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TOM WAITS & DAVE BRUBECK
We visit with two pianists and men of music, each eccentric in his own right. Since the early ’70s singer, songwriter and piano player Tom Waits has gone from anachronistic barfly and lounge singer to avant-vernacular iconoclast. Twentieth century jazz legend Dave Brubeck made his name by using odd, unconventional time signatures back when jazz was for dancing. And we radiate the 88s with some of the best piano music around.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Way Down in the Hole Tom Waits
Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years, Island - Hang on St. Christopher Tom Waits
Frank's Wild Years, Island - Mr. Highway Man Howlin' Wolf
Memphis Days: The Definitive Edition, Vol.1, Bear Family - I Want a Butter and Eggman Louis Armstrong
Butter & Eggman, Tomato - I'm Sharp When I Hit the Coast Joe Turner
Savoy On Central Avenue, Savoy Jazz - Instrumental: Dansero Tab Smith
Crazy Walk, Delmark - INTERVIEW: Tom Waits
Listen - Instrumental: In Shades Tom Waits
Heartattack And Vine, Elektra - Way Down in the Hole Blind Boys
Spirit of the Century, Real World - Diamond in Your Mind Solomon Burke
Don't Give Up On Me, Fat Possum - In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning Frank Sinatra
In The Wee Small Hours, Capitol - Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits
Small Change, Elektra
HOUR two
- Open bed: Who Said That Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck Time In, Columbia - Cow-Cow Boogie Ella Mae Morse
Capitol: The Birth of a Label, Capitol - Red Hot Mama Deuce Spriggens
Swing West! Vol. 3, Western Swing, Razor & Tie - Raggedy Ride The Four Blazes
The United Records Story, Delmark - Thanks for the Boogie Ride Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa: Let Me Off Uptown, Columbia - Instrumental: Dee's New Blues Ramsey Lewis Trio
Consider the Source, Chess - He Done Her Wrong Dave Brubeck
Time In, Columbia/Legacy - Baby Please Don't Go Mose Allison
Allison Wonderland: The Anthology, Rhino - Old-Fashioned Morphine Jolie Holland
Escondina, Anti - Blue Monk McCoy Tyner
Nights of Ballads & Blue, Impulse - Instrumental: Unsquare Dance Dave Brubeck
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Further Out, Columbia - INTERVIEW: Dave Brubeck
Listen - Rainy Weather Blues Amos Milburn
Amos Milburn: Blues, Barrelhouse and Boogie-Woogie 1946-1955, Capitol - Louisiana 1927 Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1, Nonesuch - Basin St. Blues Harold "Duke" Dejan and Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan, - End Bed: Closing Time Tom Waits
Closing Time, Elektra
