"JAZZIN' AROUND" - #040526a

This week's episode -- in this 1st  hour -- includes a "Last Call" for the respected Dr. James Johnson, Jr pianist/educator & co-founder of the Afro-American Music Institute. Also marks birthdays of Stanley Turrentine, Randy Weston, Leo Robin, Gerry Mulligan, others. "Jazz-on-the-'Live'-Side" calendar. Plus sampling of several new/recent jazz album releases.   

Transcript

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We were back, and obviously you are too. Welcome in. Come on, it is time for you and I to go do some jazzing around here. Which are glad to see you. Stop by, sit down, have yourself a very comfortable seat, and enjoy. A J here, your host for the next couple of hours of America's most informative, distinctive, and truly unique jazz radio program. And probably the most fun jazz radio program you'll find anywhere, too, for that matter. Jazz It Around is your weekly jazz magazine on the radio. Each and every week we share with you the latest albums on the jazz scene, some occasional pre-release sneak previews of upcoming albums. You'll hear artist features, interviews, jazz history, the latest in jazz news. You'll also hear a regional club and concert scene look in the first hour for what's happening in the tri-state area on the live side. In the second hour to look at jazz festivals from all across the country on our watch. And sometimes internationally, too. And also part of the second hour, in fact, the largest part of the second hour, is the only place anywhere that we're aware of that you can get a look at what's on the Jazz Week Top 50 chart every week, right here. Jazz It Around comes to you from our comfortably appointed, but still truly understated and tasteful Subterranean Jazz Den here in Pittsburgh. Podcast hosting services have been out for you for well over 20 years now, since 2005. Thanks to our partner radio stations as well over the years, WNJR, WSBR, KWLC, Boston Free Radio, and WWFM Jazz On Two. Oh man, lots of exciting music, lots of new music, and a number of significant birthdays to celebrate this week for you as we get into Jazz Appreciation Month. This is April, J A M Jazz Appreciation Month officially. And so with all of this to do, let's just jump right in and try to answer the question, the perennial question, what's going on? What is going on in this world of jazz in this week, if we can? Probably uh top story, I guess, would be Canada's prestigious Juno Awards, presented last week at its 55th annual ceremony in Hamilton, Ontario. The jazzy folk rock singer, songwriter Joni Mitchell, given the Lifetime Achievement Award, Jazz and Instrumental Category, individual jazz and instrumental category winners, were Rainey Rosnis for Crossing Paths, and Aaron Parris for Lotus Land. Also Laura Andraje for Get Out, Get Out of Town, and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra for their album East Meets West Connections. Congratulations to all the winners there. The Long Lost, Long Thought Lost, orchestral work composed by Maurice White entitled Passages. The piece was originally commissioned by Symphonic Jazz Orchestra co-leader George Duke way back in 2003. For whatever reasons, the piece never got produced or performed on stage for that matter. The premier performance was to have included some newly arranged Earth, Wind and Fire signature pieces reimagined by John Clayton, Vince Mendoza, Derek Hodge, Marshall Gilkus, and Mitch Glickman. Unfortunately, that concert and those performances were never realized, and the piece was long thought completely lost. Co-composer Bill Myers did find the original sheet music, which he managed to kind of reconstruct and finish. And so now they're going to redo it again on May 9th and 10th. May 9th and 10th by the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra. For more information on that performance, go to SJOmusic.org. The annual July Molde, Molday Jazz Festival in Norway attracts audiences of 80 to 100,000 attendees to the Norwegian coast city. The festival's new director, Linda Melsum. She has had experience leading several Nordic events, festivals, and awards. This year's event will be held July 13 through 18. Headliners that are set so far include Esperanza Spaulding, John Legend, Cecile McLaurin Salvat, and a number of others. So worth checking out. And congratulations to Dennis Melson, the new director of the Molday Jazz Festival in Norway. Colorado's 31st Vale Jazz Workshop will happen August 29th through September 5. It is now taking applications for its week-long workshop for its exclusive week-long workshop, we might add. Enrollment is extremely competitive and is limited to only 12 musicians. You can imagine how competitive that would be, right? At the end of the workshop, each of them will get to perform alongside their pro mentors at the Big Vail Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival. For more specifics, go to veiljazz.org. Applications close April 30th. Guitarist Bobby Broom honors and salutes his mentor and longtime boss Sonny Rollins on Bobby Broom's latest album, Notes of Thanks, which will be out May the 1st. The album features Broom and his trio playing Rollins compositions such as Doxie, Vols Hot, Pent Up House, Alfie's Theme, Strode Road, Allison and Paul's Pal. Bobby Broom toured the world with the Tender Sacks legend for six years. Time to pay it back now, right? Bobby Broom, backed by Dennis Carroll on bass, and Kobe Watkins on drums. Notes of Thanks will be available May the 1st. Plus, the trio will be performing at Chicago's Jazz Showcase Club May 14, 15, 16, and 17. MCG Jazz in Pittsburgh. Executive Director Marty Ashby announcing the GALA 40th, oh, can you believe it? 40th season of the MCG Jazz series. And it is truly exceptional. Featured artists. This coming year will include the Count Basie Orchestra with guest Nina Freelaw, a Rick Braun celebration of Chuck Man Joe, Gerald Albright, John Schofield, a Feliz Navidad evening with the Spanish Harlem Jazz Orchestra. Jose James saluting Frank Savatra. A Billy Child 70th Birthday salute celebration. Trumpeter vocalist Benny Banak III coming back home to do Manhattan magic for us. It'll be Kurt Elling with the Yellow Jackets to play a Weather Report tribute night. And it'll be an evening with our tarot sound of all, plus the Django Festival All-Stars with special guest Adolham. Subscriptions can be renewed now. New subscriptions are open April 30th. Individual tickets on sale July 6th. And uh one more thing to note, and we never like having to do this, but sometimes you just got to do what you got to do. We do have a Jazz Obit, one Jazz Last Call to issue this week, and uh one on a very, very personal level. Dr. J, Dr. James Johnson Jr. A highly respected, admired, and truly inspiring pianist, educator, mentor, and just a good jazz friend to hundreds, maybe thousands of aspiring jazz, blues, and gospel musicians, has passed away about a week ago. Dr. J, as he was affectionately known, along with his wife and singer Pam, Pamela Johnson, established Pittsburgh's Afro-American Music Institute back in 1982. The institute currently housed in its third location, although it's now their permanent location. They just bought it. In fact, I think Pam was just saying a couple of weeks ago that they paid off the mortgage finally. So they own it fully, totally, totally, and completely. Congratulations for that accomplishment. The latest and the most permanent location, right near the Homewood Carnegie Library on Hamilton Avenue in the Homewood neighborhood. Truly, truly, literally, tens of thousands of both young and old students have taken classes at the AAMI in the past 40 plus years. Dr. J described as being a solid pillar in the community. And not just a fine teacher, and not even an above-average educator. He was called an extraordinary educator, and as well a gifted pianist, singer, choir director, and teacher. Dr. J, born in Tennessee, raised in Louisiana at Gram Lake State alum, very proud Gram Lake State alum. Got his PhD in ethnomusicology from Nathan Davis at the University of Pittsburgh here. Really focused on his family and his students and the school. He really never established himself as a solo artist or even as a supporting artist for other artists. Just so very selfless. Completely, completely dedicated to his music. Um his music, his art, and his family. Dr. J. Dr. J. James Johnson Jr. passed away at the age of 76. About a week ago. And what an inspiring funeral service we had for him. It really was more less of a funeral. It was truly an enormous celebration of his life and his legacy. My only regret is that he never recorded much to leave for us, and I really don't have anything to play for you that I can find in my library anywhere. Of his piano work, but he's truly a first-class pianist, a top shelf pianist. Really was one always always had been over these last 40 years. One of my absolute top three favorite pianists in all of Pittsburgh. And that is truly saying something. Really. Anyway, moving along to some other things, we've got plenty of birthdays to celebrate.

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Hi, this is John Schofield. Did you know that April is Jazz Appreciation Month? To celebrate, here's a couple of things you can do. Go see some live jazz and take a friend who never thought they'd like it. You know they'll hear it live and become a fan for life. Then, when they have a birthday, give them your favorite jazz CD as a gift. You could give them one of mine, no matter what, this month and every month. Enjoy this glorious music called Jazz, born in America, enjoyed worldwide.

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From the 2013 album by Tierney Sutton, her album After Blue, doing some Joni Mitchell music.

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I'm down to love the times. I can pube the bells all around me. Jingle in the lucky dead pots. They keep your tender eyes. They keep your reach of all your wallet here in fools of paradise. He said he ran a clinging planet. That cat was clanking the coin. Well, he lost ahead of Jeannie. Cause every time I drop the dime, I move it. He got back, get the house and nothing to do it. He got three gorgeous three lemons, free to everyone. I'm losing my taste for fruit. I'm watching the dark cleaner do it. Like my tenup yesterday. It's all lucky, it's just as lucky. You get a little lucky, can you make make a little mummy?

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Some Joni Mitchell music off of her Court and Spark album, Dry Cleaner from Des Moines. Updated there really, really finally by Tierney Sutton. Backed up at Larry Goldings, Peter Erskine, and the wonderful Hubert Law's. Joni's Dry Cleaner from Des Moines. Became friends not only with uh oh my good with with Charles Mingus, her inspiration for that album, uh, and others, but also with Herbie Hancock, with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Pamethaney. She had quite a couple of tours with all those uh really first-class top shelf jazzers, and turning so much more into the jazz world. This is Herbie Hancock's tribute to her called the Joni Letters album. Very emotionally done, and a Grammy nominee as well, too. Herbie, along with Wayne Shorter. But eventually they really became uh quite a new mutual admiration society. Uh Herbie Hancock. Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell all became quite, quite good friends. Herbie Hancock's tribute to her, the Joni Letters album itself from uh the mid-2000s are Grammy nominee there for, too. That's both sides now. His rend edition. Here's another rend edition of both sides now, done by clarinetist Rolf Hume, European clarinetist Rolf Hume, along with uh Frankie Chester on the piano. This one really takes both sides now in a very different direction. Boy, is that something or is that something? That is Rolf Kuhn. Rolf Kuhn. Let's uh take a look on Joni Mitchell's both sides now from a very different perspective. From the album Yellow and Blue. David J jazz around with it here. We have got some birthdays to celebrate, though. Let's do that here. First off, Mr. T Stanley Tarrantine. From his calcy on days with CTI, the early 1970s, Milton Nascimento's salt saw it. This still one of our favorites. Favorite discs of it. Milton Nashamento's salt songs, the Don Sabeski arrangement with Ron Carter, Iritto. Deadado, what an all-star crack cast in this. Billy Cobble wants drums, too. Pittsburger from the Hill District, Stanley Tarantine. He and his brother Tommy quite the tandem over the particularly the 1950s with the Max Roche group and so on.

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Here is Mr.

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Tarantine from 1966, a few years before, with a Duke Pearson arrangement on Sunday. And just infusing it with his trademark sound. So one of the things about Stanley Terratini is so remarkable is not just his playing. His playing is remarkable, so expressive, so soulful. But his sound was instantly recognizable. One of those handful of saxophonists that you only need to hear one note, and you got it nailed. He's just always just him. And speaking of that sound, back to the CTI days, his signature song, as it turned out to be. He's big and uh well over six foot tall, and just broad as a football player and uh commanding, commanding physically. And that sound was just so big coming out of him. I called him Mr. T, and indeed he heard it quite well. Here going back again to the 1960s for this one, as we wrap up Mr. T from 1967 with McCoy Tiner, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker. Backing him up on a tune that was popular then, and so apropos now, for that matter. Yeah, you can feel it already. The hell David Kirk's back crack. What the world needs now. Oh, so sorely. So sorely. So sincere and so true. What the world needs now. And you know that every decade we've heard that the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, and the nineties, and the early two thousands. And of course, as we mentioned, even as much more as it seems like it's today. That song has resonated for back rack and Hell David over the decades and still is rings rings so, so true. What the world needs now certainly. Certainly is no more than love. I mean that healed everything, but it sure is gonna help. Sure would. We mentioned a couple of Pittsburgh's other birthday birthdays uh with here. How about that of Leo Robin? Okay, you don't know that aid. Maybe you don't know that age. Not a musician per se, although he was adept of the piano, but he was a lyricist who wrote some co-wrote some absolutely classic pieces. This one, perhaps his best known work, as done by Stan Getz instrumentally from nineteen fifty-four. Don't know how the Leo Robin uh and Thanks for the memory and the the relationship with Bob Hope got started, but uh that became Bob Hope's uh signature song, kind of his memory, you know, his his um his legacy song, signature song that came before Bob Bob Hope. Leo Robin! In fact, Leo Robin's great niece still lives over about uh five, six blocks from here. Uh Ansley Robin still uh lived down there, and she remembers not well, but she remembers Leo Robin being around and being the famous one of the family, so to speak. Leo Robin, Pittsburgh songwriter, gave us not only thanks for the memory, but this one done here by the Roy Haynes Quintet with a pretty feisty saxophonist named Rosson, Roland Kirk. On one horn on the alto there, interestingly enough. A horn he did not play all that often, at least not that I recall him in the peak of his career. From the Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon uh album, that is If I should lose you, another one of those great Leo Robin classics. And maybe aside from the Bob Hope piece, maybe his better known or best known piece, Easy Living. Lyrics here provided by the great Eda Jones.

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Living for you is easy living. It's easy to live when you're in love, and I'm so in love. There's nothing in life but you, but you I'll never regret it.

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Leo Robin lyric with easy living. Leo Robin wrote many classics along with Ralph Ranger, uh his uh instrumental uh co co-composer. And uh one well the the tunes, some of the tunes Leo Robin, again, you may not know his name off, you know, like uh you would an Irving Berlin or George Kershwin, uh, you know, Ellen Tennessee, you know, all those names are so very very familiar, uh right for that matter. But Leo Robin maybe not so much so, but he left us some great tunes. I mean, right? Easy living. Uh thanks for the memory. Uh how about Diamond or a girl's best friend with that one too. Louise, you know, Louise. Um I got a gal in calico, love you in bloom. And if I should lose you. Also, this one came from his pen as well. Sunny Chris, from 1975 with Dolo Coker on piano backing him up. On this, Leah Robin Ralph Ranger classic. Oh, you've heard that before, haven't you? Oh, what a gorgeous, gorgeous melody and great lyric, too, on my ID classics for you. Uh, David J here moving along during this April jam, J A M Jazz Appreciation Month, giving you more appreciation of this great, great American music. Gotta step aside here for some jazz on the live side, come back with a couple of extremely exciting new albums. Got a premiere for you here this uh this week. Just to see who's playing where in and around the Tri-State area here coming up in this Jazz Appreciation Month. Lots of club activity in a lot of the main cities around us here. Right here in downtown Pittsburgh, it's got con Ulma downtown. They're going six nights a week, Tony Campbell's jam session, every Tuesday. And oftentimes the best of Pittsburgh Jazz. I mean, it's Dwayne Dolphin, it's Roger Humphreys, Reggie Watkins, it's Tubby Daniels, Alton Merrill, George Hyde the Third, Paul Thompson, Tom Wat, just Kenny Blake. Right? The names go on and on and on. All the best of the best of the best here. Also, in Akron, it's Blue Jazz. Don't stay spend any time in Akron without spending time at Blue Jazz, right? In Cleveland, it's the Bop Stop. That's your best stop at the Bop Stop as well. Here in Toledo. I mean, nothing better to do than hit Loose Steel's Jazz Lounge in the toll house in downtown Toledo as well. As far as taking a look at what's coming up this month, special. This month it's the New York Voices. Their farewell tour for Kitty Rivera at the Manchester Craftsman's Guild Hall this weekend. Lynn Speakman in the Cabaret Theater downtown from 5 till 8. No cover. That's uh this yeah, this coming Tuesday. Lynn Speakman and her quartet. On Friday the 17th, it's the WJ, the Washington Jefferson Student Jazz Ensemble, on stage, swinging at the Olin Fine Arts Center, 7.30 free and open the public there. On Saturday the 18th, it's John Pizzarelli and the trio. Returning to Pittsburgh and Manchester Craftsman's Guild Hall one evening, two performances 6 and 8.30. That very same night it's the Dave Thomas Quartet with the Joe Henderson Tribute at Blue Jazz in Akron. Saturday the 18th. Sunday the 19th, the CMU Student Jazz Ensemble. They'll be playing at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland at 7:30 showtime for that. No matter where you're finding jazz, spread the word, my friend. Make sure you can get everybody in your circle to know about it and to attend if they can, right? Supporting living, live jazz musicians, not just the best way to keep jazz alive, but it is maybe the only way to really keep this music alive and moving. Supporting our musicians. So let's do what we can do. Coming back, we've got some exciting new albums, new music for you, and a few more birthdays will celebrate this Jazz Appreciation Month as well. Stick around here. We got so much more to do.

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Hi, this is Terrence Blanchett. Do you know that April is Jazz Appreciation Month? To celebrate, I'd like to suggest that you take someone out to see the music who never thought they would ever go, and they'll be fans for life. It's the least you can do to spread the word about this glorious music. No matter what, this month and every month, celebrate jazz, born in America, enjoyed worldwide.

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Spiegel. On this timeout, it's called Time Pieces. Guitarist with Time Pieces, his new album. Showing a different side of him there on Greener Pastures. Oh, that's nice. This is really, really nicely done. Greener Pastures. I don't like that a lot. How about pianist Aaron Park's brand new album? By all means. Then Solomon on Saks. Then Street on bass. From his album by all means, that is called Anywhere Together. Kind of a nice sentiment there, too, doesn't it? This is vibus Ted Piltzinger. Piltzinger, his peace vibes album. To the familiar piece. For us. Ted Stillman from his book You Might Recognize Blue Zet. Ted Piltzinger on Vibes. With the trumpet work of Brad Good back in about on the Peace Vibes album. That's the newest from Ted Piltinger. Oh, a lot of Brad Good Trumpet there, actually. Speaking of some great trumpet work, let's continue with the Trumpet Vein with a Miles Davis centennial celebration done by trumpeter Mark Morganelli from his most recent album called Four Miles. This is Mark Morganelli doing the Miles Davis Associated piece that's actually written by Dave Rubek, but a Miles Davis is certainly a signature piece for him. In your own sweet way. Mark Morganelli out front. Focusing on his trumpet work these days now. Kind of pulling himself away from the production side, some. Focusing on the Miles Davis Centennial salute this year. The album is called For Miles. All pieces associated with or composed by Miles Davis. That one associated with Miles, of course, in your own sweet way. Let's kick uh one more with a trump with a really strong trumpet lead going back to the Horace Silver Quintet in its mid-60s peak with Woody Shaw and Joe Henderson. Recently released a session never before released called Silver in Seattle. That is the super smoking. Horse silver quintet of 1965. And Woody Charles just smoking on drummers there. Wow. Yo, and who is that drummer? The only one left. The only living member of that horse silver quintet, Roger Humphreys. Just really knocking him dead in drums there. And Roger was, well, what at that time? 18, 20, something like that. Something like that, right? The Horace Silver Quintet, never before released before live set from the penthouse in Seattle. Called Silver in Seattle. We're David Jay here. We're moving along and got a couple more birthdays. I think we can I think we can fit all these in before we uh wrap up our number one here. Let's go with the celebration of NEA Jazz Master, pianist, composer, educator, Randy Weston. One of his better known pieces, The African Village, Bedford Stuyvesant. From his 1992 album, Spirits of Our Ancestors. Randy Weston. Overpowering solo piano. That's his own composition, Bedford Stuyvesant. African village, Bedford Stuyvesant. Randy Weston's year of the centennial is this year. His birthday's 100th birthday would have been tomorrow. Here from his 2011 album, The Storyteller, Randy Weston with his African Rhythms Band. Studying the traditions, studying the music, the art and the people, uh and certainly becoming a an honored citizen and artist. And occasionally coming back to the States, but he never had a high profile here in the States, not really as much as he should have with his uh certainly with his giant talent. One of the giants of the music too, though, he's I think six six six six or six seven. Big, big man with gigantic hands as well. And gigantic talent for that matter. Gave us one composition in particular that was so well known, it's been done by almost everybody in the music, including Amad Jamal. The piece is Randy Weston's composition, I Flynn. The music, the legacy of Randy Weston. That's his high fly, as done by Ahmad Jamal from Ahmad's 2010 album, A Quiet Time. Yes, tomorrow would have been Randy Weston's 100th birthday, his centennial year as well. Got uh two more birthdays to wrap up this hour. Let's go with another pianist. This is Andre Previn of his 1963 Light Fantastic album. Particularly with the Pittsburgh Symphony and other symphony orchestras. But Andre Prevan, no shabby pianist, as you can hear, is right there. Yeah, with Red Mitchell, Frankie Capp from 1963, a little fascinating rhythm from Andre Prevan. Yes, tomorrow would have been Andre Previn's birthday as well. In fact, tomorrow's birthday, so check this out. Leo Robin, as we heard earlier, Randy Weston, uh Andre Prevan, and also Gene Burton Sini, Jerry Nywood's birthday. Uh Charlie Rouse's birthday is also tomorrow. John Pizzarelli's birthday is also tomorrow. And so is this artist's birthday, as we wrap up our number one, listening to the music of Mr. Jerry Mulligan. Mulligan's piece called Jeru. J-E-R-U Jeru. Our number two, Jazz and Around, is just around the corner. A few more birthdays and some really exciting action on the Jazz Week chart for you. Stay with us, my friend, with more to come out.