Playlist for 11-15-2022 WFCF - Drummer Led Sessions!

 

This week we listened to recordings where the drummer is in charge! All the famous ones plus a few surprises: Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Art Taylor, Lenny White, Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Dave Bailey and lots more. Thanks to all who joined me! Be sure to follow me over on Mixcloud to catch my livestream sessions spinning jazz and soul jazz. Much love! - Kendo

Hour One:

Idris Muhammad - "Wander" - Black Rhythm Revolution (1971)

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Denny Seiwell Trio - "Amber" - Boomerang (2018)

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Skylark" - Caravan (1962)

The Griffith Park Collection - "L's Bop" - The Griffith Park Collection (1982)

Lewis Nash - "Let Me Try" - Rhythm is My Business (1989)

Elvin Jones - "Mister Jones" - Live at The Village Vanguard (1968)

Hour Two:

Shelly Manne - "Perk Up" - Perk Up (1967)

Chico Hamilton - "Chic Chic Chico" - Chic Chic Chico (1965)

Billy Cobham - "The Pleasant Pheasant" - Crosswinds (1974)

Solid with 2 Ben Tucker compositions!

Billy Cobham - "Heather" - Crosswinds (1974)

Dave Bailey Quintet - "Comin' Home Baby" - Two Feet In the Gutter (1961)

Roy Haynes - "Honeydew" - Cracklin' (1963)

Chico Hamilton - "The Dealer" - The Dealer (1966)

Karl Latham - "Taxman" - Living Standards (2015)

Hour Three:

            ~ The Break Room ~

Art Taylor - "Epistrophy" - A.T.'s Delight (1960)

Joe Morello - "Summertime" - It's About Time (1962)

Mel Torme & Buddy Rich - "When I Found You" - Together Again - For the First Time (1978)

Max Roach - "Just One of Those Things" - Max Roach Plus Four (1956)

This must've been an
interesting day...

Ed Thigpen - "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" - Out of the Storm (1966)

Art Blakey - "The End of a Love Affair" - The Jazz Messengers (1956)

Chico Hamilton - "Caravan" - Chico Hamilton Quintet ()

Hour Four:

Shelly Manne & His Men - "Whisper Not" - Complete Live at the Black Hawk (1959)

Billy Cobham - "La Guernica" - Simplicity of Expression, Depth of Thought (1977)

Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop - "My Shining Hour" - Abundance (2016)

Billy not lagging behind the
times, but with class.

Bernard Purdie - "Theme from Shaft" - Shaft (1973)

The Tony Williams Lifetime - "To Whom It May Concern - Them"  - turn it over (1970)

Idris Muhammad - "Super Bad" - Black Rhythm Revolution (1971)

Lenny White - "Sea of Tranquility" - Venusian Summer (1975)