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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PLAYLIST
10th edition
6 June 2011
1. King Porter Stomp
(Jell Roll Morton)
Air
Air Lore
1979
RCA
Henry Threadgill - tenor sax
Fred Hopkins - bass
Steve McCall - drums
2. Old
(Roscoe Mitchell)
Roscoe Mitchell
Old/Quartet
1979
ECM
Roscoe Mitchell - alto sax
Lester Bowie - trumpet
Malachi Favors Maghostus - bass
Philip Wilson - drums
3. Jitterbug Waltz
(Thomas "Fats" Waller)
David Murray
Morning Song
Black Saint
1983
David Murray - tenor saxophone
John Hicks - piano
Reggie Workman - bass
Ed Blackwell - drums
4. Soft Dance
(John Carter)
John Carter Octet
Dauwhe
Black Saint
1982
John Carter - clarinet, composition
Bobby Bradford - cornet
Red Callender - tuba
James Newton - flute, bass flute
Charles Owen - soprano sax, oboe, clarinet
Roberto Miranda - bass
William Jeffrey - drums
Luis Peralta - percussion
5. My Blue Heaven
(Donaldson/Whiting)
Art Tatum
The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 1
Pablo
1975
recorded on 25 June 1954
Benny Carter - alto sax
Art Tatum - piano
Louis Bellson - drums
6. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
(Strachey/Marvell/Link)
Count Basie
Count Basie Jam Montreux '77
Pablo
1977
Benny Carter - alto sax
Count Basie - piano
Ray Brown - bass
Louis Bellson - drums
7. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
(Alter/DeLange)
Booker Ervin
Booker 'n' Brass
Pacific Jazz
1998
recorded 14 September 1967
Booker Ervin - tenor sax
Martin Banks, Ray Copeland, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Williams - trumpets
Garnett Brown, Bennie Green - trombones
Kenny Barron - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Lennie McBrowne - drums
arranged and conducted by Teddy Edwards
8. Forever
(Jordan/Parker/Drake)
Kidd Jordan
Palm of Soul
Aum Fidelity
2006
Kidd Jordan - tenor sax
William Parker - gongs and bowls
Hamid Drake - drums
9. After the Rain
(Coltrane)
John Coltrane
To the Beat of a Different Drum
Impulse!
1965
John Coltrane - tenor sax
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Roy Haynes - drums
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