This is the last of my 4 part series on folk songs ‘jazzified’. I also introduce you to some Western Swing—which combines so many different genres.

I play jazz recordings by The Stanley Clarke Trio with Hiromi, John Coltrane, Vince Guaraldi, Big Miller with Jon Hendricks, Seattle’s Floyd Standifer, and the wonderful Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs.

Western Swing recordings are by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys and Al Bernard.

The Coltrane tune is Song of The Underground Railroad, taken from Follow The Drinking Gourd. You’ll hear Eric Bibb singing the latter.

I close off the program with a re-imagining of a French Canadian folk song (J’entends Le Moulin) by Vancouver orchestrator Daniel Hersog.

This has been one of my favourite series of episodes on Discovering Jazz. I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to it as much as I’ve enjoyed putting it together.