Playlist and Notes 27 September 2022

 

On 1 October 1965, Horace Silver along with trumpeter Woody Shaw and tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson recorded, “Cape Verdean Blues.” It is a great song, one of Silver’s best. But one of my favorite recordings of it is from 2010 when the SFJazz Collective recorded it in front of a live audience. As the song progresses, you can sense the musicians interacting with one another and feeding off the energy of the crowd. It kicks off an hour of mostly live jazz on today’s show. Enjoy jazz as it was supposed to be heard: live. 

In addition to the SFJazz Collective, we will take a listen to Thelonious Monk playing live in Japan in 1963, Duke Ellington recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, and Ella Fitzgerald recorded in 1957 at Newport. I have to admit any time I hear “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” invariably I am reminded of the film, Bringing Up Baby. In one of the most evocative tracks this week, we hear Illinois Jacquet, Nat “King” Cole, Les Paul, and J.J. Johnson jumping during a session at the Hollywood Philharmonic on 2 July 1944.

Finally, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we hear from Rosa Passos, from Brazil. The prolific singer-guitarist performs one of the best-known Bossa Nova songs, “Desafinado,” translated from Portuguese roughly means “out of tune.”

 

Playlist

SFJazz Collective – Cape Verdean Blues (7:56)

Thelonious Monk – Blue Monk (11:21)

Duke Ellington – Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (14:20)

JATP (featuring J.J. Johnson, Illinois Jacquet, and Nat “King” Cole) – Blues (10:24)

Rosa Passos – Desafinado (4:45)  

Ella Fitzgerald– I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (7:00) 


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