The New Jazz Archive

The jazz roots of rhythm and blues with music from r&b pioneers, the forgotten great jazz musicians of Motown, and the unlikely pairing of Latin jazz and r&b that created boogaloo music. We’ll talk with writer and producer Allan Slutsky about his 20 year long quest to give Motown’s studio band its due, chat with our resident jazz historian Lewis Porter about how boogie woogie led to r&b, and how Coltrane got his start playing with r&b bands.

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Allan Slutsky, Lewis Porter

 

Music

Marvin Gaye “Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Junior Walker & The All Stars “Shotgun”

Ray Charles “Ain’t That Love”

Big Joe Turner “Roll ‘Em Pete”

Lionel Hampton “Vibe Boogie” 

Louis Jordan “Every Man to His Own Profession” 

Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie”

Big Joe Turner “Boogie Woogie Country Girl”

John Coltrane “Slowtrane”

Dizzy Gillespie “We Love to Boogie” 

Mel Walker’s “Unlucky Man”

John Coltrane “Mr. Day

Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers “I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)”

The Temptations “My Girl”

The Funk Brothers and Joan Osborne “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”

The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman”

Joe Cuba & Cheo Feliciano “El Pito (I’ll Never Go Back To Georgia)”

Joe Cuba “Bang! Bang!”

Ray Barretto “El Watusi”

Pete Rodriguez “I Like It Like That”

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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We explore the more than century old tradition of Jewish contributions to jazz and see that Jews melding jazz with traditional music is hardly new. We’ll revisit the music from the Jewish composers of Tin Pan Alley and the big band era, hear the story of the Jewish family that helped Louis Armstrong score his first trumpet, and the important roles Jewish Americans have played as jazz promoters and record producers. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive. 

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

 

Music

Zawel Kwartin “Mizmor LeDavid”

Steven Bernstein “Issachar”

Serge Gainsbourg “Intoxicated Man”

Jan Garber and His Greater Columbia Recording Orchestra “Puttin’ on the Ritz”

Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” 

Billie Holiday “The Man I Love” 

Oscar Peterson Trio “I Feel Pretty”

Aretha Franklin “How Deep Is The Ocean”

Benny Goodman “Bach Goes To Town” 

Benny Goodman “Let’s Dance”

Benny Goodman “Get Happy”

Benny Goodman “Benny Rides Again”

Avishai Cohen “Nu Nu”

Artie Shaw “Interlude in B-Flat”

Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine”

Artie Shaw “Nightmare”

Artie Shaw and Helen Forrest “Comes Love”

Steven Bernstein “B'archu”

Louis Armstrong “Go Down Moses”

Louis Armstrong “Cornet Chop Suey”

Louis Amrstrong “St. James Infirmary” 

Louis Armstrong “Mack the Knife”

David Gould “Leha Dodi Dub”

Erik Friedlander “Ahuvati Sheli Livnat Tzavar” 

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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A celebration of the life and music of swing anti-hero Artie Shaw from his reluctant rise to stardom through his Shakespearean exit from the music business. We’ll dissect Artie’s much publicized rivalry with Benny Goodman with biographer Tom Nolan, get a glimpse into the glamorous and tumultuous life of a big band star, and explore what made Artie Shaw one of the most innovative and complex voices of the swing era.

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Tom Nolan

 

Music

Artie Shaw “Nightmare”

Artie Shaw “Gloomy Sunday”

Artie Shaw “The Chant”

Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine”

Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”

Artie Shaw “Copenhagen”

Artie Shaw “The Grabtown Grapple”

Artie Shaw and Helen Forrest “Comes Love”

Artie Shaw “The Sad Sack”

Artie Shaw “Moonglow”

Artie Shaw and The Gramercy Five “Summit Ridge Drive” 

Artie Shaw and The Gramercy Five “Crumbum”

Artie Shaw and The Gramercy Five “Lugubrious”

Artie Shaw and The Gramercy Five “Mysterioso”

Artie Shaw and Billie Holiday “No Regrets”

Artie Shaw “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”

 

Original Air Date: August 13, 2012

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

We celebrate the start of a new school year with music for the kid jazzer in all of us and some of the stories behind jazz’s past and present child prodigies. We’ll listen to tons of kid friendly jazz from Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett, get to know the piano jazz legend that made Mister Rogers Neighborhood a more swingin’ place, and talk about some of the great parent-child relationships in jazz. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive. 

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

 

Music

Tony Bennett “Because We’re Kids”

Wynton Marsalis Septet “Linus & Lucy” 

Jimmy Smith’s “Peter and the Wolf”

Lisa Yves And The Young Beboppers “Georgia on My Mind”

Ella Fitzgerald “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”

Louis Jordan “Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens”

Raymond Scott “Twilight In Turkey”

Ella Fitzgerald “Old McDonald”

Tony Bennett “Dat Dere

The Muppets “Sax and Violence” 

Fred Rogers “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?)”

Herbie Hancock “Wiggle Waggle”

Herbie Hancock “Fat Mama”

Fred Rogers “Let’s Think of Something To Do”

Slim Gaillard “Potato Chips”

Thelonious Monk “Green Chimneys”

Wayne Shorter “Infant Eyes”

Bill Evans “Waltz For Debby”

Oran Etkin and Charenee Wade “Little Lamb Jam”

George Benson “Willow Weep for Me”

George Benson “Myna Bird Blues”

Miles Davis “E.S.P.”

Francesco Cafiso “Piazza”

Francesco Cafiso “Pablo”

John Coltrane “Naima”

Ravi Coltrane and Alice Coltrane “Crescent”

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

A look at jazz’s legendary songwriting teams who stand behind some of the most popular standards of our day, and a look at that special duo who created one of the most unique big band sounds of the era. We’ll talk with Billy Strayhorn biographer David Hajdu about Ellington and Strayhorn’s deep personal and musical relationship, take a look at what made the Gershwin Brothers tick, and explore why jazzers are still fascinated with the music of legendary Tin Pan Alley duo Rogers and Hart. 

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: David Hajdu, Kevin Cole, Kurt Elling

 

Music

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Chelsea Bridge”

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Take the ‘A’ Train”

Ella Fitzgerald “This Can’t Be Love”

Ella Fitzgerald “Manhattan”

Miles Davis “My Funny Valentine”

Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan “The Lady is a Tramp”

Billie Holiday “A Foggy Day”

Oscar Peterson Trio “Nice Work If You Can Get It”

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Blues Backstage”

Eddie Jefferson “Body and Soul”

Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”

Eddie Jefferson “Parker's Mood (Bless My Soul)”

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross “Two for the Blues”

Kurt Elling “Tanya Jean”

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Passion Flower”

Billy Strayhorn “Lush Life”

 

Original Air Date: June 1, 2012

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.