Podcast 253: Even More Wonder-ful

I'm getting psyched already for a performance by the SF Jazz Collective at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center March 1, 2012. The all-star band - saxophonist Antonio Hart; trombonist Robin Eubanks, a two-time DownBeat “Trombonist of the Year”; trumpeter Avishai Cohen; Grammy-nominated vibraphonist Stefon Harris.  pianist Edward Simon and  two of the most in-demand sidemen on the international scene—bassist Matt Penman and Eric Harland, winner of DownBeat #1 Rising Star drummer for the last three years - will be performing an all-Stevie Wonder program. I've done two podcasts already of jazz musicians covering Stevie tunes, so what's one more between friends? Click here to listen to Podcast 253, which includes Wonder-ful versions of Stevie's songs, including: Ramsey Lewis - "Uptight (Everything is)" Charles Earland - "I Was Made to Love Her" Norman Brown - "Too High" Najee - "All Day Sucker/Easy Going Evening" Nnena Freelon - "Creepin’" Danilo Perez - "Overjoyed" Ray Barretto - "Pastime Paradise" Hank Crawford - "Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing" Cedar Walton - "Another Star" FlavaEvolution - "As" James Taylor Quartet - "Signed Sealed Delivered (I’m Yours)" SF Jazz Collective                    Superstition