| Melissa Aldana
11 Mar Ron E. Beck 29 Apr Pascal Bokar 07 Oct Shanna Carlson 18 Mar Sara Caswell 25 Mar Carlos D'l Puerto 22 Jul Kellye Gray 15 Jul David Hart 04 Nov Bruce Jenkins 09 Dec Ellen Johnson 17 Jun Steffen Kuehn 02 Dec | Paul McCandless
08 Jul Allison Miller 15 Apr Melissa Morgan 29 Jul Linda Oh 05 Aug Dafnis Prieto 24 Jun Jim Pugh 30 Sep Fred Randolph 05 Feb Harvie S 03 Jun Jake Shapiro 10 Jun Marcus Shelby 15 Jan Bria Skonberg 04 Mar | Paul Smith
16 Dec Mark Soskin 20 May Leslie Stoval 19 Aug John Stowell 08 Apr Toots Thielemans 02 Sep Roseanna Vitro 26 Feb Paul VornHagen 14 Oct Don Was 12 Aug Danielle Wertz 27 May Howard Wiley 28 Oct |
| Darryl Jones (2019) | |
|---|---|
| Bassist Darryl Jones was born into a musical family on the south side of Chicago. As a boy, he wanted to play drums—a proposal his father accepted with the proviso that Darryl also learn vibes, xylophone, piano, and so forth. When he saw a neighbor playing bass in a high school talent show, Darryl switched to bass, and within a year he was gigging. Guitarist Phil Upchurch was a big influence,
Darryl went through the challenging Chicago Vocational High School, and attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Then, though aged only 21, but with the help of his long-time friend Vincent Wilburn Jr—Miles Davis's nephew—Darryl landed a life-changing gig: he would play and record and tour with Miles for five years. In 1985, he was a member of Sting's band with Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and Omar Hakim. Since then, Darryl has toured and recorded sessions with Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Eric Clapton, and dozens of jazz, blues and funk outfits. He became a touring member of the Rolling Stones in 1993 on the retirement of Bill Wyman, and a quarter century later he's still with them. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Virginia Tichenor | Virgina's Favorites | Maple Leaf Rag | Piano Mania |
| # 2 | Jelly Roll Morton | Last Sessions | The Crave | Commodore |
| # 3 | Louis Armstrong | Ken Burns Jazz | Black and Blue | Columbia Legacy |
| # 4 | Miles Davis | Kind of Blue | So What | Columbia |
| # 5 | Thelonious Monk | Monk's Dream | Monk's Dream | Columbia |
| # 6 | Carmen Bradford with the Count Basie Orchestra | All About That Basie | Honeysuckle Rose | Concord |
| # 7 | Wynton Marsalis | Black Codes (from the Underground) | Phryzzinian Man | Columbia |
| # 8 | Weather Report | Mysterious Traveller | American Tango | Columbia |
| Book | Hermann Hesse, "Siddhartha" | |||
| Luxury Item | A slow cooker | |||