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Bah Humbug, Weather Music, Stocking Stuffer Singles

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
December 26, 2023
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Personally, I do not celebrate Christmas. But for this week's show, I figured I'd get in the spirit and sprinkle a few offbeat holiday tunes into the mix. We start off with a Latin set with Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra's "Jingle Bells Mambo" followed by Herman's Heat and Puente's Beat; then a set of meteorological musings from Bill Orcutt and Red Garland; we'll then check out Monk's family Christmas work "A Merrier Christmas." The show will continue with a set of stocking stuffers as we spin singles from Sarah Vaughn, Sun Ra, Lester Young and more. We'll end the night at the ballet with some jazz'd up Nutcracker selections.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:50
Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra "Jingle Bells Mambo" from Adventures in Rhythm (Philips) 02:30
Woody Herman, Tito Puente "New Cha-Cha" from Herman's Heat & Puente's Beat! (Everest) 05:22
Hilton Ruiz "Home Cookin'" from Something Grand (Novus) 08:25
Gonzalo Rubalcaba "Take Five" from Borrowed Roses (Top Stop Music) 13:17
Bill Orcutt "White Christmas" from Bill Orcutt (Palilalia Records) 19:21
Gerry Mulligan And the Concert Jazz Band "Come Rain or Come Shine" from At the Village Vanguard (Verve Records) 21:21
Red Garland Trio" Winter Wonderland" from All Kinds of Weather (Prestige) 26:54
Shirley Scott " Cold Winter Blues" from On A Clear Day (impulse!) 32:14
Frank Kimbrough "A Merrier Christmas" from Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions Of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside) 36:51
Rahsaan Roland Kirk "Serenade to a Cuckoo" from Kirkatron (Warner Bros.) 40:31
David Murray, Questlove , Ray Angry "5 Minute Joint" from Plumb (J.M.I Recordings) 47:39
John Coltrane "Greensleves" from Africa/Brass (Impulse!) 53:13
Bill Evans "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" from Trio 64 (Verve) 1:03:08
Ahmad Jamal "I hear a Rhapsody" from Rhapsody (Cadet) 1:08:30
Mary Osborne "I Love Paris" from A Girl & Her Guitar (Warwick) 1:13:15
Hampton Hawes "Spanish Steps" from Spanish Steps (Black Lion) 1:16:07
Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan "Dedicated to You" from 7" Single (MGM) 1:20:21
Sun Ra & His Arkestra Featuring Ricky Murray "Dreamsville" from 7" Single (Corbett vs. Dempsey) 1:23:09
Lee Dorsey "Ya Ya" from 7" Single (Fury Records) 1:25:36
Professor Longhair "Everyday Everynight" from 7" Single (Ron Records) 1:29:03
Lester Young "Sometimes I'm Happy" from "Prez Plays (Mercury Records) 1:31:15
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio "Fried Soul" from "7" Single (Colmine Records) 1:34:26
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra "Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)" from Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite (Columbia) 1:38:06
Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Pan American Nutcracker Suite (Angelface Records) 1:42:47
Melba Liston "Christmas Eve" from Melba Liston and Her Bones (Fresh Sound Records) 1:49:09
Mable Scott, Les Welch and His Orchestra "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus" from The Chronological Mabel Scott 1951-19551:54:09

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