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Jazz Program
Sunday, April 27, 2014 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
V/A When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer (from Midsummer Night's Dream) Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World Rhino / Wea April is National Poetry Month & the month of Shakespeare's birth.
Thelonious Monk Darn That Dream Solo Monk Sbme Special Mkts.
John Cale Moon Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac Rykodisc Poem is by Kerouac.
Ballin' Jack Moonlight Serenade (Swing Moment #5) The Big Head Knitting Factory
Sun Ra Moon Dance Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow Evidence
T.S. Eliot The Burial of The Dead The Waste Land, read by T.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot
Bob Dorough Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most Right On My Way Home Blue Note Lyricist Fran Landesman's jazz take on the opening lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Music by Tommy Wolf.
V/A (incl. Groucho Marx) The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring, Tra-La! The Mikado (Original Cast Recording) Drg Gilbert & Sullivan music and lyrics.
Billy Strayhorn A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life Blue Note
Brian Greene and V/A Brush Up Your Shakespeare Kiss Me Kate (Original Studio Cast) Jay Records
V/A To Be Or Not To Be Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World Rhino / Wea I believe that's John Barrymore as Hamlet.
Mr. Zombie Orchestra Such Sweet Thunder Someone Likes It Zombie Velvet Luna
Duke Ellington The Star-Crossed Lovers The Private Collection, Vol. 6 Dance Dates, California, 1958 Atlantic
Edd Byrnes Like I Love You Music For Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds For The Connoisseur TTW
Jack Kerouac Charlie Parker Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries & Influences 101 Distribution A set inspired by Charlie Parker's theory that in order to play jazz you needed to know "Cherokee", the blues, and "I Got Rhythm".
Charlie Parker I Got Rhythm Bird In Time, 1940 - 1947 ESP Disk
Joe Pass Cherokee Virtuoso Original Jazz Classics
Lena Horne I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues The Young Star: Bluebird's Best RCA Bluebird
Chris Byars Quartet Bop-Ography Bop-Ography SteepleChase
Benny Goodman I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics, Vol. 3 (1932 - 1934) Stardust Records
Multitudes Telepathic Breathing Pyramid Cyclotron Of Watermelon Multitudes Telepathic pfMentum
Bud Powell Tempus Fugit Be-Bop Spoken Here Proper UK
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dog Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries & Influences 101 Distribution
Bryan Ferry Orchestra Bang Bang The Jazz Recordings: A Selection of Yellow Cocktail Music from the Baz Luhrmann's film "The Great Gatsby" Water Tower Music
Warren Zevon Running Through Chinese Poem Song Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac Rykodisc
V/A Our Revels Now Are Ended (from The Tempest) Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World Rhino / Wea I Believe that's Michael Redgrave as Prospero.
Allen Toussaint St. James Infirmary The Bright Mississippi Nonesuch