Showing posts with label 100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#34) - Miles Davis - Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)

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#34 - Miles Davis - Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) I'm a huge fan of  Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess -- such a huge fan that I gener...

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#33) - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Dr. Jazz

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#33 - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - Hello Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz To everyone out there who reads The Jazz Clarinet -- I...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#32) Paul Desmond with Dave Brubeck - Audrey

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#32 - Paul Desmond with Dave Brubeck - Audrey - 1955 The opening number of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's first album - Brubeck Time - is...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#31) Peggy Lee

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#31 - Peggy Lee - My Heart Belongs to Daddy I've always loved the way Peggy Lee got a band to eat out of her hand...how she holds them...
Friday, February 14, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#30) Artie Shaw - My Funny Valentine

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#30 - Artie Shaw - My Funny Valentine Hey, it's February 14th, so why not? This version also happens to be one of the great, final re...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#29) Jelly Roll Morton * The Chant

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#29 - Jelly Roll Morton - The Chant (1926) This band, people...this band...listen to how organically and easily they hit everything toget...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#28) Lyle Mays with Pat Metheny

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#28 - When We Were Free - Pat Metheny - 1996 The Pat Metheny Group played a inordinately large role in my life as a listening musician fro...
Monday, February 10, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#27) Pete Fountain - Hindustan (Live)

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#27 - Pete Fountain Live in Santa Monica (1961) - 'Hindustan' - Jack Sperling on drums An epic performance of 'Hindustan',...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#26) Benny Goodman - Bugle Call Rag 1936

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#26 - Benny Goodman - Bugle Call Rag - 1936 Unlikely we'll ever hear anything like this again. Bands don't use the same instrument...
Saturday, February 8, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#25) Charles Mingus

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#25 - Charles Mingus - II B.S. Rip your head off groove! Serious soul! [  This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it repres...

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#24) Doug Richford with Bob Wallis and His Storyville Jazzmen

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#24 - Doug Richford with Bob Wallis - 'Alla Turca' - 1960 You have to suffer through the clunked-Mozart piano intro, but that...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#23) Charlie Barnet

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#23 - Charlie Barnet - Cherokee/Redskin Rhumba  Before the bebop crowd made it a test tune of virtuosity in 12 keys, "Cherokee" ...
Monday, February 3, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#22) Joe Henderson

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#22 - Joe Henderson - Black Narcissus [  This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it representative of the "most importa...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#21) Acker Bilk

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#21 - Acker Bilk - In A Persian Market - 1962 There are several versions of Acker playing "In a Persian Market", all of them wor...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#20) Frank Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke

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#20 - Bix and Tram - I'm Coming Virginia [  This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it representative of the "most im...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#19) Edmond Hall

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#19 - Besame Mucho - Edmond Hall - 1944 I hate it when a recording is so stiff you can hear how many music stands are in the studio. None ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#18) Thelonious Monk

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#18 - Thelonious Monk - Bye-Ya [  This is not a comprehensive list, nor is it representative of the "most important" ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#17) Eric Dolphy

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#17 - Eric Dolphy - God Bless the Child (Live) - 1961 Seems an appropriate meditation as the March for Life is kicking off in D.C.  ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#16) John Coltrane with Duke Ellington

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#16 - John Coltrane with Duke Ellington - In a Sentimental Mood How to play a ballad. [  This is not a comprehensive list,...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

100 Jazz Tunes Everyone Should Hear (#15) Wynton Marsalis

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#15 - Wynton Marsalis Live at the Village Vanguard 1994/94 - In the Sweet Embrace of Life Haven't heard this before? Got an hour? Che...