Monday, 28th October

1960 - 1979 The age of rock influenced contemporary jazz.

Track List

Settling in music. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Theme de Yoyo

1. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
From the 1961 album Free Jazz a 37 minute Collective Improvisation.

2. Max Roach - Driver Man
From the 1960 album We Insist (Freedom Now Suite) 

3. Nina Simone - Four Women
From the 1966 album Wild Is the Wind

4. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
From the 1970 album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

5. The Free Spirits - Lbod
From the 1966 album Out of Sight and Sound

6. Miles Davis - John McLaughlin
From the 1970 album Bitches Brew

7. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
From the 1973 Album Spectrum

8. Nucleus - Elastic Rock
From the 1970 album Elastic Rock

9. Soft Machine - Kings and Queens
From the 1971 album Fourth

10. Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris
From the 1974 album Apostrophe (')

11. Jeff Beck - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
From the 1976 album Wired

12. Jethro Tull - Serenade to a Cuckoo
From the 1968 album This Was

13. ELP - Karn Evil 9 - 2nd Impression
From the 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery

14, Steely Dan - Sign in Stranger
From the 1976 album The Royal Scam

15. Stan Tracy Quartet - Starless And Bible Black
From the 1965 album Jazz Suite (Inspired By Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood)

16. John Coltrane - Psalm
From the 1964 album A Love Supreme

Monday, 21st October

The Year of 1959 – 60th Anniversary

Track List 

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue ‘Blue in Green’
Miles Davis (t), John Coltrane (ts), Bill Evans (p), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d)

2. John Coltrane - Giant Steps  ‘Mr PC’
JC (ts, leader), Paul Chambers (b), Tommy Flanagan (p), Art Taylor (d)

3. Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Back to Back  ‘Beale St Blues’
Duke Ellington (p), Johnny Hodges (as), Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison (t), Les Spann (g), Sam Jones (b),  Jo Jones (d)

4. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’
Dave Brubeck (p), Paul Desmond (as), Eugene Wright (b), Joe Morello (d)

5. Horace Silver - Blowing the Blues Away  ‘Blowing the Blues Away’
Horace Silver (p), Blue Mitchell (t), Junior Cook (ts), Gene Taylor (b), Louis Hayes (d)

6. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um  ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’
Charles Mingus (b, leader), Willie Dennis (tb), Booker Erwin (ts), Curtis Porter (Shafi Hadi) (a/ts), John Handy (a/ts, cl), Horace Parlan (p), Dannie Richmond (d)

7. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come  ‘Lonely Woman’
Ornette Coleman (as), Don Cherry (c), Charlie Haden (b), Billy Higgins (d)

8. Duke Ellington and Johnny HodgesBack to Back ‘Loveless Love’

9. Miles Davis Kind of Blue ‘So What’
Miles Davis (t), John Coltrane (ts), Bill Evans (p), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d) Cannonball Adderley (as)

Monday, 14th October

NEW PATHWAYS 1942-58

WW2 elongated the big band era but change was on its way

1.  Caldonia Louis Jordan 1945
2.  Northwest Passage Woody Herman 1944
3.  Woody’n’you  Coleman Hawkins 1944

As the war came to a conclusion

4.  A night in Tunisia Charlie Parker septet 1946
5.  Manteca Dizzy Gillespie BB 1947
6.  Loverman  Sarah Vaughan 1945
7.  Jeru Miles Davis nonet 1949

Bird & Dizzy had created East Coast bop

8.  Perdido The Quintet 1953
9.  Straight no Chaser  Thelonius Monk 1952
10.  The Preacher Horace Silver Quintet 1955

Birth of the cool was a reaction to the fast & furious boppers

11. Walkin Shoes Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1952
12. Short Stop Shorty Rogers 1953
13. Midnight Sun June Christy 1953

The birth of the LP gave jazz the opportunity of putting live performance on record.

14. Aunt Hagars Blues Louis Armstrong all stars 1954
15. Peanut Vendor Stan Kenton 1956
16. Studio Call Harry Edison 1956
17. Bags Groove Modern Jazz quartet 1957

Monday, 7th October

EXAMPLES OF EARLY JAZZ STYLES TILL 1939

1. From Africa: Ali Farka Toure (guitar). “Savane”, recorded Bamako, Mali, 2006, from the CD of the same name.

2. Ragtime: Scott Joplin. Piano Roll. “Maple Leaf Rag”, cut September1899.

3. New Orleans Street Band: The Young Tuxedo Brass Band. Going to the Cemetery, “Lead Me Saviour”. Coming back, “Just A Little Closer Walk With Thee” (Traditional), 12 piece marching band (3 trumpets, 3 trombones, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophones, sousaphone, snare drum, bass drum). Recorded in 1958 but playing like they always would have done.

4. Papa Celestin and his New Orleans Ragtime Band. “Muskrat Ramble”, Oscar “Papa” Celestin (Trumpet), Bill Matthews (Trombone), Alphonse Pico (Clarinet), Octave Crosby (Piano), Ricard Alexis (String Bass), Happy Goldston (Drums). Recorded in 1951 but playing in the old New Orleans style.

5. King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. “Canal Street Blues”, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong (Cornets), H Dutrey (Trombone), Johnny Dodds (Clarinet), Lil Hardin (Piano), B Johnson (Banjo), Baby Dodds (Drums). Recorded March 1923.

6. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. “Tiger Rag”, D J (Nic) LaRocca (Cornet), Emile Christian (Trombone), Larry Shields (Clarinet), J Russel Robinson (Piano), Tony Sharbaro (Drums). Recorded in London, May 1919.

7. Jelly Roll Moreton with his Red Hot Peppers. “Wild Man Blues”, 8 piece band (cornet, trombone, clarinet, alto sax, piano, guitar, tuba, drums). Recorded Chicago, June1927.

8. Louis Armstrong. “St Louis Blues”, 11 piece band (3 trumpets, trombone, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, piano, guitar, bass, drums). Recorded New York, June 1929.

9. Bix Beiderbecke.“At the Jazzband Ball”, Bix Beiderbecke (Cornet), Bill Rank (Trombone), Don Murray (Clarinet), Adrian Rollini (Bass Saxophone), Frank Signorelli (Piano), Chauncey Morehouse (Drums). Recorded New York, October 1927.

10. Duke Ellington. “Black and Tan Fantasy”, 11 piece band. Recorded New York, October 1927.

11. Boogie Woogie Piano: Albert Ammons. “Boogie Woogie Stomp”, Solo Piano. Recorded January 1939. Blue Note record label.

12. Stride Piano: Fats Waller. “Handfull of Keys”, Solo Piano. Recorded New York, March 1929.

13. Sidney Bechet. “Summertime”, Sidney Bechet (Soprano Saxophone), Meade “Lux” Lewis (Piano), Teddy Bunn (Guitar), John Williams (Bass), Sidney Catlett (Drums). Recorded for the Blue Note label in June 1939 in New York.

14. Benny Goodman Quartet. “Stomping at the Savoy”, Benny Goodman (clarinet), Teddy Wilson (piano), Gene Kruppa (drums), Lionel Hampton (vibes). Recorded New York, December 1936.

15. Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra. “Jangled Nerves”, 14 piece orchestra (3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 reeds, piano, guitar, bass, drums). Recorded Chicago, April 1936.

16. Bunny Berigan. “Frankie and Johnny”, 13 piece (3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 reeds, piano, guitar, bass, drums). Recorded New York, June 1937.

17. Coleman Hawkins. “Body and Soul”, 9 piece band (2 trumpets, trombone, 3 reeds, piano, bass, drums). Recorded New York, October 1939.