Monday, 29th October

History of Jazz Part 4,  29th October 2018

1959 and Beyond

1 Ellington/Hodges "St Louis Blues" from the LP "Back to Back" 1959

2 Dave Brubeck "Take Five" from the LP "Time Out" 1959

Modal Jazz
3 Miles Davis “Flamenco Sketches” from the LP “Kind of Blue” 1959

Hard Bop and Onwards
4 John Coltrane "Mr PC" from the LP “Giant Steps” 1959

Post Bop Small Big Band
5 Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus” from the LP “Ah-Hum” 1959

“Free” Jazz
6 Ornette Coleman “Lonely Woman” from the LP “The Shape of Jazz to Come” 1959

Early Jazz Funk
7 Cannonball Adderly "Sticks" from the LP "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" 1967

8 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “ETA” from "Live at Bubba's" 1980

9 Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers “Round About Midnight” from “Live at Bubba's” 1980

10 Charlie Haden/Paul Motion featuring Geri Allen, "Sandio" from the LP "Etudes" 1987

Monday, 22 October

SOME LIKE IT HOT - JAZZ FROM WW2 TO 1959

Big band swing was the pop music of WW2 but was replaced by R&B followed by rock.

1.  Caldonia - Louis Jordan 1942
2.  Evil gal blues - Dinah Washington 1946
3.  Shake rattle & roll - Big Joe Turner 1954
4.  Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry 1956.

Jazz developed along parallel paths bop,cool & mainstream.

5. Woody 'n you - Coleman Hawkins 1944
6. Ornithology - Charlie Parker septet 1946
7. Good bait - Dizzy Gillespie BB 1947
8. Jay - JJ Johnson 1952

Cool jazz was a response to the fast & furious boppers.

9.   Boplicity [Birth of the cool] - Miles Davis nonet 1949
10. Bernie's tune - Gerry Mulligan quartet 1952
11. Coop de Graas [Cool & crazy] - Shorty Rogers giants 1953

The birth of the LP gave mainstream musicians the chance to put live jazz on record.

12. Ad lib blues [Norgran MGN5] - Lester Young 1952
13. Funky blues [Verve] - Parker,Hodges,Carter 1952
14. Memphis Blues [LA plays WCHandy] - Louis Armstrong AS 1954
15. Eager beaver [Kenton in HiFi] - Stan Kenton 1956
16. Blues for Bird [Verve] - Modern jazz sextet 1956

Monday, 15th October

The First Forty Years - some of the complexities

Track List 

1a The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Clarinet Marmalade” 1918
1b Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, “Rapsody in Blue” (Gershwin), 1924
1c Paul Whiteman (small group), “San”, 1928

2 Jesse Stone and his Serenaders, “Starvation Blues”, 1927
3 George E Lee & his Orchestra "Ruff Scuffin'", 1929
4 Slim Lamar & his Southerners, “Misissipppi Stomp”, 1929
5 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “K.C. Shuffle”, 1926
6 Walter Page’s Blue Devils, “Squabblin’”, 1929
7 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “Milenburg Joys”, 1932
8 The Count Basie Orchestra, “One O'clock Jump”, 1937
9 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Rockin' in Rhythm”, 1930
10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Chatterbox”, 1937
11 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra at Fargo, “Jack the Bear”, 1940
12 Luis Armstrong & his Savoy Ballroom 5  “Mahogany Hall Stomp”, 1929
13 Fats Waller and his Rhythm, “Lulu's Back in Town”, 1935
14 Quintet du Hot Club de France, “Stompin' at Decca”, 1938
15 Ella Fitzgerald with sextet, “In a Mellow Tone’”, 1956
16 Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, “Strange Fruit, 1939
17a Tommy Ladnier and Orchestra, “Weary Blues”, 1938
17b Jelly Roll Morton's NO Jazzmen, “Oh Didn't he Ramble”, 1939
17c Mercury All Stars, “High Society”, 1944
18 Humphrey LIttleton and his Band, “Ole Miss Rag”, 1944
19 Jay McShann and his Orchestra, “The Jumpin' Blues”, 1942
20 Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra, “Body and Soul”, 1939

Monday, 8th October

The first 40 years - From its roots in New Orleans,the great migration north to the age of swing

Track list 

1a Shine-Hambone, “A Shoeshine Boy”, 1957

1b Baby Dodds, “Spooky Drums”, 1946

1c Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Easy Rider Blues”, 1927

1d Eureka Brass Band, “Just a Little While to Stay Here”, 1958

1e Scott Joplin, “Elite Sincopations (sic), written 1902

1f Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals, “Salty Dog”, 1926 

2 King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, “Snake Rag”, 1923

3 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “Heebie Jeebies, 1926

4 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven, “Wild Man Blues”, 1927

5 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “West End Blues”, 1928

6 Bessie Smith acc Louis Armstrong, “Careless Love Blues”, 1925

7 Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, “Original Jelly Roll Blues”, 1926

8 Frankie Trambauer and his Orchestra, “I'm Coming Virginia”, 1927

9 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “TNT”, 1925

10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Creole Love Call”, 1928

11 Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra, “Mood Indigo”, 1934

12 Chick Webb’s Orchestra, “I'm Just a Jitterbug”, 1938

13 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “Jangled Nerves”, 1936

14 Jones-Smith Inc, “Shoe Shine Boy”, 1936

15 The Count Basie Orchestra, "Shorty George”, 1937

16 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, “Blue Room”, 1938

17 Glen Miller and his Orchestra, “American Patrol”, 1941

18 Bunk Johnson & Sidney Bechet Orchestra , “Milenberg Joys”, 1945

19 Kansas City Seven, “After Theatre Jump”, 1944

20 Benny Carter and his Orchestra, “Cotton Tail”, 1962 #

# From the CD Further Additions