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23 Feb Mark Applebaum 07 Jul Marcus Belgrave 02 Mar Sam Bevan 14 Dec Terrence Brewer 21 Sep Cindy Browne 27 Apr Ron Carter 17 Aug Jeff Chambers 08 Jun John Coppola 30 Mar Sandy Cressman 09 Mar | Alex de Grassi
02 Dec Tod Dickow 24 Mar Ed Earley 06 Apr Toby Gleason 28 Sep Dick Hindman 05 Jan Ingrid Jensen 15 Jun Dana Leong 20 Jul Carl Sonny Leyland 27 Jul Tony Marcus 13 Apr Julian Waterfall Pollack 29 Jul | Lisa Pollard
09 Feb Jim Rothermel 01 Jun Greg Sankovich 13 Jul Dave Slusser 02 Feb Hal Stein 21 May Brad Stone 24 Aug Tierney Sutton 26 Oct Yosvany Terry 10 Aug John Thiessen 25 May |
| Hal Stein (2007) | |
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| One minute New Jersey-born Hal Stein is a 15-year-old in 1944 appearing on stage at New York City's Town Hall alongside his idol, Don Byas; the next he's an elder statesman of jazz in 2007 teaching at Stanford University and appearing all over the San Francisco Bay Area. What happened in between?
What happened in between was that he appeared in the big bands of Benny Carter, Gene Krupa, Claude Thornhill, Artie Shaw, Georgie Auld, Hampton Hawes, Toshiko Akioshi, and Joe Henderson, and the small groups of Henry "Red" Allen, Trummy Young, Teddy Wilson, Tony Scott, J.C. Heard, Charlie Mingus, Kenny Dorham, Roy Haynes, Gerry Mulligan, Elvin Jones, Teddy Charles, Kenny Drew, Bill Evans, Joe Farrell, and Chick Corea, and was also one of the "Four Altos" on the 1957 Prestige recording with Phil Woods, Gene Quill and Sahib Shihab. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | The Chocolate Dandies | Benny Carter, Music Master | I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me | (Proper) |
| # 2 | Coleman Hawkins | Bebop Spoken Here | Disorder at the Border | (Proper) |
| # 3 | Coleman Hawkins | Ken Burns Jazz | The Man I Love | (Verve) |
| # 4 | Don Byas | Complete American Small Group Recordings | Riffin' and Jivin' | (Definitive) |
| # 5 | Thomas "Fats" Waller | Greatest Hits | Your Feet's Too Big | (RCA) |
| # 6 | Billie Holiday | The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 4 | Foolin' Myself | (Columbia) |
| # 7 | Charlie Parker | Yardbird Suite | Yardbird Suite | (Rhino) |
| # 8 | Charlie Parker | Yardbird Suite | Donna Lee | (Rhino) |
| # 9 | Don Byas | Complete American Small Group Recordings | Stardust | (Definitive) |
| # 10 | Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, featuring Ben Webster | Fargo ND 1940 | Stardust | (Vintage Jazz Classics) |
| # 11 | Stan Getz | Serenity | On Green Dolphin Street | (EmArcy) |
| Book | A book by Khalil Gibran | |||
| Luxury Item | A CD player | |||
| Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast | ||||
| Alt 1. | Al Casey | Buck Jumpin' | Buck Jumpin' | (OJC) |