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Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 3
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In our final look into the basketball & jazz interconnectedness, we focus on several jazz, or funk-jazz soundtracks for movies dedicated to the game, on jazz musicians with a basketball career like
Cab Calloway
composer / conductor1907 - 1994
Wayman Tisdale
bass, electric1964 - 2009
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Playlist
" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00Ben Allison
bass, acoustic
b.1966- Leonhart Brass Band "Shammgod" Shammgod—Single (Mighty Eye Records/Fat Beats) 0:16
- Host talks 3:49
- The Rongetz Foundation "Bulgarian Basketball" Broken Doll Beat (Heavenly Sweetness) 6:42
- Host talks 13:27
" data-original-title="" title="">Billy Preston,Billy Preston
keyboards" data-original-title="" title="">Syreeta Thompson "Welcome to Cadwallader" Fast Break (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Motown) 16:10Syreeta Thompson
trumpet
" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Sidran,Ben Sidran
piano and vocals
b.1943
" data-original-title="" title="">Mavis Staples, Pop Staples "The Tide (Keeps Lifting Me)" Hoop Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Go Jazz) 19:52Mavis Staples
vocals
b.1939- " data-original-title="" title="">The Blackbyrds "The One-Eye Two-Step" Cornbread Earl and Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Fantasy) 23:56
" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell "Coffaro's Theme" Finding Forrester (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Columbia) 27:08Bill Frisell
guitar, electric
b.1951- Host talks 31:32
" data-original-title="" title="">Eddie Harris "1974 Blues" Greater Than the Sums of His Parts (32 Jazz) 34:08Eddie Harris
saxophone, tenor
1934 - 1996- " data-original-title="" title="">Cab Calloway "Minnie the Moocher" The Blues Brothers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Atlantic) 38:34
Cab Calloway
composer / conductor
1907 - 1994 - Host talks 41:55
- " data-original-title="" title="">Wayman Tisdale "Power Forward" Power Forward (Motown) 44:37
Wayman Tisdale
bass, electric
1964 - 2009 - Jeff Beal, Robert Glasper "Larry Bird" The Winning Time Sessions: Season 2 (HBO? Original Series Soundtrack) (WaterTower Music) 49:03
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