January 23, 2010

All the President’s Jazz 2009 - Part 2 of 2

The rest of President Obama's jazz playlist. (The first part of the president's playlist is posted here.)

J.J. Johnson: Old Devil Moon (The Eminent, Vol. 2)
Jackie McLean: Why Was I Born? (4, 5, and 6)
Jake Shimabukuro: Misty (Gently Weeps)
Jimmy Giuffre: That’s The Way It Is (The Jimmy Guifre 3)
Jimmy Smith: When The Saints Go Marching In (Prayer Meetin’)
Joe Henderson: Out of the Night (Page One)
Joe Pass: Dancing in the Dark (Blues for Fred)
John Coltrane: Blues to Elvin (Alt. Take 2) (Coltrane Plays the Blues); Body and Soul (Alt. Take); Equinox (Coltrane’s Sound); Soul Eyes (Coltrane)
John Lewis & Sacha Distel: Dear Old Stockholm; Willow Weep for Me (Afternoon in Paris)
Johnny Hodges: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart/Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (Everybody Knows)
Kenny Burrell: Chitlins Con Carne; Saturday Night Blues; Wavy Gravy (Midnight Blue); Terrace Theme (Alt. Take 3) (Guitar Forms)
Kenny Dorham: Buffalo; Sunrise in Mexico (Whistle Stop)
Kenny Drew: Groovin’ the Blues (Undercurrent)
Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh: There Will Never Be Another You (Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh)
Lester Young: Love Me Or Leave Me (Pres and Teddy)
Lou Donaldson: Avalon; Gravy Train (Alt. Take); Polka Dots & Moonbeams; Twist Time (Gravy Train); Blues Walk; Play Ray (Blues Walk); Love Walked In; Spaceman Twist (The Natural Soul)
McCoy Tyner/Joe Henderson/Ron Carter/Elvin Jones: Blues on the Corner (Real McCoy)
Miles Davis: Au Bar Du Petit Bac (Ascenseur pour l’echafaud); Summertime (Porgy & Bess); Teo (Someday My Prince Will Come)
Modern Jazz Quartet: Bluesology (Fontessa)
Monty Alexander: Fly Me to the Moon (Echoes of Jilly’s)
Nancy Wilson: I Thought About You (The Great American Songbook)
Nat Adderley: Sack of Woe (Work Song)
Ornette Coleman: When Will the Blues Leave? (Something Else!!!)
Oscar Peterson Trio: Birth of the Blues (Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra); Georgia on My Mind (Night Train); Tin Tin Deo (Exclusively For My Friends, Vol. 1)
Paul Desmond: Samba Cantina (Bossa Antigua)
Randy Weston: Tamashii (Zep Tepi)
Regina Carter: Oh, Lady, Be Good! (Rhythms of the Heart)
Ron Carter: Blues for D.P. (Bass and I)
Roy Eldridge: The Song is Ended, But The Melody Lingers On (Little Jazz)
Roy Haynes: Sneakin’ Around (We Three)
Sarah Vaughan: Fever (Viva! Vaughan)
Sheila Jordan: Hum Drum Blues (Portrait of Sheila)
Sonny Criss: Day Dream, Early and Later, Pt. 1, Early and Later, Pt. 2 (Jazz in Paris, Vol. 23)
Sonny Red: Bluesville (Out of the Blue)
Sonny Rollins: I’m an Old Cowhand (Way Out West); Paradox (Work Time); Strode Rode (Saxophone Colossus)
Sonny Stitt: My Mother’s Eyes; Never Sh! (Now)
Stan Getz: All the Things You Are; To the Ends of the Earth; Pocono Mac (The Soft Swing); Candy; Chocolate Sundae; When Your Lover Has Gone (Jazz Giants ‘58); Desafinado; O Morro Nao Tem Vez (Bossa Nova Years); I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; Tangerine (More West Coast Jazz); Of Thee I Sing (West Coast Jazz); Three Little Words (Award Winner)
Stanley Turrentine: Goin’ Home; Ladyfingers; Trouble (No. 2) (Hustlin’); Little Sheri; Look Out!; Minor Chant; Tin Tin Deo; Yesterdays (Look Out!); Sure As You’re Born (Let It Go)
Stuff Smith: Blue Violin (Cat on a Hot Fiddle)
Tal Farlow: They Can’t Take That Away From Me (Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow)
Thad Jones: April In Paris (Magnificent Thad Jones)
Tony Bennett: Sweet Lorraine (Jazz)
Wes Montgomery: Bumpin’ on Sunset (Verve Jazz Masters 14)
Willis Jackson: Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige Profile)
Wynton Kelly: Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (Kelly Blue)
Wynton Marsalis: You & Me (Magic Hour)
Zoot Sims: Gus’s Blues (That Old Feeling); How Long Has This Been Going On; The Man I Love (Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers)

Christmas Songs
Beegie Adair: Frosty the Snowman
Carmen McRae: The Christmas Song
Chet Baker: The First Noel
Cyrus Chestnut: O Tannenbaum
Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Dexter Gordon Quartet: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Diana Krall & The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Jingle Bells
Duke Pearson: Sleigh Ride
Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff: Silver Bells
Houston Person: Blue Christmas
Jack Jezzro & Lori Mechem: White Christmas
Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Louis Armstrong: Christmas Night in Harlem
Ramsey Lewis Trio: Christmas Blues
Ray Brown Trio: Let It Snow
Tony Bennett: Winter Wonderland

3 comments:

  1. No Lester with Count Basie?

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  2. No Count Basie at all. No Louis? Keep sending him stuff.

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  3. I'm sure plenty of things were left off the list. We'll get around to it eventually, I'm sure. Do you have any particular favorite?

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