Heard via e-mail yesterday that saxophonist Glenn Spearman passed away, taken by cancer. Didn't have time to assemble a tribute set, unfortunately, but I did manage to get a few of his tracks in. Next week, i'm planning to devote an hour to his stuff.

Format (stolen from Cat):
ARTIST -- "SONG TITLE" -- ALBUM (LABEL, YEAR)

Glenn Spearman Double Trio - "Just There" - The Fields (Black Saint, 1996)

* Joe Lovano - "4 on the Floor" - Trio Fascination (Blue Note, 1998)

* Dave Douglas - "First Frost" - Moving Portrait (DIW, 1998)

* Ravi Coltrane - "High Windows" - Moving Pictures (BMG, 1998)

* Joe Morris, Ken Vandermark, Hans Poppel - "Parlance" - Like Rays (Knitting Factory, 1998)

* Geri Allen - "Light Matter" - The Gathering (Verve, 1998)

Gerry Hemmingway Quartet - "Space 2" - Down to the Wire (Hat Hut, 1993)

* Sex Mob - "Sign O' the Times" - Din of Iniquity (Sony, 1998)

Thelonious Monk - "Misterioso" - Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (Blue Note)

* Greg Osby - "Interspacial Affair" - Zero (Capitol, 1998)

!* Robert Pollard - "People are Leaving" - Waved Out (Matador, 1998)

Thelonious Monk - "Criss Cross" - Always Now (Columbia, 1979 - recorded 1963)

* Tim Berne / Michael Formanek - "Jiggle the Handle" - Ornery People (Little Brother, 1998)

* Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng - "Doo Good" - Awakening (Yikes, 1998)

* Jack Brewer and Bazooka - "Going to New Orleans" - Elysian Intervals (New Alliance, 1997)

Glenn Spearman Double Trio - "No!" - Smokehouse (Black Saint, 1994)

John Surman - "Saturday Night" - Such Winters of Memory (ECM, 1983)

* Hugh Hopper - "Miniluv" - 1984 (Cuneiform, 1998 - orig. release 1972)

* James Blood Ulmer - "Forbidden Blues" - Forbidden Blues (DIW, 1998)

* Fonda/Stevens Group - "Birdtalk" - Evolution (Leo, 1998)

* Mark Helias - "Fictionary" - Fictionary (GM, 1998)

Glenn Spearman Double Trio - "Asaph" - Smokehouse (Black Saint, 1994)

* = Item in rotation at KZSU
! = Pop anomaly

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