KDHX 88.1 FM
- When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around-The Police (This isn't usually the first song most listeners think of in connection with this band, and that's a shame. In addition to its strong title and lyrics conveying one of the most accurate truisms about life, it's one of the best driving rhythms the band ever played.)
- Greet The Day-Beth Bombara (Listeners should find Bombara's lyrics about the grind of life relatable. She reprises the tune as an instrumental at the end of her self-titled release, due out in two weeks.)
- False Hope-Laura Marling (Another highlight of Marling's latest release, "Short Movie." If I didn't know otherwise, I would have guessed Fiona Apple was singing.)
- Steppin'-McCoy Tyner (Smokin' piano and rhythm section. Talk about needing to let the instruments cool off...)
- Sky Dive-Freddie Hubbard (A great trumpet and rhythm section jam. Even after 7 1/2 minutes, I wanted to hear more. No surprise there, when you have a lineup of heavy hitters such as George Benson, Ron Carter, Keith Jarrett, and Hubert Laws. It was good to hear this track on "The Jazz Collective" Saturday.)
- In The Still Of The Night-Aaron Neville (For a minute this morning, I wondered if Radio Arts Foundation had changed the station's format abruptly. They hadn't; Jim Doyle played this in honor of Cole Porter's birthday. Neville sings it with just the right amount of vibrato.)
- J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (San Francisco Saxophone Quartet) (This is a piece for strings, so I never expected to hear this instrumentation. The four saxophones carry it off quite well, however. For anyone who has only tiptoed into Classical music waters, I recommend this concerto. I remember playing it on the bass in middle school, and it was the first piece I played that made me truly appreciate good music. The melodies of its first and third movements are particularly memorable.)
