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Night Jazz (Thursday Part 1)
8/27/2009 - 10:00 PM - 11:59 PM
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 10:04 PM   Artist:  Don Byron
  Song:  I Want To Be Happy 
  Album:  ivey-divey
  Record Label: Blue Note, 2004.
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 10:13 PM   Artist:  Count Basie featuring Lester Young
  Song:  Oh, Lady Be Good/Taxi War Dance 
  Album:  The Essential Count Basie, Vol. 1
  Record Label: Sony, 1987.
  Notes: 1936 small group recordings.
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 10:19 PM   Artist:  The Greyboy All Stars w. Fred Wesley
  Song:  Tenor Man (for Lester Young) 
  Album:  West Coast Boogaloo
  Record Label: Ubiquity, 1994.
  Notes: Fred Wesley and Karl Denson on sax.
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 10:27 PM   Artist:  Billie Holiday + Lester Young
  Song:  Who Wants Love? 
  Album:  A Musical Romance
  Record Label: Sony, 2002.
  Notes: Billie & Her Orchestra, 1937.
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 10:38 PM   Artist:  Joni Mitchell
  Song:  Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 
  Album:  Mingus
  Record Label: Asylum, 1979.
  Notes: Wayne Shorter on soprano sax, his birthday this week.
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 10:45 PM   Artist:  Charlie Parker/Lester Young
  Song:  Lester Leaps In 
  Album:  Jazz At The Philharmonic, 1949
  Record Label: Polygram CD, 1993.
  Notes: Charlie's birthday this week too.
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 10:56 PM   Artist:  Billie Holiday + Lester Young
  Song:  This Year's Kisses 
  Album:  A Musical Romance
  Record Label: Sony, 2002.
  Notes: Lester and Billie's first session together in 1937.
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 11:10 PM   Artist:  Charlie Parker/Lester Young
  Song:  Embraceable You 
  Album:  Jazz At The Philharmonic, 1949
  Record Label: Polygram CD, 1993.
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 11:20 PM   Artist:  Lester Young/Nat "King" Cole/Buddy Rich
  Song:  Back To The Land 
  Album:  Lester Young Trio
  Record Label: Verve, 1946.
  Notes: a blues in Lester's unique style.
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 11:25 PM   Artist:  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  Song:  Lester Left Town (Wayne Shorter on tenor) 
  Album:  Big Beat
  Record Label: Blue Note, 1960
  Notes: written for Lester by Wayne at Lester's death in '59.
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 11:31 PM   Artist:  Dexter Gordon
  Song:  Second Balcony Jump 
  Album:  Go!
  Record Label: Blue Note, 1962.
  Notes: disciple of Lester Young.
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 11:41 PM   Artist:  Stan Getz
  Song:  Windows 
  Album:  Sweet Rain
  Record Label: Verve, 1967
  Notes: another Young disciple.
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 11:51 PM   Artist:  Charlie Parker
  Song:  Chi-Chi 
  Album:  Now's The Time
  Record Label: Verve, 1957.
  Notes: recorded 1953.
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 11:54 PM   Artist:  Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
  Song:  Bahia 
  Album:  Jazz Samba
  Record Label: Verve, 1962.
  Notes: I can't tell u how much I love this album!


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