This week and next, I will be surveying a few of the classic Blue Note Record releases from their early formative years from the mid-50’s to mid-60’s. Featured artists will include Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon, Art Blakey Lee Morgan, Kenny Burrell, John Coltrane and many others. I hope you’ll join me to hear some important music done by some jazz greatest artists when many of them were first starting out. Join me this week and every week for Jazz Unlimited with Paul Anthony on SocietyBytes Radio part of the Radio Ear Network Family. 

This week we revisit an archive edition of Jazz Unlimited from 2001 featuring work by Diana Kral, guitarist Randy Johnston, Rusty Bryant playing Tenor on this date, seldom heard but elegant work by pianist Laslo Gardony, the vocal work of Carolyn Leonhart, Eric Alexander and others. 

This week we revisit an archive edition of Jazz Unlimited from 2001 featuring work by Diana Kral, guitarist Randy Johnston, Rusty Bryant playing Tenor on this date, seldom heard but elegant work by pianist Laslo Gardony, the vocal work of Carolyn Leonhart, Eric Alexander and others.

This time we feature performances done LIVE from all over the world…Richie Cole and Eddie Jefferson from Chicago, Freddie Hubbard in San Francisco, The Mingus Big Band and early Dave Brubeck from New York, pianist Michel Camilo in London and Stan Getz and Gary Burton from Washington, D.C. Great performers, classic performances on Jazz Unlimited with Paul Anthony.

A Jazz Archives edition of Jazz Unlimited: An interview with singer Susannah McCorkle recorded in 1995 several years before she committed suicide at age 55. She talks about Irving Berlin and how he suffered from depression when she herself suffered from the same malady which ultimately led to her own death. 

A Jazz Archives edition of Jazz Unlimited: An interview with singer Susannah McCorkle recorded in 1995 several years before she committed suicide at age 55. She talks about Irving Berlin and how he suffered from depression when she herself suffered from the same malady which ultimately led to her own death. 

A Jazz Archives edition of Jazz Unlimited: An interview with singer Susannah McCorkle recorded in 1995 several years before she committed suicide at age 55. She talks about Irving Berlin and how he suffered from depression when she herself suffered from the same malady which ultimately led to her own death. 

1.Still Doing Our Thing(4:47) Behn Gillece  Same(2021)

    Behn, vibes, Art Hirahara, pn

2. Doin Alright(5:33) Aaron Heick Romantic Jazz Trio

     Heick, reeds; John DiMartino, piano

3. Night & Day(7:07) Adam Makovich Maybeck Hall

 4. A Fine Romance(3:34) Billie Holliday

5. Friday Night at the Cadillac Club(5:28)) Bob Berg

    Short Stories 1987, Mike Stern, gt; Donn Grolnick, organ

During high school in Burlington, New Jersey, Gillece played drums and percussion in concert and marching band; he studied vibraphone while pursuing his master’s degree at New York’s SUNY Purchase. “What made me lean towards vibes was that it put you in the front of the ensemble, and you’re not only playing a drum part, but you’re also learning composition,” he says. “It was an opportunity to explore melody and harmony that I wasn’t getting from general percussion.”

6. Fantasia Brasileira(5:11) Behn Gillece Walk on Fire(2017)

     Bruce Harris, Trpt; Adam Birnbaum,pn; Mike Dease,tmbn

     Walt Weiskopf, tn sax

7. Three Little Words(5:44) Benny Carter At Montreau 1977

     Ray Bryant, pn; Guy Pedersen, bs

8. Who Can I Turn To(4:29) Benny Green Solo Piano

9. Extraction(5:30) Behn Gillece Still doingOur Thing(2021)

     Art Hirihara, Boris Koslov-Fender Rhodes, Rudy Royston

10. My Shining Hour(4:09) Royal Bosters Party of Four

       Steve Schmidt, pn; Feat. Pete McGuiness scatting

11. Spector(6:28) Behn Gillece Walk on Fire

       Adam Birnbaum, pn.

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Wk of May 11, 2021

1.Still Doing Our Thing(4:47) Behn Gillece  Same(2021)

    Behn, vibes, Art Hirahara, pn

Talk:

2. Doin Alright(5:33) Aaron Heick Romantic Jazz Trio

     Heick, reeds; John DiMartino, piano

3. Night & Day(7:07) Adam Makovich Maybeck Hall

Talk & Cue:

4. A Fine Romance(3:34) Billie Holliday

5. Friday Night at the Cadillac Club(5:28)) Bob Berg

    Short Stories 1987, Mike Stern, gt; Donn Grolnick, organ

Talk:

During high school in Burlington, New Jersey, Gillece played drums and percussion in concert and marching band; he studied vibraphone while pursuing his master’s degree at New York’s SUNY Purchase. “What made me lean towards vibes was that it put you in the front of the ensemble, and you’re not only playing a drum part, but you’re also learning composition,” he says. “It was an opportunity to explore melody and harmony that I wasn’t getting from general percussion.”

6. Fantasia Brasileira(5:11) Behn Gillece Walk on Fire(2017)

     Bruce Harris, Trpt; Adam Birnbaum,pn; Mike Dease,tmbn

     Walt Weiskopf, tn sax

7. Three Little Words(5:44) Benny Carter At Montreau 1977

     Ray Bryant, pn; Guy Pedersen, bs

Talk:

8. Who Can I Turn To(4:29) Benny Green Solo Piano

9. Extraction(5:30) Behn Gillece Still doingOur Thing(2021)

     Art Hirihara, Boris Koslov-Fender Rhodes, Rudy Royston

10. My Shining Hour(4:09) Royal Bosters Party of Four

       Steve Schmidt, pn; Feat. Pete McGuiness scatting

11. Spector(6:28) Behn Gillece Walk on Fire

       Adam Birnbaum, pn.