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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Favoriting March 31, 2023: Putting the Jazz in Acid Jazz Hands

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Miles Davis  Buzzard Song   Favoriting Porgy and Bess  Columbia  1959  Music: George Gershwin 
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Blossom Dearie  To Keep My Love Alive   Favoriting Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs  Verve Records  1960  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Mel Torme & Margaret Whiting  All You Need Is a Quarter   Favoriting Broadway, Right Now!  Verve  1960  Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green 
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Cy Coleman, Skeeter Best & Aaron Bell  Little Biscuit   Favoriting A Jazzman's Broadway  Harbinger Records  2018  Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg 
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Cassandra Wilson  Shall We Dance?   Favoriting Blue Skies  JMT  1988  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Frank Traynor and the Jazz Preachers  seventy-six trombones   Favoriting Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers Plays Show Tunes  W&G  1967  Music: Meredith Willson 
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet  Tonight   Favoriting Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein  Columbia  1961  Music: Leonard Bernstein 
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Fred Hersch  A Cock-Eyed Optimist   Favoriting Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein  Nonesuch  1996  Music: Richard Rodgers 
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Sonny Rollins  There's No Business Like Show Business   Favoriting Work Time  Prestige  1956  Music: Irving Berlin 
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Chet Baker  I Talk to the Trees   Favoriting Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe  Craft Recordings  1959  Music: Frederick Loewe 
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Earl Rose  More I Cannot Wish You   Favoriting Guys and Dolls  Amadeus  2005  Music: Frank Loesser 
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Charl du Plessis Trio  I Got Rhythm   Favoriting Baroqueswing Vol. II  Claves  2016  Music: George Gershwin 
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Oscar Peterson  Why Can't You Behave   Favoriting Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Song Book  The Verve Music Group  1959  Music: Cole Porter 
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Ella Fitzgerald  It Might As Well Be Spring   Favoriting Sweet and Hot  Decca  1955  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Nancy Wilson  I Remember   Favoriting Love, Nancy  Columbia  1994  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Louis Armstrong  Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)   Favoriting Ella and Louis Again  Verve  1957  Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter 
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Sarah Vaughan  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes   Favoriting No Count Sarah  Mercury  1955  Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Otto Harbach 
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Andre Previn, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell  I'm Talkin' with My Pal   Favoriting Pal Joey  RevOla  2009  Music: Richard Rodgers 
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Shelly Manne & His Friends  Show Me   Favoriting Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady  RevOla  2009  Music: Frederick Loewe 
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Stan Getz & Bill Evans  Night and Day   Favoriting Stan Getz & Bill Evans  Verve  1973  Music: Cole Porter 
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John Coltrane  Body and Soul   Favoriting Coltrane's Sound  Atlantic  1964  Music: Johnny Green Lyrics: Edward Heyman, Robert Sour & Frank Eyton 
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Frank Sinatra  The Lady Is a Tramp   Favoriting A Swingin' Affair!  Capitol Records  1957  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 6:53pm
Listener Gregory:

Came for the acid, stayed for the jazz!
  7:00pm
Charles:

hello to all the darlings!
Avatar 7:00pm
Bob in Los Angeles:

Gee, I hope I'm not too early.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
doctorjazz:

Hello Dah-lings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hellooooo Gregory, Charles, Bob and doctorjazz!!!!
  7:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Gil Evans. Have we forgotten him in the rush to the avant-garde? Always beautiful.
Avatar 🎭 7:03pm
TonyR:

I'm here for the hands.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis"
Cool selection! Gil Evans orch/arrangement!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I should also do a show dedicated to acid musicals (eg Hair) and hands musicals (eg Hands on a Hardbody)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
WR:

↳ TonyR @7:03
And now am I supposed to write that I am here for the acid?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @7:04
Watch out for the brown acid on Bronwyn's show...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Greets...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis"
When I am really here for that gorgeous tuba playing we just heard.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
WR:

Hi Threemoons.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Bronwyn and Broadway Jazz fans! There are lots of out there Jazz versions of B'way tunes, as well as old school jazz band takes on 'em!
Avatar 🎭 7:07pm
TonyR:

Jazz and showtunes in bed with each other. I blame jazz cigarettes.
Avatar 🎭 7:08pm
TonyR:

Hmmmm. Metallica playing "Hey Big Spender."
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Next time: Acid Rock takes on show tunes.
Avatar 🎭 7:09pm
TonyR:

There IS Big Brother and Janis doing "Summertime".
Avatar 🎭 7:11pm
TonyR:

Sadly, Blue Cheer never did "Send in the Clowns".
Avatar 🎭 7:13pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn raises a good question about whether jazz still has a close relation with standards. In my experience, in live shows, bands often play their own compositions with maybe a single standard thrown in near the end. @doctorj, you go to more jazz shows than anyone here, probably. What do you think?
Avatar 🎭 7:13pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:13
(This comment applies mostly to younger groups perhaps.)
Avatar 🎭 7:15pm
TonyR:

Joe Perry of Aerosmith used to toss off "Strangers in the night" in guitar solos. Show tune?
  7:21pm
Listener Gregory:

It would be very edifying if we argued for every song whether it is “really” jazz.
Great choice with the Cassandra Wilson, Ms B!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ TonyR @7:15
nope
  7:30pm
Charles:

All I know is that they're all great songs to wash bathroom tiles to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

good luck with those tiles!!!
  7:32pm
Charles:

It never ends with those tiles! But so does the jazz so i'm good!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

I was stuffing envelopes.
  7:36pm
Listener Gregory:

Howard Brubeck???
  7:42pm
Charles:

When I was learning english it took me forever to understand when to put an "s" or not at the end of a verb. I don't need Frank Traynor's jazz preachers to make me doubt myself!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:36
Howard Brubeck!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:13
I'm certainly no expert on this subject, but I can offer an opinion (possibly without merit).
Up until around the 60a, jazz and show music were popular culture (your parents likely had Miles' Kind of Blue and Ella Sings Cole Porter Songbook in their record collection. Then in the 60s jazz took a left turn, Coltrane, free jazz. Show tunes became more rock oriented, simpler changes. Shows I've seen recently, while they may have great performances, rarely have your leaving with the runes stuck in your head-they're more likely opera recitative. Last to me is a whole shift in what it takes to perform music. Until the 60s, some folks just played or sang songs written by songwriters. By the end of the 60s you had to be performing your own material to be a "serious" artist-this spilled over into jazz as well. It's ot 100 percent, but those are the trends, so show music isn't in the jazz repertoire the day it was in the 40s and 50s.
Whew...sorry, long winded answer...
  7:48pm
Listener Gregory:

Sonny Rollins knew more standards than anyone. He played a number of obscure show tunes and would sneak in quotes of others in his solos.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "There's No Business Like Show Business" by "Sonny...
Love this! Rollins loved show tunes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I love that about him!
Avatar 🎭 7:51pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @7:47
This seems very true to me. Of course, there's also the phenomenon of modern jazz musicians doing an album of standards (e.g., Tom Rainey and NYC downtown artists, or tributes to a composer).
You are an expert, @doctorj! Don't sell yourself short.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I was gonna say, doctorjazz says "I'm not an expert" and proceeds to prove himself an expert :)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:51
It's true, those fabulous compositions from The American Songbook still are material for jazz musicians. But it's not as automatic as it once was, I don't think. And I haven't heard anyone do jazz versions of tunes from, say, Parade (which I saw a few weeks ago), where singers would fall all ovet themselves to perform a hot new tune on Ed Sullivan from, say, The Sound Of Music.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:51
Yep, plenty of those, the series of albums led by Paul Motian in the 90s, Tyshawn Sorey's recent "Off Broadway". But recent jazz artists (last 20 years) doing any tunes from last 20 years of broadway, hmmmm. Maybe some Sondheim?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I would kill for jazz versions of Parade. And it would be super funny to hear jazz version of Dear Evan Hansen or Come from Away
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56
I loved all 3 shows, but I can't say I remember songs from them (Ben Platt is just amazing, btw!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I want Ben Platt to play the lead in my musical adaptation of the Richard Linklater film Bernie, since it's a plot requirement that the character have a beautiful tenor voice. When I saw Parade and he was sitting there onstage all throughout intermission I kinda wanted to climb up there and pitch him on it
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
WR:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56
Looking up the musical, Parade: Holy crap, I did not know that a musical of the Leo Frank "incident" existed.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @8:03
It's quite intense, and terrifically done.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:03
That would've been great (and likely got you booted for the 2nd half of the show).
That was an interesting choice for Platt, though.
  8:07pm
Listener Gregory:

11 is 13 in DJ years, so great work!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Paint Your Wagon Film Fest at Monty Hall!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:51
I used to think I know something about music, ,before I started listening a lot to WFMU, and learned that I don't know nothin'!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Hello darlings! sorry I'm late but had to color my hair.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
WR:

↳ doctorjazz @8:04
The Leo Frank exhibit at the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage was my introduction to Leo Frank. Chilling in itself and also in how it was entwined in the revival of the KKK.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @8:09
Haven't seen the exhibit (was at that museum once a long while ago).. It is a chilling incident (and not all that surptising given American history...)
  8:13pm
Listener Gregory:

The best thing about that Oscar Peterson performance was the sound of (what I take to be) Ray Brown on bass. Oh, man.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
doctorjazz:

Ella!!! You lit up my face, and MsJazz's as well!
Avatar 🎭 8:20pm
Listener Gregory:

Boirds do it!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst...
And Ella and Louis-the height of musical interaction, these records are all fabulous!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst...
Oscar Peterson on piano here
The rest of the band:
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Louie Bellson*
Guitar – Herb Ellis
Piano – Oscar Peterson
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ doctorjazz @8:21
I especially like their Stompin' at the Savoy!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
WR:

↳ doctorjazz @8:12
It was there in 2016-17.

mjhnyc.org...

In the "before times" I used to go there regularly, the rotating exhibits are always powerful and revisiting the main exhibit worthwhile as well. I've not yet started going out in public regularly, maybe soon.
Avatar 🎭 8:23pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst...
Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown again on this one.
@doctorj!!! Why do you do me this way?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @8:09
hello lizzie!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
doctorjazz:

Some folks dislike OP a lot; I went through that for a bit, but how can someone who was 1st choce for Satch be bad? (I saw him live once at a JVC jazz festival show, what Newport Jazz is now)
  8:26pm
Listener Gregory:

Interesting how they turned Let’s Do It into a blues.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan"
Got to see her once as well! (was my favorite female vocalist before Ella supplanted her for 1st place. Blossom Deary is up there, but has such a different persona).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan"
I always thought Sarah Vaughan had the voice of an opera singer (but not the sensibility),
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst...
For some perspective on career of Louis Armstrong, heard this 1924 recording on Thursday morning "Under 64 not Allowed" on Sheena's stream:
↳ Song: "Countin' The Blues" by "Ma Rainey"
Personnel according to Discogs listing for Biograph LP compilation:
Countin' The Blues (Tk. 3)
Banjo – Charlie Dixon
Clarinet – Buster Bailey
Cornet – Louis Armstrong
Drums – Kaiser Marshall
Piano – Fletcher Henderson
Trombone – Charlie Green
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
doctorjazz:

↳ WR @8:29
It goes back to 1922, he knocked the music world out in King Oliver's band.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
WR:

↳ WR @8:29
Not just the 33 years between the recordings but the changes in the world and music between those dates.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
WR:

Oscar Levant can be fit into that too, I bet.
  8:35pm
Dean:

Do you know Previn's record with a gospel group?
Avatar 8:35pm
Bob in Los Angeles:

Great idea Bronwyn, I'm reminding you... to write it down.
  8:39pm
Dean:

Red Mitchell had a son he gave up for adoption. I worked in the city where that son became a council member. Spit and image of his dad.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Shelly Manne & His Friends"
It's hard to avoid this record on a Jazz showtunes show!
Avatar 🎭 8:44pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:26
Peterson was a great musician, but he kind of did the same thing throughout a long career, and that caused a reaction to him, I think. If you have two or three albums of his, you should enjoy them and not keep buying more, to avoid satiation. In my humble opinion!
Avatar 🎭 8:45pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans"
I thought Stan Getz was playing earlier on the show, but it was Paul Desmond (in the Dave Brubeck Qt). Hmmm...
Avatar 🎭 8:45pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans"
BTW, great choice, BB!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:44
He had incredible chops, could play faster than most of us can think! I think that gave folks the impression he was soulless, didn't have depth in his playing (I'm not a super fan, but I like hearing his records now).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans"
Don't know of this album'pair up, very cool!
Avatar 🎭 8:50pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ doctorjazz @8:46
Getz and Evans have a good live record from a later date, too. It would have been great for them to do a whole tour together, but I think they each had their ideas of what to do as leaders, and Getz was not too cooperative about such things.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

In this vein, I put the Previn /J J Johnson "Mac The Knife" on a mix tape for my kids.
Avatar 🎭 8:52pm
Listener Gregory:

OK, Bronwyn, did you have expert help in putting together this program? These choices are too good for random selection. (Written after opening notes of Body & Soul.)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "John Coltrane"
Trane on Body and Soul, up until his version, THE version was by Coleman Hawkins.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:52
What LG said-however you did it, you done did good! Great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

aww thanks guys :)
Avatar 🎭 8:55pm
Listener Gregory:

Dexter Gordon used this same arrangement (including the piano background) when he later did the song in his US return.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

No need to play "My Favorite Things," it's implied.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Join me at Midnight for the Midnite Matinee chimera MASHville: www.wfmu.org...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:56
No time either...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
WR:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57
thank you for the link, after my bedtime but will be sure to circle back for the archive.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ WR @8:58
The archive will be a WFMU classic!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57
Same-if my eyes are still open, will check it out, if now will circle back to it in the archives. Sounds fun!
Avatar 🎭 9:00pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:50
I think I remember the story of that Getz/Evans record now that Bronwyn mentioned the dates. The artists and producer decided that the recording wasn't up to snuff, so it wasn't released. Then after both of them left the label, it decided to release it after all. The performance is a bit rough, but it still has some good moments of playing by both.
Avatar 🎭 9:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Fantastic show, Ms Bishop! Speaking as a jazz person and not a musical person, I can say that you did the jazz side of things beautifully.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for the acid-free jazz, Bronwyn!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn! Looking forward to the "Hands" episode.
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