Shark Jazz and Blues

  Playlist 30 April 2024 A blues-heavy show, featuring Robert Johnson’s music.   The Butterfield Blues Band – Mystery Train (4:17) Canned Heat – Dust My Broom (5:02) Johnny Shines – Sweet Home Chicago (3:30) Keb’ Mo’ – Come On In My Kitchen (4:10) Louise Pheland and Octavio Herrero – Rambling On My Mind (4:26) Susan Tedeschi – 700 Houses (4:38) Nina Simone – I Put a Spell On You (2:36) B.B. King and Eric Clapton – Hold On I’m Coming (6:20) Ahmad Jamal – For My Daughter (3:35) The Poll Winners – So What (5:28) Jocelyn Gould – Lover Come Back To Me (6:51)   Notes: Robert Johnson – Recorded 29 distinctive songs in 1936 and 1937 that have served as inspiration for generations of blues and rock musicians. Eric Clapton said Johnson was “the most important blues singer that ever lived” (LeVere 23). [1] Johnny Shines – Traveled with Johnson, including places like Chicago, Texas, New York, Canada, Kentucky, and Indiana.   [1] Stephen LaVere, 199

  Playlist 16 April 2024 Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man (6:28) Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder – St. Louis Blues (5:52) Nina Simone – Feeling Good (2:54) Bonnie Raitt – The Road’s My Middle Name (3:31) The Clayton Brothers – Wild Man (7:50) Dave Brubeck – Unsquare Dance (2:00) Clifford Brown and Max Roach – A Night in Tunisia (8:18) Coleman Hawkins – Quintessence (4:47) The Danish Radio Big Band and Charlie Watts – Paint It Black (7:44)   Notes Herbie Hancock – b. 12 April 1940 (Chicago IL). Last week performed at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. Quintessence – The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form. Unsquare Dance – written in 7/4-time signature and released in 1961.  

  Playlist 26 March 2024 Part 2 of the Women of Jazz and Blues as part of Women’s History Month. Pre-empted by Baseball.    Zoe Rahman – For Love (6:23) Bonnie Raitt – The Road’s My Middle Name (3:31) Nina Simone – Feeling Good (2:54) Bessie Smith – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (2:57) Mamie Smith – Don’t You Advertise Your Man (3:18) Dinah Washington – Teach Me Tonight (2:48) Laufey – From the Start (2:50) Niuver – Quiéreme Mucho (4:05) Norah Jones – Turn Me On (2:35) Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (5:45) Carmen McRae – The Best Is Yet To Come (2:34) Valaida Snow – St. Louis Blues (2:28) Kirsten Edkins – Mean Greens (5:32) Shamie Royston – Sunday Nostalgia (5:56)  

Playlist 19 March 2024 Celebrating Women’s History month with an hour of jazz and blues featuring female artists.   Ella Fitzgerald – It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (4:16) Artemis – The Sidewinder (5:05) Billy Holiday & Her Orchestra – Body & Soul (2:59) Anita O’Day – Fly Me To The Moon (3:46) Peggy Lee – Fever (3:20) Jocelyn Gould – Lover Come Back To Me (6:51) Amina Figarova – All We Dance (5:37) Anita Baker – Giving You The Best That I Got (3:54) Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War (4:48) Sister Rosetta Thorpe – Strange Things Happening Every Day (2:27) Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long (3:12) Diana Krall – I Love Being Here With You (5:15)   Ella Fitzgerald b. (25 April 1917) Newport News, VA; d. 1996. “Queen of Jazz.”   Spent most of her childhood in Yonkers, NY. Bing Crosby: “Man, woman or child, Ellas is the greatest.” Artemis: Renee Rosnes (piano), Anat Cohen (clarinet), Melissa Aldana (tenor sax), Ingrid Jen

  Playlist – 5 March 2024 Steve Gadd Band – Spring Song (4:54) Joey Alexander – Promise of Spring (4:30) Pat Metheny Group – Spring Ain’t Here (6:55) Dave Brubeck – Spring in Central Park (2:29) Sadao Watanabe – Early Spring (8:37) Wes Mongomery – Bumpin’ On Sunset (4:52) Bix Beiderbecke – Three Blind Mice (2:47) Ornette Coleman – Chronology (6:07) Quincy Jones and his Orchestra – Quintessence (4:22) Charles Lloyd – Sunrise (Live@Monterey) (7:30)   An article about a new historical monument honoring Indianapolis native and one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all time: Wes Montgomery. Bix Beiderbecke – Singing the Blues

On today's show we explore the interchange of jazz music between Africa and the United States.  Playlist 27 February 2024   Louis Armstrong – Potato Head Blues (2:57) ·         Tune Recreation Committee – Kwane’s Jive (4:43)      Randy Weston – Portrait of Cheikh Anta Diop (8:58) ·        “whether you say jazz or blues or bossa nova or samba, salsa – all these names are all Africa’s contribution to the Western Hemisphere. If you take out the African elements of our music, you would have nothing.” [2] ·        Cheikh Anta Diop – Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and politician.   Mulatu Astatke – Nétsanét (5:32) ·        From the compilation CD: New York – Addis – London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975   Ethioda – Musiqawi silt (5:01) ·        Montpellier, France   Black Flower – Magma (6:34) ·        Band’s Website: https://www.blackflower.be/ . ·        Five-piece Ethiopian-inspired from Belgium Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds – Mbube (2:43