Gary Shivers on Jazz; Ella, Frank, Nelson, Tommy Part 1 and 2

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latimer well yeah beyond category is lincoln's portrait of ella fitzgerald duke ellington as a composer arranger and the pianist and he was also the speaker in the introduction for which the piano so was played by billy strayhorn duke ellington's beyond category for a picture of the soloists record carrie kahn trumpet and pockets all this on tenor jimmy hamilton on clarinet that introduces us to an aspect of a mixture of music which is beyond category and we're already hearing some of her music including music now from the newest release of the literature on public records it's just out within the last couple weeks but it was recorded

several years ago in nineteen seventy four january of seventy four so the belated release of this new album calls it to our attention searles been recording a lot in the last few years for pablo records norman granz was released perhaps too many of his recurrence of her recordings so many that to her most devoted fans like myself perhaps wouldn't want to hear all of them this one come attention because instead of justice just another date with her regular rhythm section tommy flanagan trio or just another album with an arranged big band this one presents other gerald in a jam session with a bunch of horn players and but to a different rhythm section too and the performances in a couple of cases are simply marvelous the rhythm section as tommy flanagan and piano ray brown bass and willie nelson and drums plus joe pass guitar and the horns are larger davis and tenors sued samsung tenor harry

edison on trumpet and clark terry and it's a marvelous combination musicians and there's some marvelous music on here and that we're going to begin with i don't stand a ghost of a chance with you a song that bing crosby and had a hand in writing along with ned washington's victory at an end on the release after the bridge the last of the first chorus one of its gerald does is simply miraculous the featured soloist is it sends on tenor ella fitzgerald sings i don't stand a ghost of a chance with you it's big the cell was a

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as ruth sims on tenor and other fitzgerald and i don't stand a ghost of a chance with you know trumpet behind the first chorus was clark terry behind the second was harry anderson and the rhythm section was tommy flanagan ray brown and louis belson the new album on pablo is fine and noble about fitzgerald jan's there's another new album of pablo though the gerald and cole porter's music the album is dream dancing and it is for the most part a reissue of an album recorded in nineteen seventy two unreleased that iran atlantic records norman granz already begun to record again for his new label but the label was ready for release and distribution so he leased some of his new recordings to other labels there was no that you're welcome on columbia as well as the one in the atlantic it was only released four of actually a couple of years and then was withdrawn and now has been reissued with the addition of two new tracks and all the old material has also been re mixed and

i compare the two albums carefully and concluded that this is a better company a better mix of better release of the of the old material from seventy two but the track we're going to hear is one of the nineteen seventy eight recordings the new tunes added to the album the title tune dream dancing when ella fitzgerald appeared without days he's been the duke university in late nineteen seventy seven she performed this music and nelson riddle arrangement with her own rhythm section tommy flanagan and the basie band and everybody was knocked out by the music this music is a rather obscure cole porter tune and fred astaire introduced of movies and recorded several times it's been kept alive in recent years primarily by the late andy king and by pianist like jimmy rowles and dave mckenna who continue to play this music it's a very beautiful song and the enticing lyric and day it's sung here by over that year old with nelson riddle's orchestra yes

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dancing recorded nineteen seventy eight well the fitzgerald with nelson riddle's orchestra and that also reunited her with her pianist of the late fifties and early sixties paul smith who read the rhythm section with john heard and jason lee balsamic drought the new album by the way i'm pablo dream dancing ella fitzgerald and cole porter list says the personnel of the album the orchestra which was heard only on the two new recordings for the rest of the rhythm section is tommy flanagan they going into your bets and the horn solo featured prominently throughout the rest of the album who is interested in this person over the new recordings is harry anderson dream dancing is the reissue of the seventy two recordings and two new recordings from seventy eight record porter's music soundbite of a fitzgerald with nelson riddle's orchestra the new album of the seventy four recordings just really stunned pablo is fine and mellow ella fitzgerald jams and we're going to hear i can't give you anything but love it features so dr john davis from the basie band on tenor

and it features car carry and a vocal duet with ella fitzgerald and the rhythm section's tommy flanagan ray brown in the league alston and after this vocal duet by clark terry and ella fitzgerald we'll hear another duet featuring ella fitzgerald as ben can you feel it today

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oh wow oh at that this at a time of them to get out of the orbit returned to like you look at a lot of new england and one night long nilly a lawman and together on television in may of nineteen fifty eight ella

fitzgerald and frank sinatra with sinatra feeding out of the lyrics to his theme song put your dreams away that was probably pulls notes on piano and i was one of several television appearances of ella fitzgerald and frank sinatra together and they have been released on an album in the retrospective series frank sinatra the television years retrospect is a label that's been releasing time surgeon broadcast and film soundtrack performances by frank sinatra dating from throughout his career and they now have nine albums in the series and they're all marvelous this point this is an opportunity to hear most of the television appearances of frank sinatra and a picture altogether and will be hearing them during the course of this week show frank sinatra and ella fitzgerald together they have something else in common and that would be nelson riddle nelson riddle arranged jump really many of for frank sinatra records frank sinatra's records during the fifties for capital and during the sixties and into the seventies for reprise records and really began to characterize frank sinatra's sound on record the

context of nelson riddle's orchestra leonard feather it was i think you once wrote that ella fitzgerald had found her nelson riddle and marty page that is she had found a relationship ending and an arranger who could do as much for her as nelson riddle had done for frank sinatra and i would disagree only to the extent that i think nelson riddle is ella fitzgerald's nelson riddle they record together a lot to perhaps a dozen albums including the five records of the gershwin song book and jerome kern song book and johnny mercer songbook the newest or cole porter recordings now juan pablo biographer gerald ford richard nelson riddle's bad and there were a couple of others to i can find some fifteen frank sinatra nelson riddle arrangement nelson riddle you started in the early forties with jerry wald then later played and wrote for tommy dorsey's band for several periods during the forties and then during the fifties arrange primarily for sinatra for a lot of other artists or the capital label and began writing for television and film

which is primarily what he does now he wrote two important albums for other gerald i think one was called alice wings brightly with nelson the other alice wings gently with nelson and both of them were on them on verve records in nineteen sixty two will be hearing excerpts from those in from so some other albums they made together and from some of the albums of frank sinatra and nelson riddle together through these recordings are you'll hear a horn solos by harry anderson on trumpet probably ted nash and tender body to franco and clarinet and others and you'll hear the voices of ella fitzgerald and frank sinatra nelson riddle's writing was mostly commercial writing mostly for singers he was one of the finest writers for singers of those two decades the fifties and sixties his writing has as interest for jazz listeners to whatever it is you listen for any jazz arrangement whether it's the year the chords and the structure the idea is that counter melodies to the beat if you like to take your toe anything you listen for any jazz big band arrangement

i think you will find and listening to the imagination of nelson riddle as he applies it to these substandard popular songs in providing a setting for these marvelous centers music by ella fitzgerald and frank sinatra with arrangements by nelson riddle taxes mm hmm i mean i mean i won't dance this year with you my home that the things they do you know and so

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riddle the a featured soloist and clarinet was buddy d franco cross country suite was composed and recorded by nelson riddle with buddy to franco in nineteen fifty eight we've been hearing music of budding of nelson riddle and the variety of settings and moods and feelings he can invoke for a singer and for listeners singers with his arrangements written mostly during the late fifties and early sixties for frank sinatra and ella fitzgerald and i want you to hear some of his writing for instrumentalists orbit of franco and for oscar peterson there was an important albums in nineteen sixty three for verve records oscar peterson and nelson riddle the trio and the orchestra with strings is the full title of the album the abbreviated title is oscar peterson and nelson riddle and we're going to hear two selections the first is nightingale composition of oscar peterson and the second is the wonderful my ship by kurt vile and ira gershwin ira gershwin because you can think about the song without thinking about the lyrics my ship by kurt vile

nightingale by oscar peterson the trio is at that bend on drums ray brown on bass and oscar peterson piano and the orchestra is arranging adopted by nelson riddle will geez

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first was so oscar peterson's composition nightingale the second was kurt weill's my ship from a nineteen sixty three virtual after peterson the nelson riddle nelson riddle scored that for an instrumental combination including ten shows five horns five luke it's parked and reading plus the oscar peterson trio and i want to hear some of his music for another for its context for upsetting unusual combination of instruments this is a frank sinatra album made in nineteen fifty six for capital called close to you and it features sinatra with occasional horn soloist usually a clarinet and the hollywood string quartet led by felix lack and the arrangements for string quartet voice and single instrument or written by nelson riddle i'm this is

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neither is it by frank sinatra with arrangements by nelson riddle for the hollywood string quartet the album was made in nineteen fifty six for capitol records close to you the songs working with every breath i take which was written by leo robin ralph ranger for bing crosby movie it could happen to you was written by johnny burke and jimmy van heusen went on my youth was written by oscar levant frank sinatra the hollywood string quartet and arrangement by nelson riddle in nineteen seventy four since sinatra did a live television broadcast today from madison square garden

with woody herman's band and as at all of his concerts in the last twenty years or so he performed i've got you under my skin by cole porter the arrangement was written by nelson riddle for an album originally recorded for capitol in nineteen fifty five and i have eight different versions of this in my collection sinatra's re recorded several times and has performed at every concert opportunity this one features a woody herman van playing the music of nelson riddle and call porter song and introduced by frank sinatra the polls with the

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again as frank sinatra and ella fitzgerald together on television in nineteen fifty nine that was december thirteenth nineteen fifty nine the program was called an afternoon with frank sinatra and the music was arranged by nelson riddle ella fitzgerald and frank sinatra were the singers here he is ella fitzgerald with her regular trio there's been a change in the drummer several times since the indicator bets and tommy flanagan have been there for close to fifteen years gus johnson as the drummer in this case keeter bets on base tommy flanagan is the pianist and the recording is from a live concert in hamburg germany march twenty six nineteen sixty five right here in ellington's medley oh three tunes to duke ellington soundbite of gerald with tommy flanagan and his trio flanagan this is one of the best loved pianist and jazz he's been

over this gerald's accompanist for some fifteen years but in the last few years has been recording a solo pianist or with various trio's much more frequently so i wanted to share some of his music this ellington medley is introduced by ella fitzgerald and it follows a performance of the beatles tune a hard day's night there are references to that but i'm playing the complete introduction so that you can hear tommy flanagan says gentle courting in the background is so lovely and well loved man and musician and all of its shows up in his playing and their purity a stomach lanigan piano with ella fitzgerald's music of duke ellington during doing an unseen in

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been it's been there music of tommy flanagan the ellington was recorded live in germany in nineteen sixty five with ella fitzgerald and the rhythm section's tommy flanagan like your bets was on bass and gus johnson drums and then we heard a recording by ella fitzgerald's current rhythm section tommy flanagan can ok your bets bass and jimmy smith runs it was stunned the music was west coast blues by wes montgomery played by the tommy flanagan trio ella fitzgerald's rhythm section and it's from an album recorded in january nineteen seventy eight ford galaxy records and something borrowed something blue by tommy flanagan it is one of three piano record made for galaxy within a few days at the end of january nineteen seventy eight that you need to know about the second of the three is a solo piano album unaccompanied

piano solos by hank jones hank jones is well known to you it is so brothers are fed jones the bandleader and trumpet and cornet player and arranger and that elvin jones the drummer hettie jones is the oldest of the brothers and one of the most distinguished pianist in jazz who like tommy flanagan has been recording albums under his own name more in the last couple of years then in his entire career before that this one is called tip toe tapped dance tiptoe tap dance a solo piano album by hank jones and we'll hear two sleepy people played by hank jones it's

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