| Sam Bevan (2007) | |
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| After growing up and attending college in Salt Lake City, bassist Sam Bevan now lives only a few miles from where he was born in Oakland, California.
Sam's adoption of the bass followed periods playing piano (even professionally) and singing (he still sings when he solos on bass), and getting a BA in French (a language he claims no longer to be able to speak). Sam prefers the bass because, as he puts it, "The bass has a great job: I can interact with the drummer, and then I can make melodic comments, and then I can be a support player. I's the one instrument, I think, that can ... play all the roles in the band, and basically have a relationship with everybody." And Sam does have a professional relationship with many bands, among them Monk's Music Trio, Loosewig, and the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Encayapa | Ensamble Urbano | El Negrito e Caja de Agua | |
| # 2 | Thelonious Monk | Solo Monk | Ask Me Now | (Sony) |
| # 3 | Brad Mehldau | Largo | When It Rains | (Warner Bros) |
| # 4 | John Scofield | Quiet | After the Fact | (Verve) |
| # 5 | Keith Jarrett | Treasure Island | The Rich and the Poor | (Impulse) |
| # 6 | Red Mitchell | Presenting Red Mitchell | Scrapple from the Apple | (OJC) |
| # 7 | Charlie Haden, Egberto Gismonti and Jan Garbarek | Folk Songs | Folk Song | (ECM) |
| # 8 | Miles Davis | Nefertiti | Fall | (Columbia) |
| Book | Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov" | |||
| Luxury Item | A solar-powered DVD player with all eleven series of "M*A*S*H" | |||
| Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast | ||||
| Alt 1 | Brian Blade | Brian Blade Fellowship | Lifeline | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 2 | Ornette Coleman | This Is Our Music | Humpty Dumpty | Atlantic |
| Melissa Aldana
11 Mar Ron E. Beck 29 Apr Shanna Carlson 18 Mar Sara Caswell 25 Mar Carlos D'l Puerto 22 Jul Kellye Gray 15 Jul Ellen Johnson 17 Jun Paul McCandless 08 Jul | Allison Miller
15 Apr Melissa Morgan 29 Jul Linda Oh 05 Aug Dafnis Prieto 24 Jun Fred Randolph 05 Feb Harvie S 03 Jun Jake Shapiro 10 Jun Marcus Shelby 15 Jan | Bria Skonberg
04 Mar Mark Soskin 20 May Leslie Stoval 19 Aug John Stowell 08 Apr Toots Thielemans 02 Sep Roseanna Vitro 26 Feb Don Was 12 Aug Danielle Wertz 27 May |