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

Jazz Program
Sunday, April 17, 2016 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Mobtown Modern Big Band Introduction / Dances of the Young Girls / Ritual of Abduction The [Re-W]Rite of Spring Nova
Harry Partch Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall / Exercises in Harmony & Counterpoint Are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual The Bewitched -- A Dance Satire New World Records
Hazel Scott (with Max Roach and Charles Mingus) Git Up From There Relaxed Piano Moods Debut
Sun Ra & His Arkestra Out There A Minute Out There A Minute Blast First
Charlie Byrd Tin Roof Blues For Louis Concord Jazz Records
Glenn Horiuchi Fair Play Unit (A) Soul Note According to the liner notes, this composition is in honor of the courage & conviction of the men who comprised "Unit A" of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, Japanese Americans in a concentration camp who refused to be drafted into the US military until their rights were restored.
Johnny Mandel Theme from "I Want To Live" -- Original Motion Picture Score United Artists
John Scofield The Old Ship Of Zion Piety Street Sco Biz
Roy Eldridge Goliath Bounce Roy Eldridge Joue Pour La Danse Vogue
Dizzy Gillespie Oop-Pop-A-Da Pleyel Jazz Concert, Vol. 1 - 1948 Vogue
Django Reinhardt Swingtime in the Springtime Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt, Vol. 2 Vogue
Jack Mouse & Scott Robinson Bolero Incognito Snakeheads & Ladybugs Tall Grass
John Cale The Moon Kerouac - Kicks Joy Darkness Rykodisc
Hugo Montenero MacArthur Park (Allegro Part III) MoogPower RCA
Duke Ellington Hard Way The AfroEurasian Eclipse - A Suite in Eight Parts Fantasy Records
The Julius Hemphill Sextet The Hard Blues Fat Man & The Hard Blues Black Saint
The Paul Hemmings Uketet Folsom Prison Blues The Blues & the Abstract Uke Leading Tone Records
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Low Man On The Totem Pole Stratosphere Boogie-- The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Razor & Tie Music
J. R. Montrose Ruby My Dear Live in Albany, 1979 Uptown
Dinah Washington Duck Before You Drown Back to the Blues Roulette Jazz
Mary Lou Williams St. James Infirmary Mary Lou Williams at Rick's Cafe Americain Storyville