8 Jun 2024

Rainbow Jazz

From Inside Out, 5:01 pm on 8 June 2024
Curving waves of light in the colours of the rainbow

Photo: PublicDomainPictures.net

 

Nick takes a look at some of the leading lights of jazz's rainbow community, including drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Bill Stewart, singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, pianists Fred Hersch and Billy Tipton, and NZ's own Eilish Wilson.

 

 

MUSIC DETAILS: 

1 Ma Rainey Prove It On Me Blues Rainey Bitter Sweet Blues Alligator 02:54
2 Bessie Smith Preachin the Blues Smith Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Volums 3 Columbia 02:52
3 Billy Tipton Perdido Tizol Sweet Georgia Brown Calle mayor 02:50
4 Duke Ellington Take the A Train Strayhorn Duke Ellington: At Newport 1956 [Complete] Columbia 04:23
5 Bill Stewart 7.5 Stewart Snide Remarks Blue Note 03:21
6 Fred Hersch So In Love Porter Dancing in the Dark Chesky 05:37
7 Gary Burton The Chief Metheny Reunion GRP 04:18
8 Patricia Barber Easy to Love Porter The Cole Porter Mix Blue Note 03:36
9 Terri Lynne Carrington Very Special Ellington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Concord 04:11
10 CalArts Jazz (ft Eilish Wilson) Never Unless Takoda Calarts Jazz 2022 Calarts 03:44
11 Andy Bey Lonely Town Bernstein / Comden / Green American Song Savoy 03:37
12 Dave Koz Wake Up Call Koz Off the Beaten Path Capitol 03:00

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