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PO Box 90689
Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Baby Gramps | Big Rock Candy Mountain | Same Ol' Timeously | Gramophone | A set for my grandson, Jin-ger--already a music & jazz enthusiast. | |||
Slim Gaillard | Chicken Rhythm | Jazz For Kids | Capitol | ||||
John Hartford | Chicken Oh Chicken | Hamilton Ironworks | Rounder | ||||
Billy Bang, feat. Frank Lowe | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord | Above & Beyond - An Evening in Grand Rapids | Justin Time | ||||
Ghost Train Orchestra | Beethoven Riffs On | Book Of Rhapsodies | Accurate | ||||
Sun Ra & His Arkestra | Out There A Minute | Out There A Minute | Blast First | ||||
Gerry Gibbs & the Thrasher Band | The Caribean Song | Faces Unknown | SMS Jazz | ||||
Yusef Lateef | Psychicemotus | Psychicemotus | Impuse! | ||||
Herbie Mann | Kurodabushi (Sake Drinking Song - Traditional) / Etenraku (Traditional) | Gagaku & Beyond | Collectables Jazz Classics | ||||
Louis Armstrong | Once In A While | Pops Goes Pop | Acrobat | ||||
Akira Sakata | Gion Shoja | The Tale of the Heike | Trost Records | Famous opening of "The Tale of the Heike" - "The bells of the Gion monastery echo with the warning that all things are impermanent. The blossoms of the sala trees teach us through their hues that what flourishes must fade. The proud do not prevail for long but vanish like a spring night's dream. In time the mighty, too, succumb: all are dust before the wind." (Burton Watson, trans.) | |||
Akira Sakata | The Death of Atsumori | The Tale of the Heike | Trost Records | At the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani, Atsumori is killed by Kumagai Naozane. Near the end of their combat, Kumagai discovers Atsumori to be the age of Kumagai's own teenage son, and he also realizes that the moving flute music he'd heard coming from the enemy's camp the night before the battle was probably being played by Atsumori. This famous scene provides the basis for the Noh play, "Atsumori", by Zeami, as well a bunraku puppet play, later adapted for the kabuki stage. Recent translations of "The Tale of the Heike" are by Royall Tyler (2012), Burton Watson (2006), and Helen Craig McCullough (1990). Recent translations of the Noh play, "Atsumori" by Zeami, are by Karen Brazell (1998) and Royall Tyler (1992), but the one by Arthur Waley (1922) is also very worth consulting. | |||
Eddie Jefferson | Things Are Getting Better | Things Are Getting Beter | Muse Records | For Sam, Nick, and Grant--music & jazz enthusiasts. | |||
Ray Anthony & His Orchestra | Slaughter on 10th Avenue | Take It Off! | NotNowMusic | ||||
The Ventures | Harlem Nocturne | No Trespassing | Jasmine | ||||
The 5. 6. 7. 8s | Harlem Nocturne | The 5. 6. 7. 8s | Au Go Go | ||||
Muddy Waters | Mannish Boy | Electric Mud | Chess MCA | ||||
Bill Bojangles Robinson with Irving Mills & His Hotsy Totsy Gang (1929) | Ain't Misbehavin' | F. Scott Fitzgerald & the Music of the Jazz Age | Milan | ||||
Eddie Chamblee | It Ain't Necessarily Blues | Honkers & Bar Walkers | Delmark | ||||
Jimmy Smith | Blues & the Abstract Truth | Walk On The Wild Side - Best of the Verve Years | Verve | ||||
Jimmy Smith | St. James Infirmary | Walk On The Wild Side - Best of the Verve Years | Verve |