All the President's Jazz 2010

For the second year in a row, I have been sending CD compilations of jazz music (12 total) to Reggie Love, President Obama’s personal aide, to put on the president’s iPod. (How much of it has made it onto the iPod playlist I don’t know.) As I stated a year ago when I posted the 2009 presidential playlist, this list reflects my tastes in jazz and should not be construed to be President Obama’s choices. So, what follows is the complete playlist of jazz tunes that I sent to the president in 2010 (in alphabetical order by the artist’s first name). 

Ahmad Jamal: Ahmad’s Blues

Anita O’Day: Honeysuckle Rose

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

Barney Wilen: Swing 39

Ben Webster: Bounce Blues

Benny Golson: Blues After Dark; Tippin’ On Thru; Soul Me

Bernie Green and Sonny Stitt: Flame and Frost

Bill Evans Trio: My Man’s Gone Now; When I Fall In Love

Bill Holman/Mel Lewis Quintet: The Beat Generation

Billy Bang Quartet: Bien-hoa Blues

Blue Mitchell: Avars; Blue Soul; Hi-Heel Sneakers; Samba De Stacy

Bob Mintzer Quartet: Listen Here

Bud Freeman: Meet Me In San Juan

Carl Perkins and The Oscar Moore Quartet: There’ll Never Be Another You

Carmen McRae and Dave Brubeck: Take Five

Cat Anderson: Good Queen Bess

Cedar Walton Trio: Bleeker Street Team

Charles Earland: The Dozens

Charles Mingus: Moanin’; Song With Orange

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: My Melancholy Baby

Charlie Parker: Chi Chi

Chet Baker: For Minors Only; Soft Winds

Chick Corea: Bossa

Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove and Stephen Scott: Marmaduke

Clifford Brown and The Max Roach Quintet: Joy Spring

Clifton Anderson: Deja-Blu

Coleman Hawkins and The Red Garland Trio: Red Beans

Craig Handy: You’re Blase

Curtis Fuller and Benny Golson: Arabia

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Basin Street Blues; Calcutta Blues; Far More Blue; Osaka Blues; Sometimes I'm Happy

Dave Brubeck: Who Said That?

Dexter Gordon: Darn That Dream

Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

Dizzy Gillespie: Joogie Boogie

Don Cherry, Lennart Aberg, and Bobo Stenson: Prayer

Donald Byrd and Hank Mobley: Cattin'

Duke Ellington and John Coltrane: In a Sentimental Mood

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges: Just Squeeze Me (But Don’t Tease Me)

Duke Ellington: Piano Improvisation No. 2

Earl "Fatha" Hines: Love Is Just Around the Corner

Ella Fitzgerald: All the Things You Are; I Found a New Baby

Ellis Larkins: Blues In My Heart

Elmo Hope: It’s a Lovely Day Today

Eric Alexander and One for All: Sweet and Lovely

Frank Strozier: Cloudy And Cool; I Don’t Know; Just In Time

Freddie Jackson: Egypt Land; Minor Exposure; Southern Exposure

Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt: A Pair of Red Pants

Gerry Mulligan: News from Blueport

Gigi Gryce: Nica's Tempo

Grant Green: Blues In Maude's Flat; Born To Be Blue; Green’s Greenery; It Ain’t Necessarily So; Old Folks

Hampton Hawes Trio: All the Things You Are; Easy Living

Hank Mobley: Uh Huh

Harry "Sweets" Edison: How Deep Is The Ocean; Love Is Here To Stay

Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage

Herbie Nichols: Applejackin'

Howard Roberts: When the Sun Comes Out

Ike Quebec: Blue And Sentimental

Illinois Jacquet: Port of Rico; Weary Blues

J.J. Johnson: Groovin’

James Carter: Sussa Nita

James Moody: Bunny Boo

Jimmy Forrest: Soul Street

Jimmy Heath Orchestra: The Picture of Heath

Joe Henderson: Back Road; Blue Bossa

Joe Lovano: Left Behind

Joe Newman: Prelude to a Kiss

Joe Pass: Blues for Alican

Joe Venuti and Zoot Sims: I'll See You In My Dreams

Joe Williams: All Right, Okay, You Win

Joe Zawinul: Money In the Pocket

John Coltrane and Kenny Burrell: Why Was I Born?

John Coltrane: Aisha; Bessie’s Blues; Cousin Mary (Alt. Take); CTA; I’m Old Fashioned; Say It (Over and Over Again); Tunji

Johnny Griffin: Chicago Calling; Nice And Easy

Joshua Redman: Blues On Sunday

Junior Mance: Blue Mance

Kenny Burrell: K Twist (Take 35)

Lee Morgan: Boy, What A Night; The Sidewinder

Lisa Engelken: Winter Moon

Lou Donaldson: Here 'Tis

Lucky Thompson: Fascinating Blues; Invitation

Marc Copland: All Blues

Marty Paich: Jump for Me

McCoy Tyner: Blue Monk; Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool

Miles Davis: I Fall In Love Too Easily; Milestones; Some Day My Prince Will Come

Newport All-Stars: Blue Boy

Nicholas Payton: The Backwards Step

Oliver Nelson: Stolen Moments

Ornette Coleman: Beauty Is a Rare Thing; Lonely Woman

Oscar Peterson Trio: Blues of the Prairies; It Ain’t Necessarily So

Oscar Pettiford: Blues In the Closet

Paco De Lucía, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola: Manha de Carnaval

Paul Gonsalves: Rapscallion in Rab's Canyon

Pepper Adams Quintet: Muezzin'

Phil Woods: Woodlore

Ray Brown Trio: Mistreated But Undefeated Blues

Red Garland Trio: Makin' Whoopee; September In the Rain

Richie Cole: Adios

Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington: Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’

Roy Haynes: Sugar Ray

Sam Rivers: Beatrice

Scott Hamilton: Jump for Joy

Serge Chaloff: Thanks for the Memory

Shirley Scott: I Feel All Right; Soul Shoutin’

Sonny Criss: My Ideal

Sonny Rollins: Alfie’s Theme Differently

Sonny Stitt: Down Home Blues; Touchy

Stan Getz: Love is Here to Stay; Of Thee I Sing

Stanley Jordan: Song for My Father

Ted Greene: Just Friends

Terence Blanchard: You’re a Sweetheart

Thad Jones/Kenny Burrell/Frank Wess: Count One

Thelonious Monk: Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 2); Five Spot Blues; Rhythm-A-Ning; Tea For Two

Tommy Flanagan: Tommy's Time

Tony Monaco Trio: Ode to Brother Jack

Warne Marsh: Autumn In New York

Wayne Shorter: Adam’s Apple; El Gaucho; Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

Wes Montgomery: The Thumb

Willis Jackson: A Twist Of Blues; He Said, She Said, I Said; Shuckin’; Sweet Peter Charleston

Wynton Kelly: June Night