Yesterday’s listening, unexpurgated:
– Flatt and Scruggs, “Ground Speed”
– Reynaldo Hahn, “Offrande” (played and sung by the composer in 1909)
– Stan Getz, “Hershey Bar”
– Jimmy Rowles, “Grooveyard”
– Hal Kemp, “Got a Date With an Angel” (vocal by Skinnay Ennis)
– Steely Dan, “Green Earrings”
– Bing Crosby, “Sweet Leilani”
– Bing Crosby and Connie Boswell, “Basin Street Blues”
– Johnny Cash, “Hey, Porter”
– Farah Alvin, “Breathing Each Other In”
– Hot Tuna, “Hesitation Blues”
– Bernard Herrmann, Concerto Macabre (from the soundtrack of Hangover Square, performed by Joaquin Achucarro, Charles Gerhardt, and the National Philharmonic)
– Stephen Sondheim, “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” (from the original Broadway cast album)
– Count Basie Sextet, “Stan Shorthair” (with Joe Newman, Paul Quinichette, and Buddy Rich)
– Doc Watson, “Let the Cocaine Be”
– Paul Hindemith, Flute Sonata (played by Jean-Pierre Rampal and Robert Veyron-Lacroix)