The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is leaving Bahia on a jet plane after an exhaustive but fun week of Carnival and headed towards The Netherlands to partake of one of my favorite pastimes – bin diving for new, classic and rare jazz vinyl. The final destination is the record store Concerto that first opened its doors in 1955. Taking up four storefronts, this five story hotspot for music lovers has an enormous selection of new and second-hand compact discs, records and DVDs. The store is designed to have a department for each genre complimented by knowledgeable specialists who can effortlessly present the latest releases.
Located at Utrechtsestraat 60, Amsterdam, beyond records the store also houses a cozy cafe for collectors to relax and possibly do some reading after perusing the shelves and bins. As always more information can be gathered by calling +31 20 261 2610. And when the sun goes down I will be carousing the streets for jazz at nighttime jazz haunts like Cafe Jazz Alto or maybe Casablanca. No point in limiting my voyage to just hunting for records and wasting the opportunity to hear some good jazz in the process. #wannabewhereyouare
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Three Wishes
Pannonica asked trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie if he had three wishes what would they be and his reply was…
- “Not to play for money.
- “Permanent peace in the world.”
- “A world where you don’t need a passport.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Requisites
Anita O’Day Swings Cole Porter with Billy May is a is a 1959 studio album recorded on Verve Records label. All of the songs were written by Cole Porter and arranged and conducted by Billy May.
The session saw O’Day recording 18 songs: Just One of Those Things, Love for Sale, You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, Easy to Love, I Get a Kick Out of You, All of You, Get Out of Town, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Night and Day, It’s De-Lovely, I Love You, What Is This Thing Called Love?, You’re the Top, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Why Shouldn’t I?, From This Moment On, Love for Sale and Just One of Those Thing.
The cover photo was taken by Bill Rotsler, designed by Sheldon Marks and the album was produced by Norman Granz.
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The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is in Salvador do Bahia, Brazil for the largest annual street festival and celebration of Carnival that begins this year on Friday afternoon of the 9th, 51 days before Easter and the 14th, Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter. The term carnival originated from the word carnelevare, which means to remove meat, as on certain days of Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians would traditionally abstain from the consumption of meat and poultry. Not a problem for this voyager as meat has been off my menu for more than thirty years.
The black population commemorated the days of Carnival highly marked by Yoruba characteristics, dancing in the streets and playing instruments. Thought primitive by the upper-class white elite, they banned the groups from participating in the official Bahia Carnival, but the groups defied the ban and continued to do their dances. This voyager will be among the millions to be enticed to dance to samba, samba-reggae and axé presented by the groups Afoxês, Trios Elétricos, Amerindian, and Blocos Afros. For those in the know, samba is the basis for the adaptive bossa nova that came to the jazz world via a host of jazz musicians such as Charlie Byrd, Stan Getz and Cannonball Adderley. #wannabewhereyouare
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Three Wishes
When the Baroness Pannonica asked drummer Philly Joe Jones what his three wishes were he responded…
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- “Money”
- “Money”
- “Money”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Complied and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter