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Celebrating Jazz Scorpios Nellie Lutcher and More

By Mary Foster Conklin | A Broad Spectrum
November 2, 2020
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Today's broadcast celebrates many Jazz Scopios, with birthday shoutouts to

Nellie Lutcher

piano
1915 - 2007

" data-original-title="" title="">Nellie Lutcher ("He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down"),

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie,

Fred Hersch

piano
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Fred Hersch,

Dianne Reeves

vocals
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Dianne Reeves,

Magos Herrera

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Magos Herrera,

Jimmy Heath

saxophone, tenor
1926 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Jimmy Heath,

Freddy Cole

piano
1931 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">Freddy Cole,

" data-original-title="" title="">Anita O'Day and Fran Landesman ("Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," "Ballad of the Sad Young Men"). Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown.

Playlist

Cedar Walton
piano
1934 - 2013
" data-original-title="" title="">Cedar Walton
Ron Carter
bass
b.1937
" data-original-title="" title="">Ron Carter,
Billy Higgins
drums
1936 - 2001
" data-original-title="" title="">Billy Higgins "He's a Real Gone Guy" from Cedar Walton Plays (Delos) 00:00
Barbara Fasano
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Barbara Fasano "Hurry On Down" from Busy Being Free (Humanchild/Harbinger) 06:34
Susan Tobocman
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Susan Tobocman "Touch & Go" from Touch & Go (Soliterra) 10:03
Host speaks 14:12
Cecile McLorin Salvant
vocals
b.1989
" data-original-title="" title="">Cecile McLorin Salvant "Wild Is Love" from The Window (Mack Avenue) 15:40
Freddy Cole "That's My Girl" from He Was the King (Highnote) 18:58
RINA
piano
" data-original-title="" title="">RINA "Foxglove" from RINA (Yamaha) 22:00
Host speaks 26:38
John Finbury
piano
" data-original-title="" title="">John Finbury & Magos Herrera "Comencar" from Quatro (Green Flash Music) 27:32
Tomeka Reid
cello
" data-original-title="" title="">Tomeka Reid Quartet "Sadie" from Old New (Cuneiform Records) 33:34
The Royal Bopsters
band / ensemble / orchestra
" data-original-title="" title="">The Royal Bopsters "But Not for Me" from Single (Party of Four) (Motema) 38:47
Host speaks 43:07
Dizzy Gillespie "Annie's Dance" from The Best of Dizzy Gillespie (Verve) 44:07
Anita O'Day "Pick Yourself Up" from Pick Yourself Up With Anita O'Day (Verve) 47:28
Ella Fitzgerald
vocals
1917 - 1996
" data-original-title="" title="">Ella Fitzgerald "I Won't Dance" from The Lost Berlin Tapes (Verve) 50:32
Host speaks 53:24
Alexa Tarantino
saxophone, alto
b.1992
" data-original-title="" title="">Alexa Tarantino "A United Front" from Clarity (Posi-Tone) 54:35
Jimmy Heath "Don't Explain" from Love Letter (Verve) 1:00:00
Brenda Earle Stokes
piano and vocals
b.1976
" data-original-title="" title="">Brenda Earle Stokes "In September" from Right About Now (Self released) 1:07:07
Host speaks 1:11:45
Fred Hersch,
Anat Cohen
clarinet
b.1975
" data-original-title="" title="">Anat Cohen "The Purple Piece" from Live at Healdsburg (Anzic) 1:12:28
Dianne Reeves "Unconditional Love (For You)" from Beautiful Life (Concord) 1:20:38
Host speaks 1:26:17
Leslie Pintchik
piano
" data-original-title="" title="">Leslie Pintchik "Imagine" from True North (Pintch Hard Records) 1:27:26
LP and the Vinyl "One Hundred Ways" from Heard and Seen (Origin) 1:33:34
Host speaks 1:39:37
Dena DeRose
piano and vocals
b.1966
" data-original-title="" title="">Dena DeRose (feat.
Sheila Jordan
vocals
1928 - 2025
" data-original-title="" title="">Sheila Jordan) "Small Day Tomorrow" from Ode To the Road (HighNote) 1:40:38
Meredith d'Ambrosio
vocals
b.1941
" data-original-title="" title="">Meredith d'Ambrosio "Stoppin' The Clock" from Out of Nowhere (Sunnyside) 1:46:03
Ian Shaw
vocals
b.1962
" data-original-title="" title="">Ian Shaw "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" from A Ghost in Every Bar (Splash Point Records) 1:50:42
Host speaks 1:56:08
Vivien Garry Quintet "A Woman's Place Is in the Groove" from A Woman's Place Is in the Groove (PNR) 1:57:08

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