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During the past several years this program has presented a wide variety of jazz, blues, and spoken word perfromances. Exploring jazz in all its colors and creative aspects while not devolving into a hodge podge of sound requires a thematic approach, a unifying thread that enables a varied, yet flowing presentation of a wide canvas of sound. To this end, each hour's magic carpet ride has featured a stylistic or linguistic theme to enable us to explore without getting lost along the way. As this is the semiquincentennial program in the series, that's right, number two hundred and fifty, we will explore a simple theme: diggin' the sounds that have held a special meaning for me over the past decades.
Artist | Track | Album |
Buddy Rich | Party Time | Plays and Plays and Plays |
Horace Silver | Song for My Father | Song for My Father |
Eddie Harris | Gone Home | Exodus to Jazz |
Stan Kenton | Rueben's Blues | Adventures in Blues |
Ray Charles | Then I'll Be Home | Renaissance |
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers | A la Mode | Keystone 3 |
Wynton Marsalis | Think of One | Think of One |
Bobby McFerrin | Moondance | Bobby McFerrin |
Jimmy Smith | Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless) |
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