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2011: The Year In Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The ebb and flow of jazz in 2011 was marked by a Grammy Awards coup, a Grammy dustup, economic changes that consolidated the recording industry a bit, impacted clubs in various locales, and provided some new opportunities. The U.S. Postal Service literally put its stamp on jazz, even as the government wrestled with the future of ...
The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions
Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Sophisticated Lady; Mood Indigo; Rose Room; Black and Tan Fantasie; Stratosphere; Nana; Miss Otis Regrets; Unsophisticated Sue; Star Dust; Dream Of You; Stomp It Off; Call It Anything (It Wasn't Love); Because You're You; Chillun, Get Up!; Solitude; Rain; Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; Jealous; Rhythm Is Our Business; Mood Indigo (alt take); Star Dust (alt take); Because You're You 9alt take); Rhythm is Our Business (alt take).
CD2: Shake Your Head; I'm Walking Through Heaven With You; Sleepy Time Gal; Bird Of Paradise; Rhapsody Jr.; Runnin' Wild; Four Or Five Times; (If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes; Babs; Swanee River; Thunder; Oh Boy; Charmaine; You Take the East, Take the West; Take the North, I'll Take the South; Avalon; Charmaine; Hittin' the Bottle; Four or Five Times (alt take).
CD3: My Blue Heaven; I'm Nuts About Screwy Music; The Best Things in Life are Free; The Melody Man; Organ Grinder's Swing; On the Beach at Bali-Bali; Me and the Moon; Living From Day to Day; 'Tain't Good; Muddy Water; I Can't Escape From You; Harlem Shout; My Last Affair; Running A Temperature; Honet, Keep Your Mind on Me; Count Me Out; I'll See You in My Dreams; My Blue Heaven (alt take); The Melody Man (alt take).
CD4: He Ain't Got Rhythm; Linger Awhile; Honest and Truly; Slumming on Park Avenue; Coquette; The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down; Raggin' the Scale; Hell's Bells; For Dancers Only; Posin'; The First Time I Saw You; Honey, Keep Your Mind on Me; Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet; Pigeon Walk; Like A Ship At Sea; Teasin' Tessie Brown; Annie Laurie; 'Frisco Fog; Honest and Truly (alt take); Coquette (alt take); The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (alt take); Raggin' the Scale (alt take) Pigeon Walk (alt take).
CD5: Maggie; The Love Nest; I'm Laughing Up My Sleeve; Down By the Old Mill Stream; My Melancholy Baby; Sweet Sue, Just You; By the River Sainte Marie; Blue Prelude; Twenty-Four Robbers; I Had a Premonition; Battle Axe; Peace and Love For All; Chocolate; I'm Walking Through Heaven; You're Always in My Dreams; Flamingo; Siesta at the Fiesta; Gone; Hi Spook; Yard Dog Mazurka; Impromptu.
CD6: Blues in the Night (Part I); Blues in the Night (Part II); I'm Losing My Mind; Life Is Fine; It Had To Be You; I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts Of Town (Part I); I'm Gonna Move To the Outskirts of Town (Part II); Strictly Instrumental; Knock Me a Kiss; Keep Smilin' Keep Laughin' Be Happy; I Dram A Lot About You; Easy Street; Back Door Stuff (Part I); Back Door Stuff (Part II); The Goon Came On; Just Once Too Often; Jeep Rhythm; Charmaine; Solitude; Down By the Old Mill Stream; Like A Ship At Sea; For Dancers Only; Jeep Rhythm (alt take).
CD7: The Chicks That I Pick Are Slender, Tender and Tall; By the River Sainte Marie; Pretty Eyes; Margie; Sleepy Time Gal; My Melancholy Baby; I'm Gonna See My Baby; That Someone Must Be You; Oh Gee, Oh Gosh, Oh Pshaw; I'm In a Jam (With Baby); What a Difference a Day Made; I Passed Through Memphis; Buzz-Buzz-Buzz; This Is My Confession (To You); I Need A Lift; Baby Are You Kiddin'?; Where's The Melody?; The Honeydripper; I've Got Those Carolina Blues.
Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones
by AAJ Staff
This article appears in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones By Papa Jo Jones As Told to Albert Murray (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). A Different Kind of Living in That Southwest Here is what happened. Basie did exactly what Fats Waller did: ...
Gerald Wilson: New York, NY, September 30, 2011
by Louis Heckheimer
Gerald Wilson, Anthony Wilson, Eric Otis and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY September 30, 2011 There are jazz players who've had extended careers, and then there's Gerald Wilson. The veteran composer, arranger and big band leader might well be able to claim the longest major recording ...
Jimmie Lunceford: The Complete Jimmie Lunceford Decca Sessions
by David Rickert
When saxophonist Jimmie Lunceford signed to the Decca label in 1934 he was running one of the best orchestras in the US. He had signed a deal to appear at the Cotton Club (where bandleaders Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway had recently launched into stardom) and was frequently beating others in battles of the bands, all ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The beauty of listening to an orchestra in fine form is like being treated to an oceanic swell of music that rises and falls, creating great harmonic waves of sound. This further regales the intellect with the swish of brushstrokes as the music changes in color, from sometimes thick, dark dripping shades, evoking brooding emotion to ...
Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's “Big Band Olympics," which ...
Donny Hathaway: Someday We'll All Be Free
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Donny HathawaySomeday We'll All Be FreeRhino France2010 Critical opinion has not always been kind to the singer Donny Hathaway, who died in 1979 at the age of 33. Some have decried an alleged bourgeoisification of soul; but more cruel, perhaps, is the general neglect of critical and commercial ...
The National Jazz Museum In Harlem
by AAJ Staff
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is at 104, E 126th Street, a few steps from the bridge that carries the Metro North trains to and from Connecticut from the 125th Street station. Situated on the second floor, the museum is primarily a suite of offices with a large front area that presents photographs, video documentaries ...
John Geggie: Unexpected Conversations
by John Kelman
Most cities have them: musicians who act like a lightning rod, focusing and driving their jazz scenes. In Ottawa, Canada, bassist John Geggie has been one of those significant focal points for two decades, but in particular over the past ten years. He's one of the founding organizers and faculty members of Jazzworks which, amongst other ...
