12/21/07

Jimmy Witherspoon, "When The Lights Go Out" - Jazz Me Blues

Count Basie, "Little White Lies" - Chronological Classics 1950-1951 (#1228)

JS Bach, "Third Movement, Brandenburg Concerto Number 2, Leipzig" - SOURCE FORTHCOMING
(a better example is JS Bach, "Brandenburg Concerto No 2, in F - allegro" - Murmurs of Earth : The Voyager Golden Record (Disc 1))

Kid Ory, "Ory's Creole Trombone" - 1944/1945 (Fantasy / Good Time)
(a better example is Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory, "Muskrat Ramble" - Ory's Creole Trombone (ASV / Living Era).  Could there be a correlation?  Just maybe...)

Sidney Bechet, "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" - The Fabulous Sidney Bechet (Blue Note 30607)
We open with bass, drums, and piano; then the trumpet (Jonah Jones) comes in, but the piano keeps the same melody; then the soprano sax (Sidney Bechet) enters, and both piano and trumpet keep THEIR melodies (well, except for the improvisation)... and then the trombone comes in.  It makes my brain explode if I try to hold it all at once.

Dorsey Brothers, "Dippermouth Blues" - Best of the Big Bands (Intersound, Disc 2)
A near-repetition of the version by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, this has all the complexity right from the start.

Charlie Parker, "Summertime" - The Ultimate Charlie Parker
(also Dave Shepard's solo on Teddy Wilson, "St James Infirmary" - Runnin' Wild (Black Lion); as it progresses it gets further from the original melody, and becomes built more on the chords)

Sam Cooke, "Talkin' Trash" - The Man Who Invented Soul (Disc 3)

Ray Brown, "Night Train" - Don't Forget The Blues