This Day in Jazz

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 23

Guitarist Django Reinhardt born 1910 in Liverchies, Belgium.

Duke Ellington’s first Carnegie Hall Concert 1943

Vibraphonist Gary Burton born 1943 in Anderson, IN.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 24This

Recorded on January 24th:

1928: Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten — Charleston is the Best Dance After All

1929: Ray Miller v Bob Nolan — Cradle of Love

1930: Jan Garber v Maxwell Covert — Puttin' on the Ritz

1936: Benny Goodman — Breakin' in a Pair of Shoes

1937: Alix Combelle's Hot Four — If I Had You [Paris]

1940: Jan Savitt — Kansas City Moods [NY]
1940: Jan Savitt — Tuxedo Junction [NY]

1941: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five — Pinetop's Boogie Woogie [NY]
1941: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five v Louis Jordan — The Two Little Squirrels [NY]

1941: Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra v Lena Romay — Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic [NY]

1942: Bing Crosby — Mandy is Two [LA]

 

[poppachubby]

January 24th

Stanley Turrentine Hustlin session pics, 1964

 

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 24

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Forrest born 1920 in St. Louis, MO.

Oscar Peterson Trio (with drummer Ed Thigpen and bassist Ray Brown) records music from "West Side Story", 1962

Pianist/composer Avery Parrish born 1917 in Birmingham, Al.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 25

Recorded on January 25th:

1932: Louis Armstrong v Louis Armstrong — Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

1935: Mills Blue Rhythm Band — Back Beats
1935: Mills Blue Rhythm Band — Spitfire

1935: Red Norvo and His Swing Octet — With All My Heart and Soul
1935: Red Norvo and His Swing Octet — Blues in E Flat
1935: Red Norvo and His Swing Octet — Bughouse
1935: Red Norvo and His Swing Octet — Honeysuckle Rose

1940: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five v Louis Jordan — You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business [NY]
1940: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five v Yack Taylor — Hard Lovin' Blues [NY]

1940: Mildred Bailey v Mildred Bailey — A Bee Gezindt

1944: Edmond Hall's All Star Quintet — Rompin' in '44
1944: Edmond Hall's All-Star Quintet — Smooth Sailing

 

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Birthday of Benny Golson: Tenor sax man, composer and arranger.

Composed:I Remember Clifford; Killer Joe; Whisper Not

Music for: MASH; Ironside; Room 222; Mission Impossible

Recipient of numerous awards including: NEA Jazz Masters.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Golson

 

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Birthday: Antonio Carlos Jobim: Composer of THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA and
belonging to that famous mix of Stan Getz, Moraes, Gilberto which ushered in the Bossa Nova.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 26

Recorded on January 26th:

1929: Dorsey Brothers v Bing Crosby — Let's Do It [NY]
1929: Dorsey Brothers v Scrappy Lambert — Fine and Dandy [NY]

1934: Jimmie Lunceford v Will Hudson — Leaving Me

1937: Jimmie Lunceford v Joe Thomas — He Ain't Got Rhythm [NY]

1938: Cab Calloway — Three Swings in and Out
1938: Cab Calloway v Cab Calloway — I Like Music (Played with a Swing Like This)
1938: Cab Calloway v Cab Calloway — One Big Onion for Two [NY]

1939: Count Basie and His Rhythm — When the Sun Goes Down
1939: Count Basie and His Rhythm — Red Wagon

1939: Hal Kemp v Bob Allen — You've Got Me Crying Again

1939: Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights v Emily Stevenson and Larry Cotton — Little Sir Echo
1939: Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights v Larry Cotton — Let's Stop the Clock [NY]

1940: Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra v Ella Fitzgerald — The Starlit Hour [NY]

1945: Nat King Cole — Candy

1956: Boyd Raeburn — I'll See You in My Dreams

 

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Birthday of Stephane Grappelli famous jazz violinist.

 

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 26

Violinist/pianist Stephane Grappelli born 1908 in Paris, France

Louis Armstrong records "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues", 1933

Pianist/vocalist Page Cavanaugh born 1922 in Cherokee, KS

 

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 27

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson born 1941 in Los Angeles, CA.

Pianist Bill Evans and Alto Saxophonist Cannonball Adderley record "Know What I Mean?", 1961.

Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page born 1908 in Dallas, TX.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 27

Recorded on January 27th:

1930: Louisiana Rhythm Kings — O'er the Billoway Sea
1930: Louisiana Rhythm Kings — Tell Me

1933: Lew Stone and The Monseigneur Band v Al Bowlly — The World is So Small

1936: Cab Calloway v Cab Calloway — You're the Cure for What Ails Me

1937: Abe Lyman v Sonny Schuyler — Little Old Lady [NY]

1938: Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra — When a Woman Loves a Man [NY 1-27-1938]

1938: Tommy Dorsey v Edythe Wright — How Can You Forget? [NY]
1938: Tommy Dorsey v Edythe Wright — There's a Boy in Harlem [NY]
1938: Tommy Dorsey v Jack Leonard — More Than Ever [NY]

1939: Teddy Wilson — When You and I Were Young, Maggie [NY]

1942: Alvino Rey v Bill Schallen and The King Sisters — The Army Air Corps Song

1942: Bob Crosby — Sugar Foot Stomp [LA]

1945: Charlie Barnet — The Great Lie

 

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Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson born 1941 in Los Angeles, CA.

Pianist Bill Evans and Alto Saxophonist Cannonball Adderley record "Know What I Mean?", 1961.

Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page born 1908 in Dallas, TX.

Also Bob Mintzer, 1953: saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader.
Had a very good association with the Yellow Jackets.

Here is Vibes man Hutcherson with Joey DeFrancesco. "I Thought About You".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSp1YegwlcU

 

[BillyBatts]

Also Bob Mintzer, 1953: saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader.
Had a very good association with the Yellow Jackets.

Here is Vibes man Hutcherson with Joey DeFrancesco. "I Thought About You".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSp1YegwlcU

That's a cool video, Reg.
I have a bit of Milt Jackson, but no Hutcherson. I am definitely going to acquire one or two. Thanks.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 28

Recorded on January 28th:

1937: Roy Eldridge — That Thing [Chicago]

1938: Frankie Trumbauer — Ol' Man River

1940: Sidney Bechet v Sidney Bechet and Ernest Wilson Myers — Sidney's Blues [Glovesville, NY]

1941: Benny Goodman v Helen Forrest — Perfidia [NY]

1941: Ted Weems v Elmo Tanner (Whistling) — Romance is Everywhere
1941: Ted Weems v Perry Como — It All Comes Back to Me Now
1941: Ted Weems v Perry Como and Elmo Tanner (Whistling) — Rose of the Rockies

1942: Maxine Sullivan — Kentucky Babe
1942: Maxine Sullivan — Ma Curly Headed Baby

1947: Benny Goodman v Hoagy Carmichael — Moon-Faced and Starry-Eyed

1948: Lionel Hampton v Lionel Hampton and Rick Brow — Beulah's Sister's Boogie
1949: Lionel Hampton — Hamp's Boogie No. 2

1949: Paul Weston v Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae — A - You're Adorable

1953: Nat King Cole — Answer Me, My Love
1953: Nat King Cole — Send for Me

1953: Pee Wee Hunt — Oh! [KC]

 

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That's a cool video, Reg.
I have a bit of Milt Jackson, but no Hutcherson. I am definitely going to acquire one or two. Thanks.

Yeah, Bobby Hutcherson, in a manner of speaking, received the mallets from Milt.

 

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 28

Saxophonist and club owner Ronnie Scott born 1927 in London, England.

Drummer Bob Moses born 1948 in New York, NY.

JATP records "Lady Be Good" with classic solos by saxophonists Lester Young and Charlie Parker, 1946

 

[BillyBatts]

This Day in Jazz January 29

Bassist Dave Young born 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Drummer Ed Shaugnessy born 1929 in Jersey City, NJ.

Guitarist Sacha Distel born 1933 in Paris, France.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 29

Recorded on January 29th:

1928: Frankie Trumbauer — Jubilee

1930: Duke Ellington v Irving Mills — When You're Smiling

1936: Frankie Trumbauer — Announcer's Blues
1936: Frankie Trumbauer — Breakin' in a Pair of Shoes

1937: Sharkey Bonano and His Sharks v Sharkey Bonano — Big Boy Blue [NY]

1938: Ray Noble v Tony Martin — I Hadn't Anyone Till You [LA]

1939: Ray Noble — Saturday Night at the Nobles

1940: Glenn Miller — Rug Cutter's Swing [NY]
1940: Glenn Miller v Tex Beneke — My Melancholy Baby [NY]

1940: Kay Kyser v Sully Mason and Chorus — Playmates

1941: Glenn Miller — The Spirit is Willing

1942: Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen of Swing — Fill-Up [NY]
1942: Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen of Swing v Herbert Goodwin — Delta Land Blues [NY]
1942: Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen of Swing v Jean Eldridge — Ride On [NY]
1942: Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen of Swing v Nora Lee King — Because I Love My Daddy So [NY]

 

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Jeanne Lee: 1939 Jazz vocalist, poet, composer.

Here she is with Archie Shepp "There is a balm in Gilead".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bX1W15UknM