In A Mellow Tone
Wednesday April 12th, 2017 with Ron Steeds
Jazz and Blues recorded April 12 btween 1927 and 2003
In researching the show the figure of Charlie Bird Parker loomed large. So in a tangential way we celebrate the music of Charlie Parker.
| 1920's... a little blues to start the show |
| Original Stackolee Long Cleve Reed - The Songsters Tradition Before The Blues - Saga Blues |
| 1930's...more blues and a little purple |
| See if I Care Bessie Smith - 1929-1933 - Chronological Classics |
| Deep Purple Art Tatum - Complete Original Decca Recordings - Definitive Records |
| 1940's and the beginning of the 1950's... a clarinet and two alto saxes |
| Shiek of Araby Benny Goodman Sextet - Complete Live Recordings - Definitive Records |
| Scrapple From the Apple Charlie Parker - The Highest Flying Bird - Parade |
| Extrasensory Perception Lee Konitz with Charles Mingus - Autobiography In Jazz - Debut |
| Three tunes recorded April 12, 1957... a tribute to Lady Day, a tribute to Bunny Berigan, and Monk being Monk |
| God Bless The Child J.J. Johnson - Comp. Columbia Small Group Sessions - Mosaic |
| Did I Remember? Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny - Mosaic |
| I Should Care Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Himself - Riverside |
| 1960's |
| Breadwinner Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms - Verve |
| 1970's... mostly Bird |
| Ornithology Barry Harris - Tokyo 1976 - Prevue |
| Confirmation Archie Shepp - The Rising Sun Collection - Just a Memory |
| Charlie Oscar Peterson - Night Child - Pablo 
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| 1980's... more Bird and blues |
| Cheryl Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Album of the Year - Timeless |
| Disappearing Blues Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream of Music - Gramavision |
| 1990's... odes to Annette Peacock, Bird, Don Cherry, and Sophie (whomever she is) |
| Albert's Love Theme Paul Bley - Annette - Hatology |
| Yardbird Suite Roy Hargrove - Parker's Mood - Verve |
| El Nino New York Jazz Collective - I Don't Know This World Without Don Cherry - Naxos Jazz |
| Sophie's Lullaby John Lindberg - The Catbird Sings - Black Saint |
| 2000's... a contrast in concepts |
| Body and Soul Jason Moran - Modernistic - Blue Note |
| Van Gundy's Retreat Tim Berne - The Sublime and Science Fiction Live - Thirsty Ear |
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