Wednesday, August 22 - Pittsburgh Jazz Lunch with Chuck Leavens

On the Menu, today on WZUM (artist, tune, album if available):

  1. Andy Kirk with Mary Lou Williams, The Lady Who Swings the Band
  2. Jimmy Ponder, September Song, James Street
  3. Max Leake, Heart Song, Trios
  4. Kenny Blake, Coffee Bean, Rumor Has It
  5. Salsamba, Hindsight, Mojito Blues
  6. Kenia, Requerbe Que Eu Dou Un Doce, 
  7. Mark Murphy with The Balcony Big Band, You Don't Know What Love Is, Seasoned to Taste
  8. Joe Negri, You Are All, Dream Dancing
  9. Jimmy Sapienza, Ain't that a Kick in the Head, An Evening of Music and Fun
  10. Roger Humphries & RH Factor, Moes Mood, This n That
  11. Nathan Davis, Metro Drama, The Other Side of Morning

 

Tuesday, August 21 - Pittsburgh Jazz Lunch with Chuck Leavens

On the Menu, today on WZUM (artist, tune, album if available):

  1. Sean Jones, Momma, No Need for Words
  2. Eddie Jefferson, Parkers Mood (Bless my Soul), Letter from Home 
  3. Jay Ashby & Steve Davis, Mistaken Identity, Mistaken Identity
  4. Billy Eckstine, She's Got the Blues for Sale, Timeless Billy Eckstine
  5. Eric Johnson, Love on a Two Way Street, Supahighway
  6. Jeff Lashway, The Quintessence, Reunion
  7. Carolyn Perteete, New Past, Insomnia
  8. Mary Lou Williams, It Ain't Necessarily So, Black Christ of the Andes
  9. Phat Man Dee, Pepe, Life Just Goes On
  10. Roy Eldridge, When I Grow to Old to Dream, Little Jazz - the best of the Verve Years
  11. Bob Mintzer Big Band with The New York Voices, Speak Low, 

 

Thursday, August 16 - Pittsburgh Jazz Lunch with Chuck Leavens

On the Menu, today on WZUM (artist, tune, album if available):

Given the passing of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, we broke format a bit today.

We featured Aretha with Quincy Jones and Phil Woods and Billy Preston with a variety of songs that you rarely hear. 

We also had Pittsburgher’s Jimmy Ponder, Bill Heid and Sean Jones.

  1. Somewhere

  2. Today I Sing the Blues

  3. Jimmy Ponder - They Can't Take that Away from Me - James Street

  4. Bring it on Home to Me

  5. Moody's Mood

  6. Bill Heid - Homewood Morning - Bop Rascal

  7. Ramblin'

  8. Sean Jones - Never Let Me Go - Kaleidoscope

  9. Crazy He Calls Me

  10. Just Right Tonight

  11. Today I sing the Blues

 

Wednesday, August 15 - Pittsburgh Jazz Lunch with Chuck Leavens

On the Menu, today on WZUM (artist, tune, album if available):

  1. Bob Mintzer Big Band with The New York Voices, I Concentrate on You
  2. Lena Horne, Wouldn't it be Loverly, Stormy Weather
  3. Jeff Lashway, The Touch of Your Lips, Reunion
  4. Jesse Wills, Blue Daniel, What's In Store
  5. Cecil Brooks III, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face, Hangin' with Smooth
  6. Sandy Dowe, What a Difference a Day Made, Dowe's on 9th
  7. Sammy Nestico. A Cool Breeze, A Portrait of Sammy
  8. Billy Price with The Balcony Big Band, Loneliness Hurts, Seasoned to Taste
  9. Clint Hoover Trio, Sister Sadie, On This Day

 

Tuesday, August 14 - Pittsburgh Jazz Lunch with Chuck Leavens

On the Menu, today on WZUM (artist, tune, album if available):

  1. Aretha Franklin, Hard Times, The Queen in Waiting - The Columbia Years
  2. Michelle Benson with the Balcony Big Band, The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, Seasoned to Taste
  3. Kenny Blake, Night Train, Rumor Has it
  4. George Benson/Earl Klugh, Brazilian Stomp, Collaboration
  5. Ernest McCarty & Jimmy Smith, Autumn Leaves, Reunion Tribute to Erroll Garner
  6. Tommy Turrentine, Three-Two-One-Oh!, Tommy Turrentine
  7. Mark Lucas, Girl from Ipanema, Myth & Feeling
  8. Nathan Davis, The Summer Knows, The Other Side of Morning
  9. Diamonte Trio w/Lilly Abreu, One Note Samba, No More Blues
  10. Bashir Ansari, The Grass is Greener, The Wonders of Creation

 

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