Artist - Tune - Album
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Dorthaan’s Walk - Boogie-Woogie String Along For Real
Victor Wooten - Me & My Bass Guitar - A Show of Hands 15
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island - Empyrean Isles
Ashley Henry - Moving Forward - Easter – EP
Count Basie - Blues for Charlie Christian - Mostly Blues…and some others
Dee Dee Bridgewater - Lullaby of Birdland - Keeping Tradition
Howlin’ Wolf - Back Door Man - The Best of Chess Blues
Edwin Hawkins - Oh Happy Day - Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
John Coltrane - Africa - Africa / Brass
Sly & the Family Stone - Stand! - Stand!
Carmen McRae - I’ve Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good - Carmen McRae
Klemens Marktl - Elveen - December
Lou Rawls - A Natural Man - Naturally
Courtney Pine - In The Garden Of Eden - Modern Day Jazz Stories
Chick Corea - Humpty Dumpty - The Mad Hatter
The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo is “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot Lefonque.
Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca
Isn’t this a wonderful photo of Basie, lovingly working his magic?
Lots of beautiful magic in this Set, top to bottom.
The newest pieces are from Ashley Henry, Klemens Marktl and Victor Wooten.
(Just love Vic and his bass guitar!)
And oh, what a remarkable and varied set of oldies:
the old Masters Basie and Trane do their thing;
Dee Dee and Carmen elevate some standards;
We have brilliant, early chapters from the encyclopedic careers of Herbie and Chick.
And there’s some funk blues, a pulsing soul classic, and even a slice of stirring gospel.
I won’t try to categorize Courtney Pine’s “In the Garden of Eden”, but it’s one of my favorites.
Thrive!
Kirby
