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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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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Three Wishes

When Nica broached the subject of three wishes with Mose Allison he had but one reply:

1. “If that ever happened to me, the first would be that every individual would contain his own destructiveness. And if this wish was granted, I wouldn’t need the others.”

*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter

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GLASS CITY JAZZFEST

Lineup: Each set is 1:15

12:00 pm ~ Brick Bar All-Stars Josh Silver on piano, Ray Parker on bass, Scott Kretzer on drums, with vocalists Kim Buehler, Deborah Gardner, Theresa Harris, and Lori Lefevre

1:35 pm ~ Latin Jazz Players of Lima, Ohio

3:10 pm ~ Larry Fuller Trio

4:45 pm ~ Joey Sommerville, Trumpet

6:20 pm ~ Lindsey Webster, Vocal

7: 50 pm ~ Marcus Johnson, Keyboards

The event includes a preamble of music being scheduled starting with free shows at Toledo Spirits on Aug. 23, and followed by other free ones on Aug. 24 at the Brick Bar, Aug. 25 at Peacock Cafe, and Aug. 26 at Ottawa Park. The only paid event connected to Glass City JazzFest will be a VIP show being scheduled for Aug. 27 at Lucille’s Jazz Lounge

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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

1. Love For Sale (Cole Porter) ~ 3:19
2. Dreamer~Dreamer (Irving Caesar, Oskar Strauss) ~ 4:30
3. Blue Prelude (Gordon Jenkins, Joe Bishop) ~ 3:00
4. Off Shore (Leo Diamond, Michael H. Goldsen) ~ 3:55
5. Casually (Alan McCarthy, Richard Freitas) ~ 3:57
6. Hey Jacques (Eden Ahnez, Wayne Shanklin) ~ 3:03
7. Lullaby For Losers (Robert Stringer) ~ 3:00
8. Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Al Frisch, Kathleen G. Twomey, Fred Wise) ~ 2:58
9. You Better Go Now (Bickley Reichner / Robert Graham) ~ 3:29
10. Blue Willow (Vic Harrington) ~ 3:23
11. 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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