Giant Steps to February 15

[Bill Metcalfe]

Giant Steps airs every Thursday at 4pm, and is repeated the next morning at 7am, on Kootenay Coop Radio, streaming live at www.kootenaycoopradio.com.

Giant Steps for January 31 and February 1
The Jaki Byard Set
1. Sam Rivers: Downstairs Blues Upstairs from Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: No Tonic Press from Rip Rig and Panic (Limelight)
3. Booker Ervin: Grant's Stand from The Freedom Book (Prestige)

4. Jason Moran: Out Front from Black Stars (Blue Note)
5. Luciana Souza: Sonnet 49 from Neruda (Sunnyside)
6. Brian Groder: Iota from Torque (Latham)

7. Otis Taylor: Put Your Hands on your Stomach from Respect the Dead (Northern Blues)
8. Otis Taylor: Buy Myself Some Freedom from Double V (Telarc)
9. Herbie Hancock/ Leonard Cohen: The Jungle Line from The Joni Letters (Verve)

10. Tony Wilson/ Peggy Lee/ Jon Bentley: Man and Dog from Escondido Dreams (Drip Audio)



Giant Steps for February 7 and 8
1. Sonny Rollins: Solid, from Moving Out (Prestige)
2. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook: My Heart, My Life, from Night Song (Real World)
3. Tony Wilson/ Peggy Lee/ Jon Bentley: Laxing Lizards from Escondido Dreams (Drip Audio)

4. Wilson/ Lee/ Bentley: Max's Dream from Escondido Dreams
5. Art Pepper: Tears Inside from Smack-Up (Contemporary)
6. Ali Khan and Brook: Intoxicated from Night Song

7. Miles Davis: I Thought About You from Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia)
8. Wilson/ Lee/ Bentley: Escondido Dreams from Escondido Dreams
9. Ali Khan and Brook: My Comfort Remains from Night Song


Giant Steps for February 14
1. Bruce Eisenbeil: Inner Constellation from Inner Constellation (Nemu)
2. Paul Bley: Variation 9 from Sankt Gerold


Giant Steps for February 15

1. Kenny Barron/ Charlie Haden: Waltz for Ruth from Night and the City (Verve)
2. Medeski Martin and Wood: Just Like I Pictured It from Combustication (Blue Note)
3. Jane Bunnett: Nan Fonn Bwaa from Cuban Odyssey (EMI)

4. Jane Bunnett: Alabans from Cuban Odyssey
5. Medeski Martin and Wood: Whatever Happened to Gus from Combustication
6. Jane Bunnett: Prizon from Cuban Odyssey

7. Medeski Martin and Wood: Everyday People from Combustication
8. Kenny Barron/ Charlie Haden: Twilight Song from Night and the City