KDHX 88.1 FM
- Call Me Your Fool If You Want To-Jean Knight (With R&B piano accompaniment that's this infectious, a vocalist is already halfway home. Knight's big hit in 1971 was "Mr. Big Stuff." This tune from the same year, however, should have been a hit in its own right.)
- Comes A Time-Neil Young (People and the world evolve inevitably, but it's reassuring that, at the core, you're still you. Time passes, but you can still hold on to a lot of the same values and priorities. Young is at his songwriting best on tunes like these.)
- Wild Horses-The Flying Burrito Brothers (Sincere voices and a strummed guitar are all you really need to pull of a strong cover of this Rolling Stones tune. For a more ethereal-sounding take, however, listen to The Sundays.)
- Cook's Bay-Regina Carter (Great interplay between Carter's violin and the piano on this warm, uptempo instrumental.)
- Good Morning Heartache-Chris Botti featuring Jill Scott (Laura Fygi's take is still my go-to rendition, but Botti and Scott make a persuasive case for recasting the tune in a faster tempo with trumpet and more forthright vocals. Seek out any live version in which Scott tells heartache to get a job.)
- Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759, "Unfinished" (Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan, conductor) (As a bassist, this was one of my favorite pieces to play. I was pleased to hear the Berlin Philharmonic play both movements with an appropriate degree of warmth.)
- Frederic Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 (Ingrid Filter, piano) (This piece asks a lot of a performer, technically and dynamically. Filter pulls off the piece's tender passages with convincing feeling and the forceful passages with impressive fire. It's a shame the station had to fade out of it to start a prerecorded program on time.)
