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Two hours of canine connected tunes. Next week - a tribute to Count Basie.

Swing Plus #71
8/11/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Walkin’ the Dog – Claude Hopkins
2- Afternoon in a Doghouse – Eddie Lockjaw Davis
3- Doggin’ Man Blues – Fats Navarro
4- Spotted Dog – Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis
5- French Poodle – Sam Butera & the Witnesses
6- Yellow Dog Blues – cat anderson
7- The Cat & the Dog – Harry Reser
8- Yard Dog Mazurka – Jimmie Lunceford
9- That Doggone Dog of Mine – The Three Keys
10- Beatin’ the Dog – Joe Venuti
11- New Dog Blues – Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos
12- Double Doghouse – Brick Fleagle
13- Salty Dog – Jelly Roll Morton
14- Mama Will Bark – Frank Sinatra
15- Doggin’ Around – Count Basie Jam
16- Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song) – Spike Jones
17- Yard Dog – Roy Eldridge
18- Blood Hound Blues – Red Allen
19- Concerto for Dog House – Pete Rugolo
20- Growling Dog – Harlem Hamfats
21- Li’l Dog – Buddy Johnson
22- Big Dog – Illinois Jacquet
23- Doggin’ the Blues (Low Dog Blues) – Joe Turner
24- Suzy the Poodle – Art Pepper
25- Dog Bottom – Chick Webb
26- Mean Dog Blues – Snooky Young & Marshall Royal
27- Jim Dawgs – Ike Quebec
28- Where Has My Little Dog Gone? – Claude Thornhill

so anyway when the mixtape ends, do you flip the cassette and listen to the mix you made again?
Or, do you cypher freeform on some next other level?

_ progressing from one node to the next like Art Blakey to Art Pepper. flying unencumbered and at peace with expressive nuance of unknowing....

Saxophoniste de génie, dont le style doit autant à lester young qu'a charlie parker. Il est la synthèse parfaite entre les deux; le sens du tempo et de la ballade. Art PepperArt Pepper + Wikipedia

Unbelievebale saxophonist, the perfect synthesis of both charlie "bird" parker and Lester Young.

Harry James, Compact Jazz--nice sampler of later stuff recorded for MGM, 1959-1964, ranging from Dixieland revival to Basie-swing to slightly more progessive arrangements. Complements the Verve Jazz Masters 55 cd (drawn from the same time period) nicely since only overlaps on one tune. Harry sounds in good form, especially on Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.

Gil Evans, Great Jazz Standards--wow, after one listen this is probably my favorite Evans recording (even beating out the collabs with Davis). He tackles Davenport Blues & Chant of the Weed with respect, if not reverence. The version of Straight No Chaser is a riot (& interpolates quotes from American Patrol, etc). None of the solos stand out to me yet, but am sure I'll be listening to this again soon. And lo & behold, Pacific decided to reissue this & its sister session on one disc recently. Tempted to get that for the likely cleaner sound.

Newport at 50--sampler drawn from Columbia recordings at Newport Jazz festival 1956-1963. Highlights include C Jam Blues by an octet of Ellington alumni in 1958 (Sonny Greer, Ben Webster, Cootie Williams, Oscar Pettiford--wow! anybody know if more from their set is available), Jimmy Rushing singing what must've been a head arrangement on Boogie Woogie with the Goodman Band, & a version of Jump the Blues with Buck Clayton, Jack Teagarden, Lester Young (who unfortunately sounds in particularly sad shape), Jo Jones, Pee Wee Russell, etc.

Dizzy Gillespie, Meets Mary Lou Williams - fairly well recorded small group live date playing standards that also includes Bobby Hackett(!!!), George Duvivier, & Grady Tate. The packaging is kind of bootleg & evidently was recorded in the early 70s (& reissued elsewhere as "Giants"). Hackett & Dizzy sound good together & Mary Lou sounds right up to the minute & swinging.

Buddy Rich, Mercy Mercy Mercy - Live date from '68--lots of heat & some rock influenced arrangements, but so far sounds a bit slick & hollow to me despite Art Pepper's occasional solos.

Danny Moss, Weaver of Dreams - had never heard of this guy before, but picked it up because it was on the european Nagel-Heyer label (which seems to be putting out the best contemporary mainstream swing around) & had Butch Miles on drums. Moss has a big swinging tenor tone and applies it to a bunch of great standards (In a Mellowtone, There's No You, 9.20 Special). It would've been great if he'd brought in another horn or two to trade with & change up the colors some, but the rhythm section is very tight so it's a consistently pleasant if not always thrilling listen.

Dizzy Gillespie, Endlessly - probably a real stinker, though I've only managed to listen to the first track so far. Since it was on Impulse! I was hoping it was '60s work--but turns out that it's a 1987 recording awash with synths & covers of pop tunes. Ugh. At least it was the cheapest purchase of the batch.

Johnny Richards, Mosaic Select 17 - Still digging into this one--it includes 6 albums that Richards recorded from the mid-50s to mid 60s. He sure loves those polyrhythms. Though there are some nice ballad treatments as well & more straightforward swingers. Seems to have more personality than some of Kenton's output that I've heard from that period, but the two definitely complement each other (one song is even based on a theme from Theme to the West).

Dizzy Gillespie, In Paris Vol 1 - concert from 1953 with a small group. Recording quality is more than decent, gets to stretch out on a lot of his current Savoy output (though The Champ really didn't need a vocal interruption by Joe Carroll). Anybody know what became of Bill Graham? He does a great job covering the saxophone bases here. This'd probably be a good record for anybody who thinks bop can't be fun--Dizzy mixes in a little bit of everything (r&b, latin rhythms, novelty, ballads) & shows he learned plenty about being an entertainer as well as tearing up the trumpet.

stupendous the harmonization of the Parker' solo as a bridge or an obbligato of the reeds
I love this Art Pepper version of Groovin' High
Art Pepper
Groovin' High