| 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 |
| Chris Amberger
23 Jun Gerald Beckett 01 Sep Buzz Brooks 28 Apr Jarrett Cherner 16 Jun Kev Choice 30 Jun Anat Cohen 28 Jul Natalie Cressman 10 Feb | Hershey Felder
07 Apr Mitchell Feldman 18 Aug Aaron Germain 06 Jan Robin Gregory 17 Feb Kasey Knudsen 17 Mar Matthew Montfort 26 May Andrea Motis 21 Jul | Ray Obiedo
10 Mar John Pizzarelli 25 Aug Sandi Poindexter 24 Mar David Rogers 24 Feb George Winston 04 Aug Lizz Wright 09 Jun Jason Yeager 02 Jun |