WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT
Spike
Spike
Add To My Trusted Moggers

Some Jazz #3

Posted about 1 year ago

Following Cody B's lead, I went to muxtape and made a playlist people can listen to all the way through or track by track if they wish. My title for it is "Some Jazz #3: 1954-1964." Check it out; you might really enjoy it. Go to http://spike2.muxtape.com/. It's part of a 3-disc compilation I did for a friend before I joined MOG. Here's the data:

.

1. Chet Atkins: A Little Bit of Blues (Jerry Reed) ('64)

2. Baby Face Willette: Stop and Listen ('61) (Baby Face Willette, organ; Grant Green, guitar; Ben Dixon, drums.)

3. Ray Charles: My Melancholy Baby (Ernie Barnett/George A. Norton/Maybelle E. Watson) ('57) (Ray Charles, piano; David Newman, alto sax; Emmott Dennis, baritone sax; Joseph Bridgewater & John Hunt, trumpets; Roosevelt Sheffield, bass; William Peeples, drums; arrangement by Quincy Jones and Ray Charles.)

4. Wayne Newton: I've Got the World on a String (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler) ('63) (Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Behrke.)

5. Ernestine Anderson: Social Call (Gigi Gryce/Jon Hendricks) ('55) (Ernestine Anderson, vocal with the Gigi Gryce Band: Art Farmer, trumpet, Eddie Bert, trombone, Julius Watkins, french horn; Bill Barber, tuba; Gigi Gryce, arrangement & alto sax; Cecil Payne, baritine sax; Horace Silver, piano; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Art Blakey, drums.)

6. Wes Montgomery: Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery) ('57) (Wes Montgomery, guitar; Joe Bradley, piano; Monk Montgomery, bass; Paul Parker, drums.)

7. Cannonball Adderly: Dat Dere (Bobby Timmons) ('60) (Cannonball Adderly, alto sax; Nat Adderly, cornet; Bobby Timmons, piano; Sam Jones, bass; Louis Hayes, drums.)

8. Betty Carter: Let's Fall in Love (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler) ('56) (Betty Carter, vocal; Gigi Gryce, arranger & leader; Sam Marowitz, Al Cohn, Seldon Powell & Danny Bank, saxes; Urbie Green & Jimmy Cleveland, tombones; Bernie Glow, Nick Travis, Conte Condoli & Joe Ferrante, trumpets; Hank Jones, piano; Milt Hinton, bass; Osie Johnson, drums.)

9. Horace Silver: Senor Blues (Horace Silver) ('56) (Horace Silver, piano; Donald Byrd, trumpet; Junior Cook, tenor sax; Doug Watkins, bass; Louis Hayes, drums.)

10. Charlie Mingus & John LaPorta: Thrice Upon a Theme (Charlie Mingus) ('54) (Charlie Mingus, bass; John LaPorta, clarinet; Ted Macero, sax; Thad Jones, trumpet; Clem DeRosa, drums.)

11. Helen Merrill: People Will Say We're in Love (Rogers/Hammerstein) ('56) (Helen Merrill, vocal; Gil Evans, arranger and conductor; Art Farmer & Louis Mucci, trumpets; John LaPorta, clarinet or alto sax; Jimmy Cleveland, trombone; Barry Galbraith, guitar; Hank Jones, piano; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Joe Morello, drums; others unknown.)

12. Wes Montgomery: Beaux Arts (Buddy Montgomery) ('61) (Wes Montgomery, guitar; Monk Montgomery, bass; Paul Humphries, drums.)

0

Comments (21)

  1. ivylander
    ivylander says That does it. If you're in on muxtape, that's a clean sweep of all the cool kids....
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  2. Spike
    Spike says Finally being one of them feels curiously strong. Ivylander, where are you?
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  3. Bartleby
    Bartleby says I love the minutiae and attention to details of your track list. That's the reason why I like jazz because each instrumentalist, each player is key to the theme. As Ivy said, if you're in on muxtape, that does it. I might even pop up there someday.
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  4. ivylander
    ivylander says Bartleby, if such is your attitude, you might try seeking out the background radio station of choice Chez Ivylander (thanks to Mrs. Ivylander's impeccable taste, dubious only in the matter of matrimony). It's WRTI, the University of Pennsylvania station, and it's on the Web. It plays classical during the (in other words, our) day and, starting at about 6 pm, an excellent and far-ranging diet of jazz. In virtually all cases, players are named before or after each cut. It's a rich education....
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  5. Bartleby
    Bartleby says @Ivy: Thank you for your kind recommendation. I shall tune in this web station at night. By the way, don't you think that this attention to details (such as date of recordings and players etc.) may be one the reason why "jazzophiles" are decried when not stared at like curious animals? Making the people already averse to that rhythm we love even more suspicious and reluctant to listen to the music.
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  6. Spike
    Spike says Cody B's playlist got wiped out by a muxtape meltdown recently, so I feel like I've entered the Ninth Ward. Muxtape allows somebody to have only one playlist, of no more than twelve tracks, with a caption of no more than 255 characters, and it's hard to find anybody else's list unless you recognise it among the 96 usernames selected to be on the homepage, or unless you know the URL of their list. Join. Bartleby, when I compiled the personnel of the aforementioned 3 discs, I marveled at how many musicians were on several tracks. Labels, like movie credits, are much better these days at listing personnel and contributors than they used to be. Ivylander, I love "taste dubious only in the matter of matrimony."
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  7. uncle creepy
    uncle creepy says Muxtape, eh? I'll look into that, because... I've been horsing around with Project Playlist, which works pretty good, until now that is... track after track that I uploaded to my own web archive - tracks that still play if I paste the URL of each track into the address bar... others at seeming random won't play (tho some do) currently on PP. They do have a message on the top of their main page right now (since a few hours ago) So, Mux doesn't experience the occasional sunspot gas pains? This is like an off-shoot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... we're running out of corners!
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  8. Spike
    Spike says Mux does experience pains. The whole thing melted down recently, when Cody B had a list that emptied.
    Permalink posted 05/30/2008
  9. Cody B
    Cody B says I gotta fix mine..Yours is a great one Spike..I checked it yesterday.
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  10. Spike
    Spike says Cody, now I'm happy, seriously, now that someone finally and actually likes it. I'm also seriously looking forward with actual anticipation to hearing your restored list.
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  11. Cody B
    Cody B says I hate that you can only favorite 12..My dance card is full, but I may have to change that. Cheers Mr.Charles.
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  12. Spike
    Spike says Yes!,
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  13. Sturgell
    Sturgell says I like the selection; Horace Silver, Wes Montgomery, mostly. Other neat classics, too. thanks for the mix, Spike!
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  14. Cody B
    Cody B says Aw Hell, I can't even get on the site now..
    Permalink posted 05/31/2008
  15. Spike
    Spike says Sturgell, I'm really glad you liked it. Cody, I can't get on it either. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow.
    Permalink posted 06/01/2008
  16. Spike
    Spike says It works today.
    Permalink posted 06/01/2008
  17. Anna
    Anna says Uh oh....am I the only one who still hasn't gotten her muxtape on... As a neophyte to jazz, I thank you, Charles :)
    Permalink posted 06/01/2008
  18. Spike
    Spike says Anna, you're always welcome. You're not the only non-muxster. Actually Cody B is the only other muxster I can recall. I look forward to your muxtape.
    Permalink posted 06/01/2008
  19. uncle creepy
    uncle creepy says you've inspired me to begin a jazz-on-the-lam playlist... http://mog.com/uncle_creepy/blog_post/161157
    Permalink posted 06/03/2008
  20. Spike
    Spike says

    I really enjoyed your cool playlist. I haven't heard Elmer Bernstein in many decades, except for uploading my 45 of his "Theme from Man with the Golden Arm" to fistula spume's 5/24/08 post! Is that a weird coincidence, or had you seen that?

    Its looks as if Playlist.com allows much longer playlists than muxtape, and probably one's allowed to make more than one playlist. Yes!

    Permalink posted 06/03/2008
  21. uncle creepy
    uncle creepy says Thanks Spike. No, that's just syncronicity - hadn't seen fistula spume's post. I have a slow pc or believe me I'd post a lot more on mog, not just my own page. Bernstein rocks! I was looking for a track by Cecil Taylor I heard years ago on the radio and never got the name of. I went to see him live at SF's Jazz Workshop within the year I heard that but he was into a whole different sound. Oh well. Playlist.com is ok. When it works... most of the time it does. I still like Mog better, as it's more focused on particular tracks and artists, and the interaction is great. Maybe by introducing one to the other, we'll get some new moggers.
    Permalink posted 06/04/2008

Comment on this Post

Login using email and password below.

Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?
Join MOG. It's Free!

Top Artists

Our Daily Picks

RSS

Top Artists From A to Z

© 2006-2009 Mog Inc. All Rights Reserved