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Giant Steps Episode 35 (2022-02-11)

  • Blue Mitchell – Fungii Mama
  • Thad Jones Quintet – You Don’t Know What Love Is
  • Miles Davis – Alone Together
  • Hazel Scott – The Jeep Is Jumpin’
  • Thelonious Monk Trio – Bye-Ya
  • Wayne Shorter – Getting To Know You
  • Grant Green – I Concentrate On You
  • Art Taylor – Cookoo & Fungi
  • John Coltrane – Wise One
  • The Bad Plus – Iron Man

Giant Steps Episode 34 (2022-02-04)

  • Charlie Parker – Koko
  • Miles Davis – Well You Needn’t
  • Wayne Shorter – Second Genesis
  • Sonny Clark – Royal Flush
  • Lionel Hampton – Flying Home
  • Bobby Timmons – You Don’t Know What Love Is
  • Grant Green – It Ain’t Necessarily So
  • Milt Jackson & John Coltrane – Bags & Trane
  • Bobby Hutcherson – Lush Life
  • Duke Ellington – Money Jungle

Giant Steps Episode 33 (2022-01-21)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Drum Thunder Suite
Tito Puente – Oye Como Va
Dave Brubeck – Take Five
Jo Jones – Cubano Chant
Bill Evans – Solar – Live At The Village Vanguard, 1961
Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Stompin’ At The Savoy
Ornette Coleman – Chronology
Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra – Take the “A” Train

Giant Steps Episode 27 (2021-11-19)

  • Jackie McLean – Blue Rondo
  • Archie Shepp – Shazam
  • Charles Mingus – Hora Decubitus
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago – 595-59
  • Milt Jackson/John Coltrane – The Night We Called It A Day
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk – The Black And Crazy Blues
  • Cecil Taylor – Tales (8 Whisps)
  • Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
  • Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane – Monk’s Mood
  • Max Roach – The Drum Also Waltzes

Giant Steps Episode 26 (2021-11-12)

  • Ornette Coleman – Beauty Is A Rare Thing
  • Charlie Haden – War Orphans
  • Eric Dolphy – Something Sweet, Something Tender
  • Charles Mingus – Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
  • Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor
  • Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins – I Want To Be Happy
  • John Coltrane – Moment’s Notice
  • Coleman Hawkins – When Day Is Done

Giant Steps Episode 25 (2021-11-05)

  • John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – Autumn Serenade
  • Chet Baker – Tis Autumn
  • Bill Evans Trio – Autumn Leaves
  • Lou Donaldson – Blues Walk
  • Ron Carter – All Blues
  • Ike Quebec – Blue And Sentimental
  • Art Blakey – Just Coolin’
  • Paul Desmond – Emily
  • Miles Davis – It Never Entered My Mind
  • Kenny Dorham – Alone Together

Giant Steps Episode 24 (2021-10-22)

  • Bill Evans Trio – How Deep Is The Ocean (Live at Oil Can Harry’s / 1975)

Bill Evans, piano; Eddie Gomez, bass; Eliot Zigmund, drums

  • The Oscar Peterson Quartet – Cool Walk (Live in Helsinki, 1987)

Oscar Peterson, piano; Joe Pass, guitar; Dave Young, bass; Martin Drew, drums

  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ (Live at Hibiya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1/14/61)

Art Blakey, drums; Lee Morgan, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass

  • Lee Morgan – Speedball (Live (Friday, July 10, 1970 (Set 4))

Lee Morgan, trumpet; Bennie Maupin, tenor; Harold Mabern, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass; Mickey Roker, drums

  • Charlie Watts / The Danish Radio Big Band – Molasses (Live at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen / 2010)
  • John Coltrane – A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm (Live)

John Coltrane, tenor; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; with Pharoah Sanders, Donald Garrett, Carlos Ward