FJD March 21 Show

The March 21 show is uploaded for your listening pleasure. Double click on the radio blog file to the right to hear the entire show, including my interview with Richmond's own Butterbean Jazz Quartet.

You can purchase their new CD here http://cdbaby.com/cd/butterbeanjazz

See The Butterbean Jazz Quartet live this Saturday night for their CD Release Party at Ashland Coffee and Tea. More info at http://www.ashlandcoffeeandtea.com/AC%26T/The_Calendar.html

Playlist to come soon.

The FJD Bebop Show

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The Howard McGhee – Fats Navarro Sextet—Double Talk, alt take—The Complete Blue Note and Capital Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron—Blue Note 1948

Lord Kitchener—Kitch’s Be Bop Calypso—London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London 1950-1956—Honest John Records

Dizzy Gillespie—Salt Peanuts—Guild 1945

Lennie Tristano—Ghost Of A Chance—Tristano—Atlantic 1955

Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys—Confirmation—Swing 1948

Dexter Gordon Quintette—Dexter’s Riff—Savoy 1947

Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra—Cool Breeze—Victor 1947

Sarah Vaughan—Sometimes I’m Happy—Sassy Swings The Tivoli—Emarcy 1963

Dodo Marmarosa—Dodo’s Bounce—MacGregor Transcriptions 1946

Charlie Parker’s Ri Bop Boys—Ko-Ko—Savoy 1945

Sadao Watanabe—K.C. Blues— Bird of Paradise—Inner City 1977

Art Blakey’s Messengers—Bop Alley—Blue Note 1947

Tadd Dameron with Fats Navarro—The Squirrel— The Complete Blue Note and Capital Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron—Blue Note 1947

Ronnie Scott Boptet—Ow!—Bebop In Britain—1949

Wardell Gray Quartet—Twisted—Prestige 1949

Fats Navarro—Nostalgia—Savoy 1947

Ella Fitzgerald—Ool-Ya-Koo—Live 1948

Charlie Parker Quintet—Klactoveesedstene—Dial 1950

Herbie Mann—Yardbird Suite—Be Bop Synthesis: The Savoy Sessions—Savoy 1957

Roberto Magris Trio—Bemsha Swing—Kansas City Outbound—PCAMI 2007

Gerry Mulligan—Moon Dreams—Re-Birth Of The Cool—GRP 1992

Lou Blackburn—17 Richmond Park—The Complete Imperial Sessions—Imperial 1963

Sarah Vaughan—No Smoke Blues—1945

Records From Aunt Ruth Entry

Zoot Sims/Jimmy Raney/Jim Hall

Otra Vez

Mainstream1964

Side 2

Betaminus
Move It
All Across The City
Coisa Mais Linda
How About You

Two-Of-A-Kind Entry

The Thelonious Monk composition “Epistrophy”

Version 1: Thelonious Monk 1948

Version 2: M’Boom 1979

FJD Playlist for March 8, 2009

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Joshua Redman—Insomnomaniac—Compass—Nonesuch 2009

The Butterbean Jazz Quartet—My Old Man—Courthouse Records 2009

The Shorty Rogers Quintet—Prevailing On The Westerlies—Wherever The Five Winds Blow—RCA 1956

Benjamin Herman—Rumbone—Live At The Jazz Marathon—A Records/IODA 2000

Chico Hamilton—A Trip—The Dealer—Impulse 1966

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers—The Witch Doctor—Blue Note 1961

Ken Peplowski Quintet—Smada—Illuminations—Concord 1991

Mose Allison—Back On The Corner—I’ve Been Doin’ Some Thinkin’—Atlantic 1968

Art Pepper—Winter Moon—Galaxy/OJC 1980

George Freeman—Cough It Up—Birth Sign—Delmark 1969

Branford Marsalis—St. Thomas—Renaissance—Columbia 1987

Kenny Dorham—Sunrise In Mexico—Whistle Stop—Blue Note 1961

John Cephas—Banks Of The River—Flip, Flop & Fly—Flying Fish 1992


Records From Aunt Ruth Entry

Jazz At Toad Hall

“Messin’ About In Boats”

Ken Moule’s Music

London 1958

Result: Treasure! 6 Treasure Votes to 0 Trash Votes


Two-Of-A-Kind Entry

The Dizzy Gillespie composition “Night In Tunisia”

Version 1: Sarah Vaughan 1944

Version 2: The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band 1956