Just in case you missed it here is a Link to Esperanza Spalding’s marvelous performance at last night’s Oscar Academy Awards. “What a Wonderful World” is a song written by Bob Thiele (as George Douglas) and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968.What a delight to see and hear the song in the care of Esperanza and The Southern California Children’s Chorus! I’m sure Pop’s would approve!
Jazz highlights from the February 23rd show with your host Geo Warner:
Day In Day Out is from a 1957 Verve release titled “Songs for Distingue Lovers” that was produced by Norman Granz. The sessions reunited Billie Holiday with trumpeter Harry Edison and saxophonist Ben Webster, both of whom the singer had worked with during the 1930’s and 1940′s: Edison as a member of the Count Basie Orchestra during her brief stay as the band’s girl singer, and Webster from the recordings she made under her own name for Vocalion Records and Okeh Records.
Ben Webster (tenor saxophone)
Harry “Sweets” Edison (trumpet)
Jimmie Rowles (piano)
Barney Kessel (guitar)
Red Mitchell (bass)
Larry Bunker or Alvin Stoller (drums)
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Jazz highlights from the February 23rd show with your host Geo Warner:
Otoño is the first track on Nights On Earth, a 2011 release from arranger, composer, conductor, keyboardist Vince Mendoza. He has received six Grammy Awards for producing and arranging for a diverse group of artists: from Joni Mitchell to Randy & Michael Brecker. John Kelman – All About Jazz, wrote: “on “Otoño,” its breezy, Mediterranean opening gradually evolves into something more complex, with guitarist Nguyên Lê‘s scored melody the perfect transition to organist Larry Goldings’ solo, which impressively and effortlessly winds its way through Mendoza’s constantly shifting harmonic backdrop.”
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Jazz highlights from the February 23rd show with your host Geo Warner:
A subtle, but tasteful 2010 reprise of Charles Lloyd’s 2000 CD release of the same name: The Water Is Wide – a traditional gospel classic with Scottish/ English origins that go as far back as the 1600’s. This track is from the ECM release Mirror and is the second recording by this amalgamation of virtuosic musicians, the first being 2008’s Rabo de Nube, which was a stunning live concert performance recorded in Basel, Switzerland also worthy of your attention.
Charles Lloyd (ts)
Jason Moran (p)
Reuben Rogers (b)
Eric Harland (ds)
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Jazz highlights from the February 16th show with your host Alan Mertens:
Sea Journey is a Chick Corea composition that performed within this context harkens back to Gary Burton’s seminal late 60’s fusion work with guitarist Larry Coryell. Pat Metheny was 19 when he joined the original Gary Burton Quartet in 1973, making it one of the finest and most distinctive bands of the day. Burton and Metheny have worked together a lot over the years, but this performance is from the 2008 tour which was a revival of that original quartet, with Steve Swallow, an original member, on bass, and drummer Antonio Sanchez. Dave Gelly of The Observer wrote: “Burton’s vibraphone and Metheny’s guitar conduct a dialogue that reaches beyond virtuosity and quick thinking to achieve a level of empathy that is simply inspiring.”
Pat Metheny (g)
Gary Burton (vib)
Steve Swallow (b)
Antonio Sanchez (d)
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Jazz highlights from the February 16th show with your host Alan Mertens:
Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan recorded some lasting music in the latter half of 1957. On August 1, they participated in an all-star septet that came to be known as Jazz Giants ’58. Their compatibility of the Giants session made this follow-up In Hi-Fi, recorded less than three months later – inevitable. Sources reveal that it was Getz who chose the rhythm section, while Mulligan had the idea of swapping horns on the final three titles recorded. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was is the final track from the original sessions that were produced by Norman Granz.
Recorded October 12, 1957
Stan Getz (Tenor & Baritone Saxophone)
Gerry Mulligan (Baritone & Tenor Saxophone)
Lou Levy (Piano)
Ray Brown (Bass)
Stan Levey (Drums)
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Jazz highlights from the February 16th show with your host Alan Mertens:
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley plays alto saxophone and brother Nat Adderley plays cornet for this session recorded in New York in May of 1961 not long after Cannonball had left the great 1959 sextet of Miles Davis. New Delhi is a composition by British born Victor Feldman who is best known as a pianist, but performs admirably here on the vibes. Wynton Kelly is the pianist, with Sam Jones on bass and Louis Hayes playing the drums to complete the rhythm section.
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