)
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219. Iron Maiden - The flash of the blade (1985)
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