Friday Night Jazz with Reuben Jackson; 2015-01-09, Hour 1

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¶¶ ¶¶ Hello there. Welcome to Friday Night Jazz on VPR. I'm your host, Rubin Jackson, and as always, it is so grand to have you along with us. As always, we play jazz and American popular song material from now until 11 p.m. Friday Night Jazz on Vermont Public Radio is made possible by Ellis Music of Beth Overmont, specializing in sales, service, and rental of musical instruments to schools and individuals throughout our great region, New England. And tonight's show commenced, began, filling the verb of your choice with the one the only Josephine Baker from a 1960 collection entitled The Fabulous Josephine Baker. Before I make this, give you the name of the piece we just heard. I'm going to apologize to Madam Rosenblum, Madam Mozele Kelly, Madam Mozele Washington, and Madam Hutene. My French teachers and I had the pleasure of working with in DC Public Schools.

My accent has gone to Hades. We heard Josephine Baker singing on Of Real Apadi, just moments into tonight's edition of Friday Night Jazz on VPR. I hope you forgive my French and stick with us because we'll be here from now until 11 p.m. Next, one of the cornerstones of what's called jazz. I think one of the great American originals, if I may use that cliche, Bud Powell, incredible pianist, great technique, great feeling, which is the ultimate marriage and artistic equivalence. Is it not? We'll hear music from the genius of Bud Powell. On piano, Ray Brown, bass, Mr. Buddy Rich on drums, and I think this is a real tour de force. Again, it's soul and science as Quincy Jones would say. T for two, take six here on Friday Night Jazz on VPR. Five!

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Again, two of the incredible, most incredible pianist, instrumentalist, musicians, period, ever to come down the proverbial pike. We ended that set with Art Tatum from the best of the Pablo Solo Masterpieces and a piece I admittedly have a crush on. Art Tatum on piano and crazy rhythm, and we started with Mr. Bud Powell from the genius of Bud Powell. Again, Bud Powell on piano with Ray Brown on bass, Buddy Rich on drums, and take six of the Vincent Newman's classic T-4-2. As some of you may know, my first instrument was B-flat clarinet, and I began playing in the fourth grade, blah, blah, blah. I used that by way of something. It's something of an introduction to our next artist, Mr. Ken Pawlowski, an Ohio native, and we'll hear some music from a collection we've played before it's called Easy to Remember. What we will hear is the title track.

Featuring, of course, Ken Pawlowski on a clarinet, Joe Cohn on guitar, Ted Rosenthal on piano, Joe Fitzgerald on bass, Jeff Brillinger on drums. However, the piano and the vocals on the piece we're about to hear again, the title track, it's easy to remember. Done by the one, the only Bobby Short. Here, it's easy to remember, and after that, a brief but heartfelt version of a piece from Duke Ellington's 1959 Queen Sweet single Pedal of a Rose. Ken Pawlowski, here in our one of Friday night jazz on VPR. Your sweet expression, the smile you gave me, the way you looked when we met. It's easy to remember, so to forget, I hear you whisper, I'll always love you, I know it's over, and yet, it's easy to remember.

So hard to forget, so I must dream, to have your hand caress, fingers press me tight, I'd rather dream, than have that lonely feeling, stealing through the night. Each little moment is clear before me, and though it brings me regret, it's easy to remember, so to forget. You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember, and yet, it's easy to remember, so to forget, it's easy to remember.

You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember, and yet, it's easy to remember. So I must dream, to have your hand caress, fingers press me tight, I'd rather dream, than have that lonely feeling, and yet, it's easy to remember. So I must dream, to have your hand caress, fingers press me tight, I'd rather dream, than have that lonely feeling, stealing through the night.

Same old story, a fool who saw him, and though it brings me regret, it's easy to remember, so to forget. It's easy to remember, so to forget. You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember, so to forget.

You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember.

You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember, but it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember.

You know, it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember.

You know, it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember. You know, it's easy to remember.

You know, it's easy to remember. Music by is the gentleman used to say on the TV show Showtime at the Apollo, The Duke of Satellite in London.

Walter Gross is ballad tenderly and we started with another bad you know good bad clarinetist mr. Ken Pappowski from easy to remember and what we heard was single petal of a rose a piece written by Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington and we started with the Rogers and heart evergreen easy to remember featuring he says pausing to put his hand over his heart bobby short on piano and vocals here in hour one of Friday night jazz on vpr so so glad to have you along for the party a couple of weeks ago I mentioned the drummer Leon Parker in one of those brief whatever happened to Leon Parker uh you know a sides I wanted to go to a collection by the aforementioned and it was my introduction to him perhaps it was yours to boot uh this is Leon Parker and the collections called above and below it features the drummer with uh a freaking no kind of few people an array of talent here what we're going to listen to is his reading of a piece written by Duke Ellington co-written by Duke Ellington with his valve trombonist Juan Tizal its Leon Parker and drums with Adrian Cruz on percussion and Davide Sanchez on saxophones pieces entitled caravan

Mr. Leon Parker inference here in the first hour yes so much more to go of Friday night jazz on vpr from the above and below collection and uh just extending the Ellingtonia just a bit here in hour one caravan as we make our way through the aforementioned

hour here on vpr thanks so much for tuning in next a new collection one that's really uh tickled my fancy as they said back in the day hope you like it too it's uh under the leadership of drummer Clarence Penn he's joined by chat left go it's brown on saxophone to Donald Vega on piano Gerald Clayton plays Fender Rhodes on one track and Yashushi Nakamura on acoustic piano Nakamura Nakamura on acoustic and electric bass you'll the groups called Penn station get it Penn station New York but a boom and uh the collection itself monk the lost files what we are going to hear is uh I think a great really original version of uh one of many classics evergreens penned by Thelonius Sphere monk entitled think of one Mr. Clarence Penn and his ensemble uh Penn station here in the first hour of tonight show from monk the lost files and again a classic by Thelonius monk think of one

Our next artist was a mainstay in the still undervalued big band led by a gentleman who became more well known as a vocalist it's called Mr. B, Billy Eckstein a native of Washington DC baritone saxophoneist Leo Parker and that was a killer band as you people like Gene Ammon's oh boy uh Dexter Gordon just incredible incredible band one of the great great big band you know and we talk about the big band there and the singer and their few names which come up frequently and that's good but you know there are so many uh you know you think of Elliott Lawrence and Claude Thornhill just this wonderful flowering of American imagination people who looks at the music of America but the music of the world which is something jazz has always done from let me tell you about it Mr. Leo Parker Leo Parker joined by John Berkson trumpet Bill Swindell on tenor saxophoneist Eusef Salim on piano stand con over bass pernell rice on drums we are going to hear the title track

we are coming out of our second two songs said here in the first hour of Friday night jazz on VPR with uh Pearson Mary Jackson's musically

son Rubin we just heard from Ornette Coleman from three women a sound museum Ornette Coleman on saxophone and trumpet Jerry Allen on piano sharnet Muffet on bass and Ornette Coleman's son Denardo on drums we heard European echoes and we started with and I have to give him a nod Washington DC's own baritone saxophoneist Leo Parker from let me tell you about it and we heard the title track another new release up next here an hour one of tonight show this ensemble Vince Vance Thompson's pardon me five plus six the title tells you a lot about some of the material covered such sweet thunder you hear that and you think oh 1957 the Duke Ellington orchestra collection the Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn Shakespearean suite yes that is one track on this we also hear Pannonica by Thelonius Monk pray lute to a kiss by Duke Ellington he's gone away the traditional appellation folk song

Dolly Parton's little sparrow see see how broad this music is so many lanes on the highway tonight what we'll hear and we'll hear more in subsequent broadcast is a composition by Duke Ellington a real bar and burner as they used to say rockin and rhythm you you you

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and VPR and their rendition of a Duke Ellington classic rockin in rhythm. In the second hour of tonight's show we will hear music from Carla Blay, Mr. Woody Allen, weather report and a whole mess of folks here on listener supported Vermont Public Radio WVPR Windsor at 89.5 WVPS Burlington at 107.9 WRVT Rutland at 88.7 WVT in Bennington at 94.3 WVPA at St. John's Berry at 88.5 WVBA Redoboro at 88.9 in Montpelier at 94.1 and at VPR.net, concluding hour one from romance with the unseen Don Byron clarinet Bill Frisille guitar Drew Gress on bass Mr. Jack Dijonette on drums, one more nod to the genius of Duke Ellington, it's their reading of Pradido.