Teatime Playlist: 'Jazz Valley'
- Paul Dunn
- Aug 5, 2018
- 4 min read
JAZZ VALLEY
1. Art Tatum - Tea For Two (3:16) JAZZ #1 2. Charles Mingus - Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul (7:24) VALLEY #1
"Welcome to Saturday Tea Time on Ellensburg Community Radio. I am your radio bloke Paul Dunn and I will be playing you weird and... well actually you might have noticed Ellensburg has Jazz in the Valley on this weekend. So tonight's show is all my favourite jazz tunes in honour of this fantastic event. We started of with Art Tatum and Tea for Two which I dedicate to my listeners, both of them. Then it was Charles Mingus with Better Get Hit In Yo' Soul. Okay let's Take Five with The Dave Brubeck Quartet."
3. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (5:27) JAZZ #2 4. Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers (2:43) VALLEY #2
"Jeepers Creepers, that was Louis Armstrong. Next up is one of the greatest tracks in any genre, it's Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday."
5. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (3:13) JAZZ #3 6. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - In A Sentimental Mood (4:18) VALLEY #4
"Back in 1963 Duke Ellington and John Coltrane got together to record an album, and from it that was their version of Ellington's 1935 composition, In A Sentimental Mood. Next up, DJ Kid Koala does his version of Basin Street Blues."
7. Kid Koala - Basin Street Blues (4:48) JAZZ #4 *CUE* 8. Jelly Roll Morton - Black Bottom Stomp (3:14) VALLEY #4
"That was Jelly Roll Morton doing the Black Bottom Stomp. Now we go to my favouritest version of Summertime, it is by the fantastic vocalist Sarah Vaughan."
9. Sarah Vaughan - Summertime (3:13) JAZZ #5 10. Frank Sinatra - Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (3:41) VALLEY #5
"Frank Sinatra getting all Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered. There's a few good Sinatra films out there but in my humble opinion, the best is 1955's The Man With Golden Arm where Frank plays a jazz drummer trying to stay off the heroin. It was one of the first films to go for a full on jazz soundtrack and Frankie boy doesn't even sing in the film. The soundtrack was provided by a young Elmer Bernstein, yes that one who then went on to score The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Animal House, Ghostbusters and many, many more. Well back to The Man With Golden Arm and here is a tune entitled Frankie Machine."
"That was Peggy Lee having a Black Coffee. Now to World War Two era France and the great guitarist Django Reinhardt. He was force to develop his unique and somewhat influential guitar style due to extensive damage to his hand which occurred during a caravan fire. We are going to play H.C.Q. Strut by Django and violin player Stephane Grappelli."
13. Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - H. C. Q. Strut (2:57) JAZZ #7 14. Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema (5:26) VALLEY #7
"A true elevator classic, that was The Girl From Ipanema by Gilberto and Getz. Apart from lift musac, I reckon my first exposure to jazz was those seventies action film soundtracks by people like David Shire and especially the great Lalo Schifrin. Just look at Mission Impossible, Bullitt and Dirty Harry which is what we are going to play now."
15. Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry Main Title (3:31) JAZZ #8 16. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Traffic Jam (2:18) VALLEY #8
"A Traffic Jam I don't mind getting stuck in, that was Artie Shaw. During the nineties, over in England a scene appeared which was called Acid Jazz. Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either... but I still enjoyed it. Like this next track by The Young Disciples."
17. Young Disciples - Apparently Nothin' (Edit) (4:01) JAZZ #9 18. Fats Waller - The Minor Drag (2:42) VALLEY #9
"The great Fats Waller having a Minor Drag, which I believe in old parlance is a good thing. Now to something special. Bessie Smith doing her signature tune 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do."
19. Bessie Smith - 'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do (3:28) JAZZ #10 20. Amon Tobin - Melody Infringement (5:26) VALLEY #10
"From Coldcut's Ninja Tune stable that was Amon Tobin having a bit of a Melody Infringement. Now to one of Lou Reed's favourites, from Ornette Coleman's 1959 groundbreaking album The Shape Of Jazz To Come, here is Lonely Woman."
"A true hotbed of jazz was the inter-war years in Germany, especially the Cabarets of Berlin. And from that hedonistic era you just heard Marlene Dietrich sing for Jonny. Next up is Glenn Miller who could swing, and here is his 1940 chart-busting single In The Mood."
23. Glenn Miller - In The Mood (3:38) JAZZ #12 24. Gene Krupa's Swing Band with Benny Goodman - Swing Is Here (2:58) VALLEY #12
"You know Swing Is Here when Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman are about. Everyone seems to forget how influential Ella Fitzgerald was as a vocalist. She could go toe to toe with the band popularising the improvised scat singing style and next up is a fine example, Blue Skies."
25. Ella Fitzgerald - Blue Skies (3:45) JAZZ #13 26. Fletcher Henderson - Hotter Than 'Ell (2:56) VALLEY #13
"One of the early greats of jazz, that was Fletcher Henderson finding it Hotter Than 'Ell. Next up is a true English treasure, Humphrey Lyttelton. Not only one of the great trumpeters but surprisingly a great presenter who for years on BBC radio hosted the antidote to panel games, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Well here is Bad Penny Blues from 1956. D'ya think McCartney might have heard it about the time he was writing Lady Madonna? Just saying.. er…allegedly."
27. Humphrey Lyttelton - Bad Penny Blues (2:47) JAZZ #14 28. Ray Barreto - El Watusi (2:43) VALLEY #14
"There was Ray Barreto doing the El Watusi. It's the end of another Tea-Time and we are going to finish with Miles Davis, So What. Remember before next Saturday, when I hope you'll join me again, check out eburgradio.org and all the great shows that are going on throughout the week. Now pour that last cup of strong black coffee and strike up a jazz cigarette and enjoy. Cheerio daddio!"
29. Miles Davis - So What (9:26) JAZZ #15
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