Jazz for Valentine’s Day:

• Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
• Jimmy Yancey, State Street Special
• Nat King Cole, L-O-V-E
• Jimmy Hamilton, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• Hal McKusick, What's New
• Pérez Prado & His Orchestra, Besame Mucho
• Bobby Timmons, Chet Baker and His Crew, Lucious Lu
• The Ella Fitzgerald Quarter, My Funny Valentine
• Lee Morgan, P.S. I Love You
• Pete Fountain, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
• Pete Fountain, Poor Butterfly
• Stan Getz, Love Is Here to Stay
• Toots Thielemans, Please send me someone to love
• Etta Jones, You Better Go Now
• Joe Pass, Blues for Alican
  

The Artery co-op/gallery/store turns 50 this year. Most of its downtown Davis neighbors from the 1970s are gone, so how has the Artery lasted? Heidi Bekebrede and Adele Shaw, two of its members, list several reasons on today’s Davisville, and some might surprise you — they include the hours (most art galleries don’t open daily), the variety (most don’t display so many artists), members who work in the shop, turnover that brings in new artists, fresh displays, and a town with lots of people interested in the arts. The train station a block away helps too.

We also talk about the store’s name, how they find members, the other meaning of “cute” in Bekebrede’s Cuteware, the way Putah Creek inspires Shaw’s paintings, and how managing a 32-machine laundromat in San Francisco introduced Shaw to first- and second-hand stories of her neighborhood from many decades before.