Happy Belated Birthdays, Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson!

“Wee Dot” from A Night At Birdland

Clifford Brown (trumpet), Lou Donaldson (alto sax), Horace Silver (piano), Curly Russell (bass), Art Blakey (drums) / recorded 1954 for Blue Note Records

Clifford Brown born Oct 30th; Lou Donaldson born Nov 1st.

Bop and Beyond’s 50 Personally Indispensable Jazz Albums:

Monty challenged me to come up with my own list of 50 personally indispensable jazz albums in response to the Amazon 100 list.

The criteria was simple, name the 50 jazz albums I personally could not live without. That’s it… a list of favorite albums (not necessarily the greatest albums either). Anyone who has followed this site knows my taste so most of these albums won’t come as much of a surprise anyway.

Monty’s list is posted here: http://rightheredude.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-top-50-jazz-albums-of-all-time.html

In the meantime, here’s mine…

01. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

02. Duke Ellington – Money Jungle

03. Clifford Brown & Max Roach – A Study In Brown

04. Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream

05. Billie Holiday – Lady Day: The Master Takes

06. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit

07. Coleman Hawkins – Body and Soul

08. Ornette Coleman – At The Golden Circle

09. Miles Davis – In A Silent Way

10. Peggy Lee – Black Coffee

11. John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound

12. Alice Coltrane – Ptah, the El Daoud

13. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Like Someone In Love

14. Ahmad Jamal – The Legendary Okeh and Epic Recordings

15. Curtis Amy – Katanga!

16. Von Freeman – The Great Divide

17. Mary Lou Williams – Black Christ of the Andes

18. Paul Chambers – Bass on Top

19. Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda

20. Charlie Rouse – Bossa Nova Bacchanal

21. Thelonious Monk – Misterioso

22. Booker Ervin – The Freedom Book

23. Ike Quebec – Blue and Sentimental

24. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus

25. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

26. Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud (Lift to the Scaffold)

27. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Au Club St. Germain

28. Duke Ellington – Fargo, 1940

29. Coleman Hawkins – Night Hawk

30. Mal Waldron – The Seagulls of Kristiansund

31. Herbie Nichols – Love, Gloom, Cash, Love

32. Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack

33. Pharoah Sanders – Jewels of Thought

34. The Jazz Crusaders – Freedom Sound

35. Django Reinhardt – Paris and London

36. Dexter Gordon – Our Man In Paris

37. Andrew Hill – Smokestack

38. Stanley Turrentine – Jubilee Shout!!!

39. Don Byas – Laura

40. Clifford Brown – With Strings

41. Grachan Moncur III – Evolution

42. Earl Hines – Once Upon A Time

43. Horace Parlan – Speakin’ My Piece

44. Lou Blackburn – The Complete Imperial Sessions

45. Sonny Rollins – East Broadway Run Down

46. Carmell Jones – Jay Hawk Talk

47. The Curtis Counce Group – Carl’s Blues

48. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Free For All

49. Paul Gonsalves – Boom Jackie Boom Chick

50. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue

Download Last Week’s Broadcast: April In Paris!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MJTB3R6R

April In Paris: The Music of Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt, and more…

This Friday, 04/10/09, Bop and Beyond celebrates “April In Paris” with two hours of Parisian inspired jazz. From Don Byas to Django Reinhardt, we’ll cover the sounds of a Paris spring– with a special focus on the man who provided its main rhythm and flow: Kenny “Klook” Clarke.

Kenny Clarke lends his powerful drumming to three feature sessions: the Nathan Davis Quintet’s exquisite The Hip Walk, Dexter Gordon’s legendary summit with Bud Powell entitled Our Man In Paris, and the Miles Davis classic film score Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud.

We’ll also be hearing music from the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, Von Freeman, Coleman Hawkins, and more.

So please join me this Friday, April 10th, 2009 at 6pm on WSVA Radio for a two hour celebration of Jazz in Paris!

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(Please note that a download of this program will be available within a week of its initial broadcast date.)

Happy Birthday, Clifford Brown!

He’s been dead 52 years. He would’ve been 78 today. Still such a sad, profound loss.

WKCR is doing 24hrs of Clifford Brown in celebration:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

Updated: Here’s a link to an excellent Washington Post article on the 50th anniversary of Clifford’s passing…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062500962.html?nav=rss_print/style