Jazz On The Beach 86 & Blues Beach 25
This week's radio shows
For the second week running the Jazz On The Beach playlist opens with a track from trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Jodo is from Blue Spirits, his final studio album for Blue Note that was released in 1967 and is now reissued on the label’s excellent sounding and presented Tone Poet series. Hubbard’s playing is sensational and so’s his band - tenor and alto saxophonists Hank Mobley and James Spaulding, pianist McCoy Tyner, double bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Pete LaRoca and euphonium player Kiane Zawadi.
There’s a live 22 minute version of Jodo on the Night Of The Cookers album from Club La Marchal recorded in April 1965, less than two months after the studio recording. It’s a fierce blowing session with Hubbard and fellow trumpeter Lee Morgan squaring off on the bandstand in the tiny Brooklyn club - real blood on the walls stuff! I’ll play it on a special JOTB featuring only long tracks sometime soon.
Also this week you’ll hear new music from Pat Metheny’s Dream Box album, fast rising young Tomorrow’s Warriors quartet Oreglo, jazz re:freshed’s exciting band Golden Mean, hard swinging New York trombonist Robert Edwards and Coolsville’s own Rickie Lee Jones with a great version of On The Sunny Side Of The Street. From the stacks of wax there’s Cannonball Adderley’s Work Song, Bill Evans’ You Must Believe In Spring and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis’ Afro Jaws, while from the more recent (and digital) past, there’s trumpeter Ron Miles’ I Am A Man and Nautilus featuring Kei Owada’s version of Gil Scott-Heron’s Lady Day And John Coltrane.
There was another opportunity to play Sultan Stevenson’s Summer Was Our Holy Place from his recent Faithful One and Binker Golding’s My Two Dads from his Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy album, the co-winner of JOTB’s album of 2022. I reviewed both albums for London Jazz News on their release - Sultan’s is here and Binker’s here.
This week Blues Beach celebrates with the Kings: Freddie, B.B. and Albert. You’ll also hear blues royalty John Lee Hooker, Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Albert Collins, John Primer, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan and two of my blues guitar heroes, Bobby Radcliff and Charlie Baty from Little Charlie and the Nightcats. Check out Peter Green’s guitar tone and phrasing on If You Be My Baby, maybe the closest he ever sounded to both Freddie and B.B. on one song.
Radio Times
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