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"Out There A Minute" with Micheal Akutagawa (archive)

Jazz Program
Sunday, December 28, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Art Blakey Free For All Free For All Blue Note
Sun Ra & His Arkestra Out There A Minute Out There A Minute Blast First
The Vandermark 5 The Free Kings Suite Free Jazz Classics, Vols. 3 & 4 Atavistic.com Disc 2: Free Kings: The Music of Roland Kirk
Nguyen Le The Wind Blew It Away Tales From Viet-Nam World Jazz
Martin Denny Sentimental Journey The Enchanted Sea Real Gone Jazz
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica Lonesome Aku of Alewife Third River Rangoon Tiki
Herbie Mann & Sona Terra Jelek Eastern European Roots Light Year
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph Southside Towards The Unknown Meta
Kristin Slipp + Dov Manski I Concentrate On You A Thousand Julys Sunnyside For Yoko(mole)
Mary Lou Williams Aries Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways The complete Zodiac Suite, composed in 1945. Aries was composed for Ben Webster.
Mary Lou Williams Taurus Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Duke Ellington.
Mary Lou Williams Gemini Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Benny Goodman.
Mary Lou Williams Cancer Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways For Lem Davis, alto saxist.
Mary Lou Williams Leo Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways For Vic Dickenson, tromonist.
Mary Lou Williams Virgo Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Leonard Feather.
Mary Lou Williams Libra Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Dizzy, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, and Monk.
Mary Lou Williams Scorpio Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Imogen Coca, Ethel Waters, Katherine Dunham (who used this in a ballet), and Al Lucas.
Mary Lou Williams Sagittarius Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways For Eddie Heywood and Bob Cranshaw.
Mary Lou Williams Capricorn Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to Frankie Newton, trumpeter.
Mary Lou Williams Aquarius Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways To President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and to Josh White and Eartha Kitt.
Mary Lou Williams Pisces Zodiac Suite Smithsonian Folkways Dedicated to bassist Al Hall, pianist-composer-vocal coach-arranger Phil Moore, and Barney Josephson.
Sonny Criss Black Coffee This Is Criss! Prestige
Mary Stafford Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee In The Morning Ain't Gonna Settle Down: The Pioneering Blues of Mary Stafford & Edith Wilson Archeophone Records
Robert Glasper Silly Rabbit In My Element EMI
Keith Nichols & The Cotton Club Orchestra What A Life! Harlem's Arabian Nights Stomp Off! Happy New Year to one and all!
Al Grey St. James Infirmary Echoes Of New Orleans Progressive