The New Jazz Archive

E20 Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is the label synonymous with the best in jazz since 1939, and from its unique mystique around its sound and up and down history, we’ll learn how Blue Note is still relevant to jazz and non-jazz fans today. We’ll talk with veteran Blue Note man Michael Cuscuna about the label’s humble beginnings in a New York apartment, the rise of the so-called Blue Note sound in the 1950s, how commercial success ironically led to Blue Note’s undoing in the 1960s, and explore how the photography of Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff shaped the Blue Note mystique. 
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Michael Cuscuna, Ben Cawthra
 
Music
Jackie McLean “Blue Condition”
John Coltrane “Blue Train”
Albert Ammons “Bass Goin’ Crazy”
Ike Quebec “A Light Reprieve”
Ike Quebec “Blue Monday”
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Nica’s Dream”
Thelonious Monk “'Round Midnight”
Horace Silver “Song For My Father”
Horace Silver “Sanctimonious Sam”
Milt Jackson “Lily”
Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil”
Lee Morgan “The Sidewinder”
Norah Jones “Chasing Pirates”
Lionel Loueke “Ami O”
Stanley Turrentine “Blues for Del”
 
Original Air Date: April 17, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E19 Halloween

We celebrate Halloween by exploring jazz’s spooky side with plenty of the best scary music and mysterious legends surrounding some unlucky jazzers. We’ll talk with mystery writer Bill Moody about the real-life jazz mysteries that inspire his novels, visit the cemetery in the Bronx that’s become the final resting place for an A-list of bygone jazz legends, and hear the myth and truth behind bluesman Robert Johnson’s notorious deal with the devil.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Bill Moody, Susan Olsen, Lou Blouin
 
Music
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Halloween Spooks”
Jelly Roll Morton “Dead Man’s Blues”
Nellie McKay “Zombie”
Robert Johnson “Me and the Devil Blues”
Robert Johnson “If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day”
Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues”
Robert Johnson “Hellhound on My Trail”
Louis Armstrong “Skeleton in the Closet”
Nina Simone “I Put A Spell On You”
Screamin Jay Hawkins “Whistling Past the Graveyard”
Miles Davis “All Blues”
Miles Davis “Solar”
Duke Ellington “Black Beauty (Portrait of Flo Mills)” 
Lionel Hampton “Flying Home”
Squirrel Nut Zippers “Ghost of Stephen Foster”
Otis Redding “Trick Or Treat”
Mel Tormé “The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)”
Philly Joe Jones “Blues for Dracula”
The Creed Taylor Orchestra “in Bedlam”
Albert Ayler “Witches and Devils”
Wayne Shorter “Dance Cadaverous” 
Hoyt Curtin “Battle of the Planets Sneak-up / Battle of the Planets Bad Guys Vs. Good Guys”
Raymond Scott “New Years Eve In a Haunted House”
Raymond Scott “Power House”
Kay Starr “Headless Horseman”
Chet Baker “Old Devil Moon”
Chet Baker “Witchcraft”
Bill Evans “Witchcraft” 
Chet Baker “Soft Winds” 
Thelonious Monk “Misterioso
Duke Ellington “Night Creature (Second Movement): Stalking Monster”
 
Original Air Date: October 22, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E18 Jazz and Psychology

The fascinating intersection of jazz and psychology with an insiders’ look at the world of music therapy, and examining how jazz in particular is well suited to helping non-musicians reach their real life recovery goals. We’ll talk with jazz pianist Kenny Werner about how his self-styled, self-help manifesto for musical breakthroughs became a must-read for musicians of all stripes, chat with psychologist Judith Schlesinger about her new book that’s finally putting the long-taken-for-granted link between insanity and creativity through its intellectual paces, and get an insiders’ look at the world of music therapy with Dr. Kenneth Aigen of Temple University.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Kenny Werner, Judith Schlesinger, Kenneth Aigen
 
Music
Duke Ellington “Blues In Blueprint”
Duke Ellington “The Swingers Get the Blues, Too”
Ella Fitzgerald “Mood Indigo”
Diana Krall “Crazy”
Joni Mitchell “Twisted” 
Thelonious Monk “Rhythm-A-Ning”
Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
Charlie Parker “Relaxin’ at Camarillo”
Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”
Kenny Werner “New Amsterdam”
 
Original Air Date: April 28, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E17 Big Bands

From 1930s dance culture sparking the big band revolution, through the politics of race shaping the music, it’s the rise, fall, and legacy of the big bands. We’ll talk with music historian Jeffery Magee about the rich history of big bands, discover why the big band sound is still finding a home in communities across America well past the heyday of swing, and go in search of music from the more experimental side of the big band sound.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Jeffery Magee, Tom Cunniffe, Mike Hunter, Zach Cody
 
Music
Count Basie “Boogie Woogie”
Duke Ellington “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”
Jimmy Smith  and Lalo Schifrin “The Cat”
Duke Ellington “Rockin’ In Rhythm”
Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy”
Artie Shaw “The Continental”
Billy Eckstine “Oop Bop Sh' Bam”
Tito Puente “Rumba on the Patio” 
Duke Ellington “Jungle Nights in Harlem”
Duke Ellington “Blues in Orbit”
Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
Benny Goodman “Blue Skies”
Count Basie “Tickle Toe”
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Tickle Toe”
Harry Roy “The Man From Harlem”
Boyd Raeburn “Body and Soul”
Sun Ra “Space is the Place”
Duke Ellington “Creole Rhapsody”
Duke Ellington “The Telecasters”
Duke Ellington “Blue Pepper”
Stan Kenton “Egdon Heath”
Toshiko Akiyoshi “Kogun”
Duke Ellington “Amad”
Charles Mingues “Solo Dancer”
Duke Ellington “Ain't Misbehavin’”
Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
The Masters of Music Big Band “Fly Me to the Moon”
Count Basie “Lil’ Darlin’”
Erskine Hopkins “Tuxedo Junction”
 
Original Air Date: July 8, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E16 John Coltrane

A celebration of the life and music of John Coltrane from his early roots growing up in rural North Carolina through his redemption and transformation from heroin addict to spiritual icon. We’ll talk with our jazz historian and renowned Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter about Trane’s early roots and get to know the softer side of John Coltrane the balladeer, retell John Coltrane’s redemption story, and sit down for a conversation with Ravi Coltrane about how his father’s music unexpectedly inspired him to carry on the family legacy.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Content warnings: in-depth discussion of heroin addiction, recovery, and death.
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Lewis Porter, Ravi Coltrane
 
Music
John Coltrane “Slowtrane”
John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Pt. II - Resolution”
John Coltrane “My Favorite Things”
John Coltrane “Everytime We Say Goodbye”
John Coltrane “While My Lady Sleeps”
John Coltrane “Impressions”
John Coltrane “Up 'Gainst the Wall”
John Coltrane “Say it (Over and Over Again)”
John Coltrane “Peace on Earth”
John Coltrane “Chronic Blues”
John Coltrane “Blue Train”
Miles Davis “All Blues”
John Coltrane “Giant Steps”
John Coltrane “Naima”
John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Part IV: Psalm”
John Coltrane “Mr. Syms”
John Coltrane “Lonnie's Lament”
John Coltrane “After the Rain”
Alice Coltrane and Ravi Coltrane “Crescent”
 
Original Air Date: January 16, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E15 Jazz Abroad

Stories and sounds from jazz’s history overseas from the U.S. State Department using jazz as a weapon in the Cold War, the music’s extensive history in other countries, and learn how Israel is producing some of the best modern jazz musicians. We’ll talk with Israeli jazzer Anat Cohen about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent, take a look at the nearly hundred-year-old history of jazz in Japan, and explore Europe’s version of the 1920s Jazz Age.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Penny Von Eschen, Lewis Porter, E. Taylor Atkins, Anat Cohen
 
Music
Duke Ellington “Ad Lib on Nippon” 
Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa”
Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Tiger Rag”
Josephine Baker “Si J'etais Blanche”
Artie Shaw “Nightmare” 
Charlie Parker “Anthropology”
Komeda “Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby, Part 1”
Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train”
Duke Ellington “Satin Doll”
Josephine Baker “Revoir Paris”
Danilo Perez “Panama Blues”
Toshiko Akiyoshi “Blues for Toshiko”
Sarah Vaughan “April in Paris”
Dave Brubeck “Calcutta Blues” 
Duke Ellington “Bluebird of Delhi”
3 Cohens “U-Valley”
Anat Cohen “La Comparsa” 
 
Original Air Date: June 17, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E14 Les Paul

A celebration of the life and legend of the great Les Paul by talking with rock icon Steve Miller about his memories of his legendary godfather, and how the many famous inventions of the Wizard of Waukesha transformed 20th-century music. We’ll find out how Les Paul shaped Miller’s own life as a man and musician, talk with Sue Baker of the Les Paul Foundation about Les’s life and legacy, and how Les Paul’s inventions are still having an impact on all guitar music today.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Steve Miller, Sue Baker
 
Music
Les Paul “Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues”
Les Paul “Fine and Dandy”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “St. Louis Blues”
Les Paul “Stumbling”
Les Paul “Caravan”
Les Paul “Lover”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “How High the Moon”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tiger Rag”
Les Paul “Steel Guitar Rag”
Les Paul “Brazil”
Led Zeppelin “Black Dog”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Three Little Words”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tennessee Waltz”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Jazz Me Blues”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “The Lonesome Road”
Steve Miller “The Joker”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Lonely Guitar”
Steve Miller and Les Paul “Birthday Blues” improvisation
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Whispering”
 
Original Air Date: April 4, 2014
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
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E13 Jazz and Country

When the two separate paths of jazz and country cross, we get some of the most fascinating fusions in American music, from Hank Garland jazzing up the early Nashville country scene, to the development of Western Swing, and contemporary jazz takes on country classics. We’ll talk with music historian Cary Ginell about forgotten Nashville session man Hank Garland, look at the thriving Nashville jazz scene with Maxx Myrick of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, and chat with composer Andrew Bishop about his contemporary jazz take on the music of country legend Hank Williams.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Cary Ginell, Andrew Bishop, Maxx Myrick
 
Music
Hank Garland “Sugarfoot Rag”
Hank Garland “Why Not?”
Ray Charles “Blue Moon of Kentucky” 
Milton Brown “Girl of My Dreams”
Milton Brown “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
Milton Brown “Taking Off”
Bob Wills “Orange Stomp”
Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose”
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas”
Chet Atkins and Les Paul “Caravan”
Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams”
Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams (and Willie Nelson)”
Andrew Bishop “Again You Win” 
Andrew Bishop “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Sonny Rollins “I'm an Old Cowhand”
Hank Garland “Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That, Baby”
Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”
Roy Hall “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
Patti Page and Hank Garland “Just Because”
Hank Garland “All the Things You Are”
Hank Garland “Autumn Leaves”
Hank Garland “Three-Four the Blues”
Bill Frisell “Disfarmer Theme”
Elizabeth Crawford “The Nashville Tour”
El Movimiento “El Señor Está Contigo (Reprise)”
The Time Jumpers “Roly Poly”
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
Ricky Skaggs “Gallatin Rag”
Willie Nelson “All of Me”
 
Original Air Date: October 31, 2011
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E12 Billie Holiday

A celebration of the life and musical genius of the great Billie Holiday, traveling the hard road she took on her way to becoming one of jazz’s most beloved voices, and talk with curators and authors who continue to expose young people to Lady Day’s talents. We’ll talk with biographer Robert O’Meally about Billie’s musical genius, chat with Jazz at Lincoln Center curator Phil Schaap about the great Louis Armstrong’s role in shaping her musical voice, and talk with the best-selling author who’s channeled Billie Holiday to create a brand new version of her autobiography for young people.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Content warnings: some explicit language in Carole Boston Weatherford’s read aloud poetry
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Robert O’Meally, Phil Schaap, Carole Boston Weatherford
 
Music
Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
Billie Holiday “Lover Come Back to Me”
Billie Holiday “Them There Eyes”
Billie Holiday “The Man I Love”
Billie Holiday “Lover Man”
Billie Holiday “P. S. I Love You”
Billie Holiday “Do Your Duty”
Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, and Ben Webster “Our Love Is Here To Stay”
Billie Holiday “Fine And Mellow”
Billie Holiday “Pennies From Heaven”
Louis Armstrong “Yours And Mine”
Billie Holiday “Yours And Mine”
Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash”
Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “You Can't Lose A Broken Heart”
Billie Holiday “Everything Happens To Me”
Billie Holiday “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
Billie Holiday “I’ll Be Seeing You”
 
Original Air Date: July 16, 2012
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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E11 Weird Instruments

Believe it or not, harmonica, accordion, flute, banjo, and even the bagpipes have all made their impact on the jazz tradition thanks to the tireless efforts of pioneers of the music making these “weird instruments” a little more mainstream. We’ll sit down for a conversation with jazz tuba pioneer Howard Johnson, explore how banjo shaped the sound of early jazz, chat with Nancy Stagnitta about how flute worked its way from the jazz margins to the jazz mainstream, and explore the life and music of jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley.
 
Episode Transcript
 
Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Howard Johnson, Lewis Porter, George Manney, Nancy Stagnitta
 
Music
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Kelly Blue”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
Toot Thielemans “Bluesette”
Toot Thielemans “Old Spice Whistle” 
Bennie Moten “Elephant's Wobble”
Ikey Robinson’s “My Four Reasons”
Bix Beiderbecke “Singin’ the Blues”
Vess Ossman banjo solo
Jabbo Smith and Ikey Robinson “Michigander Blues”
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
Béla Fleck and Marcus Roberts Trio “Petunia”
Dorothy Ashby “Our Love is Here to Stay”
Rufus Harley “Crack”
Rufus Harley “Bagpipe Blues”
Rufus Harley “Scotch and Soul”
Rufus Harley “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child”
Rufus Harley “Chim Chim Cheree”
Yusef Lateef “Sea Breeze”
Herbie Mann “St. Louis Blues”
Anchorman “East Harlem Shakedown”
Herbie Mann “Memphis Underground”
Missus Beastly “Rahsaan Roland Kirk”
PROJECT Trio “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
Rahsaan Roland Kirk “You Did It, You Did It”
Julius Watkins and Oscar Pettiford “The Edge of Love”
Richard Galliano “Ruby My Dear”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Big Alice”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Svengali's Summer / Waltz”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Be No Evil”
 
Original Air Date: February 10, 2013
 
Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras
 
Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”
 
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