| Artist |
Song |
Album |
Label |
Comments |
| A3 |
Woke Up This Morning |
Exile on Cold Harbour Lane |
UMG, 1997 |
The spoken word portion of the song mentions nearly a dozen jazz/blues composers, musicians, or singers--
Charles Mingus, "Pithecanthropus Erectus", J. R. Montrose, Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf.
'Epitaph' is a Mingus composition which, according to Wikipedia, is over 4,000 measures long, takes more than two hours to perform, and was only completely discovered during the cataloguing process after Mingus' death. The piece was premiered as a concert produced by Mingus' widow, and was conducted by Gunther Schuller on June 3, 1989. There is also a Mingus composition specifically entitled 'So Long Eric', which can be heard on the album, 'Charles Mingus: Town Hall Concert, Music Played on European Tour - 64', recorded 4/4/1964, Jazz Workshop Records, 1990. Howlin' Wolf and B. B. King, to name but two blues musicians, have performed songs with the title 'Woke Up This Morning', but the idea is also somewhat conventional to the blues. |
| Charles Mingus |
Pithecanthropus Erectus |
Pithecanthropus Erectus |
Atlantic, 1981 |
Recorded 1/30/1956. Charles Mingus, bass; Jackie McLean, alto sax; J. R. Montrose, tenor sax; Mal Waldron, piano; Willie Jones, drums. Mingus composition. |
| Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention |
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue |
Weasels Ripped My Flesh |
Rykodisc, 1990, 1995 |
Zappa composition. Album originally released 2/1970, digitally remastered for CD in 1989; FZ approved master, 1993. |
| Eric Dolphy |
Glad to be Unhappy |
Outward Bound |
New Jazz, 1987; Concord Music Group, 2006. |
Released APRIL 1, 1960. Richard Rogers tune from the 1939 Broadway production of "On Your Toes". |
| Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin |
A Love Supreme (Part 1. Acknowledgement) |
The Essential John McLaughlin |
Sony BMG, 2007 |
John Coltrane composition. John McLaughlin, electric guitar; Carlos Santana, electric guitar. Recorded 10/1972; originally appeared on the album, 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' (Columbia/Legacy CK 63593). |
|
| Duke Ellington & John Coltrane |
In a Sentimental Mood |
Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music |
Sony, 2000 |
Ellington composition. Originally appeared on the album, 'Duke Ellington & John Coltrane', released 9/26/1962. |
| Tony Bennett |
Mood Indigo |
The Essential Tony Bennett |
Sony BMG, 2002 |
Ellington composition. Songs on this album were originally released 1951 - 2001. The album liner notes list the recording date and mix date of this version as "unknown", but copyright 1999. |
| Benny Green |
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) |
Green's Blues |
Telarc, 2001 |
Ellington composition; recorded 1/22 - 24/2001. |
| Shamalamacord |
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo |
S/T |
S/R, 2009 |
Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley composition; Mike Penny, tsugaru shamisen; Aaron Seeman, accordian. |
| Lester Young |
Star Dust |
Lester Young with the Oscar Petereso Trio |
Verve, 1997 |
Released 8/4/1952. |
| Billie Holliday |
Laughing at Life |
Billie Holliday and Lester Young: A Musical Romance |
Sony, 2002 |
The songs on this album were released 1937 - 1958; this recording, 6/7/1940. |
| Salif Keita |
Begin the Beguine |
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter |
King Cole, 1990, 2006 |
Cole Porter composition; often sung by Ella Fitzgerald (among many others). |
| The Fine Young Cannibals |
Love for Sale |
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter |
King Cole, 1990, 2006 |
Cole Porter composition; often sung by Ella Fitzgerald (among many others). |
| Jimmy Reed |
Bright Lights, Big City |
Mojo: The Roots of Hendrix |
Mojo magazine, 12/2005 |
Written by J. Reed; copyright V J, 1961. |
| Dion |
Baby What You Want Me to Do |
Bronx in Blue |
Dimensional Music, 2005 |
Jimmy Reed composition. That's Dion DiMucci, who had over a dozen pop hits in the late 1950s and early 60s, with the group The Belmonts and without them, including 'Runaround Sue', 'The Wanderer', 'A Teenager in Love,' and 'Abraham, Martin, and John'. |
| The Muddy Waters Tribute Band |
Don't Go No Further |
You're Gonna Miss Me |
Telarc, 1996 |
Hillsborough resident and bluesman, and former member of the Muddy Water band, 'Steady Rollin'' Bob Margolin, vocals and guitar. |
| David Gogo |
Rollin' & Tumblin' |
Halfway to Memphis |
Cordova Bay, 2007 |
Released 1/1/2000. Also performed by Muddy Waters, among many others. |
| Howlin' Wolf |
Moanin' at Midnight |
Howlin' Wolf/Moan'in in the Moonlight |
MCA, 1959, 1986. |
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| The Persuasions |
Little Red Rooster |
Right Around the Corner |
Bullseye Blues, 1994. |
Also performed by Howlin' Wolf, among many others. |
|
| Madlib |
Mingus |
Madlib Medicine Show #8: Advanced Jazz |
Madlib Invazion, 2010 |
Back to Mingus. Check out the painting on the album's cover: 'Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson'; attributed to Emmanuel Leutze, 1851--a 're-mix' of the famous painting: 'Washington Crossing the Delaware', by Emmanuel Gottleib Leutze, 1851. According to the legend given for the Madlib album painting, Mingus is seated there at the center of the boat, behind a hard-rowing Eric Dolphy. |
| Bill Frisell |
Pithecanthropus Erectus |
Hal Wilner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus |
Sony, 1992 |
Mingus composition; Bill Frisell, guitar. |
| Gunther Schuller |
Freedom |
Epitaph |
Columbia, 1990 |
Mingus composition, including the free verse poem heard here. Interested listeners should refer to Schuller's full liner notes/booklet for more information on the place of this portion of the ms. in the longer Mingus work, as well as for the text of the poem itself. Recorded 1989. |
| Marc Ribot |
St. James Infirmary |
Saints |
Atlantic, 2001 |
Marc Ribot, guitar |
