Cantelope Island / Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard
John Fedchock New York Big Band
at the New Trier Jazz Festival
New Trier High School - Winnetka, IL
February 2, 2002
“CARAVAN” (Ellington/Tizol)
arr. by John Fedchock
Soloists: John Fedchock - trombone, Rick Margitza - tenor sax.
Jazz Violin: Stephane Grappelli 1961 Makin’ Whoopee
Jazz at Studio 4 - 12/09/1961
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959. Production was handled entirely by Teo Macero and Irving Townsend. The sessions featured Davis’s ensemble sextet, which consisted of pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley. After the inclusion of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones (1958) and 1958 Miles (1958) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.
Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been cited by many music writers not only as Davis’s best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece, and it has been ranked at or near the top of several “best album” lists in disparate genres. The album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. In 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2008, a box set release of Kind of Blue was issued by Legacy Records in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary.
Song for My Father is a 1964 album by the Horace Silver Quintet, released on the Blue Note label. The album was inspired by a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver’s father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title song was dedicated.
“My mother was of Irish and Negro descent, my father of Portuguese origin. He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands” (Horace Silver, quoted in Leonard Feather’s original liner notes)
A jazz standard, “Song for My Father” is here in its original form. It is a Bossa Nova in F-minor with an AAB head. On the head, a trumpet and tenor saxophone play in harmony. The song has had a noticeable impact in pop music. The opening bass piano notes were borrowed by Steely Dan for their song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”, while the opening horn riff was borrowed by Stevie Wonder for his song “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing”.
Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey praised the album:
“One of Blue Note’s greatest mainstream hard bop dates, “Song for My Father” is Horace Silver’s signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics…it hangs together remarkably well, and Silver’s writing is at his tightest and catchiest.”
Tonight! Tuesday, 9-29-2009 5-9pm
Blue Note Records Celebrates 70 Years Of Jazz
If you’re into jazz at all, some of your favorite albums were probably issued by Blue Note Records. Aficionados celebrate the label for putting out some of the definitive recordings in jazz history, spanning from before bebop to the present day. Even the cover art, with its Francis Wolff photography, elegant design and sleek typesetting, has become iconic in jazz lore.
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Jim Hall & Attila Zoller - Blues In The Closet [1973] (Oscar Pettiford)
92nd NDR Jazzworkshop, Hannover, Germany, September 14th 1973 Jim Hall - Guitar Attila Zoller - Guitar Red Mitchell - Bass Daniel Humair - Drums
Bag’s Groove
Live at Mt.Fuji Jazz Fes with Blue Note 1986,Milt Jackson :vib, Ceder Walton :p, Billy Higgins :ds, Buster Williams :b
Tenor Madness / Sonny Rollins
Count Basie (feat. Lockjaw Davis) Whirly Bird
