Artist - Tune - Album
Buckshot Lefonque - Music Evolution - Music Evolution
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Show Stopper - Show Stopper
The Manhattan Transfer - Shaker Song - Extensions
Horace Silver - New York Lament - Silver ‘N Voices
Airto Moreira - Parana - Fingers
Louis Armstrong - What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue - Giants of Jazz Series
Bobby McFerrin - Good Lovin’ - Simple Pleasures
McCoy Tyner - For Tomorrow - Inner Voices
Fats Waller - You’re Not the Only Oyster in the Stew - Giants of Jazz Series
Urszula Dudziak - Crazy Kid - Fusion III (M.Urbaniak)
Urszula Dudziak - Prehistoric Bird - Fusion III (M.Urbaniak)
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife - Essential Ella
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - The Return of the 5,000 lb. Man
Sekoya - Heavenly City - Sekoya
Dexter Gordon & Eddie Jefferson - It’s Only A Paper Moon - Great Encounters
Flora Purim - Summer Night - Butterfly Dreams
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman - Lush Life - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
K’naan - Hoobaale - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Everyday - Sing A Song Of Basie
Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby Of Birdland - Sarah Vaughan’s Golden Hits
Sweet Honey In The Rock - Wade In The Water - Live at Carnegie Hall
The opening theme for Jazz Gumbo is "Music Evolution" by Branford Marsalis and his group Buckshot LeFonque.
For playlists of all past Sets go to jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca
This Set was posted in recognition of the fact that probably 80% of the music featured on Jazz Gumbo is instrumental. And while doing it, I was surprised at how many great vocalists and uses of vocals that I didn't even get to.
Every piece in this Set contains a vocal element. There are a few straight ahead numbers with a single vocalist fronting a group in a traditional style. Other numbers make use of vocalese (the art of adding words to previously instrumental compositions and using voices in place of the melodic instruments), scat (wordless vocal improvisation) or some other innovative technique. And some numbers feature a cappella or choral, or interesting background singing.
My hosting here is pretty sad from an informational point of view. I introduce the Manhattan Transfer with a statement of how they re-popularized vocalese, then play a selection that isn't vocalese at all. Then I discuss how Satchmo invented scat singing, and play a cut on which he doesn't scat. But hey, all the music is brilliant!
Enjoy and Thrive!
Kirby
