Jazz on Breakfast: Your suggestions?

[doversoul1]

I am aware that for some MB members, it’s No. Full stop. However, I think jazz is here to stay on Breakfast, so how about suggesting a kind of jazz that may sit reasonably comfortably with classical music? Or not-so-jarring combinations? And let's hope that Breakfast production team will read it and may be inspired to select varied and interesting works and performances.

I think shorter tracks of MJQ may be a good start, and Bill Evans? Possibly a Baroque work to sandwich it (well, I would say that, wouldn’t I?). There are a couple of jazz players on the NGA scheme too (although I am slightly sceptical about jazz musicians on this scheme). I am not keeping up well these days but I often hear some fine performance by young (I assume) British jazz musicians.

Over to you.

[Norfolk Born]

Just about anything by Gerry Mulligan or Teddy Wilson.

[Paul Sherratt]

'My Daddy Rocks Me'(With One Steady Roll) performed by Mr Harold Ortli And His Ohio State Collegians.
Thank you.

[Paul Sherratt]

And, like most breakfasters, I'd really like to hear something by Yusef Lateef. But I think
the serving suggestion should come from the man, Calum.

http://images37.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/fullsize/YusefLateef.jpg

[eighthobstruction]

....The saxaphone and organ piece from the 1970's Beaver and Krause album Gandharva....

http://www.richieunterberger.com/gandharva.html

[eighthobstruction]

#2....Jazzman Gerry Mulligan took an especially prominent role in the Grace Cathedral recordings, even writing the only track on the LP, "By Your Grace," not penned by Beaver and Krause themselves. "He was always a musical favorite of ours," says Bernie. "We just called him up. Always cynical, with a rather nasty contentious edge to his personality, he agreed to come if we put him up in a nearby 'class' hotel on Nob Hill, [and] provided him with all the room service he could handle [and] an electronic keyboard instrument. We did. He did. And we all hit it off pretty well. Later did a movie score together titled Final Programme, recorded and released in England. We were friends until he retitled 'By Your Grace' and recorded a cover of the same tune under a different name so he could claim our half of the copyright. Turns out others had suffered the same experience while working with him." Also on the Grace Cathedral tracks were Krause (on Moog synthesizer), Beaver (on pipe organ), Gail Laughton on two harps (simultaneously), and guitarist Howard Roberts, who'd played on Beaver and Krause's previous album, In a Wild Sanctuary.

[Don Petter]

Anything recorded before 1935 for me!

[Paul Sherratt]

Hear you are the Don, it's Rudy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yMwc8olTLE&feature=related

[Don Petter]

Paul,

Many thanks for that. I did really enjoy it, though my main early jazz enthusiasm is for the likes of the ODJB, Kid Ory or the Memphis Jug Band!

[Paul Sherratt]

Grand names those, Don.
Have a seasonal offering for your 2nd breakfast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLsEH4csQ4

( Rob's lot did bite on this artist a couple of years back after some gentle prompting from Calum and myself )

[Don Petter]

Paul,

Thanks for that one too! It's now lunchtime, so here's one I found for you from an associated area of my interests in the same era (in this case Old Timey):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXY705R3-Y8&NR=1&feature=fvwp

You'll have to imagine Uncle Dave's gold tooth and the banjo played swung under the leg, but hopefully it will give you a lift all the same.

[charles t]

8obstructo: Took this at The Library of Congress in Sept. where Gerry's sax has a permanent display across from the Media Room.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Yusef Lateef Live at Peps would be my pick Paul .... perhaps Twelve Tone Blues or Oscarlypso ..... [by Pettiford natch]

what Breakfast could do is revisit some of Robert Parker's re-engineered classics of the swing era, his Ellington albums are stunning eg the version of Solitude from 1934 ....

[Paul Sherratt]

Calum, 'Breakfast' should hire you to select their jazz tunes ...

Don,
Thanks for the Macon item. We were having a natter about him on the world board a few weeks back.
And an Old Timey Timer of sorts was spun by that fine Max Reinhardt last night. It was Roscoe Holcomb
with an electrifying song, ' The Village Churchyard ' performed without any electricity.

[Don Petter]

Paul,

Thanks for the tip – I must keep an eye on World Music. For some reason I hadn’t though of it covering these fields, though of course, by definition it must.

I also had never looked at anything on YouTube, assuming it was all home videos of people’s cats being clever. So I didn’t realize it has a lot of audio-only clips, including a lot of early jazz, blues etc. Nearly everything there I have on CD anyway, but it’s fun to try a few at random, often including their suggestion of ‘next up’.

Here are another two from the greatest string band of all, for anyone’s delectation:

Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers

He Rambled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdM-cK2UJxk

Baltimore Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7x5AWhT2ec

The latter I rate as one of the most beautiful recordings I know, in any genre. If it catches me at the right moment, after an absence, I can come over all emotional. (The sound is not the best on this clip, but no matter.) It refers to the great fire which destroyed much of Baltimore over two days in February 1904.

All this excitement brings us to the subject of the thread. Would I like these items to be aired on Breakfast? I would like them to come to the notice of a wider audience, who might get the sort of pleasure which they’ve given me. And I would certainly support a programme devoted to these various areas which don’t get much, if any, coverage.

However I don’t think they lie easily within a classical matrix. I can’t think of ever suddenly switching at home between listening to classical and these more homely items, or vice versa. They come from different worlds and engender different states of mind in the listener.

But here we come head-on to the posed question. The OP’s premise is that non-classical items will be played, so what would we like to hear? Naturally in that case I would have to vote for my type of choice to be included with others such as those earlier in the thread.

The problem then is the care with which the various items are interwoven. There have been some rather jarring juxtapositions, I seem to recall. Rob, with his wide experience, is probably the best at it, or can be. I’m not sure what’s been happening of late, as I gave up listening to Breakfast (and usually the rest of the morning’s programmes) some time ago. A pity, after a lifetime of R3 and its predecessors being the only channel ever heard in the household, but I’m not bitter about it. It takes all tastes, and I have enough unheard CDs to keep me going.

[Here endeth the Epistle to Paul the Kernowian.]