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• Start my program  with the Story of PAZ, new release from “Jazz in Britain ”it’s a triple cd Variation and Creation from the legacy of one of the finest bass players Ron Mathewson, this track has Lol Coxhill: soprano sax, Brian Wilson: flute, Dick Crouch: electravibes, Geoff Castle: fender Rhodes, Ed Speight: guitar, Andere Messender: bass, Roger Harrison: drums, Simon Morton: percussion
• Pianist Horace Silver, track from “Paris Jazz Festival” recorded November 4^th 1968 with Randy Brecker: trumpet, Bennie Maupin: tenor sax, John Williams: bass, Billy Cobham: drums
• Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, track from “Live at the Philharmonie, Berlin” recorded November 7^th 1970 with Dizzy reece: trumpet, Curtis Fuller: trombone, James Moody: tenor sax, Sahib Shihab & Cecil Payne: baritone sax, Candy Finch: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, track from “Live in Laren” recorded april 12^th 1988 with Horace Parlan: piano, Steve McCraven: bass, Jerry Eastman: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 302/520, this week Ben’s  lp “Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson” recorded November 6^th 1959 with Ray Brown on bass and drummer Ed Thigpen
• Bassist Jay Leonhart, track from “For Duke” recorded November 8^th 1994 with vibraphonist Gary Burton
• The Jazz Big Band Graz, track from the cd “Fruits of Passion” with Heinrich von Kalnein on tenor sax, Horst Michael Schaffer: trumpet
• Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and the All Stars, track from “Chicago Jazz Festival” recorded august 29^th 1980 with James Moody: tenor sax, CecilPayne: baritone sax, Walter Bishop Jr: piano, Ray Brown: bass, Max Roach: drums
• Tenorist Steve Heckman, track from the cd “Born to be Blue” recordd in 2013 with Howard Alden: guitar, Matt Clark: piano, Marcus Shelby: bass, Akira Tana: drums
• Pianist Horace Silver, track from “Live at Montreux Jazz Festival” recorded july 12^th 1985 with Bryan Lynch: trumpet, Ralph Moore: tenor sax, Luther Hughes: bass, Carl Burnett: drums
• Hammond organist Raphael Wressnig, track from the cd “Soulful Christmas” recorded in 2023 with Alex Schultz: guitars, Hans-Jurgen Bart: drums

• Start my program  with tenor saxophonist Paul Heller with trumpeter/flugelhorn Ack van Rooyen, track from “Celebration” recorded april 14 & 15^th 2009 with Hubert Nuss: piano, John Goldsby: bass, Hans Dekker: drums
• Composer/arranger/conductor Tobias Hofmann, track from his cd “Innuendo” recorded august 25-27^th 2023
• Composer/conductor Barbara Bruckmuller, track from her cd “Three Views of a Musical Piece—A Chain of Moments-Suite in Five Movements” recorded February 21^st 2024 in Vienna
• Tenor saxophonist Frank Jacobi, track from his cd “Frank Jacobi plays Al Cohn” recorded in 2023 with Martin Sasse: piano, Stefan Rey: bass, Dominik Raab: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 301/520, this week Ben’s lp “Soho Nights-vol.1”recorded January 1968 with Stan Tracey: piano, Dave Green: bass, Tony Crombie: drums
• Hammond organist Raphael Wressnig, track from his cd “Soulful Christmas ( with a Funky Twist)”, recorded in 2023 with Alex Schultz: guitars, Hans-Jurgen Bart: drums
• Pianist Lex Jasper, track from “You are There” recorded june 26-27^th 2023 with Frans van Geest: bass, Gijs Dijkhuizen: drums
• Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, track from the lp “You better know It!!!” recorded October 26-29^th 1964 with Ben Webster: tenor sax, Clark Terry: trumpet, Hank Jones: piano, Milt Hinton: bass, Osie Johnson: drums
• Drummer Eric Ineke, track from his new cd “Swing Street—plays the music of Cannonball Adderley” recorded june 26^th 2024 with Tineke Postma: alto sax, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen: tenor sax, Nico Schepers: trumpet, Rob van Bavel: piano, Marius Beets: bass
• Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, track from the lp “Far Away Lands” recorded may 26^th 1967 with Donald Byrd: trumpet, Cedar Walton: piano, Ron Carter: bass, Billy Higgins: drums
• The Atlantic Family, track from the lp “Live at Montreux” recorded in 1977 with Herbie Mann: flute, Sonny Fortune & David Newman: alto saxes, Dick Morrissey, Klaus Doldinger & Molly Duncan: tenor saxes, Roger Ball: keyboards, Hamish Stuart & Jim Mullen: guitars, Alan Gorrie: bass, Steve Ferrone: drums, Sammy Figuroa: percussion
• Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and trumpeter Chet Baker, track from “Live at Kongresshalle, Frankfurt” recorded march 13^th 1988 with Horace Parlan: piano, Herman Wright: bass, Clifford Jarvis: drums

• Start my program  with guitarist Ray Russell, track from the cd “The Complete Spontaneous Event” on Jazz in Brittain with Roy Fry: piano, Dave Holland: bass, Alan Rushton: drums  recorded may 14^th 1967
• Guitarist Jim Mullen, track from the cd ”For Heaven’s  Sake” recorded October 2023 on Storyville records, Ben Patterson: organ, Jan Harbeck: tenor sax, Kristian Leth: drums
• Vibraphonist Arturo Serra, track from his album “Pensativa” recorded in 2023 with Juan Galiardo: piano, Bori Albero: bass, Santi Colomer: drums
• Pianist Teddy Wilson and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, track from “Live in Stockholm” recorded july 22^nd with Arne Ryskog: trumpet, Sture Nordin: bass, Ed Thigpen: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 300/520, this week Ben’s  lp “Live at Kings and Queens” recorded December 7^th 1963 with Michael Renzi: piano, Bob Peterutti:bass, Artie Cabral: drums
• Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, track from “Spring in Stockholm-Live at the Concerthuset 1959”with Art Farmer: trumpet, Bill Crow: bass, Dave Bailey: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton and Elia Bastida on violin, recorded september/October 2021 with Joan Monne:piano, Joan Chamorro: bass, Arnau Julia: drums
• Pianist Dave Brubeck, track from “Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center N.Y.” recorded march 22^nd 2004 with William O’ Smith: clarinet, Bobby Militello: alto sax, Charles Pillow: tenor sax, Gary Smulyan: baritone sax, Lew Soloff: trumpet, Jim Pugh: trombone, Michael Moore: bass, Randy Jones: drums
• Pianist Cedar Walton, track from “Terrace Theater” recorded December 31^st 2003 with Bobby Watson: saxes, Curtis Fuller: trombone, Ray Drummond: bass, Jimmy Cobb: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, track from “Open East theater Tokyo” recorded july 31^st 1983 with Pat Metheny: guitar, Alphonso Johnson: electric bass, Jack de Johnette: drums

• Start my program  with pianist Michel Petrucciani, track from his new cd “Jazzclub, Montmartre”  recorded july 3^rd 1988 with Gary Peacock: bass, Roy Haynes: drums
• Drummer Shelly Manne, track from the lp “Mannekind” recorded in 1973 with Gary Barone: trumpet, John Morell: guitar, Mike Wofford: piano, Jeff Castleman: bass
• Saxophonist Gerald Albright, track from the cd “Giving myself to you” recorded in 1995 with Joe Sample: piano, Tony Dumas: bass, Harvey Mason: drums, Paulinho da Costa: percussion
• Katsushika Trio, track from the new cd “Wild Guys in the Universe” on Yamaha Music Communications” Minoru Mukoya: keyboards, Tetsuo Sakurai: electric bass, Akira Jimbo: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 299/520, this week Ben’s lp “At The Renaissance”  recorded in Hollywood October 14^th 1960 with Jimmy Rowles: piano, Jim Hall: guitar, Red Mitchell: bass, Frank Butler: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, track from “J.A.T.P. in Stockholm” recorded may 20^th 1958 with Lou Levy: piano, Herb Ellis: guitar, Max Bennett: bass, Gus Johnson: drums
• J.A.T.P. All Stars at Festhalle, Hamburg February 29^th 1956 with Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge: trumpets, Flip Phillips & Illinois Jacquet: tenor saxes, Oscar Peterson: piano, Herb Ellis: guitar, Ray Brown: bass, Gene Krupa: drums
• Pianist McCoy Tyner and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, track from “Forces of Nature—Live at Slugs” recorded in 1966 with Henry Grimes: bass, Jack de Johnette: drums
• Trumpeter Kenny Dorham, track from the lp “The Flamboyan-Queens N.Y.” recorded January 15^th 1963 with Joe Henderson: tenor sax, Ronnie Matthews: piano, Steve Davis : bass, J.C. Moses: drums
• Al Jarreau with the N.D.R. Big Band plays (and sings) the music of Duke Ellington

• Start my program  with pianist Joanne Brackeen, track from “Live in Frankfurt” recorded September 12^th 1998 with Eddie Gomez: bass, Vinnie Colaiuta: drums, Paul Heller, Bennie Wallace & Ravi Coltrane: tenor saxes, Oliver Lake: alto sax
• Tenor saxophonist Klaus Doldinger “Live in Bremen” recorded December 14^th 1965 with Volker Kriegel: guitar, Ingfried Hoffmann: organ, Peter Trunk: bass, Rafi Luderitz: drums
• Pianist George Cables, track from the new cd “I Hear Echoes” on High Note Records  recorded January 30^th & may 2^nd 2024 with Essiet Essiet: bass, Jerome Jennings: drums
• Katsushika Trio, track from “M.R.I. Mirai” on Yamaha Music Communications, recorded july 8^th 2022 with Minoru Mukoya: keyboards, Tetsuo Sakurai: bass, Akira Jimbo: drums ( all three members of the Japanese fusion group “Casiopea)
• The Ben Webster special, track 298/520, this week Ben’s lp “Ben Webster and Associates” recorded  april 9^th 1959 with Coleman Hawkins & Budd Johnson: tenor saxes, Roy Eldridge: trumpet, Leslie Spann: guitar, Jimmy Jones:piano, Ray Brown: bass, Jo Jones: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Hans Dulfer and drummer Han Bennink ( The Netherland’s Hardest Swinging drummer paired with its loudest blowing tenor…) The New,New Acoustic Swing  Duo recorded may 7^th 2023 ( on Hotwax Records—Alkmaar)
• Saxophonist (alto and soprano sax) flute & clarinet Gerlo Hesselink, track from the new cd “Meant for you 2—Brieven aan Jan” Flora de Geus: vocals, Dirk Balthaus: piano, Johan Plomp: bass, Joost Kesselaar: drums, recorded july 9 & 10^th  2024
• Pianist John Donegan,track from the new cd “We Will Meet Again, Sometime” recorded in Dublin march 12/14^th  2024 with Michael Buckley: alto & soprano sax, flute, Richie Buckley: tenor sax, Linley Hamilton: trumpet & flugelhorn, Dan Bodwell: bass, John Daly: drums, Hugh Buckley: guitar
• Trumpeter Booker Little, track from “The Complete Live Concert—Recorded at Museum of Modern Art N.Y.C.” recorded august 25^th 1960 with Booker Ervin: tenor sax, Teddy Charles: vibes, Mal Waldron: piano, Addison Farmer: bass, Ed Shaughnessy: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Hans Koller and the N.Y.C. Big Band recorded on MPS January 18^th  1968 with Peter Herbolzheimer: trombone, Benny Bailey: trumpet, George Mraz: bass
• Steps Ahead, “Jazzclub Lustenau, Austria” recorded march 14^th 1984 with Mike Mainieri: vibraphone, Michael Brecker: tenor sax, Warren Bernhardt: keyboards, Eddie Gomez: bass, Peter Erskine: drums

• Start my program  with vibraphonist Frits Landesbergen, track from “Live im Sudbahnhof, Frankfurt” with the H.R. Big Band recorded march 2024
• Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, track from “Live in Bremen” recorded October 25^th 1988 with Freddie Hubbard: trumpet, Herman Foster: piano, John Webber: bass, Larry Johnson: drums
• Alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, track from the Mosaic box “The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings”  recorded march 28^th 1975 with Ed Bickert: guitar, Don Thompson: bass, Jerry Fuller: drums
• Baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, track from “Spring in Stockholm-Live at the Konserthus 1959” with Art Farmer: trumpet, Bill Crow: bass, Dave Bailey: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 297/520 this week Ben’s lp “Live at the Jazzhus, vol.1” recorded January 30^th 1965 with Kenny Drew: piano, Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen: bass, Alex Riel: drums
• The C.T.I. All Stars, live in France august 23^rd 1972 with Stanley Turrentine: tenor sax, Freddie Hubbard: trumpet, Bob James: electric piano, Ron Carter:bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums, Airto: percussion
• Composer/arranger Quincy Jones, track from the lp “Walking in Space” recorded june 19^th 1969 with Ray Brown: electric bass!!!,Grady Tate: drums, Eric Gale: guitar, Bob James: keyboards, Saxophonists: Hubert Laws, Jerome Richardson, Roland Kirk, Flute: Hubert Laws, Freddie Hubbard: trumpet
• Tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, track from “Live in Austria” recorded july 3^rd 1969 with Dusko Goykovich: trumpet, Larry Vuckovich: piano, Isla Eckinger:bass, Makayo Ntshoko: drums
• Vibraphonist Cal Tjader, track from the lp “Cal Tjader on Savoy” recorded march 2^nd 1954 with Richard Wyands: piano, Al McKibbon: bass, Roy Haynes: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, track from the lp “On a Misty Night” recorded june 1989 with Mickey Tucker: piano, Walter Booker: bass, Leroy Williams: drums

• Start my program  with Hammond organist Greg Hatza, track from his cd “In My Pocket” recorded march 5^th 1996 with Ralph Lalama: tenor sax, Paul Bollenback: guitar, Gary Jenkins: drums
• The Heavy Hitters, nu release on cellar live records ”That’s What’s Up” recorded December 2023 with Mike LeDonne: piano, Alexander Claffy: bass, Kenny Washington: drums, Eric Alexander: tenor sax, Vincent Herring: alto sax, Jeremy Pelt: trumpet
• Drummer Alvin Queen, track from “The Jazzcup café Blues” on cellarlive records, recorded may 2019 at Jazzclub Domicile, Pforzheim Germanywith Jesse Davis on alto sax, Danny Grissett: piano, Dezron Douglas: bass
• Tenor and alto saxophonist King Curtis, track from the lp “That Loving Feeling” recorded in 1966
• Guitarist Joe Beck, track from “Girl Talk” on Venus records, recorded june 16^th 2002 with Joey DeFrancesco on the Hammond organ and drummer Idris Muhammad
• The Ben Webster special, track 296/520, this week Ben’s lp with pianist Art Tatum, recorded in LA, September 11^th 1956 with Red Callender on bass and drummer Bill Douglass
• Drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, track from “Theater  de Champs Elysees” Paris recorded November 15^th 1959with Wayne Shorter: tenor sax, Lee Morgan: trumpet, Walter Davis Jr: piano, Jimmy Merritt: bass
• Pianist Cedar Walton, track from “Live at theater Comunale Di Mirano” recordd march 11^th 2008 with Piero Odorici: tenor sax, Roberto Rossi:trombone, David Williams: bass, Joe Farnsworrth: drums
• Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, track from the lp “Grande Terre” recorded april 1988 with Jacques Schwarz Bart: tenor sax, Sherman Irby: alto sax, Larry Willis: piano, Gerald Cannon: bass, Willie Jones III: drums, Ed Cherry: guitar, Changuito & Miguel Diaz: percussion
• Pianist McCoy Tyner, track from “We’ll be together Again” recorded at Slugs N.Y. 1966 with Joe Henderson on tenor sax, Henry Grimes; bass and drummer Jack DeJohnette

• Start my program  with drummer Louis Hayes, live in Laren 1977 with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Dexter Gordon on tenor sax, Slide Hampton on trombone, Rene McLean: alto and soprano sax, Ronnie Mathews: piano, Stafford James on the acoustic bass
• Trumpeter Donald Byrd, live at Olympia-Paris 1958 with Bobby Jaspar on tenor sax, Walter Davis Jr: piano, Doug Watkins on bass and drummer Art Taylor
• Dutch bassist Bart Tarenskeen, track from the EP Bandung Blues-Live at Podium De Mess march 24^th 2024 with pianist Maarten Voortman and guitarist Joost Zoeteman
• Composer/arranger Tobias Hoffmann ’Jazz Orchestra, track from his new cd “Innuendo”
• The Ben Webster special, track 295/520, this week Ben’s lp “The Soul of Ben Webster” recorded july 1958 with Art Farmer on trumpet, Harold Ashby on tenor sax, Jimmy Jones: piano, Mundell Lowe: guitar, the Judge Milt Hinton on bass, Dave Bailey:drums
• Dutch pianist Lex Jasper, track from his new album “You are There” recorded june 26 & 27^th 2023 with Frans van Geest on bass and drummer Gijs Dijkhuizen
• Tenor saxophonist Frank Jacobi, track from his new album “Plays Al Cohn” recorded in 2023 with Martin Sasse on piano, Stefan Rey on bass and drummer Dominik Raab
• A new sensation on the Dutch Jazz scene is “VLOT” Luuk de Vries: tenor sax, Remi Keupink; trumpet ,Igor Herstel:keyboards, Remco van Vugt: bass, Ramses Hooijmeijer: drums
• One of the finest alto sax players ( and on soprano /bass clarinet and flute)is Gerlo Hesselink, his new release is a homage to his son Jan, cd is called “Meant for You 2—Brieven aan Jan) with Flora de Geus: vocals, Dirk Balthaus: piano, Johan Plomp: bass, Joost Kesselaar: drums and Esther Hesselink: layout and poems
• Pianist John Donegan, track from his new cd “We Will Meet Again, Sometime” recorded in Dublin march 2024 with Michael Buckley: Alto and soprano sax, flute, Richie Buckley: tenor sax, Linley Hamilton: trumpet and flugelhorn, Dan Bodwell: bass, John Daly: drums, Hugh Buckley: guitar
• Composer/arranger and conductor Barbara Bruckmuller, track from her new(3cd box) Three Views of a Musical piece-A Chain of Moments-Suite in Five Movements recorded in 2024

This week only music, hope to be back “live” next week..grtz. the Jazzman

• Start my program  with “The Winners” a Wessel Ilken tribute, recorded february 1990with Jan Menu: alto, tenor and baritone sax, Toon Roos  “soprano and tenor sax, Ruud Breuls: trumpet, Frits Landesbergen: vibes, Olaf Tarenskeen: guitar, Rob van Bavel: piano, Marcel Schimscheimer: electric bass,Frans van der Hoeven: acoustic bass, Marcel Serierse: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Frank Jacobi, track from his latest album “F. J. plays Johnny Mandel” recorded in 2023 with Martin Sasse: piano, Stefan Rey: bass, Dominik Raab: drums
• Guitarist Grant Green, track from the lp “The Final Com Down” recorded in 1972 with Richard Tee: organ, Cornell Dupree: guitar, Gordon Edwards: bass, Grady Tate: drums, Ralph MacDonald: percussion
• Tenor saxophonist Phil Bancroft, track from his new cd “Swings and Roundabouts” recorded in 2023with Steve Watts: bass, Marcello Pelititteri: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 294/520, this Ben with Oliver Nelson, track from “More Blues and the Abstract Truth”  recorded November 10^th 1964
• Second track from The Winners (see track 1)
• Tobias Hoffmann’s  Jazz Orchestra, track from his new cd (release date September 20^th) “Innuendo”
• Tenor saxophonist  Frank Jacobi, track from his new cd “F.J.  plays Al Cohn” recorded in 2023 with Martin Sasse: piano, Stefan Rey: bass, Dominik Raab: drums
• Blues Dimension, recorded in 1968 with LeeRipke: vocals, Cees Best: guitar, Helmig van der Vegt: keyboards,Herman Deinum: bass, Hans Lafaille: drums, Rudy van Dijk: saxes, Machiel Scholder: trumpet
• Drummer Art Blakey, track from” Straight Ahead” recorded at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco june 1981 with Billy Pierce: tenor sax, Bobby Watson: alto sax,Wynton Marsalis: trumpet, James Williams: piano, Charles Fambrough: bass

• Start my program  with guitarist Eric Gale, track from his lp “Forecast” recorded January 1973 with Bob James: keyboards, Gordon Edwards: bass, Idris Muhammad: drums, Pepper Adams: baritone sax, Jerry Dodgion & Joe Farrell: tenor sax, Randy Brecker, Victor Paz, Jon Faddis: trumpets, Hubert Laws: flute, Ralph MacDonald: percussion
• Tenor saxophonist Rinus Groeneveld, track from the cd “Wild Orchid” recorded in 1999 with Nick van den Bos: piano & organ, Eric Barkman: bass, Roberto Haliffi: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, track from “Live at Birdland” recorded august 30^th 1991 with Steve Nelson: vibes, Renee Rosnes: piano, James Genus: bass, Billy Drummond: drums
• Organist Jimmy Smith, track from the lp “A Date with Jimmy Smith” recorded february 11^th 1957 with Donald Byrd: trumpet, Lou Donaldson: alto sax, Hank Mobley: tenor sax, Eddie McFadden: guitar, Art Blakey: drums
• The Ben Webster special, track 293/520 this week Ben’s recording from February 8^th 1944 the lp “The Horn” with Oran “Hot Lips” Page: trumpet, Clyde Hart: piano, Charlie Drayton: bass, Denzil Best: drums
• The Four Brothers live at Carnegie Hall, recorded june 30^th 1982, Al Cohn, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims & Jimmy Giuffre on tenor sax, Ben Aranov: piano, Frank Tate: bass, Shelly Manne: drums
• Tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton, track from “Live in Hamburg” june 7^th 2024 with Rein de Graaff: piano, Jos Machtel: bass, Joost van Schaik: drums
• Drummer Philly Joe Jones, track from “Live at Birdland” recorded January 5^th 1962 with Dizzy Reece: trumpet, Sonny Redd: alto sax, John Gilmore: tenor sax, Elmo Hope: piano, Larry Ridley: bass
• Pianiste Hiromi Uehara, track from “Live in Salzburg” recorded October 28^th 2011 with Anthony Jackson: contra bass guitar, Simon Phillips: drums