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
- Up the Street, ‘Round the Corner, Down the Block (Onaje Allan Gumbs) ~ 7:18
- Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaría) ~ 5:40
- Sausalito Nights ~ 7:15
- Juice (Gumbs) ~ 5:40
- A Little Walking Music ~ 3:18
- 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.
Track List | 56:36- Martha My Dear (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) ~ 2:32
- The Kind You Can’t Afford (Peyroux, Bill Wyman) ~ 3:59
- Leaving Home Again (Peyroux, Wyman) ~ 3:35
- The Things I’ve Seen Today (Peyroux, Jenny Scheinman) ~ 3:44
- Fickle Dove (Peyroux, Scheinman) ~ 3:28
- Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love (music by Marc Ribot, lyrics by W. H. Auden) ~ 3:23
- Standing on the Rooftop (David Batteau, Peyroux) ~ 5:46
- I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan) ~ 3:15
- The Party Oughta Be Comin’ Soon (Peyroux) ~ 5:00
- Superhero (Jonatha Brooke, Peyroux) ~ 3:21
- Love In Vain (Robert Johnson) ~ 3:40
- Don’t Pick a Fight with a Poet (Peyroux, Andy Scott Rosen) ~ 4:28
- Meet Me in Rio (Peyroux) ~ 3:51
- Ophelia (Batteau, Peyroux) ~ 5:12
- 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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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
The pandemic has eased up related to the massive numbers of contractions, hospitalizations, deaths experienced over the past two years. If you’ve been listening and watching you know it is not over. Follow your conscience.
This week I bring you the 1961 album Ease It recorded by the Rocky Boyd Quintet which features trumpeter Kenny Dorham. It is the only known recording by the saxophonist, and was first released by Jazztime Records. It was also released thirteen years later by Muse Records in 1974 as Ease It!.
Once again in 1989 Black Lion released a CD edition retitled West 42nd Street. It was credited to Kenny Dorham and comprised all the takes from the session. Only tracks 1 & 6 have a single take.
Fred Norsworthy was the producer and Bill Stodard the engineer on the recording session that took place on March 13, 1961 at Bell Sound Studios in New York City. The cover photography was taken by Gary Gladstone, the liner notes were written by Don Riches.
Track List | 39:42
- Avars (Boyd) ~ 7:42
- Stella by Starlight (Young, Washington) ~ 5:05
- Why Not? (LaRoca) ~ 7:26
- Ease It (Chambers) ~ 10:35
- Samba De Orfeu (Luiz Bonfá) ~ 4:31
- West 42nd Street (Hardin) ~ 4:23
- Kenny Dorham – trumpet
- Rocky Boyd – tenor sax
- Walter Bishop Jr. – piano
- Ron Carter – bass
- Pete LaRoca – drums
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
This Jazz Voyager is still being very cautious about masking indoors and social distancing as the new B variants are cropping up around the world and are now hitting the shores of America. In light of these occurrences, today we are going to listen to the 1955 Ethel Ennis album recorded titled Lullabies For Losers that was released the same year on the Jubilee record label.
The cover was designed by Si Leichman, the liner notes were written by Mort Goode, and the photography by Charles Varon.
Track List | 37:32
- Love For Sale (Cole Porter) ~ 3:19
- Dreamer~Dreamer (Irving Caesar, Oskar Strauss) ~ 4:30
- Blue Prelude (Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop) ~ 3:00
- Off Shore (Leo Diamond, Michael H. Goldsen) ~ 3:55
- Casually (Alan McCarthy, Richard Freitas) ~ 3:57
- Hey Jacques (Eden Ahnez, Wayne Shanklin) ~ 3:03
- Lullaby For Losers (Robert Stringer) ~ 3:00
- Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Al Frisch, Kathleen G. Twomey, Fred Wise) ~ 2:58
- You Better Go Now (Bickley Reichner / Robert Graham) ~ 3:29
- Blue Willow (Vic Harrington) ~ 3:23
- Bon Voyage (DeSylva-Brown-Henderson) ~ 4:18
- Ethel Ennis ~ Vocal
- Hank Jones ~ Piano
- Eddie Biggs ~ Guitar
- Abie Baker ~ Double Bass
- Kenny Clarke ~ Drums
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NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL
The Lineup: See online schedule for dates, times and locations.
Yola; Jason Moran; Ambrose Akinmusire; James Francies; Tyshawn Sorey; John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension; Petter Eldh; Reinier Baas; Maarten Hogenhuis; Avishai Cohen Quartet; Peter Somuah; Jany Mcpherson; Tineke Postma Freya Group; Martí Mitjavila Casals; Petter Eldh Koma Saxo; Jameszoo’s Blind Group; H.E.R.; Sofia Jernberg; Bastien Stil; Immanuel Wilkins; Echo Juliet; Cktrl; Benjamin Herman; Nationaal Jeugd Jazz Orkest; Eric Ineke & The Frans Elsen Factor; Gary Bartz; Nabou Claerhout; Philip Lassiter; Cubop City Big Band; Meneer Funkel; Maisha; Joe Dart; Cimafunk; Gaidaa; Blck Mamba; Steve Coleman and Five Elements; Ekdom’s Funky Music Trip; Aviv Noam Quartet; Gary Bartz & Maisha; Codarts Antwerp Cologne Big Band; Bnnyhunna; Joe Armon-Jones; BRUUT!; Linda Fredriksson; Marike van Dijk; Nona; Gino-Cochise; Beau Zwart; Alune Wade; Gretchen Parlato; Tijn Wybenga; Latanya Alberto; Ben LaMar Gay; Charles Lloyd & the Marvels; El Comite; Joel Culpepper; Gabriels; Zoë Modiga
Location Rotterdam Ahoy
Time: 3:00 pm~12:00 am
Venues: Nile, Maas, Congo Square, Amazon, Madeira, Missouri, Murrav, Venisei, Tigris, Central Park Stage, Hudson, Darling, Mississippi, Codarts Talent Stage, Mississippi Terrace
Tickets: Most categories are sold out.
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