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Weekend Edition Sunday

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In the nearly 14 years I've been working on Weekend Edition Sunday, as music director it's gotta be one of the coolest jobs in the world! Directing the live broadcast's always exhilharating and challenging, producing music features with host Liane Hansen is rewarding, and since 1998 I've been presenting occasional music reviews on the air in my "Director's Cuts" segment. I tend to avoid literal references when I choose music for the program and focus almost exclusively on mood, making sure the music matches stories in our show emotionally and culturally. The "surf noir" of Big Lazy, for example, has a dark, gritty & modern twang. The floating piano jazz of Patrick Leonard is perfect for gentle, thoughtful stories. Keith Jarrett playing Shostakovich often fits for thorny reports from Europe or Russia.

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Wayne Horovitz

CD: American Bandstand
Song: Ben's Music
Label: Songlines

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Big Lazy

CD: Amnesia
Song: Curb Urchin
Label: Tasankee Records

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Michael Brook

CD: Cobalt Blue
Song: Urbana
Label: 4AD

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Patrick Leonard

CD: Rivers
Song: Boy Scouts and Cutthroats
Label: Unitone Records

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Erik Truffaz

CD: The Walk of the Giant Turtle
Song: Flamingos
Label: Blue Note

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Vibes

CD: With Drawn
Song: Keep On Truckin'
Label: Knitting Factory

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Keith Jarrett

CD: Dimitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 87
Song: Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in A Minor
Label: ECM

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Don Was

CD: Backbeat: Soundtrack
Song: Just Read the Poems
Label: Virgin

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Laurent De Wilde

CD: Spoon-A-Rhythm
Song: Fathers
Label: Columbia

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Zach Brock

CD: Zach Brock and the Coffee Achievers
Song: Common Ground
Label: Secret Fort

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