The hilight for me on this week's podcast is a brand new cd (their first) by Moneka Arabic Jazz---led by Toronto's (via Iraq) Ahmed Moneka. I play two tracks from that album.

I also play some more typical jazz recordings---with outstanding playing! Three of them are on the Pablo lable recorded in the mid 1970's. They include:

-a track from the Quadrant album by Joe Pass, Milt jackson, Mickey Roker, and Ray Brown.

Then there's two tracks from a Tony Bennett album with Ruby Braff's trumpet and guitarist George Barnes. Barnes is considered by some to be the very first electric guitarist. I wonder if that's true?

I play a track from an early album by Trumpeter Nicholas Payton, dueting with Wynton Marsalis.

Then there's another duet: Yukon pianist Daniel Janke and Montreal clarinetist Francois Houle.

Some boogie woogie piano from 1939 by Albert Ammons

Then there's the group that ended up putting out my favourite jazz album of 2023---Sweden's Ellas Kapell. Some spectacular piano work by Manne Skafvenstedt and fine tenor sax work by Magnus Lindgren on Cheek to cheek.