Friday Night Jazz with Reuben Jackson; 2015-01-09, Hour 2

We are going to begin our two of tonight's show and welcome if you're just tuning in. Welcome, stick around if you've been around for a chorus or two of music tonight. I'm your host Rubin Jackson and let's get to the music or back to the music shall we? We'll start with an ensemble called Cortet Indigo and I wanted to play this because I think it's you know I wanted to share with you it's also a way of paying tribute to a great musician we lost in late 2014. The violinist educator lived in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area by the name of Mr. John Blake and I am hoping hoping hoping hoping that one day the wonderful recordings he made for Gramovision will resurface. It would just it's a shame not to have those available. In Cortet Indigo we have Accua Dixon Ture on cello. Gail Dixon on violin, first violin, John Blake on second violin and Ron Lawrence on viola. Tonight what we'll hear is a classic composition written by saxophonist Wayne Shorter. It's a standard. You know you hear jam sessions,

lots of bands around the world continue to play this. It was originally recorded by the Miles Davis quintet. We'll hear Wayne Shorter's footprints. We are concluding a three song set here just moments into

the second hour of this edition of Friday Night Jazz on Vermont Public Radio. We heard the ensemble weather report from Black Market a 1976 release. The third of three compositions by Wayne Shorter three clowns. Before that we heard from Wayne Shorter one of his many kaleidoscopic contributions to the world of music. This from allegria and his composition. Actually this is a rerecording of a piece originally done during Wayne Shorter's tenure with blue note records Angola and we started things up with Cortet Indigo and their reading of another piece by the Newark New Jersey native

Wayne Shorter of footprints. I confess to being someone who watches a lot of television which may say something about my age and I guess it's just something about my interest. I learned so much more about one of the artists featured in the group we're about to hear from a show called Unsung which really gives context I think and respect to many of the greats of what I consider the American popular song. Some might call it rhythm and blues or those sorts of things but I don't know I think music's kind of like one big tree. I recently saw I think this is from their first year 2009 looking at especially looking at the life of vocalist mini-rippers and someone with a five octave range the woman who studied opera in high school and just you know we probably know the song loving you which was a big hit for her in the late 70s. She was also a part of an ensemble called rotary connection and chess records which teamed her with people like vocalist Sydney Barnes and the

great great great great arranger composer Mr. Charles Stepney you know there's a documentary being done about Charles Stepney and bravo. What we'll hear tonight from Black Gold the very best of rotary connection. One of the great if I may be so redundant recordings by this ensemble it's entitled I am the Black Gold of the Sun. I am the Black Gold of the Sun.

I am the Black Gold of the Sun. I am the Black Gold of the Sun. I am the Black Gold of the Sun.

I am the Black gold of the Sun. I am the Black Gold of the Sun. I'm a tall oak tree, I'm a jungle stream, I'm the morning sun,

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ROTORY CONNECTION HERE IN OUR TWO OF FRIDAY NIGHT JASM VPR FROM BLACK GOALS. We've featured a number of piano players tonight, Art Tatum, Bud Powell. We're gonna add one more, Mr. Mike Garcin, a longtime collaborator with, speaking of Maccurial, questing restless artist, a longtime collaborator with Mr. David Bowie. This collection appropriately entitled The Bowie Variations, and we'll hear a piece you may remember by David Bowie from the early 70s, Ground Control to Major Tom, Space Audity. Here are an hour two of Friday night jazz on VPR. Yep.

This two songs sit here in the second hour Friday night jazz and VPR concluded with the Joe Davidian trio for the birds. He's joined by Ellen

Powell on bass Connor Elms on drums and a piece written by Mr. Chick-Korea Toans for Jones bones say that three times fast and we started that set with Mike Garcin from the Bowie variations and again a piece I remember from high school space oddity by David Bowie as we make our way through the second hour of tonight's show thank you again for tuning in and stick around next up music by Carla Blay this is a 1971 release and we've played material from this two CD set from time to time some of the personnel and I think this reflects the collaborative and kind of you know genre blurring aspects of this particular time escalator over the hill is the the work in question and it was in part Carla Blay's response to the Beatles work Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band but just just a quick glance at some of the personnel the

late bassist Jack Bruce Trumpeter Don Sherry Goddo Barbieri on saxophones the piece we're about to hear will feature vocals by Linda Ronstadt Harmony Vocals by Charlie Hayden it's a I think a lovely ballad entitled why so you show a lot what I never did for you and why starlight where's the night we get our water and you get your voice As he was able to find a chair

Looking for the table Stomach for words His handful of other people's stomachs He was all the way up There's his dying hair Don't care Think the horse is locked The house is still there It doesn't seem to matter The tracing horse He can find a pool of trees So ready to meet him In the pool No room for a spoon Don't let no fine time baby Break your million dollar heart Your million dollar heart

Just a taste of Carla Blaze Extended work escalator over the hill A 1971 release Unlead vocals Miss Linda Ronstadt Charlie Hayden on Harmony Vocals And I love the concluding line Don't let no five in dime, lady Break your million dollar heart Carla Blaze why Is we make our way through our two of tonight's show In our three of tonight's show Music by John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Jason Moran And others Here on Lister supported Vermont Public Radio WRVT Rutland at 88.7 WBT and Bennington at 94.3 WVPA St. John's Bay Area at 88.5 WVPR Windsor at 89.5 WVBA Brattleboro at 88.9 WVPS Burlington at 107.9

In Manchester at 106.9 and at vpr.net Concluding this hour, the Bunk Project, Eddie Davis, the musical director The clarinetist in question A gentleman by the name of Warren Allen Conexberg That's his full name Mr. Woody Allen What we'll listen to is the Burgundy Street Blues Music by John Coltrane Music by John Coltrane

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