"Jazzin' Around" - #042626a

Last week of J.A.M. (Jazz Appreciation Month)! Celebrates birthdays of progressive reedman/composer Jimmy Giuffre, pioneering Polish jazz great Krysztof Komeda, the distinctive Blossom Dearie, Latin-Jazz legend Mario Bauza + Harry Mills (eldest of famed 'Mills Bros.' + several exciting new/recent jazz releases!

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Hey, we're back again, my friend, and you are too. So that's good news. Welcome aboard. It is time for you and I to go set sailing and a little jazzing around together. David J here, your host for the next couple of hours of America's most informative, distinctive, and absolutely unique jazz radio program. Each week, Sherry, we through the latest albums from the jazz scene, and including on an occasional sneak preview of an upcoming album for you as well. You'll hear all kinds of things. You'll hear the latest albums in jazz, artist features, interviews, some jazz history for you to know. The latest in jazz news. Each and every week it's a regional club and concert scene check in the first hour. In the second hour, a look at jazz festivals from all across the country and occasionally beyond. And of course, in hour two, it is the centerpiece of the program. It's the only place anywhere you get a look. And what's on the top 50 on each week of the Jazz Week chart. Jazz It Around comes to you as usual from our cozy, cool, and comfortable subterranean Jazz Den here in Pittsburgh. Program's been podcast or on the air since well, 2003 and podcast since 2005. Thankful for that. And thanks to our longtime partner radio stations, WNJRWSPR, KWLC Boston Free Radio, and WWFM Jazz On 2. Oh man, we got so much to do as we're wrapping up Jazz Appreciation Month, the very last week. The very last week of April, Jazz Appreciation Month, and looking forward to the International Jazz Day as we wrap up the month of April. So let's just jump right in and take a look at what's going on this week in the world of jazz specifically, shall we? One of Europe's most prestigious jazz festivals reaching a new status milestone this summer. The long impressive North Sea Jazz Fest will celebrate its golden anniversary. That'll be this year July 10, 11, and 12. For its 50th edition, it'll be featuring the Sunra Orchestra, John Batiste, Diana Kroll, Pat Methaiti, Steve Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, the Roots Band, the Snarky Puppies, Robert Glasper, Bill Frazel, and its artist in residence this year, Cecile McLaurin Salvant. For more information, go to Northseajazz.com. Similar kudos to the Syracuse Jazz Festival in Western New York. Festival founder Frank Malfottano. He and the festival celebrating its 40th anniversary this July 9 through 12. Boasting a lineup this year of Trombone Shorty, the Tower of Power Band, the U.S. Airmen of Note, and much more. For further information there, go to Syracuse Jazzfest.com. Apparently, and this is kind of a bit of a retraction, we didn't report this originally, but uh it was apparently previously reported, but erroneously, that the 2026 NEA Jazz Masters concert would be April 18. However, the National Endowment for the Arts, such as they are, has officially said that it will reschedule the program later in the fall. Ordinarily it was held during Jazz Appreciation Month, but for whatever reason, NBA has decided not to do that until this fall. No date is set yet. A reminder the 2026 class of four include Brazilian percussion master and virtuoso Ayurto Moriera, singer-songwriter Carmen Lundy, pianist Patrice Rushan, and longtime jazz radio broadcaster Ronda Hamilton. April, of course, is Jazz Appreciation Month, wrapping it up this week, of course. Countless events, shows, concerts, displays, documentaries, exhibits, festivals, club performances all across the country, and in fact all across the globe. Worth noting to pass along, the Jazz Arts Project of New Jersey will have a Gala 20th anniversary concert and fundraiser this coming Wednesday, the 29th, Mr. Ellington's birthday, the 127th birthday of Duke Ellington, and the day before UNESCO's official International Jazz Day on play. The Gala event will include the presentation of the Jazz Hearts Hero Award to Arturo Ferial and will feature a night of all Afro-Cuban jazz reminiscence of the heyday of the Havana Nightlife. And speaking of International Jazz Day, this year's International Jazz Day hosted by Chicago, Illinois, the hometown of UNESCO Jazz Ambassador, none other than Herbie Hancock. Also performing for that day, Terrence Blanchard, Bobby Broom, Terry Lynn Carrington, Kurt Elling, Nina Simulu, Emmett Cohen, Dee Dee Bridgewater, James Carter, Baylor Fleck, Melissa Aldana, Robert Glasper, Gregory Porter, Diane Reeves, Marcus Miller, Helen's son, Gonzalo Rubul Kaba, Bobby Watson, and yes, there are even more. Quite a lineup. The ceremonies and performances you don't have to go to Chicago necessarily to enjoy. They will be webcast live around the world through UN TV, jazzday.com, YouTube, Facebook, and other international media sources. So that'll be uh again this Wednesday, uh April, this Thursday, right, April 30th. Participating countries and celebrations are going to be hosted and held simultaneously worldwide in New Orleans, Orlando, DC, Birmingham, Alabama, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Peru, Zambia, Honduras, Serbia, South Africa, the UK, Australia, Italy, France, New Zealand, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, Canada, Latvia, and the list goes on and on. I think it's close to what, 70 or 80 or 90 countries per participating? Pretty impressive. And one more note to make note of this week. Well, for this year, too, for that matter. 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the Norman Grantz founded Verve Record label. The label's been home to landmark. Ella Fitzgerald songbooks, the symbol of the Irving Berlin, the June Kellington, the Cole Porter, right? Essential Albums also by Lester Young, Count Basie, Billy Holliday, Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Roy Eldridge, Cal Jader, Nina Simone. Yeah, Nina Simone. Anita O'Day, Diana Kral. That's a pretty impressive list. Bill Evans, Charlie Byrd, Abby Lincoln, not necessarily all jazz, but certainly soulful. The Righteous Brothers, Frank Zappa, Incognito, and just Joe Henderson, Mike Brecker, Wayne Shorter. That list is just well, it's not really endless, but it almost seems like it is. For further information on this year-long 70th anniversary year, celebration of events, releases, special releases, and programs, go to verbrecords.com for all that info there. And of course, go out and dig into research stuff and maybe even get a couple of those verb classics. Well worth, well worth looking into. David J here letting you know what's going on this week in the world of jazz. And fortunately, one of the best news of the week. I have no last calls to issue this week. None that I'm aware of. None. That is always a good thing. Coming back in a moment with some. Again, an impressive list of those April Jazz birthdays, including that of the Maestro, Duke Ellington's birthday this week. All that and more coming up soon when Jazz and Rom returns in just a moment.

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A couple of weeks ago, we were celebrating the centennial birthday of Candido Camera. Pioneering Afro-Cuban percussionists couldn't find any music quickly enough, so they're making up for it right now with this recording from Lyle Hampton's 1977 album. Quite a life lived. He was 96 when he passed away, and I think he was still playing. For that matter. Did not have a chance to showcase his his literal virtuosity, other than certainly his his effect, which is on almost every percussionist in the world of jazz and Latin jazz for sure. But uh that's him. That actually was him there from 1977. So that would have been him well well certainly well into his fifties or close to sixty at that time, too. With Lionel Hampton, Dexter Gordon, and Hank Jones from a 1977 recording on blues for gates. That of Jimmy Juffrey. His most notable and most covered composition, The Train and the River. 1957. Jimmy Jufrey. Dallas board would have been 102 days. Well 104, if we said today. Alright, Jimmy Jewry. And speaking of Jimmy Juffrey, here's maybe his best known composition, the Big Band Chart. For the Woody Herman herd of 1947. And there they are, the Four Brothers band, the Woody Herman 1947, Thundering Herd. Zoot Sims, Serge Shalov, Herbie Stewart, Stan Guest. The Four Brothers tune of Jimmy Jufrey, his most notable chart done for the Herman Herd of that period. And that was kind of in honor of those four saxophones in the section. Called the Four Brothers composition. Jimmy Jufrey. Again, would have been uh 105 here. 105, is that my math right? Uh 1920, yes, 105. Today. For a birthday tomorrow. The certainly one of the, if not the most revered, holy jazz artist, pianist composer, bandleader, Christoph Komeda. This from 1964 recording with saxophonist John Petajin Roblevsky. This is called Crazy Girl. Died tragically young. He was only 37. I believe he's 37. And he was actually a musician on the side, in a sense. He was actually a medical doctor, which is interesting. Uh trying to pursue his musical interests uh while making a living as a doctor. Interesting. Uh Krzysztof Komeda would have been 95. 95 tomorrow. That's John Patajin Wrobleski, one of the other premier, absolutely premier Polish jazz musicians. Interesting that this birthday showed up during Jazz Appreciation Month as well. And speaking of international Jazzers, how about Mario Bowser? One of the great Afro-Cuban Jazzers Pioneers. This is his own composition, Zambia from 1993. Born in Havana 125 years ago. This Monday. This is coming well tomorrow, right? Tomorrow. Child Prodigy on the piano and the uh in musician. The the father of Afro-Cuban jazz, actually. And speaking of Afro-Cuban jazz specifically, kind of the melding of the two, he also performed with many great US jazzers, which certainly influenced both not only himself, but them as well, including Louis Armstrong with Chad Baker, uh Johnny Hodges, and a lot of really, really seminal jazz musicians who were American musicians who were just really, really uh inspired inspired him much more than well to let's be certainly John Redmond, Letter Anderson, uh one more word. Before we take a uh detour to some newer material for you, another landmark birthday, the one and only blossom dear. One of her best known and most respected pieces. From 1976.

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That's a lot of strings to get through. But anyone can see my new celebrity is you. I've sung with Athel Herman Swamp with Body Herman, played a gig in Germany with Oldman 2, nodded at a sermon. Billy Graham barely got through. But anyone could see my new celebrity is you. I'm not a bit ashamed of it. A rape beer with kept Sergey Kusovitsky in line. I'd reprimand the Dorsey band right on the stand. Cause Annie's cause Annie was a sweetie of mine. I've golfed with Lee Dravino, one of the casino, danced a piccolino when the movie was new. Spent the night with Dino, had to sleep with Jerry Lewis, too. But anyone can see my new celebrity is you.

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That is so much fun. That was right about the time we got a chance to do some hanging with her. She was in town for about a week. Uh uh MC'd a couple of concerts, uh, performances by her down at the old top shelf, as I recall. Uh, thanks to uh to Ward Swingle and so on. But uh anyway. I think that's that's the Johnny Mercer lyric, and I think I recall her saying that Johnny Mercer wrote that lyric with her in mind. My new celebrity is you. Blossom Deary. Total, totally unique talent. Uh she would have been 95. No, wait a minute. This is her centennial. This is her centennial from the Catholic Hills of New York. On Tuesday, this will be her centennial year for Blossom Deary. And you heard that that delicate but firm and so wry. That's W-R-Y. Humor in her voice there. Blossom Deary. From the album From the Meticulous to the Sublime. A year earlier, 1975, Jim Hughart, instead of Ron Carter this time around.

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I think you ought to know I'm shadowing you. Turn around and find I'm half a step behind, I'm shadowing you. You love you, I wouldn't bug you, except whatever I can. Love the indispensable man. Like I said before, I'm getting the door, I'm shadowing you. There'll be no escape, I'm getting up tape in video too. In the vent, I'll be a vent in your Italian motto. You want the chapel If you do decide you want you for a bride, it'll be done. Both of us will be so independent, we will live on the road. Back in all, I'm just lost. Happy as can be just you, Jigger Hoover and me.

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Another really creative lyric. I'm shadowing you. That is a collaboration with Blossom Deary doing the music, and Johnny Mercer as well, collaborating with her on that lyric. I'm shadowing you. What a swinging, delightful voice that was just irresistible. You heard it with Ron Carter there earlier there with Jim Hoghart and uh Johnny Morrell on guitar. And maybe also another good relationship was she with uh with uh lyricist uh Bob DeRot and Dave Frishburg. Again, they were a mutual admiration society. Here is the Dave Frischburg Bob DeRot tune I'm a Hip as delivered by Blossom Deerie, also from that same album, 1975. The album is called From the Meticulous to the Sublime.

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But a butt di-di-di-tree. I'm hip, I'm a square. I'm a learn, I'm awake, I'm aware. I'm on top of everything. Making the rounds, digging the sounds. I read Penthouse magazine, cause I'm hip. I'm dig, I'm in step. When it was hip to be hip, I was hip. I don't blow, but I'm a fan. Look at me swing, ring ding-ding. I even call my girlfriend ma'am. I'm so hip. Every Saturday night with my suit button tight, my suede song. I'm getting my kicks, digging arty French flicks with my shades on. Cause I'm too much. I'm a gas. I am anything but middle class when I hang around the band, poppin' my thumbs, digging the drums. Squares don't seem to understand why I flip. They're not hip. I'm hip-ho-do-do-do-baby.

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I just love that line. I'm so hip. I call my girlfriend man. What a great line, right? Oh, the irrepressible, the oh, just uh oh my gosh. Blossom Deary. Wonderful, wonderful, unique talent. Uh, her centennial, uh, this Monday. Centennial. And I digged up dug up an older one of hers from 1958. The album Once Upon a Summertime with Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown. Talk about her attraction to premier bassists beyond her. This is called We're Together from 1958. The early Blossom Dear.

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We're together, people can notice we appear together. We'll always be here together, please hold me closer all the time. Right together, here in the shadow, we'll be tied together. Under the moonlight together, please hold me closer all the time. Without you, life's a ride on a lonesome train. There's something about you that keeps pulling me back again closer to you. We're strong together. Love, can't you tell that we belong together? Say that we're not wrong together. Please hold me closer all the time.

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Actually, a Steve Allen, Don Elliott co-composition, We're Together. From Blossom Deerie, late 50s, and you could hear you definitely tell the difference in her voice in those days. One of the Blue Flames back in France, back in the early 1950s, and uh and an innovator in the in the jazz vocaliste Bebop era, uh of Europe mostly European, English, French uh recordings at that time. Uh the great blossom dearing. Celebrating her centennial uh this this week as well. Another marvelous man uh landmark on the birthday to celebrate this April Jazz Appreciation Month. We'll have some more birthdays, and of course Duke Ellington's birthday just ahead as well, and uh another master, international master, Mr. Total. We'll celebrate all those and more, but first it's time for us to take a look at some newer things. Uh some new releases, some recent releases, the jazz continues to move along. A new album by Shunzu Ono. Japanese trumpeter premiere, Japanese trumpeter and composer. One of the very few, I think maybe the only one of the very few Asians to have performed in the Art Lakey Jazz Messengers Band over the years. Shunzo Ono. The new album recorded with his group live at Joe's pub. This is called Leah's Run. Trumpeter, legendary Japanese trumpeter Shunzo Ono, Trumper Shinzo, Shinzo Ono from his live at Joe's Pub, brand new, brand new release just oh what just this past week. That is a piece called Leah's Rod. Let's do one more before we take a quick step aside for some jazz on the live side here. This is saxophonist Scott Silbert celebrating the centennial of Zoot Sims, the dream dancing centennial celebration. This is the Shadow Waltz, Scott Silbert. Sims there. From the Dream Dancing Celebrating Zoot Centennial album, shadow music from Scott Silbert on that album, brand new. This is David J, you and I jazzing around here in this during this last week of Jazz Appreciation Month. Not that we don't appreciate jazz deeply. All year round, and hopefully you as well too, but especially taking some extra measures, digging into the music a little deeper this month. Moving on to uh some more uh new music in just a moment, but first it's time for us to take a look, a quick look at uh who is playing where in and around town over these next uh several weeks or so, shall we? To find out uh what's going on here. At Conolma downtown, it's everyday jazz, really. But it's not everyday jazz. Truly. Tony Campbell with his jam sessions every Tuesday. And oftentimes you will see and hear the legendary, truly, truly legendary Roger Humphreys with his RH Factor. And marvelous first shelf, top shelf musician Dwayne Dolphin, Reggie Watkins, Tubby Daniels, Max Leek, Alton Merrill, George Hyde III, Paul Thompson, Tom Went, Kenny Blake, so many more, Scott Mawney, the whole yeah, top shelf, top shelf. If you're in Cleveland, same thing true. Don't forget to stop in at Cleveland Bop Stop. If you're in Akron, downtown Akron, it's Blue Jazz. In Akron, it's B-L-U. Blue Jazz in downtown Akron. And the one and the only Lu Seals Jazz Lounge in the Toll House in downtown Toledo as well. Coming up on Tuesday, May the 5th, it's the John Hall Quartet at the Cabaret Theater Downtown. No cover, 5 till 8. On Saturday, the 9th of May, the Winton Marsalism Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Mendelson Choir, and Nicky Porter together in Winton's composition All Rise. That one night, one performance at Hydes Hall 7:30. Also later that night, it is the build as the indestructible Roger Humphreys at Con Alma Downtown from 7 till 11. And coming back to Pittsburgh, back to his home, Bill Hyde with his organ trio, he'll be at Con Alma on Saturday night, the 23rd of May, from 7 till 11. But no matter where you are, no matter where you find yourself, by all means, you find out if there's any jazz going on live, spread the word. Be sure you attend if you can, and by all means, bring some friends. Bring a whole bunch of friends. Supporting living live jazz musicians is not only essential to keeping this music alive and well, but maybe the best and only way of really moving this music forward into the future. So let's do what we can do. More new releases in just a moment, and of course, it's an impressive birthday to celebrate before we leave this first hour as well. Stay with us, my friend.

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Newest album from Rick Rowe with more music from the late Greg Hill. The album is called Wake Up Call of the Uh. That is the title piece we're at. More Greg Hill music, impressive Greg Hill music. Here's the new one from guitarist Rick uh Russ Spiegel, kind of a change of pace for Russ on this album. It's called Time Pieces. I'm sure you'll recognize this Nacio Herb Brown standard. Guitarist Russ Spiegel from his Time Pieces new release. You stepped out of a dream, and what an arrangement of that, too, with his quintet there. Nice work from Russ Spiegel. Yeah, indeed, indeed. Boy, I like that a lot. Moving on to pianists, the great Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubel Kaba from his latest album. A tribute to Benny Moray, and also to Matt Cole. A little Kizos, Kizos, Kizos. A tribute to Benny Morey and Nat Cole, with saxophonists Janine Rorta and Joey Calviero helping him out on that one as well, too. David J. here moving along with him. We mentioned a couple of mentions of Roger Humphreys playing over in Carolina Downtown with his band, uh the R.H. Factor. Roger, the only surviving member at this point of the classic Horse Silver Quintet with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw. This album has been just hidden for the last 50 years, recorded live in Seattle and just out recently, Silver in Seattle. Check out Roger Drummond behind Woody Shaw and Joe Henderson. Is that ridiculous? Woody Shaw just is just hell of it there, and Roger is right with him. Right with him. Right with him. And that was, again, 50 years ago. And Roger, trust me, please trust me on this. Roger is playing as strong, if not even maybe better, wiser these days than even then. That is called No Smoke and a Horror Silver Composition from the Silver Quintet of 1965. The album Silver in Seattle, just released for the first time not long ago. Let's go to here to see some Ted Piltser celebrating the birthday of Ted Stillman this week. And most famous composition, a little blue set, from the album Peace Vibes, Ted Piltzinger. With Brad Good with the trumpet part on Toot Steelman's classic blue set from the album Peace Vibes. And here is the original, huh? Toot Steelman's 1961 hit recording of his original blue set. His best known instrument, truly a virtuoso, truly the virtuoso, consensus virtuoso on harmonica, but doing his guitar work and uh his trade trademark whistling there. To his landmark uh composition Blue Zette. Uh happy birthday to Toot Steelman. Toot Steelman. Toot's birthday is the very same birthday as Duke Ellington's birthday. Uh on this coming uh this coming Wednesday on the 29th. Toot Steelman. Uh the Belgian. He's not French. He's a Belgian, born in Brussels in uh 2000 in 1922. He would have been 144, right? 104 this Wednesday. Let's do one for uh an Ohioan. They're talking about Harry Mills. Does that name sound familiar?

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And it's the never gold. It's not your voice.

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The eldest of the Mills brothers.

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I'm through with all of them. I'll never fall against the world.

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The Mills brothers, the four brothers from Piquia, Ohio. What a hit they made. They had probably the longest string, the most uh charted hits, I think, in what, four decades or five decades? From the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, into 1968's uh, what was it? Cab driver, right? Their la last hit in 1968. Anyway, not only was Harry Mills the vocalist there, and he was the guy who did the kind of the the trumpet trombone sort of sound effect with the with the quartet as they were singing, but he was also one of the first African American radio hosts on Network Radio as well. Uh celebrating the birthday of the late uh Harry Mills. Let's do another vocal before we check into one last birthday for the hour. This is the great Big Maybell, her classic call her a one-hit wonder if you will.

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Candy!

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Oh my yes. Oh my yes.

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Why I call my sugar candy. And candy, he sweet on the stands.

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This was not her only claim to fame. She actually toured with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm in years prior to that. And that record, that that classic recording just put chills on my arms, man, just listening to that once again. Maybe you too, huh? Wow. Anyway, that record now in the Grammy Hall of Fame, not surprisingly, for sure. And of course, we have to wrap up this hour with the birthday of the great maestro, Duke Ellington, of course, from a 1954 recording with the Duke on piano and the orchestra on the C Jam Blues. Until 1958-59. Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee, a Pilitzer Prize. Posthumous awardee as well. Consensus, maybe the most maybe the most accomplished jazz musician and the most influential jazz musician, maybe. Always an argument whether it's he or Louis Armstrong, certainly in American music history. The great Duke Ellington. Heard here along featuring his great altoist Johnny Hodges from 1954 as well, his prelude.

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Ellington, Mr. Hodges together featured on Prelude to a Kiss. The Duke, born appropriately in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1899. And not just a band leader, orchestrator, composer, Nan Peril, but also a pretty marvelous pianist. Heard here with Jimmy Plattman, together for the 1940s Duos album, a little election piece called Pitter, Panther, Patterson. Not often played, not often heard. But the Titter, Panther, Patter, the Duke having some musical fun, along with bassist Jimmy Blanton from 1940 there. And wrapping up our number one with an Ellington, another Ellington classic, this time Ellington as a senior. This is an elder, Duke Ellington from 1983, with some impressive jazz elders, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Louis Belson, everything but you. Capping off this April Jazz Appreciation Month. Our number two just around the corner, including the Jazz Week chart and a look at jazz festivals in just a moment or so. Stay with us, my friends.