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Toby Gleason (2007)
Toby Gleason is from one of our Bay Area jazz families: his father was the late legendary music critic, author, music TV host, documentarian and Monterey Jazz Festival co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, and since 1988 Toby has managed his father's collected works as president of the family-owned company Jazz Casual Productions, Inc. Toby spent many years working in the sales and promotion areas for a variety of record companies, one-stops and retailers. He's been an assistant editor of "Rolling Stone" magazine, has a 25-year-plus career in commercial and corporate voice-over (he's the voice of See's Candies). He's been a working publicist, a jazz disk jockey and a radio producer. He's got a knack for tracking down historical musical tidbits, and has been called by the Grateful Dead Archive "a rock-and-roll detective".

Toby Gleason (2007)

Toby Gleason is from one of our Bay Area jazz families: his father was the late legendary music critic, author, music TV host, documentarian and Monterey Jazz Festival co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, and since 1988 Toby has managed his father's collected works as president of the family-owned company Jazz Casual Productions, Inc. Toby spent many years working in the sales and promotion areas for a variety of record companies, one-stops and retailers. He's been an assistant editor of "Rolling Stone" magazine, has a 25-year-plus career in commercial and corporate voice-over (he's the voice of See's Candies). He's been a working publicist, a jazz disk jockey and a radio producer. He's got a knack for tracking down historical musical tidbits, and has been called by the Grateful Dead Archive "a rock-and-roll detective".

Pick	Artist	Album	Song	Label
# 1	Les McCann and Eddie Harris	Swiss Movement	Compared to What?	(Atlantic)
# 2	Cal Tjader	Black Orchid	Lullaby of Birdland	(Fantasy)
# 3	Charles Mingus	Mingus at Monterey (LP)	Duke Ellington Medley	(Prestige)
# 4	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Song for My Father	(Blue Note)
# 5	John Coltrane	Blue Train	Blue Train	(Blue Note)
# 6	Cannonball Adderley	The Best of Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years	Mercy, Mercy, Mercy	(Capitol)
# 7	Duke Ellington		Love You Madly

Book	Jerry Wexler, "A Life in Rhythm"

Luxury Item	A massage chair

Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast
Alt 1	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue		(Columbia)
Alt 2	Thelonious Monk	Monk	Blue Monk	(Prestige)
Alt 3	Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes		(Verve)

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