Folk & Beyond [Playlist - 10/30/08] Special Jazz Marathon Edition w guest host John Piller & Aer – The Bop Masters: Sonny Clark and Kenny Dorham

—————- Special Jazz Marathon Edition w guest host John Piller & Aer – The Bop Masters: Sonny Clark and Kenny Dorham —————-

1. “Curtain Call” {Hank Mobley} – Hank Mobley – Curtain Call [Blue Note: 1957]
   …featuring both Sonny Clark & Kenny Dorham together – a rare occurrence.
2. “Cool Struttin’” {Sonny Clark} – Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’ [Blue Note: 1958]
   “probably Sonny’s most famous LP & most famous composition” w Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Paul Chambers & “Philly” Joe Jones.
3. “Blue Bossa” {Kenny Dorham} – Joe Henderson – Page One [Blue Note: 1963]
   featuring Kenny Dorham…. (“probably Kenny’s most famous composition”) w McCoy Tyner on piano.
4. “Blues in the Night” {Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer} – Sonny Clark – Standards [Blue Note: 1958]
   Trio w Wes Landers & Paul Chambers.
5. “Yesterdays” {Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern} – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – At The Café Bohemia, Volume 2 [live] [Blue Note: 1955]
   Art Blakey, Horace Silver (piano solo), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins.
6. “Minor Meeting (first version)” {Sonny Clark} – Sonny Clark – My Conception [Blue Note: 1959]
   Sonny Clark with tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, guitarist Kenny Burrell, and drummer Pete LaRoca. (mis-announced as Eastern Incident….)
7. “Sunrise in Mexico” {Kenny Dorham} – Clifford Jordan – Starting Time [Original Jazz Classics: 1961]
   Distinctive tenor sax of Clifford Jordan featuring veteran trumpeter Kenny Dorham, with pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath.
8. “Three Fingers North” {Sonny Clark} – Larance Marable Quartet – Tenorman [Imperial/Jazz West/Blue Note: 1956]
   Drummer Larance Marable Quartet featuring Sonny Clark on piano and James Clay on tenor sax with Jimmy Bond on bass.
9. “We Wanna Cook” {Bennie Green} – Bennie Green – Soul Stirrin’ [Blue Note: 1958]
   Trombonist Bennie Green, with pianist Sonny Clark, saxophonists Gene Ammons and Billy Root, bassist Ike Isaacs and drummer Elvin Jones.
10. “Autumn Leaves” {Joseph Kosma/Johnny Mercer/Jacques Prévert} – Kenny Dorham – Kenny Dorham Sings and Plays: This Is the Moment! [Riverside/Original Jazz Classics: 1958]
    Kenny Dorham sings on all ten of this recordings selections. He had never hinted at any desire to sing previously and this was his one and only vocal album. Kenny’s muted trumpet is supported here by and Curtis Fuller’s trombone & pianist Cedar Walton’s recording debut.
11. “Dial S for Sonny” {Sonny Clark} – Sonny Clark – Dial S for Sonny [Blue Note: 1957]
    Sonny Clark’s first session for Blue Note Records and his first session as a leader. Clark leads a first-rate group with Art Farmer (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Wilbur Ware (bass), Louis Hayes (drums).
12. “Woody ‘n You” {Dizzy Gillespie} – Max Roach – Max Roach Plus 4 [EmArcy: 1956]
    Max Roach (drums) with trumpeter Kenny Dorham, pianist Ray Bryant, tenor sax great Sonny Rollins & bassist George Morrow.
13. “Flight 19″ {Andrew Hill} – Andrew Hill – Point of Departure [Blue Note: 1964]
    Pianist & composer Andrew Hill with Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor sax, Richard Davis on bass, & Tony Williams on drums.
14. “Voodoo” {Sonny Clark} – Sonny Clark – Leapin’ & Lopin’ [Blue Note: 1961]
    Sonny with tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, bassist Butch Warren, & drummer Billy Higgins.