Here is Side B of the DJ Rook and Elyte Jazz mix from 1999. Highlights on this one include a lovely Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie tune, Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” and “A Love Supreme” by John Coltrane. Yes we were that fresh in high school.
July 15th, 2007 Episode 6: Jazz We Got Side B SUBSCRIBE or search for Ross The Boss Radio in your itunes music store. It’s free.
Track Listing
Intro- Jazz We Got
Dave Brubeck- Take Five
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman- My One and Only Love
Modern Jazz Quartet- Bags Groove
Eric Dolphy- Epistrophy
Clifford Brown & Max Roach- Doxy
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme (Acknowledgement)
Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery- Deliliah
Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie- Honeysuckle Rose
Thank You
The second side is jut like the first but way more fresher, with way less effort. Lot’s of good tracks here. Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” deserves a closer look, so I stole a point of view and pasted it below.
The Classic Quartet produced their most famous record, “A Love Supreme”, in December 1964. A culmination of much of Coltrane’s work up to this period, this four-part suite is an ode to his faith in and love for God (not necessarily God in the Christian sense – Coltrane often mentioned that he worshipped all gods of all religions). Its spiritual concerns would characterize much of Coltrane’s composing and playing from this point until his death in 1967. The fourth movement of the suite, “Psalm,” is, in fact, a musical setting for an original poem to God written by Coltrane, and printed in the album’s liner notes. Coltrane plays almost exactly one note for each syllable of the poem, and bases his phrasing on the words. Despite its challenging musical content, the album was a commercial success by jazz standards, encapsulating both the internal and external energy of the quartet of Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison. They only played the suite live once – in July 1965 at a concert in Antibes, France.
DJ Elyte and I made this Jazz mix in 1999 and gave it to all of our friends for the winter holidays. It’s a collection of our favorite tunes hosted by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All vinyl, all borrowed from our fathers.
July 2nd, 2007 Episode 5: Jazz We Got Side A SUBSCRIBE or search for Ross The Boss Radio in your itunes music store. It’s free.
Track Listing:
Bosstro
Words from Rahsaan
Dexter Gordan- A Night in Tunisia
Eric Jackson- A Tribute to Miles
Miles Davis- ‘Round Midnight
Sonny Rollins- St. Thomas
John Coltrane- In A Sentimental Mood
Brown & Roach- Take the A Train
Thelonius Monk- Well You Needn’t
Nat Adderley- Work Song
Charlie Parker- Ornithology
Carmen McRae- I Didn’t Know
Not too long ago DJ Elyte gave me one of the rare copies of this mix on tape so that I could transfer it to digital and upload it onto my podcast. As you can tell from listening to this mix it was obviously transferred from tape and I wasn’t able to get rid of the underwater sounds that resulted from wear and tear. However, the soul of the tape is very much intact and most of the songs still sound very good.
Elyte and I were into some very heady Jazz when we were in high school and we obviously had a liking for the saxophone as many of the most famous saxophone artists dominate this mix. We liked sax and piano solos that were considered a little out there or were even sometimes intentionally off key. We were into Be-Bop that was trying to be different and set itself aside from the mainstream jazz that was messing up the scene. Monk and Coltrane were pioneers in the Be-Bop movement and were a big part of our lives in high school. They made us realize that Jazz was an art of true geniuses and we could only hope to play it at a very basic level. Nonetheless, Jazz and DJing were important creative outlets in our adolescence and have shaped the people that we are today.
I have to give thanks to my drum teacher in elementary school, Keith Gibson, for introducing me to Jazz and hooking me up with discounted lessons at the Longy School of Music. Wayne Miller, my first piano teacher for encouraging my interest. Peter Casino, my first real Jazz piano teacher for teaching me most of what I still know. And of course, Bob Ponte, the Jazz Ensemble teacher in High School who was mostly an asshole but was truly dedicated to his students.
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