Playlist for Tuesday January 30

• Zapato Negro - Zapato Negro
  Segundo Recreo


• Chris Tarry Group - Sorrly to be Strange
  Wind-up Bird


• Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra - Forward Motion
  Movement 2: Colossus

Jazz lovers are deeply indebted to late nights. Jazz musicians are too, in particular a couple of men named Erskine Hawkins and Avery Parrish. Hawkins was the leader of the Erskine Hawkins Big Band, which, while not as popular as many other big bands of the era, were a very able and functioning working band that has one detail that no other band from that time has: they created the classic standard After Hours.

Avery Parrish played piano and arranged the song in 1940 for label Bluebird. It became an instant classic, and for many years any piano player worth his salt kenw how to play this blues chart. It has been recorded many times. There are versions by Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Hazel Scott, Phineas Newborn, Hank Crawford, Buck Clayton, Roy Haynes, Ray Bryant, and even a vocal version by Aretha Franklin.

There are some interesting facts to mention: Erskine Hawkins was a principal influence on Ray Charles which is commemorated on the 1961 album Soul Brothers with Milt Jackson. Both Hawkins and Sun Ra were born in Birmingham in 1914 and they both died in 1993. Avery Parrish left the Hawkins orchestra in 1941, moved to California, and subsequently got into a bar fight (no doubt after hours) . He suffered partial paralysis and never played again, at the age of 24. He died under mysterious cirumstances at 42.


• Skeets Ross Trio - Skeets Ross Trio
  After Hours


• Danny Gatton - Hot Rod Guitar
  After Hours


• Ray Charles & Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers
  Genius After Hours


• Mel Brown - The Wizard
  Blues After Hours


• Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt - Sonnny Side Up
  After Hours


• Illinois Jacquet - The Soul Explosion
  After Hours


• Winard Harper Sextet - Make It Happen
  After Hours


• Mark Taylor - After Hours
  After hours


• Sun Ra Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette
  Hours After

Playlist for Tuesday January 16

• The Brecker Borthers - The Very Best of the Brecker Brothers
  Sneakin' Up Behind You


• The Brecker Borthers - The Very Best of the Brecker Brothers
  Squish


• Emilie-Claire Barlow - Sings
  The Nearness of You


• Catz in the Hatz - Resilience
  Killer Joe


• Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra - Forward Motion
  Oddly Enough


• Nnenna Freelon - Live
  Button Up Your Overcoat


• Lynne Ariale Trio - Live
  Come Together


• Pharoah Sanders - Spirits
  Uma Lake


• Ravi Coltrane - Mad 6
  The Return of Olympus


• John Coltrane - The Very Best of John Coltrane
  Naima


• Diana Krall - The Look of Love
  S'Wonderful


• Chris Tarry Group - Sorry to be Strange
  For the Quiet Heart


• Jane Bunnett - Rendey-Vous Brazil/Cuba
  Um a Zero


• Jim Head - Mind's Eye
  Longing

Playlist for Tuesday January 9

In no particular order, the next ten songs are from my top ten favorite albums of the year.

• Casualties of Jazz - Kind of Black
  Iron Man


• Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World
  Blue Alert


• Elizabeth Shepherd Trio - Start to Move
  Circle


• Yvon Landry and his Trio - Ready or Not 2: Deep Jazz Grooves from the CBC Radio Archive
  Ton Visage


• Jeff Healey - Adventures in Jazzland


• Tom Starks - Sugar Boy


• Chantal Chamberland - Dripping Indigo
  Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered)


• Flattstreet - This Dog is Big


• Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - Out Louder
  Little Walter Rides Again


• Koop - Koop Islands
  Koop Islands Blues

Because it was a top ten list, I couldn't fit in Rodrigo y Gabriela, Diana Krall, any of The Vibe! series, Harry Manx, Ali Farka Toure and so many more. The next songs on the list was the remainder of the show.

• Maynard Ferguson Sextet - Ready or Not: Deep Jazz Grooves from the CBC Radio Archive
  My Sister
  Rest in peace, Maynard.


• Casandra Wilson - The Blue Note Years Volume 6
  I Can't Stand the Rain


• Taj Mahal - Senor Blues
  I Miss You Babe


• Christian McBride - Science Fiction
  Uhura's Moment Returned


• Wynton Marsalis j- The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Volume 5
  Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

Jazz Notables who passed away this year: Jay Mcshann, Ray Baretto, James Brown.

Also, this past week two icons of jazz, Alice Coltrane and Michael Brecker passed away. Godspeed....

Happy New Year!

James Brown, Rest in Peace....

• James Brown - There It Is
  King Heroin


• Lonnie Smith - Righteousness
  Psychedelic PI


• Horace Silver - Righteousness
  Acid, Pot or Pills


• Cab Calloway - Are You Hep to the Jive?
  Are You Hep to the Jive?


• The Voodoo Trombone Quartet - The Voodoo Trombone Quartet
  Le Trombone


• Kay Winding - Jazz After Dinner
  Mono Bone


• Nilson Matta and Friends - Walking With My Bass
  I Only Have Eyes For You


• Jeff Healey - Adventures in Jazzland
  Mine All Mine


• Sonja Gustafson - Sonja Gustafson
  Dream a Little Dream


• James Brown - Soul On Top
  Everyday I Have the Blues


• Holly Cole - Blue Note Years Volume 7
  Hum Drum Blues


• Wes Montgomery - California Dreaming
  Sunny


• Troy Andrews Quintet - Troy Andrews Quintet
  The End of the Beginning


• El Michels Affair - Pop Jazz Volume 1
  Too Late to Turn Back


• Oliver Lake Steel Quartet - Kinda' Up
  Socket


• Matt Savage Trio - Quantum Leap
  Lullaby of Birdland


• Catz in the Hatz - Resilience
  whisper Low


• James Brown - Soul on Top
  It's Magic


• Joshua Redman - Joshua Redman
  I Got You (I Feel Good)