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August 20, 2009 · 0 comments
101—Count 'Em!—Classic Tracks
I give you some credit. Every day you take your vitamins, go to the gym for a workout, take the dog for a walk, and get a dose of classic jazz.
Okay, I’m exaggerating—sometimes you skip that workout. But there is no excuse to miss out on the jazz. Especially since jazz.com highlights a classic track five days per week. Today's classic track is "Tenor Madness," a never-to-be-repeated 1956 studio encounter between John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. (You can always find the current incumbent and complete list of previously honored classic songs here.)
"Hmm...Is that Coltrane or is it Rollins?"
How are these tracks selected? The rules for inclusion are simple. The track must be older than Lebron James (born December 30, 1984)—or it just isn’t old school enough. And it needs to be a work of exceptional merit as judged by my local homeowners' association (sorry, they call all the shots around here). Besides that, almost anything goes. We even occasionally step outside the jazz arena into other related musical styles, but never for very long.
Below are the last 101 tracks featured as A Classic Revisited at jazz.com. Click on the link to find a full review by a credible critic, complete personnel and recording info, a ranking (on jazz.com’s almost-patent-protected 0 to 100 scale), and a link for a (legal) downloading.
Enjoy the music. I’m off to take the dog for a walk…but I'm bringing my iPod.
101 Classic Tracks
Sonny Rollins (with John Coltrane): Tenor Madness
Bud Powell: Just One of Those Things
Charlie Barnet: Over the Rainbow
Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas
Ted Heath: Henry IX
Weather Report: Palladium
Count Basie: I Left My Baby
Freddie Keppard: Stock Yards Strut
Charlie Ventura: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Red Norvo: Dance of the Octopus
Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden Striker
Django Reinhardt: Djangology
Charles Mingus: So Long Eric
Louis Armstrong: Heebie Jeebies
Don Ellis: Hey Jude
Garoto: Nosso Choro
Julius Hemphill: Reflections
Tony Williams Lifetime: Emergency
Phineas Newborn, Jr.: Lush Life
Gerald Wilson: Dissonance in Blues
Adrian Rollini: Beatin' the Dog
Terry Gibbs: Nose Cone
Hubert Laws: Amazing Grace
Raymond Scott: The Penguin
Aníbal Troilo: Quejas de Bandoneón
Fletcher Henderson: Variety Stomp
Jan Garbarek: Witchi-Tai-To
Carla Bley: Utviklingssang
Nancy Wilson: Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Cotton Tail
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman: Lush Life
Andrew Hill: Compulsion
Nina Simone: Mood Indigo
Cab Calloway: Pickin' the Cabbage
Paul Desmond: Wendy
Cal Tjader: When Lights Are Low
Earl Hines: Warm Valley
Ali Farka Touré: Sidi Gouro
Henry Mancini: The Pink Panther Theme
Gigi Gryce: Minority
Archie Shepp: Consequences
Jimmie Lunceford: Harlem Shout
Pat Metheny: The First Circle
Charles Mariano: Avoid the Year of the Monkey
Bill Evans: Solo - In Memory of His Father
Al Haig: All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Stan Kenton: The Peanut Vendor
Thelonious Monk: Well You Needn't
Horace Silver: Señor Blues
Jimmy Giuffre: Blue Monk
Richard Twardzik: I'll Remember April
Sonny Stitt: I Got Rhythm
Shuggie Otis: The Time Machine
Art Blakey (with Freddie Hubbard): Blue Moon
Stanley Turrentine: Buster Brown
Pepper Adams: I've Just Seen Her
Fats Waller: African Ripples
Stanley Clarke: Rock 'N Roll Jelly
Albert Ayler: Four
Gary Burton: Blue Comedy
Grover Washington, Jr.: Mister Magic
Chick Corea: Song for Sally
Bud Powell: Un Poco Loco
Paul Bley: King Korn
Benny Carter: NIghtfall
Red Mitchell & Harold Land: Catacomb
Roscoe Mitchell: Music for Trombone and B Flat Soprano
Clifford Brown: Joy Spring
Gary McFarland & Steve Kuhn: St. Tropez Shuttle
Lars Gullin: Silhouette
Claude Thornhill: Snowfall
Sun Ra: Future
Dexter Gordon & Wardell Gray: The Chase
Stevie Wonder: Golden Lady
Warne Marsh: Moose the Mooche
Charlie Parker with Machito: Okiedoke
Benny Goodman: And the Angels Sing
George Benson: Plum
King Oliver: Riverside Blues
Fats Navarro: Nostalgia
Red Garland: He's a Real Gone Guy
Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith: How High the Moon
Elvin Jones: Gingerbread Boy
Herbie Nichols: The Gig
Miles Davis: Flamenco Sketches
Ada Falcón: Yira Yira
Zoot Sims: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
George Lewis: Homage to Charlie Parker
John Lewis: The Golden Striker
Benny Carter: Blue Lou
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Magg Zelma
Harold Land: The Fox
Joe Pass: Darn That Dream
McCoy Tyner: Blues on the Corner
George Shearing: East of the Sun
Julie London: Cry Me a River
David Murray: Coney Island
Bud Shank: Casa de Luz
Mary Lou Williams: The Scarlet Creeper
Terje Rypdal: Per Ulv
Jack Teagarden: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
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