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Cubana Be, Cubana Bop - Play Misty for Me

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
June 25, 2024
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This week, we start things off with some Afro-Cuban sounds from Bud Powell, Zaccai Curtis and Dizzy Gillespie. Next, a celebration of the birth of pianist Erroll Garner who would have been 103 today. Large band orchestral works from Toshiko Akiyoshi, Jihye Lee and Count Basie will follow before we check out some African sounds from Nduduzo Makhathini and Randy Weston. A set of recordings featuring bassist Reggie Workman will be the next feature, including a date recorded on this day at Philadelphia's Painted Bride Art Center. The show will wrap up playing some Misty for you. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, new, in, out... wherever the music takes us. Each week, we will explore the elements of jazz from a historical perspective.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk

piano
1917 - 1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:30

Bud Powell

piano
1924 - 1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Bud Powell "Un Poco Loco" from The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note) 02:30

Zaccai Curtis

piano
b.1981

" data-original-title="" title="">Zaccai Curtis "Cuban Fantasy" from Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) 07:02

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie "Cubana Be" from The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird) 11:51

Dizzy Gillespie

trumpet
1917 - 1993

" data-original-title="" title="">Dizzy Gillespie "Cubana Bop" from The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird) 14:39

Erroll Garner

piano
1921 - 1977

" data-original-title="" title="">Erroll Garner "Mambo Garner" from Mambo Moves (Mercury Records) 18:20

Erroll Garner

piano
1921 - 1977

" data-original-title="" title="">Erroll Garner "Paris Mist (Bossa Nova)" from A New Kind of Love (Mercury Records) 24:53

Erroll Garner

piano
1921 - 1977

" data-original-title="" title="">Erroll Garner "The Loving Touch" from Feeling is Believing (Mercury Records) 28:48

Jessica Williams

piano
1948 - 2022

" data-original-title="" title="">Jessica Williams "Toshiko" from All Alone (MaxJazz) 45:29

Toshiko Akiyoshi

piano
b.1929

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

Lew Tabackin

saxophone, tenor
b.1940

" data-original-title="" title="">Lew Tabackin Big Band "Kogun" from ROAD TIME (RCA) 39:21

Jihye Lee

composer / conductor

" data-original-title="" title="">Jihye Lee Orchestra "You are My Universe" from Infinite Connections (Mot��ma) 51:01

Count Basie

piano
1904 - 1984

" data-original-title="" title="">Count Basie and his Orchestra "Bundle O'Funk" from Prime Time (Pablo) 0:58:33

Eyal Vilner

saxophone

" data-original-title="" title="">Eyal Vilner Big Band "Is You Is or Is You Ain't" from Swingin' Uptown (Self Released) 1:03:49

Nduduzo Makhathini

keyboards
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Nduduzo Makhathini "KwaKhangelamankengana" from uNomkhubulwane (Blue Note) 1:09:15

Randy Weston

piano
1926 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Randy Weston "Niger Mambo" from African Cookbook (Atlantic) 1:15:42

Reggie Workman

bass
b.1937

" data-original-title="" title="">Reggie Workman Ensemble "Martyrs Hymn" from Synthesis (Leo Records) 1:22:01

Freddie Hubbard

trumpet
1938 - 2008

" data-original-title="" title="">Freddie Hubbard "You're My Everything" from Hub-Tones (Blue Note) 1:27:57

David Murray

saxophone, tenor
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">David Murray Quartet "Jitterbug Waltz" from Morning Song (Black Saint) 1:34:30

Rufus Reid

bass, acoustic
b.1944

" data-original-title="" title="">Rufus Reid,

Sullivan Fortner

piano
b.1986

" data-original-title="" title="">Sullivan Fortner "I Can't Explain" from It's The Nights I Like (Sunnyside Records) 1:53:52

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