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""Out There a Minute" Jazz Show" with Micheal Akutagawa (archive)

Sunday, March 4, 2012 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
James Carter Quartet Caravan JC on the Set DIW
James Carter Born to Be Blue The Real Quietstorm Atlantic Jazz Song by Mel Torme and Robert Wells.
Mel Torme Makin' Whopee The Essentials: Mel Torme Warner Brothers
Paul Desmond I've Got You Under My Skin De Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection Bluebird
Chainsaw Jazz Momentary Discomfort Disconcerto Cuneiform
United Future Organization Poetry and All That Jazz United Future Organization Talkin' Loud Voice of Jack Kerouac
Loos FA.3 Armstrong Okkadisc Album is an avant-jazz homage to Louis Armstrong. Dennis Rudge, vocals.
Al 'Jazzbo' Collins The Three Little Pigs (a Grimm Fairy Tale for Hip Kids) The Best of the Beat Generation Rhino
Guru Loungin' (Jazz Not Jazz Mix) The Best of Guru's Jazzmatazz Virgin
Lorne Lofsky Daydream Believer Bill. Please Jazz Inspiration The Monkees tune
Don Byron If 6 Was 9 Nu Blaxploitation Blue Note Jimi Hendrix tune, but with a little bit of The Turtles in there, and more.
Pat Metheny Third Stone from the Sun Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Reprise Jimi Hendrix tune
Marc Ribot While My Guitar Gently Weeps Rootless Cosmopolitans Island The Beatles
John Scofield Unchain My Heart (part 1) That's What I Say: Music of Ray Charles Verve
Ray Charles Mess Around Ultimate Hits Collection Rhino
Art Tatum Sophisticated Lady Piano Grand Master Proper
Oscar Peterson Trio Jet Song West Side Story Verve
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra The Star-Crossed Lovers Such Sweet Thunder Columbia Ellington and "Romeo and Juliet"
James Carter Manoir de mes Reves (Django's Castle) Chasin' the Gypsy Atlantic
Django Reinhardt Ol' Man River An Introduction to Django Reinhardt Fuel
Howard Alden It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Sweet and Lowdown Sony Woody Allen movie about a guitar player in the long shadow of Django Reinhardt.
Allen Toussaint St. James Infirmary The Bright Mississippi Nonesuch