Larry Chernicoff

Do we have eclectic tastes in music? Yes, we do. On today's show we'll be listening to some classic and contemporary jazz, some classical favorites (remembering why JS Bach can touch our hearts like no one else), a little French Gypsy music, an international trio playing music of Brazil, a couple of well-known rock tunes followed by jazz interpretations, some gospel music from the 1950's, music from Cuba, a little-known rambling from Van Morrison's pastoral period, and a setting of lyrics found in an old shoebox in Woody Guthrie's closet after he passed away. Oh, and a few other things, as well.

Stéphane Grappelli, I'm Confessin', from So Easy To Remember

Dizzy Gillespie, Perdido, from Absolutely The Best Dizzy Gillespie

Arnett Cobb, Let's Split, from Smooth Sailing

Lester Young, Lester Leaps In, from the Lester Young CD in a series called This Is Jazz (#26)  

Joshua Bell, Paul Coker, Schön Rosmarin, from The Kreisler Album  

Christopher Parkening, Bach Cantata 156: Arioso from The Great Recordings - Christopher Parkening (Disc 2)

Misha Mengelberg Quartet, We're Going Out for Italian, from Four in One

Paul Butterfield, Bread And Butterfield, from North South

Tchavolo Schmitt, D'accord Woody, from Alors ? ... Voilà !

Yo-Yo Ma, Doce De Coco (“Coconut Candy”), from Appassionato, 2007 

Marty Ehrlich and the Dark Woods Ensemble, Blind Willie McTell, from Sojourn

Esbjörn Svensson Trio, In My Garage, from Seven Days Of Falling

Bob Moses, Message To The Music Bizness, from Bittersuite in the Ozone

Rabih Abou-Kalil, Imminent Journey, from Yara

Stefon Harris & Jacky Terrasson, Rat Entrance, from Kindred

Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing, from Are You Experienced (1966?)

Geri Allen, Little Wing, from Three Pianos For Jimi

Daryl Hall And John Oates, Sara Smile 

Mike Mainieri, Sara Smile, from Love Play

Mavis Staples, On My Way, from We'll Never Turn Back

Van Morrison, Haunts Of Ancient Peace, from Common One, 1980

Sam Cooke, Someday, Somewhere, from The Very Best of Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers, Volume 1

Wayne Shorter, Dindi, from Super Nova

Carlos Santana with Tina Turner, The Game Of Love, from Ultimate Santana

Billy Bragg & Wilco, Birds And Ships, from Mermaid Avenue

The Swan Silvertones, The Day Will Surely Come, from Love Lifted Me  

Orlando Cachaito Lopez, Mis Dos Pequenas, from Cachaito

Larry Chernicoff, from Yoga Series #1

Paul Horn, Mumtaz Mahal, from Inside the Taj Mahal I & II

Dave Weckl, Cultural Concurrence, from Synergy

Lou Harrison, “Battle” Movement from the Ballet Suite "Solstice", from a CD called Harrison: Solstice/Canticle #3

Mal Waldron and Eric Dolphy, Warm Canto, from the Quest

Ensemble Ambrosius, Black Page #2, TheZappa Album 

Ben Allison and his band Man Size Safe, Language Of Love, from Little Things Run The World 2008

Mike Stern, 2 tracks: first “Bird Blue” and then “Song for Pepper”, from Big Neighborhood, 2009, featuring Esperanza Spalding on bass and vocals

Hank Jones, I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan, from Live At Maybeck Recital Hall

Charlie Haden and Hank Jones, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, from Steal Away

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane, title track from Bags & Trane

Stéphane Grappelli, I'm Confessin', from So Easy To Remember

Mark Isham, If I Could Kiss You, from the soundtrack of the movie Life As A House

Bill Frisell, Cadillac 1959, from the CD Good Dog, Happy Man

Luciano Pavarotti, Come un bel di di maggio (from Andrea Chénier) by Umberto Giordano, from the CD Verismo Arias

Nikki Yanofsky, Airmail Special,  from We All Love Ella - Celebrating the First Lady of Song 

Tribalistas featuring Marisa Monte on Vocals, Pecado é lhe Deixar de Molho, from the CD Tribalistas

Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight, from the CD Face Value

Cheb i Sabbah, Morey Pya Bassey, from Devotion

Lhasa de Sela Lhasa, Anyone And Everyone

Rokia Traoré, Laidu, from the CD Mouneïssa

Randy Weston, African Sunrise, from the CD African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 

Louis Armstrong, Cabaret, from 20 Best of Louis Armstrong

The Modern Jazz Quartet W Bobby McFerrin, Billie's Bounce, from M.J.Q. And Friends: A Celebration

Allen Toussaint, title track from The Bright Mississippi, 2009

John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra, You Know, You Know, from The Inner Mounting Flame

Victoire,  A Door into the Dark (EP)

All by All, Chris Potter, from Song For Anyone

Rachmaninoff: Prelude In G#Min  Allegro, performed by Vladimir Horowitz, from Horowitz In Moscow

Bobby Previte, The Beautiful Bird Reveals the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers, from The 23 Constellations of Joan Miro

Toumani Diabaté with Ballake Sissoko,  Yamfa, from New Ancient Strings

Abdullah Ibrahim, Blues for a Hip King, from Senzo

Ravi Coltrane, Shine, from Blending Times

Bob Brookmeyer, and the WDR Jazz Orchstra, For Maria, from Waltzing With Zoe

Tom Harrell,  Let the Children Play, from Roman Nights

Ben Monder, You Are My Sunshine, from Excavation

Carla Bruni, L'Amour, from Quelqu'un M'a Dit

The Beatles, Across The Universe, from Let It Be...Naked

Jamie Cullum,  Wheels, from The Pursuit

Kurt Elling, Blame It On My Youth, Flirting With Twilight

Leonard Cohen, Boogie Street, Ten New Songs

Jackson Browne, title track from Lawyers In Love

Cream, Badge, from Goodbye

Madonna, title track from the fJames Bond ilm Die Another Day

The Contours, Do You Love Me, from Motown: The Classic Years

Leon Parker, Evy’s Samba, from The Simple Life

Turtle Island String Quartet, Tremors, from Skylife

Stephane Wrembel, title track from Barbes-Brooklyn

Eugène Ysaÿe, Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, 3rd Movement (“Ballade”, performed by Ilya Gringolts

Louis Andriessen, M is for Man, Music, Mozart:  Instrumental I, from the CD De Stijl  

Francis Poulenc, Stabat Mater, Boston Pops Orchestra, John Oliver, Kathleen Battle, Seiji Ozawa & Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny, The Precious Jewel, from Beyond the Missouri Sky, Polygram 1997

Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp: Final, performed by Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ad Te Levavi, performed by the Trinity College Choir of Cambridge University in England

Andrew McKenna Lee, title track from Gravity and Air, 2009

Bud Powell, I Want to Be Happy, from Just One of Those Things, recorded in 1961

Kenny Werner and Mark Feldman, You Make Me Sing, from Beauty Secrets 2000

The Celtic Fiddle Festival, Hector the Hero, from the CD Encore

Banda Ionica, Espinita, from Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth: Europe And Asia

Kalyi Jag, Mori Shej, Sabina, from the Putumayo disk Gypsy Caravan

Verdi: Aida - Celeste Aida

Lucinda Williams, I Lost It, from the CD Happy Woman Blues

Bob Dylan, Hey Mr. Tambourine Man

Jack Johnson, Taylor, from On and On

Van Morrison, I’ve Been Working, from His Band and the Street Choir

The Beatles, Sun King, from Abbey Road

The Beatles, Gnik Nus, from Love

Steely Dan, Time Out of Mind, from Gaucho

Walter, Jr., title track from Back on the Bayou Road