This Week: What we're all about...

Welcome, all you gone cats and hep kittens, to the companion blog for Miles to Go Before I Sleep on WKCO! If you tuned in for our premiere episode this evening, thanks for listening and calling/writing in with many great requests! If not, I suppose I can forgive you, but you don't know what you're missing. That said, here's a look at what I spun tonight:

1. Midnight Lullaby - Tom Waits
2. Chubb Sub - Medeski, Martin & Wood
3. Take Five [Live from Carnegie Hall] - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
4. Emily - Bill Evans
5. Use Me - Bill Withers
6. Summertime - Miles Davis
7. Bye Bye Blackbird - Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins
8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - The Bad Plus
9. Changes - Seu Jorge
10. Light My Fire [Live from the Blue Note] - Paris Troika
11. II BS - Charles Mingus
12. Baby Grand - Billy Joel feat. Ray Charles
13. Cantina Band - John Williams
14. Summertime/Burma Shave [Live from Austin City Limits] - Tom Waits
15. Yègellé Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke
16. KC Blues - Charlie Parker
17. Farewell Blues - The New York Musicians
18. Breakin' the Chains of Love - Fitz & The Tantrums
19. Saturday Night Church - Tuatura
20. Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
21. Nutville - Buddy Rich
22. Blue in Green - Miles Davis

Talk-over music came tonight from Air; Booker T. and the MG's; Medeski, Martin & Wood; Mulatu Astatke; and Yoko Kanno & The Seat Belts. 

For a rundown of the Miles to Go playlist each week, keep your browsers here, and for the best jazz et al. around, keep your radios (or your iTunes) tuned to WKCO 91.9 FM!