Friday, June 29, 2007

On the road again...

Off to the midwest for ten-plus days. Have a great 4th (those in the USA), and I'll catch you back here on the 19th of July for "Just a Taste." Then, if all goes according to plan, no travel for a while.

Combo Plate - June 29, 2007

Artist: Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band
Track: Bweebida Bobbida
Album: En Concert (Europe 1)

Artist: Pete Mills
Track: In Walked Bud
Album: Art and Architecture (Summit)

Artist: Tadd Dameron
Track: The Tadd Walk
Album: The Fats Navarro Story (Proper)

Artist: Serge Chaloff
Track: We the People Bop
Album: The Baritone Sax Master (Proper)

Artist: Louis Armstrong & His Hot 5 w/ Lonnie Johnson
Track: Hotter than That
Album: Lonnie Johnson: The Original Guitar Wizard (Proper)

Artist: Caribbean Jazz Project
Track: The Gathering
Album: Here and Now (Concord)

Artist: Steve Turre
Track: The Spirits Up Above
Album: The Spirits Up Above (HighNote)

Artist: Anthony Wilson
Track: Make It Good
Album: Power of Nine (Groove Note)

Artist: Hot Club of San Francisco
Track: Mystery Pacific
Album: Yerba Buena Bounce (Reference Recordings)

Artist: Gordon Brisker
Track: Catharsis
Album: The Gift (Naxos Jazz)

Artist: Roy Eldridge
Track: Don't Be That Way
Album: Little Jazz/Trumpet Giant (Proper)

Artist: Duke Ellington
Track: Come Sunday
Album: Skin Deep (Proper)

Artist: Pee Wee Russell
Track: Hackensack
Album: Ask Me Now! (Impulse)

Artist: Peter Martin
Track: 'Ting for Ray
Album: In the P.M. (Maxjazz)

Artist: Anat Cohen
Track: Samba de Orfeu/Struttin' with Some Barbecue
Album: Noir (Anzic)

Artist: Louis Armstrong & His Hot 5 w/ Lonnie Johnson
Track: Savoy Blues
Album: Lonnie Johnson: The Original Guitar Wizard (Proper)

Artist: Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band
Track: Ballad
Album: Jazz Masters 36 (Verve)

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Just a Taste - June 28, 2007

Artist: Benny Goodman w/ Fats Navarro
Track: Stealin' Apples
Album: The Fats Navarro Story

Artist: Charlie Ventura
Track: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Album: Bop for the People

Artist: Bob Crosby
Track: Little Rock Getaway
Album: Big Noise from Winnetka

Artist: Benny Goodman w/ Charlie Christian
Track: Honeysuckle Rose
Album: Original Guitar Genius

Artist: Kenny Clarke
Track: Tricotism
Album: Klook's the Man

Artist: Cab Calloway w/ Dizzy Gillespie
Track: Pickin' the Cabbage
Album: Dizzy Gillespie Story: 1939-1950

Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Track: Gold Rush
Album: Jeru

Artist: Serge Chaloff
Track: King Edward the Flatted Fifth
Album: Baritone Sax Master

Artist: Serge Chaloff
Track: The Goof and I
Album: Baritone Sax Master

Artist: Billy Eckstine w/ Fats Navarro
Track: Air Mail Special
Album: The Fats Navarro Story

Artist: Benny Goodman w/ Charlie Christian
Track: Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special)
Album: Original Guitar Genius

Artist: Benny Goodman w/ Charlie Christian
Track: AC/DC Current
Album: Original Guitar Genius

Artist: Modern Jazz Quartet
Track: Gershwin medley
Album: La Ronde

Artist: Roy Eldridge
Track: All the Cats Join In
Album: Little Jazz/Trumpet Giant

Artist: Charlie Parker w/ Dizzy Gillespie
Track: An Oscar for Treadwell
Album: Dizzy Gillespie Story: 1939-1950

Artist: Artie Shaw w/Roy Eldridge
Track: Scuttlebutt
Album: Little Jazz/Trumpet Giant

Artist: Charlie Parker w/ Fats Navarro
Track: A Night in Tunisia
Album: The Fats Navarro Story

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: The Late Tiny Kahn
Album: Swing King!

Artist: Serge Chaloff
Track: Elevation
Album: Baritone Sax Master

Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Track: Jeru
Album: Jeru

Artist: Zoot Sims
Track: Tickle Toe
Album: Swing King!

Artist: Lonnie Johnson & Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang)
Track: Guitar Blues
Album: Lonnie Johnson: Original Guitar Wizard

All of these recordings are on the Proper label from England. Why play things from just one label? As I noted on the air today, I had only just purchased these albums and hadn't had a chance to listen to them yet. So we got to listen to them together. I hope you enjoyed them. Since most of the albums are 4-CD sets, there's plenty more!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Combo Plate - June 22, 2007

Artist: Oscar Peterson
Track: Kadota's Blues
Album: The Sound of the Trio (Verve)

Artist: Sylvia Cuenca-Kyle Koehler
Track: Croquet Ballet
Album: Exit 13 (Etoile)

Artist: Wardell Gray
Track: Twisted
Album: Bebop Spoken Here (Proper)

Artist: Larry Willis
Track: Prayer for New Orleans
Album: Blue Fable (HighNote)

Artist: Louis Armstrong-Jack Teagarden
Track: Fifty-fifty Blues
Album: Singin' the Blues (RCA Camden)

Artist: Johnny Hodges
Track: Jeep's Blues
Album: The Jeep Is Jumpin' (Proper)

Artist: Kenny Clarke
Track: Blue Serge
Album: Klook's the Man (Proper)

Artist: Joshua Redman
Track: Indian Song
Album: Back East (Nonesuch)

Artist: Hot Club of San Francisco
Track: Tickle Toe
Album: Yerba Buena Bounce (Reference Recordings)

Artist: Lester Young (Count Basie band)
Track: Tickle Toe
Album: The President of the Tenor Sax: 1936-48 (Jazz Legends)

Artist: Tiny Moore-Jethro Burns
Track: Tickle Toe
Album: Back to Back (Acoustic Disc)

Artist: Jack DeJohnette-Larry Goldings-John Scofield
Track: Saudades
Album: Saudades (ECM)

Artist: Ernie Watts
Track: Nostalgia in Times Square
Album: The Long Road Home (JVC)

Artist: Paul Brusger
Track: Waltz for Lady Nancy
Album: Go to Plan B (CAP)

Artist: George Barnes
Track: Pick Yourself Up
Album: Blues Going Up (Concord)

Artist: Along Came Betty
Track: Sad But True
Album: Brad Mehldau's Monogrammed Guest Towels (Along Came Betty)

Artist: George Barnes
Track: I'm Coming, Virginia
Album: Plays So Good (Concord)

Just a Taste - June 21, 2007

Artist: Kenny Clarke
Track: Eronel
Album: Klook's the Man (Proper)

Artist: Randy Weston
Track: Functional
Album: That's the Way I Feel Now (A&M)

Artist: Milt Jackson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker
Track: Grooveyard
Album: Quadrant (Pablo)

Artist: Jack DeJohnette, Larry Goldings, John Scofield
Track: Seven Steps to Heaven
Album: Saudades (ECM)

Artist: Johnny Smith
Track: Cavu
Album: Meets the Master Saxes (Proper)

Artist: Mike Vax
Track: Stompin' at the Savoy
Album: Live...on the Road (Summit)

Artist: Tommy Newsom
Track: Titter Pipes
Album: and his Octo-Pussycats (Arbors Jazz)

Artist: Kenny Clarke
Track: Klook's Nook
Album: Klook's the Man (Proper)

Artist: Charlie Ventura
Track: How High the Moon
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Charlie Ventura
Track: Slow Joe
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Gene Krupa
Track: Disk Jockey Jump
Album: Bebop Spoken Here (Proper)

Artist: Steve Davis
Track: UMMG
Album: Alone Together (Mapleshade)

Artist: Charlie Ventura
Track: Lonely Woman
Album: Bop for the People (Proper)

Artist: Stan Kenton
Track: Lonely Woman
Album: Standards in Silhouette (Capitol)

Artist: Joshua Redman
Track: I'm an Old Cowhand
Album: Back East (Nonesuch)

Artist: Richie Kamuca
Track: Symphony
Album: Richard Kamuca: 1976 (Jazzz)

Artist: Arturo Sandoval
Track: Peaceful
Album: Rumba Palace (Telarc)

Friday, June 01, 2007

First day of summer

At the rate I'm going, I might have to start using Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" as a theme song. Yes, another interlude away from KRML. I'll be on the east coast and in Southern California for the next couple of weeks, returning for "Just a Taste" on June 21. I'd like to say that things will settle down for a while, but there's a grandchild on the way, due in July...

Combo Plate - June 1, 2007

Artist: Horace Silver
Track: The Hippest Cat in Hollywood
Album: The Hardbop Grandpop (Impulse)

Artist: Buddy Childers
Track: The "Bone" Zone
Album: It's What's Happening Now! (Candid)

Artist: Sylvia Cuenca-Kyle Koehler
Track: Minor League
Album: Exit 13 (Etoile)

Artist: Bobbe Norris
Track: Love Turns Winter into Spring
Album: Out of Nowhere (Four Directions)

Artist: Frank Vignola
Track: Strike Up the Band
Album: Vignola Plays Gershwin (Mel Bay)

Artist: McCoy Tyner-Bobby Hutcherson
Track: Travelin' Blues
Album: Manhattan Moods (Blue Note)

Artist: Buddy Childers
Track: Straight, No Chaser
Album: West Coast Quintet (Candid)

Artist: Oscar Peterson
Track: Salute to Garner
Album: Piano Power (Proper)

Artist: Joe Lovano-Hank Jones
Track: Budo
Album: Kids (Blue Note)

Artist: Morrie Louden
Track: Verbatim
Album: Time Piece (MoSound)

Artist: Bobbe Norris
Track: Thanks for the Memory
Album: You and the Night and the Music (CBS/Sony)

Artist: Buddy Childers
Track: Stars Fell on Alabama
Album: Artistry in Jazz (Candid)

Artist: Roni Ben-Hur
Track: Recado Bossa Nova
Album: Keepin' It Open (Motéma)

Artist: Anat Cohen & the Anzic Orchestra
Track: Do It
Album: Noir (Anzic)

Artist: Bobbe Norris
Track: I'd Rather Be Here
Album: Out of Nowhere (Four Directions)

Artist: Coleman Hawkins
Track: Out of Nowhere
Album: Django Reinhardt: All Star Sessions (Capitol)

Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Track: Bweebida Bobbida
Album: Jeru (Proper)