The New Jazz Archive

Cool Jazz - S02E11

A laid back look at the world of cool jazz, the people who shaped it, and how their revolution helped spark a mid-century East coast/West Coast rivalry in jazz. We’ll talk with our jazz historian Lewis Porter about the birth of the “cool” aesthetic in jazz, listen to some of the champions of the cool sound, and get to know the cool, quirky and often unsung saxophonist who shaped the sound of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.   Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EYM7e77BKl_fTjk2oi7gdsJHxpOMWuHu/view?usp=drive_link]   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Lewis Porter, Doug Ramsey   Music * The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Unsquare Dance” * Chris Connor “Get Out of Town” * Gerry Mulligan Quartet “The Lady is a Tramp” * Miles Davis Nonet “Godchild” * Miles Davis Nonet “Venus de Milo” * Lester Young “These Foolish Things” * Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Frenesi”  * The Dave Brubeck Quartet “The Way You Look Tonight”  * Anita O'Day “My Heart Belongs To Daddy” * Chris Connor “I Get A Kick Out Of You” * Peggy Lee “Fever” * Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day” * Chris Connor “Moon Ray” * Miles Davis Nonet “Jeru” * Claude Thornhill “Robbin's Nest” * Miles Davis “Boplicity” * Miles Davis “Blues for Pablo”  * Miles Davis “Concierto de Aranjuez” * Miles Davis “Will O’ the Wisp” * Miles Davis and Gil Evans “Summertime”  * Miles Davis and Gil Evans “I Loves You, Porgy” * Gerry Mulligan Quartet “I'm Beginning to See the Light” * Dave Brubeck “I'm In a Dancing Mood” * Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Walkin’ Shoes * Art Pepper “Birks Works” * Chet Baker “That Old Feeling” * Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Let's Fall in Love” * Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Audrey” * Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” * The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Blue Rondo à la Turk” * The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five” * The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Three to Get Ready” * Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Jeepers Creepers”   Original Air Date: November 28, 2011   Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller Transcripts by Erik Saras   Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”   Visit our website [https://thenewjazzarchive.com/] and join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/thenewjazzarchive/] The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

Jazz and Food - S02E10

A musical feast dedicated to some of the best food themed jazz with stories and sounds from the kitchen at one of New York’s hottest clubs, and the favorite dishes of some of the biggest icons in jazz. We’ll listen to music from the undisputed king of food jazz, talk with John Colbert who owned the oldest continually operating jazz club in the world, and hear from Lorraine Gordon whose office is the kitchen at the Village Vanguard.   Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_ducb5azftWuMn9dpNhXuK4E9_lzzG5/view?usp=drive_link]   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Lorraine Gordon, John Colbert, Phil Murray   Music * Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “In the Kitchen” * Nina Simone “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl” * Nat King Cole Trio “The Frim Fram Sauce” * Louis Jordan “Hungry Man”  * Louis Jordan “Ration Blues” * Louis Jordan “Saturday Night Fish Fry” * Louis Jordan “Beans and Cornbread” * James Brown “Mother Popcorn” * Fats Waller “All That Meat And No Potatoes” * Fats Waller “Smashing Thirds” * Jimmy Smith “Mack the Knife” * James Carter “Sack Full of Dreams” * Shirley Horn “Peel Me A Grape” * Frank Zappa “Call Any Vegetable” * Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House” * Thelonious Monk “Tea for Two” * Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man” * Rosemary Clooney “Mangos” * The Andrews Sisters “Hold Tight” * Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster “Tangerine”   Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller Transcripts by Erik Saras   Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”   Visit our website [https://thenewjazzarchive.com/] and join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/thenewjazzarchive/]   The email address thenewjazzarchive@interlochen.org is no longer active. The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

Duke Ellington - S02E09

A celebration of the life and music of the legendary and prolific composer Duke Ellington, whose six decade long career created some of the most iconic music in American history. We'll explore the stories and songs behind his politically charged musicals, hear how international tours pushed him to infuse his music with Latin rhythms to Middle Eastern melodies, and learn more about Ellington’s unexpected comeback and his later years composing sacred suites. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.   Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SFZAyHWF95-IIfDnQOoBPXUGHSkG2Cph/view?usp=drive_link]   Content Warning: use of dated derogatory racial terms in some historical quotes   Host: Jeff Haas   Music * Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" * Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa” from Far East Suite * Duke Ellington and Alice Babs “Heaven” * Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag” * Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag” * Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Take the ‘A’ Train” * Duke Ellington “Prelude to a Kiss” * Medeski Martin & Wood “Caravan” * Duke Ellington “Conga Brava” * Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol “Caravan” * Duke Ellington “Amad” from Far East Suite * Duke Ellington “Single Petal Of A Rose” * Stevie Wonder “Sir Duke” * Duke Ellington “Retrospection” * Duke Ellington “Perdido” * Duke Ellington “Reflections in D” * Junko Onishi Quintet and Marcus Belgrave “Take the ‘A’ Train” * Duke Ellington “Chelsea Bridge” * Duke Ellington “Come Sunday” * Charles Mingus “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love” * Announcements from The Newport Jazz Festival * Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy” * Duke Ellington “Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue”   Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller Transcripts by Erik Saras   Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”   Visit our website [https://thenewjazzarchive.com/] and join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/thenewjazzarchive/]   The email address thenewjazzarchive@interlochen.org is no longer active. The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

Chet Baker - S02E08

A celebration of the brilliant and tumultuous life of Chet Baker from his unlikely breakthrough as one of the most popular trumpeters of the 1950s to the drug addiction which nearly unraveled his career. We’ll chat with Baker biographer James Gavin about Chet’s life and music, explore Chet’s surprising work as a jazz vocalist, and trace his role in bringing new life to one of jazz’s most treasured standards.   Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JAaF6WOX2i6zNE6XNgxwBkAEi_TdkkLk/view?usp=drive_link]   Content warnings: detailed descriptions of injury and drug addiction   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: James Gavin    Music * Chet Baker “Let’s Get Lost” * Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day” * Chet Baker “Isn’t It Romantic?” * Chet Baker “Sweet Lorraine” * Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Moon Love” * Chet Baker “Boudoir” * Chet Baker “Little Girl Blue” * Chet Baker “That Old Feeling” * Chet Baker “My Ideal” * Chet Baker “It’s Always You” * Chet Baker “Like Someone In Love” * Chet Baker “I Fall In Love Too Easily” * Chet Baker “There Will Never Be Another You” * Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Maid In Mexico” * Gerry Mulligan Quartet “My Funny Valentine” * Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine” * Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine (Live)” * Chet Baker “It Never Entered My Mind” * Chet Baker “Everything Happens to Me”   Original Air Date: March 31, 2012   Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller Transcripts by Erik Saras   Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”   Visit our website [https://thenewjazzarchive.com/] and join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/thenewjazzarchive/] The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

Jazz and Spirituality - S02E07

We delve into the shared history of jazz and spirituality with the spiritual side of sax titan John Coltrane, the gospel roots of jazz, and the sacred music of jazz icon Duke Ellington. We’ll also chat with a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band about the unique New Orleans spiritual tradition that is the jazz funeral.   Episode Transcript [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iZ0i1etjQRBVUHMe_ISyem0vGW790I9v/view?usp=drive_link]   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Leonard Brown, Emmett Price, Bill Sears, Roger Lewis   Music * John Coltrane “Slowtrane” * Johnny Griffin Orchestra “Wade in the Water” * John Zorn’s “Eitan” * Anthony Butler “My God Is a Mighty Man” * Andrew Dorsey “If You See My Savior” * Andrew Dorsey “Peace In The Valley” * Louis Armstrong “When The Saints Go Marching In” * Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers “Moanin’” * Aretha Franklin “Save Me” * Jimmy Smith “The Sermon” * Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers “Peace In The Valley” * Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” * Duke Ellington “Come Sunday” * Duke Ellington “In The Beginning” * Duke Ellington “Heaven” * Duke Ellington “Is God A Three-Letter-Word For Love?”  * Duke Ellington “Every Man Prays In His Own Language”  * Charlie Haden “Go Down, Moses” * John Coltrane “The Damned Don’t Cry” * John Coltrane “Song Of The Underground Railroad” * John Coltrane “Spiritual” * John Coltrane “Crescent” * John Coltrane “Part I - Acknowledgement” * John Coltrane “Song of Praise” * Alice Coltrane “Shiva-Loka” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Amazing Grace” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “I Shall Not Be Moved” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “What A Friend We Have In Jesus” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “John The Revelator” * Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus”   Original Air Date: December 4, 2011   Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller Transcripts by Erik Saras   Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”   Visit our website [https://thenewjazzarchive.com/] and join us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/thenewjazzarchive/] The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.