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Friday October 23 2015 - One For the Birds

Clarence Williams & His Blues Five, "I'm a Little Blackbird," Eva Taylor: Not Just the Blues (Topaz)

Cliff Edwards & His Hot Combination, "Meadowlark," The Red Heads (Jazz Oracle)

Louis Armstrong, "Weather Bird Rag," Vol. IV (Columbia)

Cab Calloway & His Orch., "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird," Are You Hep to the Jive? (Fremeaux)

Coleman Hawkins Quartet, "Flyin' Hawk," Bean and the Boys (Prestige)

Illinois Jacquet, "Robbins Nest," Jumpin' at Apollo (Delmark)

Claude Thornhill & His Orch., "La Paloma," Original Studio Radio Transcriptions (Swing Factory)

Charlie Parker Quintet, "Bird of Paradise," Bird Up: The Originals (Savoy)

Charlie Parker All-Stars, "Bluebird," Timeless (Savoy)

Bud Powell, "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," The Genius of (Verve)

Charlie Parker Quartet, "The Bird," Charlie Parker (Verve)

Sheila Jordan, "Baltimore Oriole," Portrait of Sheila (Blue Note)

Miles Davis, "Bye Bye Blackbird," 'Round About Midnight (Columbia)

Charles Mingus, "Eat That Chicken," Oh Yeah! (Atlantic)

Thelonious Monk, "Stuffy Turkey," It's Monk's Time (Columbia)

Coleman Hawkins, "O Pato," Desafinado (Impulse)

Roland Kirk, "Serenade to a Cuckoo," I Talk to the Spirits (Verve)

Duke Ellington, "Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)," The Far East Suite (Bluebird)

Chico Hamilton, "Third Wing on the Left Side of an Eagle," The Gamut (Solid State)

Dave Holland Quartet, "Conference of the Birds," Conference of the Birds (ECM)

Jimmy Giuffre, "Phoenix," Music for People, Birds, Butterflies and Mosquitos (Choice)

Jimmy Rowles, "The Peacocks," Stan Getz: Jazz Moods: Cool (Columbia)

Pharoah Sanders, "The Bird Song," Welcome to Love (Timeless)

Seth Markow has been playing piano since age 7, clarinet (now bass clarinet) since 9, and has been a dedicated jazz fan since he was 13. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in music composition, has played and studied African and Asian music, and is a longtime member of the Javanese orchestra Gamelan Kyai Gandrung. He has also played in jazz, blues, rock, reggae, and world beat bands, as well as various classical ensembles. A radio host since 1976 and a Hawaii resident since 1979, his jazz show The Real Deal began in 1983 and has been heard on HPR-2 since that stream went on the air in 1989.
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