More Thanksgiving leftovers – playlist

For the holiday season, listen to the In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond show: Autumn and Thanksgiving.

You may also enjoy going through the archives of the In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond podcast:

Episode November 8 2026 – In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond

New releases reviewed in this episode from Yamanaka, Holland, Sprague, E. Cohen and L. Benjamin. Also, we celebrate last week's election in the US with an appropriate tune from Goldings, Bernstein, Stewart. Finally selections from a great Ellington Suite. Playlist Artist ~ Track ~ Album Miki Yamanaka ~ Pre School ~ Breathe Dave Holland ~ Sextet: Step To It ~ Freedom Call: Sextet – Unity Joshua Redman ~ A Message To Unsend ~ Words Fall Short Peter Sprague ~ Captain Bacardi ~ Derradeira Primavera Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein & Bill Stewart ~ FU Donald ~ Perpetual Pendulum Emmet Cohen ~ Luck Be A Lady ~ Universal Truth Lakecia Benjamin ~ Dream Breaker ~ We Dream Duke Ellington ~ Such Sweet Thunder ~ Such Sweet Thunder Duke Ellington and His Orchestra ~ The Star-Crossed Lovers ~ Such Sweet Thunder
  1. Episode November 8 2026
  2. Episode Nov 1 2026
  3. Episode October 25 2026
  4. New Modern Adventurous
  5. SDTJ Jazz Fest 2026

Autumn in the Piedmont

Source: These autumn mornings

Autumn bee in a cafe

“There are not enough bees on the planet,” he tells his daughter as he captures a bee in a disposable cup from the coffee shop. He has gray hair and wears camouflage fatigue pants and an white maintenance and management crew t-shirt. He releases the bee outside the cafe and returns to get his coffee and sit with his daughter.

Google reports that it is the first day of autumn. Technically, Google is correct. It is the first day. Though my calendar says the first day of autumn was yesterday. At 10 p.m.

Ever feel like a bee bouncing around the inside of a cafe trying to make sense of this strangely confusing world?

These autumn mornings…