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TIME (not x...)
#3: Swingtime in Honolulu
Charles "Cootie" Williams: tp
Joe Nanton: tb
Jerry Kruger: vcl
Edward Ellington: p
+
Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, Harry Carney: as
Fred Guy: g
Billy Taylor Sr: db
William "Sonny" Greer: d
NYC, 4 Apr 1938
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Dōgic master Honey* demonstrating the basic positions of the art of stretch dōga:
1: "Backward dog"
2: "Forward dog"
3. "Downward dog"
3: "Annnnd - relax!"
"THESE ARE THE 4 FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS OF DŌGA. LEARN THEM WELL"
*aka: Lady Honington of Bunnington
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… INSECTA
#6: "I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants)" (Gaines/C Williams) - Valaida Snow w Billy Mason Orchestra
VS: vcl & tp
Buddy Featherstonhaugh ts
+
Duncan Whyte 2nd tp
Billy Mason p
Alan Ferguson g
Sam Molyneux db
George Elrick d
London, 19 Jan 1935
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RED
#4: 5/4 Blues (Josef Myrow)
George "Red" Callender db
Buddy Collette fl
Gerald Wilson tp
Billy Bean g
Gerald Wiggins p
Bill Douglass d
LA, 30 April 1958
Hugely versatile bassist (he also played tuba). As leader: typically adventurous modernist track
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… INSECTA
#7: "Poor Butterfly" (Hubbell)
Rolf Kühn: cl
Jimmy Pratt d
Oscar Pettiford db✅
Baden-Baden, 14 Jun 1959
Many 🦋 options (some prefer Herbie's: easily found). I like this version of an oft-recorded Japanese-themed ditty: soulful, keen, not dreary
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RED. Set from musician nicks: "white" artists of russet hair / "black" artists of pale skin hue
Pre:
New Oh Red! (Allen)
"Blind Boy Fuller" (Fulton Allen) vcl, g
Floyd Council 2nd g
"Bull City Red"/"Oh Red" (George Washington): wshbrd, chat
NYC, 10 Feb 1937
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RED
#7: Rodan (Kyner)
"Sonny Red" (Sylvester Kyner): ts
Cedar Walton: p
Herbie Lewis: db
Billy Higgins: d
NYC, 1971
A fluent blues-soulful alto Birdman of the 1950s & -60s, switching to tenor in the 1970s. Was stand-&-deliver guttural-gutsy the market?
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WILBUR'S M-ISLANDS
#1: Martinique (WDP)
Omer Simeon: clt
Sidney De Paris: cornet
Wilbur De Paris: tb
Don Kirkpatrick: p
Eddie Gibbs: bjo
Harold Jackson: db
Freddie Moore: d
NYC, Sept 1952
Big Easy lope with Caribbean swing, in Wilbur's "New New Orleans"
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RED
#6: Blues Blues Blues (Redd)
Jackie McLean as
Harold "Tina" Brooks ts
Paul Chambers db
Louis Hayes d
Freddie Redd p
Englewood Cliffs NJ, 13 Aug 1960
Hard to find a new "Red" nick from c.1960 (jazz more serious?) Now for a real Red(d)! Catchy tune.
Dōgic master Honey* demonstrating the basic positions of the art of stretch dōga:
1: "Backward dog"
2: "Forward dog"
3. "Downward dog"
3: "Annnnd - relax!"
"THESE ARE THE 4 FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS OF DŌGA. LEARN THEM WELL"
*aka: Lady Honington of Bunnington
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(a possible #jazzsky series)
… FLORA
#1: Poinciana (trad. Cuban?/Nat Simon)
Shelly Manne: d
Monty Budwig: db
Vic Feldman: p
Richie Kamuca: ts
Joe Gordon: tp
Live at Black Hawk club, SF, 22 Sept 1959
*Please give this some volume*
> Hear Richie & then Joe go!
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RED
#5: Ahmad's Blues (Jamal)
William "Red" Garland: p
Paul Chambers: db
"Philly" Joe Jones: d
Hackensack NJ, 11 May 1956
An obvious choice. From Miles' contractual obligation albums for Prestige. All of the trio featured nicely.
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RED
#1: Informality (Robert Chudnick*)
"Red Rodney"(*) tp
Arne Domnérus as
Bengt Hallberg p
Keith "Red" Mitchell db
Ed Thigpen d
Stockholm, 05 Mar 1976
Two Reds in one!
Even the squeak from Domnérus' bop alto seems rightly ambiguous for this fine tune
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WILBUR'S M-ISLANDS
#2: Madagascar (WDP)
Omer Simeon: clt
Sidney De Paris: tp
Wilbur De Paris: tb
Sonny White: p
Lee Blair: bjo
Wendell Marshall: db
George Foster*: d
NYC, Apr 1955
*not bassist "Pops"
Wilbur's relaxed tour of "M" islands continued...!
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(a #jazzsky series - "Catch 'Em All!": search above term)
… FLORA
#3: Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers)
Sam Rivers: ts
Ron Carter: db
Jaki Byard: p
Tony Williams: d
Englewood Cliffs NJ, 11Dec 1964
Williams arguably bit brash (turned 19 the next day): but what a drummer, even then!
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( #jazzsky series: ^ search term)
… FLORA
#8: "Fleurette Africaine" [Little African Flower] (Ellington)
Edward Ellington: p
Charles Mingus: db
Max Roach: d
NYC, 17 Sep1962
Maybe a tribute to a woman (/Africa?). But a fitting generic conclusion to a floral "pieces of eight" set.
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RED
#6: Blues Blues Blues (Redd)
Jackie McLean as
Harold "Tina" Brooks ts
Paul Chambers db
Louis Hayes d
Freddie Redd p
Englewood Cliffs NJ, 13 Aug 1960
Hard to find a new "Red" nick from c.1960 (jazz more serious?) Now for a real Red(d)! Catchy tune.
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WILBUR'S M-ISLANDS
#3 (B*): "Majorca" (WDP)
Wilbur De Paris: tb
Sidney De Paris: cornet, tp
Omer Simeon: clt
"Sonny" White: p
"Benny" Moten: db
Lee Blair: bjo
Wilbert Kirk: d, hrmnca
Live Boston, 26 Oct 1956
(*With Wilbur's spoken introductions cropped)
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… INSECTA
#5: Firefly (Steig/D Matthews/Coppola)
19 pieces (CTI!) - prominent:
Jeremy Steig: fl
Googie Coppola (Carolyn Brooks): vcl
Gary King: el-b
Hiram Bullock (solo), Eric Gale: el-g
Dave Taylor: b-tb
+ 4 tp, 3 tb, 3 keys, d & 2 perc
NYC, Apr 1977
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WILBUR'S M-ISLANDS
#1: Martinique (WDP)
Omer Simeon: clt
Sidney De Paris: cornet
Wilbur De Paris: tb
Don Kirkpatrick: p
Eddie Gibbs: bjo
Harold Jackson: db
Freddie Moore: d
NYC, Sept 1952
Big Easy lope with Caribbean swing, in Wilbur's "New New Orleans"
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(for comparison, a 10-piece folkish version of the same trad. tune is in post after this)
"Polska* från Medelpad" [from an old province of mid-Sweden]
Jan Johansson - p
Georg Riedel (discreet ground!) - db
Stockholm, 18 Oct 1963
(*polska, not polka: triple-time, accents on beats 1 & 3)