From the reference on Page 53, and the 'Suggested tunes to work on' (Page 58):
ACQUIRED:
Blue in Green - Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
Old Folks - Oscar Peterson Trio (Live at the Blue Note)
What is this thing called love? - Mel Torme & The Mel-Tones With Artie Shaw (Late Night Jazz)
Peace for South Africa - Oscar Peterson Trio (Live at the Blue Note)1
Stella by Starlight - Ella Fitzgerald (Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie)
Stella by Starlight - Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings (Jousts)
Inner Urge - Joe Henderson (Inner Urge)
Woody 'n' You - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (Jazz Legends)
Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia) - Miles Davis2
Search for Peace - McCoyTyner (McCoy Tyner Quartet)
Peace (Horace Silver) - Takeshi Shibuya (Solo Famous Composers)
Quiet Now - The Bill Evans Trio (Live in Paris 1974)
STILL TO GET:
None.
1 Not sure if this is the same as 'Peace'
2Where the piano solo on title track is one of Wynton Kelly's best according to the author, Mark Levine.
Monday, 21 June 2010
CHAPTER 7: Recordings
From the example referenced (Page 44), and the 'Suggested tunes to work on' (Page 48):
ACQUIRED:
Just Friends - Coleman Hawkins (Ken Burns Jazz Collection)
Just Friends - Oscar Peterson (Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson)
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse
Satin Doll - Peggy Lee (Beauty and the Beat)
Satin Doll - Oscar Peterson
Autumn in New York - Harry Connick, Jr. (When Harry Met Sally)
Giant Steps - John Coltrane (Giant Steps) + Alternate Title track on same album
Autumn Leaves - Chick Corea (Akoustic Band)
Autumn Leaves - Frank Sinatra (Where Are You)
Autumn Leaves - Miles Davis (Ballads & Blues)
Tune Up - Chet Baker (Cool Spring)
Relaxin' (Fantasy, 1956) - Miles Davis, with Red Garland on Piano.
Invitation - John Coltrane (Standard Coltrane)
Take the A Train - Duke Ellington (Take the 'A' Train)
STILL TO GET:
Take the A Train (the more definitive 1941 version)
Beatrice
SIDENOTES:
From the JazzStandards.com website, with regards to 'Take the A Train':
(http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/taketheatrain.htm)
"That 1941 recording of “Take the ‘A’ Train” may be considered definitive... The original Feb 15, 1941, Victor 27380 recording can be heard on the 3-CD set, Duke Ellington, Blanton-Webster Band, released in 1990 on RCA 5659."
ACQUIRED:
Just Friends - Coleman Hawkins (Ken Burns Jazz Collection)
Just Friends - Oscar Peterson (Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson)
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse
Satin Doll - Peggy Lee (Beauty and the Beat)
Satin Doll - Oscar Peterson
Autumn in New York - Harry Connick, Jr. (When Harry Met Sally)
Giant Steps - John Coltrane (Giant Steps) + Alternate Title track on same album
Autumn Leaves - Chick Corea (Akoustic Band)
Autumn Leaves - Frank Sinatra (Where Are You)
Autumn Leaves - Miles Davis (Ballads & Blues)
Tune Up - Chet Baker (Cool Spring)
Relaxin' (Fantasy, 1956) - Miles Davis, with Red Garland on Piano.
Invitation - John Coltrane (Standard Coltrane)
Take the A Train - Duke Ellington (Take the 'A' Train)
STILL TO GET:
Take the A Train (the more definitive 1941 version)
Beatrice
SIDENOTES:
From the JazzStandards.com website, with regards to 'Take the A Train':
(http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/taketheatrain.htm)
"That 1941 recording of “Take the ‘A’ Train” may be considered definitive... The original Feb 15, 1941, Victor 27380 recording can be heard on the 3-CD set, Duke Ellington, Blanton-Webster Band, released in 1990 on RCA 5659."
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Jamie Cullum's Radio Show/Podcast - 27th April 2010
Feel a bit silly...
Didn't realise that the actual show is an hour long! Thought the podcasts were the only version.
Doh. Teaches me to read more closely, and scrutinise further. Even better, to actually catch the broadcast live...
There's even references to all the tracks and recordings played on the relevant webpage (attached to post)!
Random bits: The opening of the show is 'Get Your Way' - Jamie Cullum (Catching Tales)
Had to look that one up from my iTunes Library.
Recording the show from Sydney Australia (caught in the Ash Cloud problem over British airspace)!
Brief notes:
Abdullah Ibrihim - a legendary jazz pianist!
'Ishmael' a favourite track of Jamie's.
'Summertime' - one of the greatest jazz standards of all time, played by the George Benson Quartet with Dorothy Hayward.
Touring the UK later this month.
Gerry Mulligan -a Baritone Sax - from the 1959 album (What is there to say?)
Jose James (Jazz vocalist)- Black Magic
Produced by Flying Lotus, a producer with the lineage of Coltrane.
Dinah Washington (Jamie pronounces DYNAH).
A track from the 1958 album.
A huge fan of Bessie Smith as was Billie Holiday.
Married 8 times, divorced 7!
Plug for The Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Frank Sinatra, next Friday introduced by Michael Parkinson.
From the BBC archives:
The John Surman Octet - Beyond The Hill, Live on the Jazz Workshop, 1969
Great British Jazz icons, from Devon.
Free and modal jazz, dance performances, and film music.
'Empirical' - British Jazz Group
Album highly recommended.
The French singer 'Camille' (pronounced CAMI)
Versatile and diverse, from Bjork, to Opera, to Ella Fizgerald - that's crazy!
Le Sac Des Filles - her first album.
Jamie beat-boxing and drumming on Piano on one of the albums.
A fan!
A cover of Radiohead's 'The Eraser' by Christian Scott.
Have to check out the original, though this sounds uber cool!!
A Tom York tune...
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM - A Jazz Legend
The atmospheric 'Ishmael' - that's pretty fucking awesome!!!
Going to have to get that!
A Pianist-Composer, people say he's a Jazz Musician...
Track played was recorded in one take!
Cape Town, South African..
The Hoy, the Bushman - music of...
WDR Big Band?...
Bombella (a train in South Africa), locomotion of the train!
Wrote when he was 16.
Trains, not only a feature of Jazz music but of every Folk Music...
Quotes Ellington on Take the A Train! (Love that track).
Title track from new album of the same name.
Nancy Wilson - beat Jamie Cullum to a Grammy!...
'You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To'
A Cole Porter tune!...
Saturday, 24 April 2010
CHAPTER 6: Recordings
From the Reference on Page 40, as well as the 'Suggested tunes to work on' on the same page:
ACQUIRED:
Just Friends - Coleman Hawkins (Ken Burns Jazz Collection)
Just Friends - Oscar Peterson (Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson)
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse (Back To Black)
Tune Up - Chet Baker (Cool Spring)
A Foggy Day - Michael Buble (It's Time)
Yesterdays - Billie Holiday (Jazz Legends)
All the things you Are - Ella Fitzgerald (Love Songs)
All the things you Are - Glenn Miller (The Lost Recordings)
I Should Care - Thelonious Monk (Monk Alone)
Sweet and Lovely - Thelonious Monk (Monk Alone)
STILL TO GET:
The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol.1 (Blue Note) - Bud Powell
Tea for Two
ACQUIRED:
Just Friends - Coleman Hawkins (Ken Burns Jazz Collection)
Just Friends - Oscar Peterson (Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson)
Just Friends - Amy Winehouse (Back To Black)
Tune Up - Chet Baker (Cool Spring)
A Foggy Day - Michael Buble (It's Time)
Yesterdays - Billie Holiday (Jazz Legends)
All the things you Are - Ella Fitzgerald (Love Songs)
All the things you Are - Glenn Miller (The Lost Recordings)
I Should Care - Thelonious Monk (Monk Alone)
Sweet and Lovely - Thelonious Monk (Monk Alone)
STILL TO GET:
The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol.1 (Blue Note) - Bud Powell
Tea for Two
CHAPTER 5: Recordings
From Albums referenced (Pages 27-36), and 'Suggested tunes to work on' (page 36):
ACQUIRED:
Speak no Evil (Blue Note) - Wayne Shorter
Stella by Starlight - Ella Fitzgerald (Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie)
Stella by Starlight - Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings (Jousts)
Blue in Green - Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
STILL TO GET:
Blue Trane (Blue Note) - John Coltrane
Horace-Scope (Blue Note) - Horace Silver
The Real McCoy (Blue Note) - McCoy Tyner
Blowin' The Blues Away (Blue Note) - Horace Silver
Workin' and Steamin (Prestige) - Miles Davis, with Red Garland on Piano
Sophisticated Lady
Nica's Dream
Search for Peace
When the Lights are Low
Mirror, Mirror
Wave
Once I loved
ACQUIRED:
Speak no Evil (Blue Note) - Wayne Shorter
Stella by Starlight - Ella Fitzgerald (Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie)
Stella by Starlight - Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings (Jousts)
Blue in Green - Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)
STILL TO GET:
Blue Trane (Blue Note) - John Coltrane
Horace-Scope (Blue Note) - Horace Silver
The Real McCoy (Blue Note) - McCoy Tyner
Blowin' The Blues Away (Blue Note) - Horace Silver
Workin' and Steamin (Prestige) - Miles Davis, with Red Garland on Piano
Sophisticated Lady
Nica's Dream
Search for Peace
When the Lights are Low
Mirror, Mirror
Wave
Once I loved
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