My featured artist was pianist Rachel Z, and for the “two takes on one track” I featured contrasting versions of Paul Desmond’s composition Take Five by Acoustic Alchemy and Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. You can listen again any time til July 16, 2008, or so.
Hour 1
Clifford Gilberto
The 10th Victim (excerpt)
Xen Cuts (Ninja Tune) 2000
Christian McBride
Summer Soft
A Family Affair (Verve) 1998
Heavy Shift
90° In the Shade
Unchain Your Mind (China) 1994
Rachel Z
Room of One’s Own
Room of One’s Own (NYC) 1996
Vertú
Anoché
Vertú (Sony) 1999
Tania Maria
Gotcha
No Comment (TKM) 1995
Jimpster
Solar Plexus
Messages From The Hub (Kudos) 1999
Erik Truffaz
Miss Kaba
Arkhangelsk (Blue Note) 2007
Rachel Z Trio
On The Milky Way Express
On The Milky Way Express (Tone Center) 2000
Take 6
4 Miles
Join The Band (Reprise) 1994
Hour 2
Larry Coryell
Good Citizen Swallow
Tricycles (In+Out) 2003
Brad Mehldau Trio
August Ending
House on Hill (Nonesuch) 2006
Rachel Z Trio
Chinese Cafe
Moon At The Window: Piano Impressions of Joni (Tone Center) 2002
Ian Shaw
A Case Of You
Drawn To All Things: Songs of Joni Mitchell (Linn) 2006
Mint Condition
U Send Me Swinging
From The Mint Factory (Perspective) 1993
Brecker Brothers
On the Backside (excerpt)
Return of the Brecker Brothers (GRP) 1992
Acoustic Alchemy
Take Five
Reference Point (GRP) 1990
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
Take Five
Jazziza (Columbia) 1997
Michael Brecker
Five Months From Midnight
Pilgrimage (Wa) 2007