Bassist Tony DePaolis shares some of his favorites with Marty Ashby, including a lot of vinyl!

Music tells stories and invokes memories - Tony has a story behind each of these selections, some feature Pittsburgh artists, some are songs that he and other Pittsburgh artists have shared and enjoyed.

Shoutouts with music by local jazz community stalwarts, including Tom Wendt, Jimmy Ponder, Roger Humphries, Paul Thompson, Tubby Daniels, Mensah Wali, James Johnson III, Tony Campbell, Marty Ashby, Don DePaolis, Mike Murray, Paul Cosentino and more.

Music includes:

Rahsaan Roland Kirk with Why Don't They Know

Horace Silver Quintet and The Jody Grind (with Roger Humphries)

Pittsburgh’s Jimmy Ponder and To Reach A Dream

Joe Henderson plays Strayhorn’s U.M.M.G

Gary Bartz, Ntu Troop with vocalist Andy Bey and Uhuru Sasa

Johnny Lytle with The Man

vocalist Rahsaan Patterson and Take 6 with Joy

Cannonball Adderley with a tune cut from Fiddler on the Roof, Sewing Machine

Paquito D/Rivera, Claudio Roditi do Red on Red

Tony DePaolis with Folkprance - written by Tony’s father, Don DePaolis

Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington from 1967 with Yellow Days

Bassist Tony DePaolis shares music and stories of some of his favorite sounds and people with Marty Ashby. The MCG Jazz Spotlight on WZUM - Friday and Sunday nights at 6, Saturday afternoons at 1.