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| Lee Bloom (2008) | |
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| Born in Columbus, Ohio, Lee Bloom exchanged a secure day job as an award-winning licensed architect in San Francisco for the less-than-secure life of a jazz piano player. But talent will win out, and in the intervening years Lee has made a name for himself as one of the Bay Area's most tasteful
accompanists for vocalists and instrumentalists alike. At the time of his “Desert Island Jazz” experience, he accompanies and arranges for vocalist Jonathan Poretz, and is a member of Palindrome and, notably the quartet led by the great Hal Stein, for whose excellent and recent “Spirit” recording Lee was both pianist and producer. While jazz is the core of his life, Lee's musicianship and interests are far from one-dimensional: as a pianist, he contributed to the forthcoming tribute recording to bluegrass icon Hazel Dickens, accompanying vocalists Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash and Madeleine Peyroux; and as a session player, he has contributed to a variety of recording projects ranging from straight-ahead jazz, of course, to folk, funk, heavy metal and even country & western. He also writes, not just music, but words: he has had his writings on jazz published as a contributor to the All Music Guide to Jazz, 3rd edition, and his work can also be found online at Allmusic.com and Getmusic.com. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Tommy Flanagan Trio | Overseas | Relaxin' at Camarillo | (OJC) |
| # 2 | Tony Williams | Lifetime: The Collection | Proto-Cosmos | (Columbia) |
| # 3 | Ahmad Jamal | Cross-Country Tour: 1958-1961 | Darn That Dream | (GRP) |
| # 4 | Paul Bowles | Black Star at the Point of Darkness | Prelude #1 for Piano | (Psalmodia Sub Rosa) |
| # 5 | Patsy Cline | The Patsy Cline Collection | Crazy | (MCA) |
| # 6 | Miles Davis | Sorceror | Pee Wee | (Columbia) |
| # 7 | Sonny Clark Trio | Standards | Dancing in the Dark | (Blue Note) |
| # 8 | Barry Harris | Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume 12 | Would You Like to Take a Walk? | (Concord) |
| # 9 | Elmo Hope Trio | The All-Star Sessions | La Berthe | (Milestone) |
| # 10 | Herbie Hancock | Gershwin's World | My Man's Gone Now | (Verve) |
| # 11 | Doc Pomus, featuring Hal Stein | Blues in the Red | Blues in the Red | (Revola) |
| # 12 | James Booker | New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! | On the Sunny Side of the Street | (Rounder) |
| Book | Steven Hill, "Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy" | |||
| Luxury Item | For a large island, a Fazioli piano;
for a small island, a MacBook Air laptop |
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| Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast | ||||
| Alt 1. | Serge Chaloff | Blue Serge | A Handful of Stars | (Capitol) |
| Alt 2. | Sonny Clark | Jimmy Raney Quartet | Once in a While | (Vogue) |
| Alt 3. | Barry Harris Trio | At the Jazz Workshop | Lolita | (OJC) |
| Alt 4. | Hampton Hawes Trio | Memorial Album | Jumpin' Jacques | (Xanadu) |
| Alt 5. | Keith Jarrett | The Melody at Night with You | My Wild Irish Rose | (ECM) |
| Alt 6. | Wynton Kelly Trio | Piano Interpretations | Where or When | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 7. | Dave McKenna | A Celebration of Hoagy Carmichael | Riverboat Shuffle | (Concord) |
| Alt 8. | Dave McKenna | A Celebration of Hoagy Carmichael | Lazy River | (Concord) |
| Alt 9. | Bud Powell | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 | Glass Enclosure | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 10. | Sonny Rollins | The Sound of Sonny | What Is There to Say? | (OJC) |
| Alt 11. | Ben Webster and Harry "Sweets" Edison | Ben and Sweets | Kitty | (Columbia) |
| Lincoln Adler
29 Aug Laurie Antonioli 29 Feb Jeff Ballard 08 Aug David Belove 20 Jun Ken Berman 15 Aug Lee Bloom 14 Mar Maxwell Chandler 05 Dec Jeff Cressman 04 Jan Sylvia Cuenca 01 Aug | Terry Disley
02 May Taylor Eigsti 18 Jan Kathleen Grace 21 Nov Craig Handy 18 Apr Tootie Heath 25 Jul John Lee 17 Oct Seward McCain 24 Oct Myra Melford 04 Apr Brian Melvin 27 Jun | Debbie Poryes
19 Sep Ali Ryerson 08 Feb Antonio Sanchez 14 Nov Jaz Sawyer 10 Oct Wally Schnalle 11 Apr Dred Scott 21 Mar Scott Sorkin 08 Nov Dayna Stephens 18 Jul Al Young 26 Sep |