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Two largely wistful hours of Fall-related jazz tunes.

Swing Plus #77
9/22/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Early Autumn live 1952 – Woody Herman
2- Early Autumn – Claude Thornhill
3- Autumn Nocturne – Buddy DeFranco
4- Autumn Leaves 1982 – Mel Torme
5- Autumn Harvest – Albert Harris & Ivor Mairants
6- Song D’Automne – Travelin’ Light
7- Sweet September – Pete Jolly
8- September in the Rain – Peggy Lee
9- September in the Rain (take 2) – Muggsy Spanier
10- September Song – Sarah Vaughan
11- September Song – Django Reinhardt
12- Septembre – Les Freres Ferret
13- September Moan – Maynard Ferguson
14- Indian Summer – Anita O’Day
15- Indian Summer 1946 – Esquire All-American Award Winners
16- Shine On Harvest Moon – Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing
17- Shine On Harvest Moon – Count Basie
18- Autumn Serenade – Hal McIntyre
19- Autumn in New York – Frank Sinatra
20- Autumn in New York – Lawrence Brown
21- Automne – alix combelle
22- ‘Tis Autumn – Stan Getz & Jim Raney
23- Fall Leaves – Don Redman
24- Autumn Song – Mose Allison
25- You Have Lived in Autumn –Blossom Dearie
26- Falling Leaves live – Glenn Miller
27- Autumn Leaves – Artie Shaw
28- Lullaby of the Leaves – Benny Goodman
29- Lullaby of the Leaves – Stan Kenton

Очередной пост, посвященный статистике. Сегодня нашей темой является джаз (точнее, топ-100 тега jazz).

Just another one statistical post. Jazz is our field of research today (top-100 of the tag jazz, to be exact).

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Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








И тут, и там наиболее популярным исполнителем является Amy Winehouse (и, да, по личным соображениям я убрал из статистики Тома Уэйтса). Дальше начинается вполне классический джаз - Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong и так далее.

In both cases the most popular artist is Amy Winehouse (and, yes, I supposed it would be correct to exclude Tom Waits from jazz stats). Then the things go more classical: Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and so on.




А вот так выглядит общая зависимость количества прослушиваний джазовых исполнителей от числа слушателей. Заметно, что чем правее, тем сильнее эта зависимость идет вверх. Таким образом, получается, что лидеры находятся на каком-то особенном положении у слушателей.

And that's the way, general dependence of playcount to number of listeners looks like. You can notice, it's bending upwards with growing number of listeners. So, that means, the leaders of our statistics are treated by listeners in a different way, than other artists.




Это также подтверждается графиком удельного числа прослушиваний (число прослушиваний делить на число слушателей для каждого исполнителя). Вообще, у джаза этот показатель оказался рекордно низким - в среднем 11 прослушиваний. Наибольший показатель у вездесущей Эми Уайнхаус - 32.

The graph of specific number of scrobbles (a playcount divided by number of listeners for each artist) confirms that notation. Surprisingly, jazz artists have very low specific scrobble number - 11 in average. Amy Winehouse has the highest one - 32.




Гистограмма лишь подтверждает печальный факт концентрации удельного числа прослушиваний вблизи рекордно низких значений, в целом по форме повторяя распределение для других жанров. Джаз умер?

The histogram just supports concentrating of specific number of scrobbles near very low values, repeating the histogram for other genres in general. Sad, but true. Is jazz dead?




Немного статистики по активности слушателей в рупорах исполнителей. Как видно из графика, какой-либо строгой зависимости числа сообщений в рупоре от числа слушателей не наблюдается. То, что более популярным исполнителям больше пишут, понятно и так. Кстати, Эми Уайнхаус я сюда не включил - взглянув на следующий график, вы поймете, почему.

Some stats about the user activity in shoutboxes. As one can see, there's no strict dependence of number of shouts to number of listeners. It's obvious, that more popular artists should get more shouts. By the way, Amy Winehouse isn't included here - see the next plot to understand why.




А вот зависимость числа сообщений в рупоре от удельного числа прослушиваний. Эми Уайнхаус и здесь лидирует, причем с шестикратным отрывом. Короче говоря, для джаза она - исполнитель, аномальный по всем параметрам) А вот если убрать Эми, то будет видно обнаруженое ранее явление: среднее удельное число прослушиваний является чем-то вроде барьера, разделяющего исполнителей с малым и с большим числом сообщений в рупоре. Посмотрим, что покажут другие жанры)

And here's the dependence of number of shouts in the shoutbox to specific number of scrobbles. Amy Winehouse takes the lead again, having six times more shouts than others. So, she's really anomalous for the jazz. And without Amy, the graph exhibits the property, found in previous research: average specific number of scrobbles behaves like a barrier, separating artists with few shouts from artists with lots of them. Let us see, what another genres would show us the next time)

P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний в top-100 джаза - 348 миллионов.
The total playcount in jazz's top-100 is 348 millions.

P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

List of considered artists:

Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Louis Armstrong, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Amy Winehouse, Thelonious Monk, Jamie Cullum, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, Michael Buble', Katie Melua, Madeleine Peyroux, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Esbjo"rn Svensson Trio, Keith Jarrett, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, The Cinematic Orchestra, Oscar Peterson, Cassandra Wilson, Count Basie, Pat Metheny Group, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Koop, Weather Report, John Zorn, Richard Cheese, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Pink Martini, The Bad Plus, Chick Corea, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Melody Gardot, Dexter Gordon, Julie London, Brad Mehldau, Cannonball Adderley, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Eva Cassidy, Stacey Kent, Benny Goodman, John Scofield, Horace Silver, Room Eleven, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Skalpel, Astrud Gilberto, Marcus Miller, Jan Garbarek, Wynton Marsalis, Lee Morgan, Tord Gustavsen Trio, Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Smith, Jaga Jazzist, Sade, Harry Connick, Jr., Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Bill Evans Trio, Lisa Ekdahl, Lizz Wright, Erik Truffaz, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis, Ornette Coleman, Blossom Dearie, Jaco Pastorius, Sun Ra, Etta James, The Cat Empire, Paolo Conte, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Grant Green, Avishai Cohen, Quincy Jones, Al Di Meola, Keiko Matsui, Al Jarreau, Morphine, Silje Nergaard

A sequel to last year's summer solstice set of moon related songs. Next week - Gershwin Rhythm.

Swing Plus #65
6/23/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Swingin’ on the Moon – Mel Torme
2- Mama, That Moon Is Here Again – Benny Goodman
3- Fly Me to the Moon – Frosties Hot Four
4- Full Moon & Empty Arms – Erroll Garner
5- Amber Moon – Earle Spencer
6- What A Little Moonlight Can Do – Girls From Mars
7- Moon Maiden – Duke Ellington
8- Moonlight Fiesta – Duke Ellington
9- Moon Country – Hoagy Carmichael
10- Moonlight In Vermont – Stan Getz
11- Moonlight in Waikiki – Mannie Klein
12- Moonstruck – Lee Wiley
13- Clair De Lune – Ray McKinley
14- Take a Picture of the Moon – Fletcher Henderson
15- If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon – Frank Sinatra
16- The Moon is Low – Joe Sullivan
17- How High the Moon – Slim Gaillard
18- Priority on a Moonbeam – George Barnes
19- Moonlight Becomes You – Bobby Sherwood
20- Moon Eyes – Buddy Tate
21- The Moon Shines On the Moon Shine – Bert Williams
22- On Moonlight Bay – Harry James
23- Blue Moon – Jo Stafford & Her V Disc Playboys
24- No Moon At All – Count Basie & Joe Williams
25- Absent-Minded Moon – Artie Shaw
26- Yes, There Ain’t No Moonlight – Louis Prima
27- Moonlight Rhapsody – Cab Calloway
28- Moon Over the Freeway – Ditty Bops
29- Moon River – Woody Herman
30- There Oughta Be a Moonlight Saving Time – Blossom Dearie
31- I Wanna Turn Out My Light – Nat King Cole

blossom dearie é toda coração.



The Best Is Yet to Come, Blossom Dearie.

Indeed, it came a little late this year, but two hours of spring-related swinging. Was particularly tickled to include the 21 minute live version of Spring is Sprung by the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band. Next week: Keynote Records!

Swing Plus #59
5/5/09 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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1- Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year – Anita O’Day
2- Echoes of Spring – Ralph Sutton
3- It Happens Every Spring – Frank Sinatra
4- Swingtime in the Springtime – Django Reinhardt
5- They Say It’s Spring – Blossom Dearie
6- It Might As Well Be Spring – Joe Mooney
7- Swing Into Spring – Benny Goodman
8- Spring Cleaning – Fats Waller
9- Spring Sequence – Ralph Burns
10- Sprang – Ralph Burns & Roy Eldridge
11- It’s Anybody’s Spring – Woody Herman
12- Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most – Harry James
13- Some Other Spring – Billie Holiday
14- Sprong – George Handy
15- Spring is Sprung – Gerry Mulligan CJB live
16- Soft as Spring – Helen Merrill
17- Paris In the Spring – Michel Legrand
18- Springtime for Hitler – Henry Mancini
19- Let’s Spring One – Nat King Cole Trio
20- Suddenly It’s Spring – Glenn Miller AAF Orch
21- Joy Spring – Ron McCroby
22- Love Turns Winter to Spring – Stan Kenton
23- In the Spring of the Year – Mabel Mercer
24- An Ode to Spring – Teddy Powell
25- There’ll Be Another Spring – Tish Oney

Listen to this mix here - http://lastnightadjkilledmydog.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=448523

When I was at school I thought that Autumn was my favorite season,possibly in a misguided attempt to be mysterious and cool. In real life, though, everyone knows that spring is the best, those first days of sun after a miserable British winter when the year just looks like getting better and better.
This time I just have music for you. Couldn't find any good speeches. Just lots of fairly relaxed music to listen to in the garden.

1. Moondog- Voices of Spring
2. Epic45 - The Stars In Spring
3. Rites of Spring - comin' on back to me
4. The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies
5. Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will
6. The Go-Betweens - Spring Rain
7. Andromeda Island - Springtime
8. Blossom Dearie - It Might As Well Be Spring
9. Saint Etienne - Spring
10. The Lemon Drops - I Live in the Springtime
11. Johnny Cash & June Carter - When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
12. Crescent - Spring
13. James Morton - Spring is Here
14. Carmen McRae - Silent Spring
15. Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Maypole
(Bonus track: Owen J. McCormack - When it's springtime in Virginia)

Two hours of swinging women. A good chunk of it culled from the "Forty Years of Women in Jazz" compilation.

Next week: libation swing!

Swing Plus #51
3/10/09 7:00 pm - 9pm
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1- The Lady Who Swings the Band (Andy Kirk & Mary Lou Williams)
2- Seven Riffs With the Right Women (Jean star & L’Ana Hyams)
3- It’s Murder (Lil Armstrong)
4- C Jam Blues (Hazel Scott)
5- Anything You Can Do (Cats Vs Chicks)
6- S’posin’ (Clora Bryant)
7- Sweet Georgia Brown (International Sweethearts of Rhythm)
8- Don’t Get It Twisted (International Sweethearts of Rhythm)
9- Blues for Toshiko (Toshiko Akiyoshi)
10- A Jazz Musician (Blossom Dearie)
11- A Woman’s Place Is In the Groove (Vivian Garry & Edna Williams)
12- The Goose Hangs High (Eddie Lockjaw Davis & Shirley Scott)
13- Wild Party (Ina Rae Hutton & Her Melodears)
14- Ivory & Pick Boogie (Camille Howard)
15- Don’t Blame Me (Beryl Booker, Mary Osborne, June Rotenberg)
16- Smile (Dorothy Donegan)
17- Sly Mongoose (Ella Fitzgerald)
18- Red Light (Sarah Mclawler & Georgie Auld)
19- Blues Melba (Melba Liston)
20- Travelling Blues (Lovie Austin & Her Serenaders)
21- The Tulip Wonder (Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra)
22- Boogie Mysterioso (Mary Lou Williams, Marjorie Hyams, Mary Osborne)
23- Scratchin’ In the Gravel (Mary Lou Williams & Marian McPartland)
24- Rose Room (Mary Osborne)
25- My Blue Heaven (Rose Murphy)
26- Zero Hour (Adele Girard & Joe Marsala)
27- That’s All (Vi Redd)

8tracks of 20 involving all kinds of kids music, lullaby jazz, nursery rhymes, and toon tunes. Includes music by Sun Ra, The Satellite Singers, Louis Armstrong, Helen Kane, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Prima, Blossom Dearie, Raymond Scott, Doris Day, The Andrews Sisters and more.

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