The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

This week we continue to safeguard ourselves from those who consider the variants not a threat but this jazz voyager is opting on the side of caution as we select our next album. I’ve chosen the studio album Devil’s Got Your Tongue by Abbey Lincoln. It’s her fifteenth and her third for Verve Records. It was recorded on February 24 & 25, 1992 at BMG Studios in New York City and released on October 13, 1992. 

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart on April 10, 1993. Verve allowed this icon of jazz to record nine of her compositions along with two classics for a very gratifying set. 

1. Rainbow (with The Noel Singers) (Abbey Lincoln, Melba Liston) ~ 4:42
2. Evalina Coffrey (The Legend Of) ~ 7:04
3. Story Of My Father (with The Staple Singer) ~ 5:28
4. A Child Is Born (with The Noel Singers) (Thad Jones, Alex Wilder) ~ 6:20
5. People In Me (with The Noel Singers) ~ 6:13
6. A Circle Of Love (with The Noel Singers) ~ 5:53
7. Jungle Queen ~ 6:09
8. The Merry Dance ~ 7:48
9. Devil’s Got Your Tongue ~ 5:49
10. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year (Frank Loesser) ~ 7:46
11. The Music Is The Magic (with The Staple Singers) ~ 5:44

• Abbey Lincoln – vocals
• Rodney Kendrick – piano
• Marcus McLaurine – bass
• Grady Tate – drums (tracks 2–4, 10–11)
• Yoron Israel – drums (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8–9)
• James Louis “J.J.” Johnson – trombone (tracks 2, 4, 10)
• Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone (tracks 5, 8, 10–11)
• Maxine Roach – viola (tracks 2, 6)
• Babatunde Olatunji – Ngoma, Djembe, Ashiko & Shekere drums (track 7)
• Kehinde O’Uhuru – Ashiko drum (track 7)
• Sule O’Uhuru – Agogô bells, Djembe (track 7)
• Gordy Ryan – Jun-jun drum (track 7)
• The Staple Singers – backing vocals
  • Pops Staples, Mavis Staples, Cleotha Staples
• The Noel Singers – backup singers
  • Ivan Archer, Giselle Brown, Queinton Caesar, Ronnie David, Shelby Ellis, Daylene Hunt, Clevie Jordan, Marie Leveque, Lucila Martinez, Jason Moses, Gregory Norman, Leigh-Ann Oadmore, Aleata Prince, Natasha Reeves, Tiffany Rivera, Linda Sanchez, Joann Santiago Sherrille Shabazz, Chante Slater, Karen Thompson, Teddy Turrene, Merlene West, Tasha Woodward

• Producer – Jean-Philippe Allard
• Engineer (First Engineer) – Rick Applegate
• Engineer (Second Engineer) – Jay Newland
• Engineer (Assistant Engineer) – Doug McKean
• Engineer (Assistant Engineer) – Sandy Palmer

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TITO PUENTE JR.

Son of the legendary American salsa and Latin jazz musician Tito Puente, he has big shoes to fill and he does! He returns for another night of exhilarating Latin rhythms that will get your feet moving. Always honoring his father’s legacy, Tito Puente, Jr. has also made a name for himself as one of the most exciting Latin musicians touring today. Puente, Jr. has performed in over 300 shows in a variety of venues across the country, from jazz festival stages to grand symphony halls. This time it’s Mambo!!!

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STOWE JAZZ FESTIVAL

Performers

Jon Davis Trio, Santos 4te, Tyler Blanton Quartet, Ben Allison Quartet, Ed Cherry/Peter Bernstein Quartet, John Fedchock NY Sextet, Elio Villafranca Sextet, Elio Villafranca Sextet, Chico Pinheiro Quartet With Special Guest Amanda Brecker, Allison Miller And Boom Tic Boom, Festejation, Jonathan Maron Quintet, Manuel Valera And The New Cuban Express, and many more.

Venues

Some locations for our visitors: Most of the ‘village venues’ are to be found on The Mountain Road (route 108) or in town…

The Alchemist MainStage – 100 Cottage Club Road, The Pinnacle Stage – 1652, Mountain Road,  Piecasso – 1899, Mountain Road, Doc Pond’s – 294, Mountain Road, Cork Wine Bar and Market – 35 School Street, Plate – 91, South Main Street

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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

It is up to you to protect yourself, your family, your friends against the Covid variants.

This week’s selection is taking us Up the Street, ‘Round the Corner, Down the Block to listen to a 1974 album by guitarist Kenny Burrell. He recorded tracks 2 & 4 in January 1974 at the Village Recorders in Los Angeles, California and tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California in February. It was released later that same year on the Fantasy Records label.

There were two recording supervisors: Orrin Keepnews on tracks 2, 4, and Sam Russell on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6. The recording engineer was Bob Brown on tracks 2, 4, and Eddie Harris on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6. The remix engineer duties were also performed by Eddie Harris. The lacquer cut was by David Turner. The photography and design was done by Tony Lane,

Track List | 37:44 All compositions by Kenny Burrell except as indicated

1. Up the Street, ‘Round the Corner, Down the Block (Onaje Allan Gumbs) ~ 7:18
2. Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaría) ~ 5:40
3. Sausalito Nights ~ 7:15
4. Juice (Gumbs) ~ 5:40
5. A Little Walking Music ~ 3:18
6. Soulero (Richard Evans) ~ 9:13

• Kenny Burrell ~ guitar, whistling (track 5)
• Jerome Richardson ~ flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Richard Wyands ~ piano, electric piano
• Andy Simpkins ~ bass
• Lenny McBrowne ~ drums
• Mayuto Correa ~ percussion

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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager

The Jazz Voyager is still taking the variants very seriously and wearing his mask and social distancing as conditions present themselves. There is no evidence that stipulates that this is over and recommendations are still in place to wear your mask when in indoor public spaces.

Standing On The Rooftop is the sixth studio album by jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux. It was produced by Craig Street and released on June 14, 2011 on the Decca/Universal record label. All songs except 1, 6, 8, & 11 were written by Madeleine Peyroux 2 to 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 to 15.

The fifteen songs were recorded in February 2011 at several studios – Sear Sound in New York City on February 14~17 and Motherbrain Studio in Brooklyn, NY on February 26th, with additional recording at Downtown Music Studios and Wild Arctic in NYC, Vel Studios~ Brooklyn, Phantom Vox~Los Angeles, The Odd Bedroom, Basement & Garage and Sterling Sound. The mixing was done by Kevin Killen (tracks: 5 to 8), Matthew Cullen (tracks: 1, 3, 4, 9 to 12), and Tony Maserati (tracks: 2, 13 to 15)

This was the first album of Peyroux with Decca Records and her first with producer Craig Street, interrupting her longtime collaboration with Larry Klein. Standing on the Rooftop featured originals, along with three covers, Martha My Dear, I Threw It All Away and Love In Vain, plus Marc Ribot’s Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love. It also paired Peyroux with new songwriting partners.

1. Martha My Dear (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) ~ 2:32
2. The Kind You Can’t Afford (Peyroux, Bill Wyman) ~ 3:59
3. Leaving Home Again (Peyroux, Wyman) ~ 3:35
4. The Things I’ve Seen Today (Peyroux, Jenny Scheinman) ~ 3:44
5. Fickle Dove (Peyroux, Scheinman) ~ 3:28
6. Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (music by Marc Ribot, lyrics by W. H. Auden) ~ 3:23
7. Standing on the Rooftop (David Batteau, Peyroux) ~ 5:46
8. I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan) ~ 3:15
9. The Party Oughta Be Comin’ Soon (Peyroux) ~ 5:00
10. Superhero (Jonatha Brooke, Peyroux) ~ 3:21
11. Love In Vain (Robert Johnson) ~ 3:40
12. Don’t Pick a Fight with a Poet (Peyroux, Andy Scott Rosen) ~ 4:28
13. Meet Me in Rio (Peyroux) ~ 3:51
14. Ophelia (Batteau, Peyroux) ~ 5:12
15. The Way of All Things (Peyroux) ~ 4:02

• Madeleine Peyroux ~ vocals
• John Kirby ~ keyboards
• Glen Patscha – keyboards
• Patrick Warren ~ keyboards
• Allen Toussaint ~ piano
• Jenny Scheinman ~ violin
• Christopher Bruce ~ guitar
• Marc Ribot ~ guitar
• Meshell Ndegeocello ~ bass guitar
• Charley Drayton ~ drums
• Mauro Refosco ~ percussion

• Creative Director ~ Pat Barry (3)
• Design Concept [Package Coordination] ~ Rafael Hernandez (2)
• Design [Graphic] ~ Rebecca Meek
• Engineer ~ Matthew Cullen
• Photography By [Cityscape Panorama] ~ Keith Sirchio
• Photography By [Portrait] ~ Mary Ellen Mark

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