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 SongsBeegie Adair: Frosty the SnowmanCarmen McRae: The Christmas SongChet Baker: The First NoelCyrus Chestnut: O TannenbaumDave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan: Santa Claus Is Coming to TownDexter Gordon Quartet: Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasDiana Krall & The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Jingle BellsDuke Pearson: Sleigh RideHank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff: Silver BellsHouston Person: Blue ChristmasJack Jezzro & Lori Mechem: White ChristmasJimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery: Baby, It’s Cold OutsideLouis Armstrong: Christmas Night in HarlemRamsey Lewis Trio: Christmas BluesRay Brown Trio: Let It SnowTony Bennett: Winter Wonderland
January 23, 2010
All the President’s Jazz 2009 - Part 2 of 2
By
John Anderson
The rest of President Obama's jazz playlist. (The first part of the president's playlist is posted here.)
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No Lester with Count Basie?
ReplyDeleteNo Count Basie at all. No Louis? Keep sending him stuff.
ReplyDeleteI'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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