KUSF In Exile 02.27.12 10-11 PM Jazz On The Cusp DJ Doctor Jekkyll

For over a century, jazz music has continued to be a living, breathing entity. To date, the music itself has defended itself admirably against those self-appointed guardians of last year's blues who would compartmentalize jazz as swing, bebop, cool, avant-garde, etc. Rather than hearing jazz as a sequence of separate styles, it is important to hear its continuity across time. Jazz is always on the cusp, always searching, always ready to incorporate a new discovery into the body of work that preceded it. There is no radical break between swing and bebop, between bebop and cool, between the early New Orleans styles and the avant-garde group improvisations of the 1960s. The music exists on a continuum.

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1. 'Round Midnight
(Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams/Bernie Hanighen)
George Russell Sextet
Ezz-thetics
Riverside
1961
George Russell - piano and arrangement
Don Ellis - trumpet
Davce Baker - trombone
Eric Dolphy - alto sax
Steve Swallow - bass
Joe Hunt - drums

2. Night in Tunisia
(Dizzy Gillespie/Frank Paparelli)
Dexter Gordon
Our Man In Paris
Blue Note
1963
Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Bud Powell - piano
Pierre Michelot - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums

3. Makondi
(Cherry)
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón
ECM
1982
Don Cherry - doussn' gouni
Ed Blackwell - drums

4. In a Little Spanish Town
(Mabel Wayne/Sam Lewis/Joe Young)
Benny Carter
Swingin' in the '20s
Contemporary
1958
Benny Carter - alto sax
Earl "Fatha" Hines - piano
Leroy Vinnegar - bass
Shelly Manne - drums

5. Bassism
(Ra)
Sun Ra
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Savoy Records
1961
Sun Ra - piano
John Gilmore - tenor sax
Marshall Allen - flute
Pat Patrick - baritone sax
Bernard McKinney - trombone
Ronald Boykins - bass
Wille Jones - drums

6. The Chant
(Mel Stitzel)
Jelly Roll Morton
The Birth of the Hot: The Classic Chicago "Red Hot Peppers" Sessions 1926-27
Bluebird
1995
George Mitchell - cornet
Kid Ory - trombone
Omer Simeon - clarinet
Jelly Roll Morton - piano
Johhny St. Cyr - banjo
John Lindsay - bass
Andrew Hilaire - drums

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
(Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn)
Dexter Gordon
Go!
Blue Note
1962
Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Sonny Clark - piano
Buthc Warren - bass
Billy Higgins - drums

8. C/D/E
(Ehrlich)
Cyrille/Dresser/Ehrlich
C/D/E
Jazz Magnet
2001
Marty Ehrlich - alto sax
Mark Dresser - bass
Andrew Cyrille - drums

9. Gahrooli
(traditional)
Popular Traditions of Pakistan
Halla-Gulla!
Music Village/Radiant Future
1995
Misri Jogi - murli
Gorhko - murli
The murli is the snake-charmer's double-barrelled flute.

10. Wee-Dot
(J.J. Johnson)
Dexter Gordon
The Apartment
SteepleChase
1974
Dexter Gordon - tenor sax
Kenny Drew - piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson - bass
Albert "Tootie" Heath - drums

11. 'Round Midnight
(Thelonious Monk/Cootie Williams/Bernie Hanighen)
Dollar Brand
Round Midnight Live at the Montmartre
Black Lion
1965
Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - piano
Johnny Gertze - bass
Makaya Ntshoke - drums