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I'll Remember April - Happy Jazz Appreciation Month!

By Mary Foster Conklin | A Broad Spectrum
May 4, 2019
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A smooth segue from Women's History into Jazz Appreciation Month, commencing with a celebration of

Gene Bertoncini

guitar
b.1937

" data-original-title="" title="">Gene Bertoncini,

Freddie Hubbard

trumpet
1938 - 2008

" data-original-title="" title="">Freddie Hubbard and

John Pizzarelli

guitar
b.1960

" data-original-title="" title="">John Pizzarelli's birthdays in the first hour and concluding with a celebration of

Billie Holiday

vocals
1915 - 1959

" data-original-title="" title="">Billie Holiday in the final hour, plus new releases from

Ashley Pezzotti

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Ashley Pezzotti,

Ulysses Owens, Jr.

drums
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Ulysses Owens, Jr.,

Alicia Olatuja

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Alicia Olatuja and

Claire Martin

vocals
b.1967

" data-original-title="" title="">Claire Martin &

Jim Mullen

guitar
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">Jim Mullen and more birthday nods to

Alberta Hunter

vocals
1895 - 1984

" data-original-title="" title="">Alberta Hunter,

Doris Day

vocals
1922 - 2019

" data-original-title="" title="">Doris Day and

Andre Previn

piano
1929 - 2019

" data-original-title="" title="">Andre Previn, among others.

Playlist

Tom Wolfe
guitar
" data-original-title="" title="">Tom Wolfe & Gene Bertoncini "I'll Remember April" from Floating on the Silence (Summit) 00:00
Chaka Kahn "Help Me" from Joni 75-A Birthday Celebration (Decca) 8:33
John Pizzarelli "Free Man in Paris" from Double Exposure (Telarc) 13:15
Host speaks 17:21
Five Play "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" from Five Play Live at the Firehouse (5Play2019) 19:30
Paula West
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Paula West "Them There Eyes" from Come What May (Hi Horse Records) 25:20
Ashley Pezzotti "We've Only Just Begun" from We've Only Just Begun (Self released) 28:54
Host speaks 33:44
Dr. Lonnie Smith
organ, Hammond B3
1942 - 2021
" data-original-title="" title="">Dr. Lonnie Smith "Up Jumped Spring" from All in My Mind (Blue Note) 35:22
Suzanne Pittson
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Suzanne Pittson "Lost and Found (The Melting Pot)" from Out of the Hub: the Music of Freddie Hubbard (Vineland Records) 41:17
Allan Harris
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Allan Harris "Waltz for a Rainy Bebop Evening" from The Genius of Eddie Jefferson (Resilience) 46:05
Host speaks 51:10
Lioness "Identity" from Pride & Joy (Posi-Tone) 54:02
Mimi Fox
guitar
" data-original-title="" title="">Mimi Fox "Get Away Blues" from This Bird Still Flies (Origin) 1:00:09
Alberta Hunter "You Reap Just What You Sow" from Remember My Name (Wounded Bird Records) 1:03:42
Alberta Hunter "I've Got a Mind To Ramble" from Amtrak Blues (Sony) 1:07:38Marker
Ella Fitzgerald
vocals
1917 - 1996
" data-original-title="" title="">Ella Fitzgerald "Downhearted Blues" from These Are the Blues (Verve) 1:11:50
Host speaks 1:15:00
Lauren Sevian
saxophone, baritone
b.1979
" data-original-title="" title="">Lauren Sevian "Blueishness" from Bliss (Posi-Tone) 1:17:41
Catherine Russell
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Catherine Russell "You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew" from Alone Together (Dot Time Records) 1:23:15
Claire Martin & Jim Mullen "Willow Weep for Me" from Bumpin'—Celebrating Wes Montgomery (Stunt Records) 1:27:00
Gabrielle Stravelli
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Gabrielle Stravelli "Nightlife" from Pick Up My Pieces (Self Released) 1:31:15
Host speaks 1:34:49
Ingrid Jensen
trumpet
b.1966
" data-original-title="" title="">Ingrid Jensen,
Christine Jensen
saxophone
" data-original-title="" title="">Christine Jensen "Blue Yonder" from Infinitude (Whirlwind Recordings) 1:36:58
Alicia Olatuja "Give Me One Reason" from Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women (Resilience) 1:44:08
Nat King Cole
piano and vocals
1919 - 1965
" data-original-title="" title="">Nat King Cole "Candy" from After Midnight (Capitol) 1:48:02
Host speaks 1:51:52
Miho Hazama
composer / conductor
b.1986
" data-original-title="" title="">Miho Hazama "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" from Dancer in Nowhere (Sunnyside) 1:53:52
Patricia Barber
piano
b.1955
" data-original-title="" title="">Patricia Barber "In Your Own Sweet Way" from Higher (ArtistShare) 2:00:01
Doris Day "You Oughta Be in Pictures" from The Ultimate Easy Listening Radio Hour, Vol. 2 (Dotted Eighth Records) 2:06:07
Doris Day, Andre Previn "Daydreaming" from Duet (Columbia) 2:07:55
Doris Day "Close Your Eyes" from Day By Night (Columbia) 2:11:04
Host speaks 2:13:32
Jordan Pettay
saxophone, tenor
" data-original-title="" title="">Jordan Pettay "Are You Washed in the Blood" from First Fruit (self released) 2:16:03
Ulysses Owens, Jr. "Be My Husband" from Songs of Freedom (Resilience) 2:22:21
Betty Carter
vocals
1929 - 1998
" data-original-title="" title="">Betty Carter "Make Him Believe" from The Music Never Stops (Blue Engine Records) 2:25:53
Host speaks 2:31:18
Brittany Anjou
piano
b.1984
" data-original-title="" title="">Brittany Anjou "Hard Boiled Soup" from Enami?o Reciprokataj (Origin) 2:32:53
Claudia Acuna
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Claudia Acuna "Hey" from Turning Pages (Delfin) 2:36:45
Natalie Cressman
trombone
" data-original-title="" title="">Natalie Cressman &
Ian Faquini
guitar, acoustic
" data-original-title="" title="">Ian Faquini "Debandada" from Setting Rays of Sun (self released) 2:40:02
Leala Cyr
" data-original-title="" title="">Leala Cyr "First Instinct" from First Instinct (Self released ) 2:44:32
Host speaks 2:48:29
Kait Dunton
piano
b.1983
" data-original-title="" title="">Kait Dunton "Sarah's Bracelet" from Planet D'earth (Real & Imagined Music) 2:54:10
Allison Miller
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom "Glitter Wolf" from Glitter Wolf (Royal Potato Family) 3:01:23
Billie Holiday "Now Or Never" from The Complete Decca Recordings (Decca ) 3:07:29
José James
vocals
b.1978
" data-original-title="" title="">Jos�� James "Good Morning Heartache" from Yesterday I Had the Blues (Blue Note ) 3:10:44
Host speaks 3:16:32
Tessa Souter
vocals
b.1956
" data-original-title="" title="">Tessa Souter "Left Alone" from Listen Love (Nara Music) 3:19:02
Teri Roiger
keyboards
" data-original-title="" title="">Teri Roiger "Lady Sings the Blues" from Ghost of Yesterday (Dot Time Records ) 3:22:56
Cassandra Wilson
vocals
b.1955
" data-original-title="" title="">Cassandra Wilson "Don't Explain" from Coming Forth By Day (Legacy Recordings ) 3:25:44
Carmen McRae
vocals
1920 - 1994
" data-original-title="" title="">Carmen McRae "God Bless the Child" from For Lady Day Volume 1 (Novus) 3:30:11
Host speaks 3:36:52
Lara Downes
piano
b.1973
" data-original-title="" title="">Lara Downes "Rainbow" from Holes In the Sky (Sony Masterworks) 3:39:13
Jocelyn Medina
vocals
b.1978
" data-original-title="" title="">Jocelyn Medina "Common Ground" from Common Ground (self released) 3:41:52
Jenna & the Charmers "Inner Smile" from Everyone I Love Is Here (Mamma Grace Records) 3:47:50
Rickie Lee Jones
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Rickie Lee Jones "On Saturday Afternoons in 1963" from Rickie Lee Jones (Warner Brothers) 3:52:06
Host speaks 3:54:32
Ellen Rowe
piano
" data-original-title="" title="">Ellen Rowe "Song of the Meadowlark" from Momentum-Portraits of Women in Motion (Smokin' Sleddog Records) 3:55:30

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