We celebrate Halloween by exploring jazz’s spooky side with plenty of the best scary music and mysterious legends surrounding some unlucky jazzers. We’ll talk with mystery writer Bill Moody about the real-life jazz mysteries that inspire his novels, visit the cemetery in the Bronx that’s become the final resting place for an A-list of bygone jazz legends, and hear the myth and truth behind bluesman Robert Johnson’s notorious deal with the devil.
Episode Transcript
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Bill Moody, Susan Olsen, Lou Blouin
Music
- Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Halloween Spooks”
- Jelly Roll Morton “Dead Man’s Blues”
- Nellie McKay “Zombie”
- Robert Johnson “Me and the Devil Blues”
- Robert Johnson “If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day”
- Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues”
- Robert Johnson “Hellhound on My Trail”
- Louis Armstrong “Skeleton in the Closet”
- Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
- Screamin Jay Hawkins “Whistling Past the Graveyard”
- Miles Davis “All Blues”
- Miles Davis “Solar”
- Duke Ellington “Black Beauty (Portrait of Flo Mills)”
- Lionel Hampton “Flying Home”
- Squirrel Nut Zippers “Ghost of Stephen Foster”
- Otis Redding “Trick Or Treat”
- Mel Tormé “The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)”
- Philly Joe Jones “Blues for Dracula”
- The Creed Taylor Orchestra “in Bedlam”
- Albert Ayler “Witches and Devils”
- Wayne Shorter “Dance Cadaverous”
- Hoyt Curtin “Battle of the Planets Sneak-up / Battle of the Planets Bad Guys Vs. Good Guys”
- Raymond Scott “New Years Eve In a Haunted House”
- Raymond Scott “Power House”
- Kay Starr “Headless Horseman”
- Chet Baker “Old Devil Moon”
- Chet Baker “Witchcraft”
- Bill Evans “Witchcraft”
- Chet Baker “Soft Winds”
- Thelonious Monk “Misterioso
- Duke Ellington “Night Creature (Second Movement): Stalking Monster”
Original Air Date: October 22, 2012
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes and show notes by Erik Saras
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
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