We are approaching the end of one year and the beginning of a next. That’s a good time to talk about beginnings and endings of jazz recordings.

I asked for ideas from a few jazz sites, and received great response from jazz fans and musicians from JAzzWorld and Canadian Jazz Recordings. In this episode I play some of their suggestions. Some have remarkable intros. Others have interesting extros. Some have both!

It starts with Louis Armstrong and ends with Phil Woods and Ritchie Cole. Inbetween are tracks by Bud Powell, Bill Evans, John Stetch, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown/Max Roach, Rob McConnell’s Big Brass Band, and David Occhipinti.

I play one very popular tune where the best known intro was originally the extro of a different recording. Guess which tune?