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Welcome to another 2 hours of jazz on Radio Mecha. As I generally do, I'll be posting some links, comments and credits as the set plays, which I hope are of interest to those listening, as well as to those who come to this thread later.

In this program, I'm beginning a new feature. Everyone with a music collection finds that they accumulate "cover" versions of many standard tunes, and that comparing covers is a common way of learning about both those tunes, and the musicians who record them. So, on Thursday programs in this series, for the foreseeable future, in the first hour, I'll play several versions of a single tune, as our Spotlight Tune. Tonight, the Spotlight Tune will be Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," which is perhaps one of the most covered tunes in the 20th century, with something like 1800 recorded versions. I also have a classic Bix Beiderbecke tune, some bebop from Dizzy and Bird, some relatively recent improvisations from Keith Jarrett's standards Trio, and a pretty, old tune by Diana Krall, to wrap things up.

The tune that I open these sets with, "The Greeting" is from a later McCoy Tyner album, called Things Ain't What They Used To Be.

#2 Stardust

Art Tatum with a solo piano version of our Spotlight Tune by Hoagy Carmichael, from the compiliation CD "Art Tatum: Solo Masterpieces Vol. 4."

#3 Of All The Wrongs You've Done To Me

Louis Armstrong and the Red Onion Jazz Babies with a tune by Lawrence Payton, Chris Smith, and Edgar Dowell, recorded November 8, 1924 in NYC. Louis Armstrong (cornet), Aaron Thompson (trombone), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Lil Hardin Armstrong (piano), and Buddy Christian (banjo). From the Miletstone Classic Jazz "Louis Armstrong and King Oliver" compilation CD.

#4 Davenport Blues

Here's a tune by Bix Beiderbecke, recorded January 6, 1925 in Richmond, Indiana by Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers. [Bix Beiderbecke (cornet), Tommy Dorsey (trombone), Don Murray (clarinet), Paul Mertz (piano), Howdy Quicksell (banjo) and Tom Gargano (drums)]

#5 Profoundly Blue

Meade 'Lux' Lewis, playing the celeste, on a tune of his own, in a February 5, 1941 recording for Blue Note with the Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet [Edmond Hall (clarinet), Charlie Christian (guitar) and Israel Crosby (bass)]. This is a far better quality recording of the celeste than his original 1936 celeste dates in the Chicago Decca studios, and you can really hear the quiet delicacy of the celeste behind Hall's clarinet solos.

Thank you for notes.
From jazz newbie.

#6 Dizzy Atmosphere

The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet [Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Charlie Parker (alto saxophone), Clyde Hart (piano), Remo Palmeri (guitar), Slam Stewart (bass), and Cozy Cole (drums)] with a tune by Dizzy Gillespie recorded February 28, 1945 in NYC.

You're more than welcome, typewriter, and glad to have you along this evening. Putting together the notes for these programs is half of the fun of doing them, for me. And sharing this music with interested people is the other half!

#7 Deception

Miles Davis with a tune he wrote, arranged by Gerry Mulligan, recorded March 9, 1950 and ultimately released in 1957 on the "Birth of the Cool" album. With J.J. Johnson (trombone), Gunther Schuller (French horn), Bill Barber (tuba), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone), John Lewis (piano), Al McKibbon (bass), and Max Roach (drums).

#8 For Bessie

From the 1990 CD reissue of the 1959 Verve album "Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster", here's a tune by Mulligan.

#9 Stardust

Pianist George Shearing with a 1962 recording of our Spotlight Tune, from the compilation CD "The Best of George Shearing."

Just a note here to remind DJs of one of the broadcasting rules: "When announcing that you'll be broadcasting, you can advertise 'one or two' artists you'll be playing."

That "one or two" comes from LoudCity, and it's dangerously vague, so we need not to push it.

So, DJs, please don't announce more than one or two artists whom you'll be playing.

Thanks.

#10 Waltz For Debby (Take 2)

From the 1998 compilation CD "Showcase Jazz: Bill Evans" here is a tune by Evans originally recorded June 15,1961 at the Village Vanguard, and released on the Waltz for Debby album. With Scott LeFaro on bass, and Paul Motian on drums.

Point taken, mudpuppie.

#11 Stardust

Frank Sinatra does a typically great job of selling the 1929 Mitchell Parish lyric, of our Spotlight Tune, although he only sings the first verse in this 1961 recording for the Reprise label. From the liner notes by Stephen Holden for the 1997 Reprise compilation CD set:

"Sinatra had recorded 'Stardust,' which many regard as the definitive American standard, only once before, in 1940, when he was still with Tommy Dorsey. The difference between the old version and the 1961 Reprise recording with Don Costa's orchestra is the difference between an ingenuous band singer stepping out from behind the horns and troubled pop philospher interpreting a lyric (Sinatra breaks custom here and sings only the opening verse) inscribed in stone."

#12 Melinda

Stan Getz (tenor saxophone), Bill Evans (piano), Richard Davis (bass) and Elvin Jones (drums) with a tune by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane recorded May 5, 1964 in Englewood, N.J. for the album "Stan Getz and Bill Evans," via the CD boxed set "The Artistry of Stan Getz, Vol. 1."

#13 I Thought About You

From the 1998 2 CD set reissue of the 1961 album "Miles Davis At Carnegie Hall" here is a pretty ballad by Johnny Mercer and Jimmy Van Huesen. With Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), Hank Mobley (tenor sax) and Wynton Kelly (piano).

#14 Body and Soul

From the CD reissue of the 1962 album "Monk's Dream", here is Thelonious Monk, playing solo, with the jazz standard by Edward Heyman/Frank Eyton/Johnny Green/Robert Sour.

#15 I Didn't Know What Time It Was

From the remastered, stereo CD reissue of the 1957 album "Getz Meets Mulligan in HiFi", here is a tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, written for the 1939 musical "Too Many Girls" and later re-made in 1957 as the film "Pal Joey" with Frank Sinatra.

#16 Motherless Child

From the CD reissue of the 1965 album "The In Crowd", here is The Ramsey Lewis Trio with a tune by Lewis not included on the original LP. Ramsey Lewis (piano), Eldee Young (bass) and Redd Holt (drums).

#17 Rite of Spring

Hubert Laws from the CD reissue of his 1971 album of the same title, with a theme by Igor Stravinsky.

#18 Autumn Leaves / Up For ItFrom the 2003 CD "Up for It: Live in Juan-Les-Pins", here are Keith Jarrett (piano), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and Gary Peacock (bass) with a medley of the standard by Joseph Kosma based on a poem by Jacques Prévert, with English lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and "Up For It" by Joseph Kosma, a friend of Prévert. This pairing of themes by Kosma, from Jarrett, playing with his colleagues and friends of many years, is fertile ground for the kind of improvisation that Jarrett fans have come to expect.

#19 Chiquito

John McLaughlin with Al DiMeola and Paco DeLucia from their 1982 CD "Passion, Grace and Fire" with a tune by DeLucia.

Most excellent, you paul-scer, you.
I have reserved two hours starting a half-hour after your official time, so feel free to go slightly over, but we do need some time-inbetween or the change from your cool jazz to my random silliness may be too much to take. I must also warn that I just came back from another annoying one-hour outage of my cabal internet, so technical difficulties may be unavoidable.

#20 All Blues

The World Saxophone Quartet and drummer Jack DeJohnette with a Miles Davis tune, from their 1998 CD "Selim Sevad: A Tribute to Miles Davis."

I usually roll out on the minute, wendell. Tonight, I'm 4 seconds light. :-) Have at it, on your schedule.

#21 I've Got You Under My Skin

Diana Krall from her 2002 CD "Live in Paris", with the Cole Porter standard in an orchestral setting with The Orchestre Symphonique Europeen.

4 seconds? Sir, you may be taking this a little too seriously! :-p

#22 I Will Say Goodbye

Once again, The Bill Evans Trio, with Eddie Gomez on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums, takes us out with the title track from the 1977 album of the same name. To recap, in this set, we heard:

1. McCoy Tyner - The Greeting (2:27)
2. Art Tatum - Stardust (5:04)
3. Louis Armstrong & The Red Onion Jazz Babies - Of All The Wrongs You 've Done To Me (2:52)
4. Beiderbecke, Bix - Davenport Blues (2:49)
5. Meade 'Lux' Lewis - Profoundly Blue (4:11)
6. Charlie Parker - Dizzy Atmosphere (2:47)
7. Miles Davis - Deception (2:50)
8. Gerry Mulligan - For Bessie [Previously Unreleased] (5:41)
9. George Shearing - Stardust (3:00)
10. Evans, Bill - Waltz For Debby (Take 2) (6:56)
11. Frank Sinatra - Stardust (2:48)
12. Stan Getz - Melinda (5:06)
13. Miles Davis - I Thought About You (5:00)
14. Thelonious Monk Quartet - Body and Soul (4:29)
15. Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz - I Didn't Know What Time It Was (8:59)
16. Ramsey Lewis Trio - Motherless Child (3:34)
17. Hubert Laws - Rite of Spring (8:57)
18. Keith Jarrett - Autumn Leaves / Up For It (16:58)
19. John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia - Chiquito (4:43)
20. World Saxophone Quartet - All Blues (9:51)
21. Diana Krall - I've Got You Under My Skin (7:24)
22. Bill Evans Trio - I Will Say Goodbye (3:30)


Until next time, kids, stay jazzed!