Jump the Blues Away

Just Desserts show for July 22

2007-07-26T01:01:00Z

For this show, I began by picking songs that I was surprised to discover that I hadn't played on previous shows. No theme, in other words. But what emerged were groups of songs, often pairs, but a group of four (King Porter Stomp) and another of three (Joy Spring). It was a fun show to do, and there were several appreciative calls. Always nice to get.

Questions and comments can be left here or sent directly to jazz@ukiahguy.com

Name	Artist	Album
Between Sets	Billy Kyle	Smithsonian Collection: Jazz Piano (Disc 1)
Finishing Up A Date	Billy Kyle	Handful Of Keys
Smoke Gets in your Eyes	Bob Brookmeyer	Blues Hot and Cold -- vinyl
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	Jay McShann	Some Blues
When I Grow Too Old To Dream	Arnett Cobb	Arnett Bows For 1300
One For Prez	Wardell Gray	The Wardell Gray Story, Vol. 1
I Must Have That Man	Bobby Hackett	A String Of Pearls
title undetermined -- mislabeled on CD	Bobby Hackett Teagarden	Coast Concert
St. James Infirmary	Jack Teagarden	The Bluebird Sampler 1990
Moten Swing	Count Basie	Count Basie Harvard Blues
Moten Swing	Buck Clayton	Legendary Jam Sessions
Love Jumped Out	Count Basie	Essential Count Basie (Vol. 3)
Margie	Jimmie Lunceford	Lunceford: Disc 3: For Dancers Only
Hi Spook	Jimmy Lunceford	Lunceford Blues In The Night
King Porter Stomp	Benny Goodman	Selection Of Swing Era (Disc 1)
King Porter Stomp	Benny Goodman	A Night Out with Verve (Dancing)
Stomp Of King Porter	The Manhattan Transfer	Swing
King Porter Stomp	Gil Evans	New Bottle Old Wine
Sand In My Shoes	Bobby Short	50 By Bobby Short (Disc 1)
I've Got Five Dollars	Bobby Short	50 By Bobby Short (Disc 1)
In A Mist (Bixology)	Bix Beiderbecke	Bix Beiderbecke
In The Dark / Flashes	Jess Stacy	Handful Of Keys
Barrelhouse	Jess Stacy	Handful Of Keys
Joy Spring	Clifford Brown	Bebop's Greatest Hits
Joy Spring	Tierney Sutton	Unsung Heroes
Joy spring	Gil Evans	Great Jazz Standards
On Revival Day -- partial	Swing Legacy	Even the Chickens Are Dancing

playlist for Hot and Cool Show July 15

2007-07-17T20:29:00Z

The theme was Hot and Cool -- see titles and/or name of group. -- comments or questions can be left here or sent to me at jazz @ ukiahguy.com

Hot and Cold Blues	Bob Brookmeyer	homemade
Black Bottom Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers	The Engine Room - Disk 1
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate	New Orleans Footwarmers	From Spirituals To Swing - Carnegie Hall Concerts 1938-1939
Red Hot Pepper Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	The Pearls
Warmin' Up	Teddy Wilson	Warmin' Up
Warm Valley	Duke Ellington	Blanton-Webster Band (Disc 2)
The Summer Wind	Madeleine Peyroux	homemade
Summertime	Clark Terry	Porgy & Bess
Summertime	Zoot Sims	Zoot Sims And The Gershwin Brothers
In Summer	Jon Hendricks	Freddie Freeloader
Summer (Estate)	Claire Martin	Make This City Ours
Hot House	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High
Hot House	Howard McGhee Sextet	The Wardell Gray Story, Vol. 1:
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm	Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra	Billie Holiday, Vol. 3
Indian Summer [1919]	Count Basie	Live! or One O' Clock Jump.
Oh! Sister Ain't That Hot	Eddie Condon	Ballin' The Jack
Le Jazz Hot	Jimmie Lunceford	Strictly Lunceford: Disc 3
Hotter Than That	Louis Armstrong	Louis Armstrong V. 2 1927
Hot Mallets	Lionel Hampton	Lionel Hampton Hot Mallets
Sahara Heat	Illinois Jacquet	The Illinois Jacquet Story [Disc 3]
Breakin' the Ice	Fats Waller	You Rascal You!
Jeru	Miles Davis	The Complete Birth Of The Cool
Hear Comes Your Iceman	Big Joe Turner	Big Joe Rides Again
Cool Blues - Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	Lazy Afternoon Jazz (Disc 2)
Stay Cool	Count Basie	Blues By Basie-One O'Clock Jumb
Baby, It's Cold Outside	Ray Charles	homemade
Something Cool	Tierney Sutton	Something Cool

bluegrass show May 26

2007-05-27T17:18:00Z

Getting to sit in two weeks in a row for Diane Hering was fun. The show went well, with some welcome calls of appreciation. Playing three versions of Hard Times in a row was, according to calls, really welcome (those whom it drove crazy didn't call...) and, as it happened, really moving for me, as I was thinking about the hard times we are experiencing as a nation. I was noting as I went through the show that the songs and songwriters were worthy of note. I think in all genres of music except classical we don't pay enough attention to the composers. One of my earlier jazz shows was devoted in large part to the tunes composed by Edgar Sampson -- see below. I also have shows tentatively planned that will feature Gershwin, Cole Porter and maybe some others.

So here's the playlist. The wild card, if there is one, is Cheryl Wheeler's Arrow, a lovely song with really good lyrics (she writes both), not bluegrass in style, but not totally out of place. Particularly good lyrics are also to be found on the songs marked with an *.

Comments and questions can be added here or sent directly to jazz@ukiahguy.com

Name	Artist	Album
*C-Biscuit	Jerry Douglas	Everything Is Gonna Work Out Fine
Another Lonesome Day	The Seldom Scene	The Best of The Seldom Scene
Another Lonesome Day	The Whites	Bluegrass Vinyl
Forget About It	Alison Krauss	Forget About It
*Who Do You Know	Claire Lynch	Friends for a Lifetime
*Brand New Tennessee Waltz	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Idle Time
Shady Grove	Chesapeake	Rising Tide
Indian Hills	New Grass Revival	On the Boulevard
Shine	Dolly Parton	Little Sparrow
Sally Ann	Jimmy Arnold	Bluegrass Vinyl
Waiting On Vassar	David Grisman	David Grisman Rounder Compact Disc
Who's That Knocking At My Door	Dreadful Snakes	Snakes Alive
*Church Street Blues	Tony Rice	Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective
Arrow	Cheryl Wheeler	Different Stripe
*Pushover	Jesse Winchester	Humour Me
*Souvenir Bottles	New Grass Revival	Barren County
We Hide & Seek	Alison Krauss & Union Station	Live [Disc 2]
Sign Your Name	Mollie O'Brien	Tell It True...
Cat In The Bag	Mark O'Connor	The New Nashville Cats
Hard Times, Come Again No More	Jennifer Warnes	Shot Through The Heart
Hard Times	Front Porch String Band	Lines & Traces
Hard Times	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	The Boys Are Back In Town
The Lights of Home	Béla Fleck	Drive
*The Lights Of Home	Chesapeake	Full Sail
*Penny To My Name	Eva Cassidy	Time After Time

pickup groups on May 20

2007-05-22T17:56:00Z

all recordings made featuring musicians that did not ordinarily play together, which yielded some good synergy on many of these songs.

comments or questions welcomed at jazz@ukiahguy.com

Name	Artist	Album	Year approx
Oh No!	Pee Wee Russell	Portrait	1958
Why Was I Born?	Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday, Vol. 3	1937
On Green Dolphin Street	Milt Jackson	Very Tall	1972
Just The Two Of Us	Stephane Grappelli & Toots Thielemans	Bringing It Together	1995
Have You Met Miss Jones?	Illinois Jacquet	Flying Home
Honeysuckle Rose	Mark O'Connor Trio	In Full Swing	2003
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise	Benny Goodman	Stormy Weather Jazz (Disc 2)	1945
Roll 'Em Pete	Jimmy Witherspoon	The 'Spoon Concerts	1959
Baby Dear	Mary Lou Williams	Chronogical Mary Lou Williams 1927-40	1940
Me, Myself And I	Billie Holiday	Lester Young	1937
Off Minor (Take 4)	Thelonious Monk	From vinyl or iTunes	1954
Honey Hush	Big Joe Turner	The Bosses	1994
Rock Hill Special	Lionel Hampton	Lionel Hampton-Volume 2	1940
Brownskin Gal	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella at Duke's Place	1961
Chelsea Bridge	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Meets The Saxophonists	1960
[title unknown]	Jimmy Mundy	From vinyl or iTunes	1954
I Must Have That Man	Bobby Hackett	A String Of Pearls	1940
Years Apart	Stéphane Grappelli	Celebrating Grappelli	1998
Russian Lullaby	Vic Dickenson	The Essential Vic Dickenson	1954
I Want A Little Girl	Big Joe Turner	The Boss Of The Blues	1956
You're Some Pretty Doll	Eddie Condon	Ballin' The Jack	1940
Pocatello	Joe Thomas	Roy Eldridge & The Swing Trumpets [Disc 2]	1944

bluegrass show on may 19

2007-05-22T17:52:00Z

sitting in again for Diane Hering. playing bluegrass and new acoustic music. straying too far with the Mollie O'Brien into rock.

comments or questions welcomed at jazz.ukiahguy.com

Name	Artist	Album
Lady's Fancy	Dan Crary	Telluride Festival Tapes
Blackjack Davey	Chesapeake	Rising Tide
Before The Heartache Rolls In	New Grass Revival	Hold To A Dream
Poe's Pickin' Party	Alison Brown	Fair Weather
Out Among the Stars	The Seldom Scene	from vinyl or online
Hummingbird	Alison Brown	Fair Weather
Feel Like My Time Ain't Gone	Country Gentlemen	from vinyl or online
Silver Dagger	Dolly Parton	The Grass Is Blue
Travelin' Down The Lonesome Road	Dreadful Snakes	Snakes Alive
Blue Ridge	Jonathan Edwards & SS	Blue Ridge
Cannonball Rag	Merle Travis Roy Huskey	Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Disc 2)
Cannonball Blues	Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan	Yonder
Friend of the Devil	Knoxville Bluegrass Band	from vinyl or online
Old Devil's Dream	The Nashville Bluegrass Band	Idle Time
Sunburst	Grazz Matazz	from vinyl or online
Moonlight Ain't No Use to Me	Mollie O'Brien	Tell It True...
Wild Horses	Old & In The Way	Old And In The Way
Sweet Baby James	The Seldom Scene	The Best of The Seldom Scene
Jubilee	Alison Krauss	from vinyl or online
See Rock City	Béla Fleck	Drive
Singing The Blues	New Grass Revival	Grass Roots: The Best Of New Grass Revival
The Scholar	Maura O'Connell	Just In Time
I Like The Way You Cook	Tim O'Brien	When No One's Around
Millworker	Emmylou Harris	from vinyl or online
Trail Of Tears	Peter Rowan & NBB	Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)	Shawn Colvin	from vinyl or online
Rainbow Ride	Jimmy Arnold	from vinyl or online

Live Jazz show May 13

2007-05-15T21:55:00Z

this show was jazz recorded live before an audience, presented in mostly chronological order. I liked the mix of raucous and refined, and when it was both (Here's That Rainy Day) and three VERY different versions of How High the Moon. And two really spectacular versions of Cheek to Cheek.

	Name	Artist	Album
1	Blues for Helen	Basie Small Group	From Spirituals To Swing
2	Weary Blues	New Orleans Footwarmers	From Spirituals To Swing
3	Blues With Lips	Count Basie Orchestra With Hot Lips Page	From Spirituals To Swing
4	Good Morning Blues	The Kansas City Six	From Spirituals To Swing
5	Topsy (Swing To Bop)	Charlie Christian, Joe Guy, Kenny Clark, Kenny Kersey & Nick Fenton	from iTunes
6	Stars Fell On Alabama	Louis Armstrong	Louis Armstrong And The All Stars At Symphony Hall
7	How High The Moon	Wardell Gray	The Wardell Gray Story, Vol. 2: The Chase
8	How High The Moon	Dave Brubeck	Jazz at Oberlin
9	Song Is You	Dave Brubeck, The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Jazz Goes To College
10	I May Be Wrong	Gerry Mulligan	In Paris-Vol. 1
11	Laura	Gerry Mulligan	in Paris Vol 2
12	I Loves You Porgy	Ella Fitzgerald	from iTunes
13	World Of Trouble	Lou Rawls	Lou Rawls - Anthology
14	C.C. Rider	Jimmy Witherspoon	The 'Spoon Concerts
15	How High The Moon	Modern Jazz Quartet	from iTunes
16	Bags' New Groove	Paul Desmond & The Modern Jazz Quartet	from iTunes
17	Here's That Rainy Day	Oscar Peterson	At Montreux
18	Liza	Ruby Braff	Live At The New School-Complet
19	Cheek To Cheek	Eva Cassidy	Live At Blues Alley
20	Cheek to Cheek	Tierney Sutton	I'm With the Band