Life's little pleasures

I love puttering around home slowly on Saturday morning listening to my weekly podcast of Swing is in the Air from CKCU community radio in Ottowa, Canada, and host Jacques Emond. Jacques, for whom this is clearly a labor of love, usually concentrates on the music of different artist every show. (Today it was Texas tenorman Booker Ervin, guitarist Barney Kessel is up next and Lucky Thompson and Tommy Dorsey have been past subjects.) But sometimes he does shows highlighting, for instance, good CDs he found in the bargain bin or the music of artists who died in the past year. You get to hear just a wonderful variety of tunes. Ought to be in every podcast-savvy jazz fan's arsenal.