Saturday, January 1, 2011

Insufficiently Sung Sidemen/Playlist

Here is the play list for the first Jazz Note of 2011.  This shows focuses on a number of jazz artists who made a big mark as sidemen but are relatively unheard of as leaders.  As always the show can be heard at http://www.live365.com/stations/kcblanchard. I will provide a list of musicians and some commentary as soon as I can.  

The show will debut about 8pm Central Time tomorrow (Sunday, Jan. 2nd). 

  1. Mal Waldron & Marion Brown/Inch Worm/Much More!/Mal Waldron piano; Marion Brown Alto Sax
  2. John Coltrane/Naima/Afro Blue Impressions
  3. Archie Shepp/Naima/Four For Trane
  4. Marion Brown/West India/Three for Shepp
  5. Marion Brown/La Sorrella/Why Not?
  6. Mal Waldron & Marion Brown/Contemplation/Songs of Love and Regret
  7. Andrew Cyrille/Metamuscian's Stomp/Metamuscian's Stomp
  8. Andrew Cyrille/The Navigator/The Navigator
  9. Miles Davis/Stuff/Miles in the Sky
  10. Archie Shepp/Ujamma/Live in New York
  11. Grachan Moncur III/The Twins/Some Other Stuff
  12. Grachan Moncur III/The Coaster/Evolution
  13. Wayne Shorter/Genesis/The All Seeing Eye
  14. Wayne Shorter/502 Blues (Drinking and Driving)/Adam's Apple
  15. Wayne Shorter/Night Dreamer/Night Dreamer
  16. Reggie Workman/Meteor/Summit Conference
  17. Reggie Workman/Summit Conference/Summit Conference
  18. Horace Tapscott/Aiee! The Phantom/Aiee! The Phantom 
  19. Mal Waldron/Crowd Scene/Crowd Scene
  20. Booker Ervin/The Trance/The Trance
  21. Booker Ervin/You Don't Know What Love Is/Heavy!
  22. Booker Ervin/A Day To Mourn//Freedom Book
  23. Charles Mingus/You Better Git Hit In Your Soul/Mingus at Antibes
  24. Archie Shepp/Sophisticated Lady/The Way Ahead

3 comments:

  1. These are a good number of jazz musicians that some music listeners may or may not be familiar with. Marion Brown is terrific.

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  2. Another great selection, especially enjoyable is the Horace Tapscott track.
    Maybe I am finding interacting links between the tracks that you had not intended, but with:
    Reggie Workman playing on 8 tracks
    Grachan Moncur III 6
    Marion Brown 5
    Wayne Shorter 5
    Andrew Cyrille 4
    Mal Waldron 3
    Jackie Byard 3
    Alan Dawson 3
    Archie Shepp 3
    Tony Williams 3
    Booker Ervin 3
    there seems to be some clever programming by yourself.

    However, I can only make a more tenuous link with the Coltrane track; no musicians in common, but Archie Shepp's 'Four from Trane' album provides us with 'Naima' which links back to Coltrane.

    Best wishes for 2011.

    MrD

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  3. Mr. D.: The Trane piece was just there to set up Shepp's version, and in turn set up Brown's tribute to Shepp. I had intended to post with some commentary, but you have seen the method to my madness.

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