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50th Anniversary Blue Notes – August edition

By Marc Cohn | Gifts & Messages
August 14, 2020
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During last month's Blue Note anniversary show we ran out of time. So this week we catch up with a Hank Mobley session for Blue Note from July 31, 1970 (well, that date was 'almost-August' anyway), after opening the show with mostly twenty-first century music. Then, it's on to Grant Green, live in Newark and Wayne Shorter's last twentieth century Blue Note date (and a Weather Report track for icing). We've also got BN-25 from James P. Johnson in our numerical retrospective of Blue Note 78s. In August 1970, Chick Corea did a handful of sessions featuring Anthony Braxton. We hope to have selections from these next week. Sometimes, our acquisition and remastering logistics get complicated. Enjoy the show!

Playlist

Shabaka and the Ancestors "Natty" from Wisdom of Elders (Brownswood) 00:00
Egberto Gismonti "Loro" from Sanfona (ECM) 09:53
Chris Rogers "Rebecca" from Voyage Home (Art Of Life) 16:39
Erik Friedlander "The Great Revelation" from Artemisia (Skipstone) 21:54
Michael Dease "Downtown Chi-Town" from All These Hands (Posi-Tone) 29:09
Hank Mobley "You Gotta Hit It" from Thinking Of Home (Blue Note) 37:25
Hank Mobley "Gayle's Groove" from Thinking of Home (Blue Note) 44:04
Hank Mobley "Talk About Gittin' It" from Thinking of Home (Blue Note) 49:32
Grant Green "Let The Music Take Your Mind" from Alive! (Blue Note) 58:10
Grant Green "Maiden Voyage" from Alive! (Blue Note) 1:07:37
James P. Johnson "Back Water Blues" from 78rpm disc (Blue Note) 1:19:17
James P. Johnson "Carolina Balmoral" from 78rpm disc (Blue Note) 1:23:43
Wayne Shorter "De Pois Do Amor, O Vazio (After Love, Emptiness) " from Odyssey Of Iska (Blue Note) 1:28:03
Wayne Shorter "Joy" from Odyssey of Iska (Blue Note) 1:40:58
Weather Report "Havona" from Heavy Weather (Columbia) 1:49:01

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