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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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V/A | When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer (from Midsummer Night's Dream) | Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World | Rhino / Wea | April is National Poetry Month & the month of Shakespeare's birth. | |||
Thelonious Monk | Darn That Dream | Solo Monk | Sbme Special Mkts. | ||||
John Cale | Moon | Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac | Rykodisc | Poem is by Kerouac. | |||
Ballin' Jack | Moonlight Serenade (Swing Moment #5) | The Big Head | Knitting Factory | ||||
Sun Ra | Moon Dance | Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow | Evidence | ||||
T.S. Eliot | The Burial of The Dead | The Waste Land, read by T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot | ||||
Bob Dorough | Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most | Right On My Way Home | Blue Note | Lyricist Fran Landesman's jazz take on the opening lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Music by Tommy Wolf. | |||
V/A (incl. Groucho Marx) | The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring, Tra-La! | The Mikado (Original Cast Recording) | Drg | Gilbert & Sullivan music and lyrics. | |||
Billy Strayhorn | A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing | Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life | Blue Note | ||||
Brian Greene and V/A | Brush Up Your Shakespeare | Kiss Me Kate (Original Studio Cast) | Jay Records | ||||
V/A | To Be Or Not To Be | Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World | Rhino / Wea | I believe that's John Barrymore as Hamlet. | |||
Mr. Zombie Orchestra | Such Sweet Thunder | Someone Likes It Zombie | Velvet Luna | ||||
Duke Ellington | The Star-Crossed Lovers | The Private Collection, Vol. 6 Dance Dates, California, 1958 | Atlantic | ||||
Edd Byrnes | Like I Love You | Music For Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds For The Connoisseur | TTW | ||||
Jack Kerouac | Charlie Parker | Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries & Influences | 101 Distribution | A set inspired by Charlie Parker's theory that in order to play jazz you needed to know "Cherokee", the blues, and "I Got Rhythm". | |||
Charlie Parker | I Got Rhythm | Bird In Time, 1940 - 1947 | ESP Disk | ||||
Joe Pass | Cherokee | Virtuoso | Original Jazz Classics | ||||
Lena Horne | I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues | The Young Star: Bluebird's Best | RCA Bluebird | ||||
Chris Byars Quartet | Bop-Ography | Bop-Ography | SteepleChase | ||||
Benny Goodman | I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues | 100 Vocal & Jazz Classics, Vol. 3 (1932 - 1934) | Stardust Records | ||||
Multitudes Telepathic | Breathing Pyramid Cyclotron Of Watermelon | Multitudes Telepathic | pfMentum | ||||
Bud Powell | Tempus Fugit | Be-Bop Spoken Here | Proper UK | ||||
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Dog | Beat Scene: Jack Kerouac, His Contemporaries & Influences | 101 Distribution | ||||
Bryan Ferry Orchestra | Bang Bang | The Jazz Recordings: A Selection of Yellow Cocktail Music from the Baz Luhrmann's film "The Great Gatsby" | Water Tower Music | ||||
Warren Zevon | Running Through Chinese Poem Song | Kicks Joy Darkness: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac | Rykodisc | ||||
V/A | Our Revels Now Are Ended (from The Tempest) | Be Thou Persuaded: Living In a Shakespearean World | Rhino / Wea | I Believe that's Michael Redgrave as Prospero. | |||
Allen Toussaint | St. James Infirmary | The Bright Mississippi | Nonesuch |