The second hour skews a bit towards difficult listening, but there are few festive numbers spread throughout. We continue our survey of Don Byron songs named after famous painters, and of Hal Willner tribute albums, plus a George Gershwin double-shot!
See for yourself after the break...
Thoughts and notes -
Listening to the way Sidney Bechet plays those arpeggios at the end of this track (and elsewhere), a segue into some of the crazy arpeggios Philip Glass has written for Jon Gibson to play seems inevitable someday.
I should say "seemingly obligatory Thelonious Monk selection." Check out Monk's left hand on this. Everybody plays this tune, but nobody plays it like this.
I'm sure John Williams has recently worked on some scrappy new independent film (or two).
I love this version of the Gramercy Five as it has a great combination of swingers and be-boppers. The earlier line-up that included a guy on harpsichord is great, too. Thumbs up to Hank Jones' solo in particular, especially where he answers himself in a higher register.
Does "Do they know it's Christmas" feature Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Diana Ross among others? No, it does not.
Continuing my ongoing rant about genre, You Tube categorizes "Needles" as "New age instrumental."
While Chuck Berry was the first to record "Run, Rudolph, Run," the song was written by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie. Marks, as I'm sure you know, is the composer of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Apparently, the first 45 release had Chuck's name in the credits in place of Marks'.
| artist | title | album | comments | label / date |
| Katie Lee | Real Sick Sounds | Songs of Couch and Consutation | 1st part of theme |
Commentary
Records
1957 |
| Naked City | Inside Straight | Naked City | 2nd part of theme |
Nonesuch
1989 |
| Bechet-Spanier Big Four | China Boy | Sidney Bechet In Memorium | Sidney Bechet (ss, clt) Muggsy Spanier (crnt) Carmen Mastren (g) Wellman Braud (b) song by Dick Winfree, Phil Boutelje |
Riverside
1940 |
| Yehudi Menuhin and Jacques Fevrier | Sonate pour Violon et Piano - I: Allegro con fuoco | Le Musique de Chambre | Composed by Francios Poulenc |
Le
Voix de maitre
1973 |
| Kris Davis w/ Angelica Sanchez | Angelica Sanchez | Duopoly |
Pyroclastic
Records
2015 |
|
| Ornette Coleman | The Sphinx | Something Else! - The music of Ornette Coleman | Ornette Coleman (as) Don Cherry (trp) Walter Norris (p) Don Payne (b) Billy Higgins (d) |
Contemporary
Records
1958 |
| Wayne Horvitz | This New Generation | This New Generation | Music Behind DJ |
Nonesuch
1985 |
| Thelonious Monk | Straight, No Chaser | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 | Thelonious Monk (p) Sahib Shihab (as) Milt Jackson (vbs) Al McKibbon (b) Art Blakey (d) |
Blue
Note
1951 |
| Stan Kenton and the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra | Prelude and Fugue | Stan Kenton conducts the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra | Dalton Smith, Gary Barone, Ron Ossa, Frank Higgins, Ollie Mitchell (trp) Bob Fitzpatrick, Gil Falco, Vernon Frilwy, Jim Amiotte (tbn) John Bambridge (tba) Bud Shank (solo), Bob Cooper, Don Lodice, Bill Perkins, John Lowe (woodwinds) Claude Williamson (p) John Worster (b) Nick Caroli (d) Emil Richardson (vbs) Frank Carlson (prc) Vinice de Rosa, Richard Perissi, Bill Hinshaw, John Cave, Arthur Maebo (hrn) Music by John Williams |
Creative World Records
1965 |
| Joe Henderson | Bess, you is my woman now | Porgy and Bess |
Joe
Henderson (ts) Tommy Flannigan (p)
Song by George Gershwin,
Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward |
Verve
1997 |
| Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five | Someone to Watch Over Me | Self Portrait |
Artie
Shaw (clt) Joe Roland (vbs) Hank Jones (p) Tal Farlow (g) Tommy
Potter (b) Irv Kluger (d)
Song by George Gershwin and
Ira Gershwin |
Bluebird
1954 |
| Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly | Etude 1 | First Things First | Music behind DJ |
New
Amsterdam
2010 |
| The Dumbells | Giddy-up | Giddy-up / A Christmas Dream |
Roxy
Music working incognito
based on Sleigh Ride
written by Leroy Anderson |
EG Records 1980 |
| Corporal Blossom | White Christmas | A Mutated Christmas | Song by Irving Berlin |
Illegal
Art
2011 |
| Yo La Tengo | Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo | Summer Sun | Music behind DJ |
Matador
2003 |
| Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Ragtime, for eleven instruments | Stravinsky Chamber Music | Joseph Silverstein, Max Hobart (vln) Burton Fine (vla) Henri Portnoi (b) Doriot Dwyer (flt) Harold Wright (clt) Charles Kavaloski (bsn) Armando Ghitalla (trp) William Gibson (tbn) Everett Firth (prc) Myron Romanul (cmb) Music by Igor Stravinsky |
Deutsche
Grammophon
1975 |
| Sō Percussion | Needles | John Cage Bootlegs (Greenpoint 10.21.11) |
Music
by Matmos and So Percussion
Featuring the electric cactus |
Canteloupe
2011 |
| Josef Bierbicher / Ensemble Modern | Vom Sprengen der Gartens | Eislermateiral | soloists - Josef Bierbicher (voc) William Forman (trp) Thomas Fitcher (b) Music by Heiner Goebbles after Hanns Eisler and Bertold Brecht |
ECM
2001 |
| Don Byron | Diego Rivera | Tuskeegee Experiment | Don Byron (clt, b clt) Greta Buck (vln) Reggie Workman (b) Pheeroan akLaff (d) |
Elektra
Musician
1990 |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor | Caseworks | Dreaming of the Masters, vol. 2 - Thelonious Sphere Monk | Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman (flt) Lester Bowie (flg) Malachi Favors (b) Don Moye (d) Ceceil Taylor (p) |
DIW
1991 |
| Jaki Byard | Amarcord | Amarcord Nino Rota | Music by Nino Rota |
Hannibal
1981 |
| The Smithereens | Run, Rudolph, Run | Christmas with the Smithereens |
Song
by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie
RIP Pat DiNizio |
Koch Records 2007 |
| Herbie Hancock | Earth Beat | Future Shock | Music behind DJ |
Columbia
1983 |
| John Zorn | Magical Sleigh Ride | A Dreamers’ Christmas | Kenny Wollesen (vbs, chm, glk) Jamie Saft (keys) Marc Ribot (g) Trevor Dunn (b) Joey Baron (d) Cyro Baptista (prc) |
Tzadik
2011 |
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