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Big Ears for Big Sounds

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
September 13, 2022
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This week, I've had big ears for some big sounds. And now you can too.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30
Stan Kenton "Prollouge" from Kenton's West Side Story (Capital Records) 02:00
Don Ellis Orchestra "Turkish Bath" from Electric Bath (Columbia) 06:05
Chick Webb and his Orchestra "Heebie Jeebies" from Jammin' for the Jackpot: Big Bands and Territory Bands of the 30s (New World Records) 16:33
Yu Nishiyama "Honorary Whites" from A Lotus in the Mud (Outside in Music) 20:13
Toshiko Akiyoshi—Lew Tabackin "Notorious Tourist from the East" from Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi—Lew Tabackin Big Band (Mosaic) 26:26
Duke Ellington "Reminiscing in Tempo" from Creole Rhapsody—Duke Ellington In The Thirties (Living Era) 34:01
George Russell & The Living Time Orchestra "So What" from So What (Blue Note) 34:01
Anthony Braxton "22-M (Opus 58)" from Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista) 34:01
Anna Webber, Angela Morris Big band "Climbing on Mirrors" from Both Are True (Greenleaf Music) 1:02:16
McCoy Tyner "Fly with the Wind" from Fly with the Wind (Milestone Records) 1:13:01
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra "Blues" from Gillespiana (Verve Records) 1:11:01
Tata Vasques and His Orchestra "El Loco" from Ecstasy (Jazz Room Records) 1:34:11
Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band "Distancia" from Distancia (Greenleaf Music) 1:39:07
Sam Rivers & the Rivbea Orchestra "Crux" from Mosaic Select: Trilogy (Moasic Records) 1:48:57

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