Are There Any Jazz Lovers Out There? (3 Viewers)

[Elvis]

Side A
00:00 Tempus Fugue-It Written By Bud Powell
02:37 Celia Written By Bud Powell
05:39 Cherokee Written By Noble
09:19 I'll Keep Loving You Written By Bud Powell
12:03 Strictly Confidential Written By Bud Powell
15:15 All God's Chillun Got Rhythm Written By Kaper, Kahn, Jurmann
Side B
18:18 So Sorry Please Written By Bud Powell
21:46 Get Happy Written By Arlen, Koehler
24:42 Sometimes I'm Happy Written By Grey, Caesar, Youmans
28:21 Sweet Georgia Brown Written By Bernie, Casey, Pinkard
31:13 Yesterdays Written By Kern, Harbach
34:07 April In Paris Written By Harburg, Duke
37:20 Body And Soul Written By Heyman, Green, Sour

Bud Powell, piano
Ray Brown (tracks: A1-A6), Curly Russell (tracks: B1-B7), bass
Max Roach, drums

Released 1956

NOTE: This 12" LP compiles tracks all but one of which were previously issued in 1950 on two 10" LPs: Mercury MG-C-102 Bud Powell Piano (r2984281) and MG-C-507 Bud Powell Piano Solos (r4582604). "Cherokee", the only track not on those 10" LPs, was released previously on the 1954 Clef sampler MG c-674 The Jazz Scene (r6004272). Note there are also earlier releases of some of this material on 78.

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/uJdOBFhx3os?si=E8qgnSaDxKelNaaX

Side A
00:00 Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) Written By Porter
06:35 Anything Goes Written By Porter
10:14 Too Close For Comfort Written By Bock, Weiss, Holoscener
Side B
17:13 That Old Feeling Written By Brown, Fain
23:16 This Can't Be Love Written By Rodgers-Hart
32:03 Ballad Written By Mulligan

Stan Getz, tenor sax
Gerry Mulligan, baritone sax
Lou Levy, piano
Ray Brown, bass
Stan Levey, drums

Recorded at Los Angeles, CA, October 12, 1957

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/_WV6cChg6ek?si=cRRbPwwQ8J_ZxGQ1

 

[Marcel]

I like the guitar

 

[Elvis]

I like the guitar

Chris Whiteman has one of the best channels on YT. Although he uses it more as an adjunct for his teaching practice these days, the showcase music pieces he performed are absolutely exquisite.
Concerning the guitar, Chris had to say this about it, in the description section of that video...

I am using a 1959 Gibson ES-125T (thinline) and a Quilter 101 mini reverb head, pine cabinet that I built with 10" Eminence lil' buddy (Hemp coned speaker). The mic is the industry standard Royer r121 run into a Cloud Cl-1 Cloudlifter to boost the signal, Apogee Duet interface into a iMac using Logic proX. Video is shot with an Iphone X (4k) and synced in Logic. Then video is edited in iMovie (fades in and out), exported in 4x and uploaded to Youtube.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Here's another showcase piece Whiteman posted. It was the first one of his I ever saw and the one that got me hooked on his channel. Can't believe its been over 10 years already...


View: https://youtu.be/-ubnOyxphac?si=rTczrBZ-FhKePeWZ

 

[Elvis]

Shifting gears now, we move on...or rather back, to one of the landmark recordings in Jazz history.
Louis Armstrong's Potato Head Blues.
Recorded on May 10, 1927 by his Hot Seven group, this song can claim a few "firsts".
Although some argue that there are earlier examples, it still holds the distinction of...
...shifting the focus of the group from the ensemble to a "lead performer", in this case, Armstrong himself.
...giving a song a "pushing" feel by playing against the time. First time someone didn't play "in the pocket", as we say.
...the first time a band drops out during the main solo of the song, leaving the soloist to improvise, solely on their own.

So now that we're all caught up on this piece of history, let's give a listen to this early Jazz classic. The Potato Head Blues...


View: https://youtu.be/AeBn_TZ4Iak?si=Pore2IChqH74AW0M

...and in case anyone's interested in who else is in this band, the members are...

Louis Armstrong (Cornet)
John Thomas (Trombone)
Johnny Dodds (Clarinet)
Lil Hardin-Armstrong (Piano)
Johnny St. Cyr (Banjo, Guitar)
Pete Briggs (Tuba)
Baby Dodds (Drums)

 

[Marcel]

One needs to love Louis Armstrong. I still have a CD somewhere with recordings of him from the 1920's I believe.

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/IxBl-sphQJs?si=jYLxpoT31GdWpw_u

"I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 0:00
"Dear Old Stockholm" (Traditional) - 6:51
"Afternoon in Paris" (John Lewis) - 12:56
"All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 22:18
"Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) - 27:33
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 33:44

John Lewis - piano
Sacha Distel - guitar
Barney Wilen - tenor saxophone
Percy Heath (tracks 4–6), Pierre Michelot (tracks 1–3) - bass
Kenny Clarke (tracks 4–6), Connie Kay (tracks 1–3) - drums

Released 1957

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/TmIwm5RElRs?si=0--YkrtUWlB8JhAG

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/q1MXhO3uJaY?si=fEfLjk9w53Wq_pAf

"New Rhumba" (Ahmad Jamal)
"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
"All of You" (Cole Porter)
"It Ain't Necessarily So" (Gershwin, Gershwin)
"I Don't Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)" (Jack Elliot, Harold Spina)
"I Get a Kick Out of You" (Porter)
"Jeff" (Ray Crawford)
"Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen)
"Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)

Recorded May 23, 1955
Released on Argo in 1956

NOTE: Also released in 1955, on the Parrot label, as "Ahamad Jamal Plays".

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/0Ue9igC7flI?si=fTer5ZlYidb9C8nX

Notes from the video:
The Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer Orchestra feat. Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' the Blues.
The first minute of the song is a sax solo by Trumbauer. The second minute is Bix's cornet solo. The third minute features a short clarinet solo by Jimmy Dorsey, who was the clarinetist in Trumbauer's Orchestra at that time. The guitarist on this track is Eddie Lang.
This song is considered a jazz classic because Bix and, to a lesser degree, Tram were able to make a slow-tempo jazz ballad swing. This ability to make slow-tempo swinging jazz would later be emulated by jazz musicians ranging from Lester Young to John Coltrane to Miles Davis.

 

[Elvis]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37ZhzYLhnw

01: Come Rain Or Come Shine - 00:00
02: Gypsy In My Soul - 04:45
03: Embraceable You - 08:06
04: Misty - 13:00
05: As Long As There's Music - 18:29
06: 'Round Midnight - 22:34
07: This Can't Be Love - 27:02
08: Blues Chorale - 30:23
09: Prelude - 34:19

Johnny Smith - Guitars
George Duvivier - Bass
Hank Jones - Piano
Ed Shaughnessy - Drums & Percussion

Released 1961

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/_PcbH8S3yK0?si=qH5G_sDndniHfaek

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/8Hg9bWxPuX0?si=wo05NMvBdEF22jLT

 

[Elvis]

View: https://youtu.be/aoT00cRI6h0?si=DFzqnagiR0ApokkB