In the Wilderness - Songs for Late Summer - 9/02/25

Conventional wisdom tells us that summer dies the instant Labor Day ends. But is that really true? (Has it ever been?) Likewise, the calendar page heralding autumn the third week of September is no guarantee that summer heat will take a hike. Hear then, “Songs for Late Summer,” an In the Wilderness playlist curated as one season languorously morphs into another…

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S O U N D S   B Y : 

David Sylvian/Rain Tree Crow  Red Earth (As Summertime Ends)  (Rain Tree Crow, Virgin)

Gary Burton & Julian Lage  Once Upon a Summertime (Guided Tour, Mack Avenue)

Fay Claassen  Once Upon a Summertime (Rhythms & Rhymes, Challenge Records)

Duke Ellington  Summertime (Piano in the Foreground, Columbia)

Bryan Fasola (arr. by Takemitsu) Summertime (in-studio performance at Guitar Salon International)

Ralph Towner w/Denney Goodhew  Summer’s End (Lost and Found, ECM)

Oregon  Summer’s End (In Stride, CAM JAZZ)

Roger Kellaway  Love of My Life (Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Eleven, Concord Jazz)

Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway  Love of My Life (A Duet of One, IPO Recordings)

Donald Moline & Randall Swanson  Mathews: Last Song of Summer (The Last Song of Summer: Romantic Music for Cello & Organ, Dorian Discovery)

Irène Mannheimer  Late Summer Nights, op.33, no. 3 (Stenhammar: Piano Works, Sterling)

Sarah Vaughan w/Teddy Wilson  September Song (The Chronological Teddy Wilson: 1946, Classics)