Mondo Jazz: Traveling (Part 1)
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Jazz and Travel... what a natural fit!
In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places and the people they encounter as they travel, in space and in time.
Playlist
In this installment of Mondo Jazz we explore music that was inspired by the relentless travels that jazz musicians have to endure in order to share their music with their audiences, their departures and arrivals, their discoveries, adventures and misadventures using trains and planes and the places and the people they encounter as they travel, in space and in time.
Playlist
- Ben Sidran, "A Good Travel Agent" from On the Live Side (Magenta Records)
- Jerry Granelli, "Wanderlust" from A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing (Evidence)
- Michael Blake, "Departures" from Fulfillment (Songlines)
- Duke Ellington, and His Famous Orchestra "Mount Harissa" from Far East Suite (Bluebird)
- Randy Weston, "Niger Mambo" from African Cookbook (Rhino Atlantic)
- Ben Allison, "Mauritania" from Buzz (Palmetto Records)
- Michael Blake, "The Champa Theme" from Kingdom of Champa (Intuition)
- Youn Sun Nah, "Calypso Blues" from Voyage (ACT Music)
- Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan, "Duende" from Travel Guide (ECM)
- Enten Eller, Tim Berne, "Traveling Day" from Auto da fè (Splasc(h) Records)
- Kamikaze Ground Crew, "Travel-Windows-Canvas" from Postcards from the Highwire (Busmeat Records)
- Microscopic Septet, "Night Train Express" from Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform Records)
- The Jazz Passengers, "Gleis, Spoor, Binario" from Still Life with Trouble (Thirsty Ear Recordings)
- Michel Benita, Glenn Ferris, Paolo Fresu, Aldo Romano, "Calabrian Nights" from Palatino (Label Bleu)
- Stian Carstensen, "Departure: June 7th, 1905 Musette Fantasie" from Orient Express (Winter & Winter)
- Michael Brecker, "Midnight Voyage" from Tales from the Hudson (Impulse!)
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Ludovico Granvassu
ben sidran
Jerry Granelli
Michael Blake
duke ellington
Randy Weston
Ben Allison
Nah Youn Sun
Ralph Towner
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Slava Grigoryan
Enten Eller
Tim Berne
Kamikaze Ground Crew
The Microscopic Septet
The Jazz Passengers
Michel Benita
Glenn Ferris
Paolo Fresu
Aldo Romano
Stian Carstensen
Michael Brecker
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