playlist 10-11-08

trombone show

i turned on bobby j's show, which directly precedes mine, from 9 to 11 and heard that he was doing his annual trombone show. since i had not planned my show yet, that made it easy. i quickly assembled a bunch of trombone albums from my collection and headed on down to the station. you can't go wrong with jazz trombone. after all, as a famous person once said, we all can use more trombone, or shofar. 

interestingly enuf, there are several compilations of jazz trombone that include a lot of excellent music. all of them feature kai winding and jj johnson, of course, along with others. compared to other recordings, there is really a dearth of albums dedicated to jazz trombone. it is truly a neglected instruments but among true jazz aficionados, very much appreciated and loved. bobby j's annual show pays respectful homage to the greats of this instrument.  i only humbly followed suit.  

artist song album

john coltrane/

johnny hartman lush life john coltrane johnny hartman

kai winding flamingo kai winding trombones and the axidentals

kai winding playboy's theme solo kai winding

kai winding bop city

urbie green the look of love urbie green and twenty-one trombones

tyree glenn how high the moon at the embers

tyree glenn lonely  " 

curtis fuller i'll walk alone curtis fuller jazztet

curtis fuller blues de funk imagination

jimmy cleveland little beaver introducing jimmy cleveland

bennie green there's a small hotel bennie green with strings

bennie green pennies from heaven

kai winding and 

jj johnson how long has this been going on? kai and jj with strings

jj johnson opus v

kai winding a night on bop mountain

jj johnson  poem for brass

jj johnson turnpike the eminent jj johnson vol. 1

frank rosolino no i lay me down frankly speaking

frank rosolino frank rosolino quintet

albert mangelsdorff hamburger idyll

playlist 9/20/08

Artist Song Album

1. Horace Tapscott Lush Life Songs of the unsung

2. Sun Ra Hour of Parting Sound Sun Pleasure

3. Red Garland Woody'n You Soul Junction

4. Red Garland Our delight All Morning Long

5. Toots Thielemanns Killer Joe Slow Motion

6. A. Farmer/B. Golson Killer Joe ...meet the Jazztet

7. Henry Threadgill To be announced You know the number

8. Lonnie Liston Smith Peace Expansions

9. Pharoah Sanders Heart is a melody Heart is a melody

10.McCoy Tyner Valley of Life Sahara

11.Abbey Lincoln Avec le temps A Turtle's Dream

12.McCoy Tyner Ebony Queen Sahara

13.Brian Blade Stoner Hill Season of Changes

14.Eliane Elias You and the night Bill Evans

15.Lennie Tristano Becoming The New Tristano

16.P.Zukerman/C.Bolling Ragtime Suite for violin and jazz piano

17.Lew Tabackin Summertime Trackin'

18.Steps Ahead Radioactive Modern Times

This was a fun show. A real mix, as usual, of serious jazz and fun jazz. Quite a bit of Coltrane up front, with Donald Byrd on the Red  Garland albums. Couldn't resist playing a couple of cuts from this two-record set of two different Garland albums, Soul Junction and All Morning Long. Donald Byrd sounds great. Trane is...Trane. Super.

I  just happened to come across the Horace Tapscott album that I occasionally use for Lush Life. He does a beautiful job on it.

I played Sun Ra because Bunnyphonic mentioned him the other day.This is a rather conventional album for Sun Ra from the 50s. Very accessible. Beautifully done. Sun Ra was a genius at orchestration, instrumentation, the whole ball of wax. 

Two versions of Killer Joe. Can't go wrong. Toots is good. Art and Benny cant be beat.

The Henry Threadgill and Lonnie Liston Smith albums are excellent -- each in its on right.

I need to remember to stop playing that song, Heart is a melody. I'm done with it. I like Pharoah but...

McCoy Tyner's album Sahara is excellent!

Abbey Lincoln I played as a request from Tracey Tucker. The song Avec le temps, too. Very, very nice. I mentioned Tracey's name on the air -- first name only.

I love that Brian Blade tune. It's beautiful.

Just saw Eliane Elias this week at UTSA. She was amazing. Didnt play this tune but others from the same album. It was a wonderful evening. I went alone, found a seat in the 4th row center just before it began. Yes!

Lennie Tristano was a genius!