One Night at the 1369 Jazz Club

On October 3, 1985, I brought my Walkman into the 1369 in Inman Sq., Cambridge and recorded singer/pianist Bob Dorough, trombonist Roswell Rudd (who also sings here), Beaver Harris on drums and another singer and bass player. Their identities are announced at about 55" but I can't decipher them. Maybe someone else can-or knows who they are.

During the course of the evening, unspeakable acts are performed by these musicians.

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Autumn Jazz Songs

These songs are suffused with an introspective, melancholy and somewhat rueful quality that distinguishes them from the music of other seasons. This made for one of the most chill DuPlex Mystery Jazz hours.

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PLAYLIST

Chet Baker and Paul Desmond "Autumn Leaves" from "She Was Too Good to Me" (1974) on CTI

Dinah Washington "September in the Rain" from "September in the Rain"  (1960) on Mercury

Woody Herman & His Orchestra "Early Autumn" from "Early Autumn" (1948) on Capital

Double Six of Paris "Early Autumn" from "Swingin' Singin'" (1962) on Philips

Bob Dorough "Tis Autumn" from "Just About Everything" (1966) on Inner city

Art Farmer "Autumn Nocturne" from "Art Farmer Plays" (1955) on Prestige

Charlie Mariano "Autumn in New York" from "New Sounds from Boston" (1951) on Prestige

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman "Autumn Serenade" from "John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman" (1963) on Impulse

Django Reinhart & Hunert Rostaing "September Song" (1947) on Classics

Paul Bley "Autumn Breeze" from "Paul Bley" (1954) on Emarcy

Kenny Drew Trio "Autumn in Rome" from "Kenny Drew Trio" (2013) on Afterbeat

Yves Montand "Les Feuilles Mortes " from "Récital au Théâtre de L'Etoile" (1954) on Odeon

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "Autumn in New York" from "Ella and Louis" (1957) on Verve

Chill Vocals, Pt. 2

My personal response to global warming; as heard on my show, the Duplex Mystery Jazz Hour, Thursday, July 3, 2014 on WZBC, 90.3, WZBC.ORG.

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Playlist:

Mark Murphy "On the Red Clay" (Jazz, 1975) on muse 

Count Basie "Whirlybird" from "At Birdland" (Jazz, 1960) on Emus  

June Christy "Something Cool"(Jazz, 1953) on Blue Note 

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra "Take the A Train" (Jazz, 1952) on Columbia 

Ella Fitzgerald "My Reverie" (Jazz, 1960) on Verve 

Chet Baker "Line for Lyons" (Jazz, 1956) on World Pacific 

Jack Teagarden "Don't Tell a Man About His Woman" from "Essential Jazz Vocals" (Jazz) on Verve 

Lee Wiley & Bobby Hackett "STREET of DREAMS" (Jazz, 1950) on Columbia 

Billy Eckstein "Caravan" (Jazz, 1949) on Verve 

Bob Dorough "Something for Sydney" (Jazz, 1997) on Blue Note 

Peggy Lee "That's the Way it Goes" (Jazz, 1941) on Columbia 

Louis Armstrong "Mack the Knife" (Jazz, 1955) on Columbia 

Billie Holliday "Fine And Mellow" (Jazz, 1939) on Commodore

King Pleasure "Golden Days" (Jazz, 1960) on Prestige 

Blossom Dearie "Surrey With The Fringe On The Top" (Jazz, 1958) on Verve 

Mel Torme and the MelTones "Hit the Road to Dreamland" (Jazz, 1959) on Verve 

Joe Williams "Hey Bartender" (Jazz, 1951) on Columbia 

Ella Fitzgerald "Blues in the Night" (Jazz, 1961) on Verve 

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross "Charleston Alley" (Jazz, 1959) on Columbia 

Mose Allison "Ever Since the World Ended" Jazz, 1997) on Blue Note 

Betty Carter "Some Other Time" (Jazz, 1993) on Capital Jazz 

Kurt Elling "Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig?" (Jazz, 2009) on Concord 

Vanessa Rubin "Black Coffee" (Jazz, 1995) on novus 

Mark Murphy "Canteloupe Island" (Jazz, 1960) on muse 

Chris Connor "Blue Silhouette" (Jazz, 1954) on Bethlehem 

Joe Williams "Who She Do" (Jazz, 1983) on Delos 

Jazz and Poetry Show

Poets like Pound, Cummings and Eliot began experimenting with form, rhythm and meter in the 1920's. At the same time, poetic practitioners in the Harlem Renaissance opened up to the influence of jazz. Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes in 1925 was both an imitation of the music and a description of the environment where one watched and listened to the music. In a broad sense, it tried to bring a sense of improvisation to the poetry.

Jazz and poetry hunkered down for a while but re-energized with the coming of the Beats in the 1950's, which is the era wherein most of my playlist derives. Practitioners from that era are scarce, but the tradition maintains itself. There are also later experiments, using electronics and recording techniques, a couple of examples which I include.

Here's the Show.

Here's the Playlist:

Langston Hughes "Weary Blues" 1958 

Bob Dorough "Night and Morn" from "Jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific 

Bob Dorough "Daybreak in Alabama" from "Jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific 

Jack Kerouac "Blues and Haikus" (Jazz, 1959) on EMI 

Mark Murphy "Parker's Mood" from "Bop for Kerouac" (Jazz, 1981) on muse 

Christopher Logue "Red Bird" from "Red Bird" (Jazz, 1959) on Parlophone 

Kenneth Patchen "As I Opened The WIndow" (Jazz, 1959) on Folkways 

Bob Dorough "Dog" from "Jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific 

John Carradine "Poets to Come" from "Jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific 

Ben Wright "Sullen Art" from "jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific

Ben Wright "Lament" from "jazz Canto" (Jazz, 1958) on World Pacific 

United Future Organization "Poetry And All That Jazz" from "UNITED FUTURE ORGANIZATION" (Jazz, 1993) on Talkin' Loud 

 Mark Murphy "Kool Down" from "Tenth and Parker" (Jazz, 2000)