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Big Ears for Big Sounds

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
September 13, 2022
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This week, I've had big ears for some big sounds. And now you can too.

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Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30

Stan Kenton

piano
1911 - 1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Stan Kenton "Prollouge" from Kenton's West Side Story (Capital Records) 02:00

Don Ellis

trumpet
1934 - 1978

" data-original-title="" title="">Don Ellis Orchestra "Turkish Bath" from Electric Bath (Columbia) 06:05

Chick Webb

drums
1905 - 1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Chick Webb and his Orchestra "Heebie Jeebies" from Jammin' for the Jackpot: Big Bands and Territory Bands of the 30s (New World Records) 16:33

Yu Nishiyama "Honorary Whites" from A Lotus in the Mud (Outside in Music) 20:13

Toshiko Akiyoshi

piano
b.1929

" data-original-title="" title="">Toshiko Akiyoshi—

Lew Tabackin

saxophone, tenor
b.1940

" data-original-title="" title="">Lew Tabackin "Notorious Tourist from the East" from Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi—Lew Tabackin Big Band (Mosaic) 26:26

Duke Ellington

piano
1899 - 1974

" data-original-title="" title="">Duke Ellington "Reminiscing in Tempo" from Creole Rhapsody—Duke Ellington In The Thirties (Living Era) 34:01

George Russell

composer / conductor
1923 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">George Russell & The Living Time Orchestra "So What" from So What (Blue Note) 34:01

Anthony Braxton

woodwinds
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">Anthony Braxton "22-M (Opus 58)" from Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista) 34:01

Anna Webber

saxophone, tenor
b.1984

" data-original-title="" title="">Anna Webber,

Angela Morris

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Angela Morris Big band "Climbing on Mirrors" from Both Are True (Greenleaf Music) 1:02:16

McCoy Tyner

piano
1938 - 2020

" data-original-title="" title="">McCoy Tyner "Fly with the Wind" from Fly with the Wind (Milestone Records) 1:13:01

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra "Blues" from Gillespiana (Verve Records) 1:11:01

Tata Vasques and His Orchestra "El Loco" from Ecstasy (Jazz Room Records) 1:34:11

Manuel Valera

piano
b.1980

" data-original-title="" title="">Manuel Valera New Cuban Express Big Band "Distancia" from Distancia (Greenleaf Music) 1:39:07

Sam Rivers

saxophone, tenor
1923 - 2011

" data-original-title="" title="">Sam Rivers & the Rivbea Orchestra "Crux" from Mosaic Select: Trilogy (Moasic Records) 1:48:57

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