Playlist Q's Jazz n' Blues 18 04 2011  

April is Jazz Appreciation Month 

Fumée Aux Yeux (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes)   2:51 Django Reinhardt & The Singers with Jean Sablon Django Reinhardt and the Singers With Jean Sablon (Johnson/Ecklund/Molin/Ymell/Wickman) Django Reinhardt, Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput g; Stephanne Grapelli v; Louis Vole b, acc; with Jean Sablon voc; & The Singers 2007 In 1930 Joseph and Django met accordionist and bassist Louis Vole and the Hot Club quintet and string quartet were created.  

You're Blase   3:15 Binnie Hale So Rare 2: A Second Selection By Barry Humphries Of His Favourite Gramaphone Records [Disc 1] (Ord Hamilton/Bruce Sievier) Jan 25th 1932  2000  

Jet Black Blues   3:05 Blind Willie Dunn Gin Bottle Four featuring King Oliver Snag It (Jazz Greats) (Lonnie Johnson) MC#20 credits state it was King Oliver cornet. Legend is, that it was Tommy Dorsey on cornet; Claude C. Hopkins p; Eddie Lang, Lonnie Johnson g; Hoagy Carmichael voc, d, perc 1/5/1929 NYC 1929 One of the first inter-racial jazz bands to make a record.  

Share Croppin' Blues   3:02 Kay Starr, Charlie Barnet And His Orchestra A Woman's Place Is In the Groove (W Robinson/R Mayer) V-Disc #32-6B with Charlie Barnet's Orch Kay Starr b. Katherine LaVerne Starks in Dougherty, Oklahoma, on July 21, 1922. Her father Harry was a full-blooded Iroquois Indian, and her mother Annie was Irish. CD released 2006  

The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing   3:22 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra New York 1935-1937 (Disc 1) (Davis/Coot) Jsp Records/Koch #914 CD released  2006  Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo married in 1930  

Swing Session (Soda Fountain Rag)   1:49 Duke Ellington Jazz Masters - Une anthologie 1928-1954 - At the Piano (Duke Ellington) CABU 2007 In the summer of 1914, while working as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Cafe in Washington, D.C., Ellington wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag" (also known as the "Poodle Dog Rag"). Ellington creating by ear, because he hadn't yet learned to read and write music. "I would play the 'Soda Fountain Rag' as a one-step, two-step, waltz, tango, and fox trot," Ellington recalled. "Listeners never knew it was the same piece. I was then established as having my own repertoire."  

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy   2:28 The Puppini Sisters Hit Pac - 5 The Puppini Sisters: EP (Don Raye/Highie Prince) The Andrews Sisters recorded this iconic Jump Blues tune in 1941 nearly a year before the United States entered World War II it was a major hit #6 th song of the century. Marcella Puppini italian and 2 English girls Stephanie O'Brien and Kate Mullins voc; Blake Wilner g; Henrick Jensen db; Pat Levett d, perc.  2008  

A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Girl)   2:36 Bob Crosby GI Jive - American Hits of World War II 1942 (R Gilbert/B O'Brien) Past Perfect #78147 Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats. 2002 

My Blue Heaven   2:53 Artie Shaw And His Gramercy Five Fiesta In Brass - Swing Trumpets (Whiting/Donaldson) MC #074 Billy Butterfield tpt; Artie Shaw cl; Johnny Guarniere celeste; A Hendrickson g; Jud DeNaut b; Nick Fatool d. 12/5/1945 Hollywood released 1999  

Mary Lou Williams is the featured artist of this year's Smithsonian Poster for Jazz Appreciation Month in 2011  

Benny's Bop   2:50 Benny Goodman (With Wardell Gray & Stan Hasselgård) Benny's Bop 1948-49 (Benny Goodman) ep Records #36 Benny Goodman cl; Wardell Grey t sax; Mary Lou Williams p. released CD 2005 

Airiness A La Nat   2:34 Jackie Mills & The Keynoters Legendary Jazz Drummers Stardust Records CLP #3720 by the Keynoters with Willie Smith on a sax, Red Callender on bass, "Lord Calvert" (Nat King Cole) on piano, and Jackie Mills on drums, from a Keynote label 78 rpm record. Recorded in 1946. CD release 2009 

On The Sunny Side Of The Street   3:07 Dizzy Gillespie & Joe Carroll Beyond The Sea (50 Summer Classics) [Disc 2] (MacHugh/Filelds ) Sony/BMG #8287685 5372 Joe "Bebop" Carroll voc; Dizzy Gillespie voc, tpt; J.J. Johnson tbn; Bill Graham a, bar sax; Milt Jackson p, vibes; Stuff Smith v; Percy Heath b; Al Jones d. Oct 25th 1951. 

Makin' Whoopee   2:25 Quincy Jones & Dinah Washington Makin' Whoopee (Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson) Song first written for and popularised by Eddy Cantor in the 1928 musical "Whoopee! " Freewings #? Quincy Jones arr, cond;  Charlie Shavers, Clark Terry, Bernie Glow tpt; Don Elliott tpt, mellophone, vibes, bongos; Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Quentin Jackson tbn; Tom Mitchell bass tbn; Hal McKusick flghn, a sax; Anthony Ortiga cl, a sax; Jerome Richardson, Lucky Thompson cl. t sax; Danny Bank bar sax; Don Elliott mellophone, tpt, vibes, bongos; Clarence "Sleepy" Anderson p, celeste; Barry Gaibraith g; Milt Hinton b; Osie Johnson d. 1956 released CD  2006 

I Loves You, Porgy   3:40 Miles Davis Love Songs (G & I Gershwin) CK #65853 Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci tpt; Dick Hickson, Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Joe Bennett tbn; Willie Ruff, Julius Watkins, Gunther Schuller frhn; Bill Barber tu; Jerome Richardson Romeo Penque fl, a fl, cl; Paul Chambers b; Jimmy Cobb d. 2001 

Everything Happens to Me   3:09 The Art Pepper Quartet The Best of West Coast Jazz (Matt Dennis) Disconforme #10204 Art Pepper cl, a sax; Carl Perkins p; Ben Tucker b; Chuck Flores d. 1957 released CD 2004 

Too Close For Comfort   3:09 Count Bassie, Joe Williams & Ella Fitzgerald One O'Clock Jump (N Kiel/E Hughes) erve MG V #8288 Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald voc; Count Bassie p, Joe Newman, Renuld Jones, Thad Jones, Wendell Cully tpt; Benny Powell, Henry Coker tbn; Frank Wess fl, t sax; Frank Foster t sax; Bill Graham a sax; Charlie Fowlkes bar sax; Freddy Green g; Eddie Jones b; Sonnty Payne d. 1957 

Ain't No Use   3:54 Sarah Vaughan The Divine One (L Kirkland/S Wyche) Capitol Records #4824 Sarah Vaughan voc; Harry 'Sweets' Edison tpt; Jimmy Jones arr, p; Don Lamond d. Recorded after she joined the Roulette label in 1960  

TV Is the Thing This Year   1:43 Dianne Reeves Good Night, and Good Luck. (Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) (Phillip Medley/William Sanford Umgd/Concord #2307 Dianne Reeves voc; Matt Catingub a, t sax; Peter Martin p; Robert Hurst or Christoph Luty b; Jeff Hamilton d; Alex Acuna, Alan Estes perc. released in 1956 Diana Washington 2006  

Manha de Carnaval   4:33 Don Burrows & The Mell-O-Tones Non-Stop Flight: Great Music of the Swing Era (Luiz Bonfá) 1959 ABC Jazz #982 9885 Rosemary Byron v; Brian McGuinness tpt; Jim Elliott tbn; John Charles p. with Grahame Conlon g; Stan Kenton b; Ian Bloxsom d. Phillip Sametz voc. 2005 

I'll Remember April   2:52 Chet Baker (Vocal by Caterina Valente) Compact Jazz (John Raye/Jean Paul) Compact Jazz #840 632 2 Chet Baker tpt; Caterina Valente voc, g. Baden Baden March 26th 1956 

Easy to Love   3:30 Sun Ra Standards - EP (Cole Albert Porter) 1201 Music #9019 2 Walter Miller tpt; John Gilmore t sax; Sun Ra p; Ronnie Boykins b; Clifford Jarvis d. Chicago early 1963 released 2000 

Wnew (Theme Song)   2:56 Stan Getz/Bill Evans Stan Getz And Friends (Larry Green) Verve # Stan Getz t sax; Bill Evans p; Ron Carter b; Elvin Jones d. 1964 

I've Got Your Number   2:01 Peggy Lee Peggy Lee Sings the Standards (Cy Coleman/Carol Leigh) 1969 released CD 2001  

Steve's Blues   6:23 Sonny Criss Prestige Profiles Collector's Edition Vol 6 Sonny Criss Prestige #30654 pianist Walter Davis, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Alan Dawson October, 21, 1966 CD release 2005   

How Could I Settle For Less   2:44 Carmen McRae Velvet Soul (J Broussolle/A Distel/R Allen) LaserLight #17 111 Carmen McRae voc; Zoot Sims t sax; Tom Gavin p; Bucky Pizzarelli g; Paul West b; Jimmy Madison d. NYC 1973  

Mojo Street Blues   3:32 The Creole Jazz Orchestra Opus 1 Jade lead voc; Longinaeu Parsons, Ludovic Louis, Claude Deppa tpt, flghn; Pierre Chabréle tbn, steel drum, bvoc; Sulaiman Hakim a sax; Ludovic Allainmat p; Joel Dobat b, db; Sonny Troup d; Arnold Moueza perc. 2010