WFMU: The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from February 27, 2022

Listener comments!
	11:55am Stork: How doot-doot-dee-doo, Clubbies? Come on in and listen to the master blow your mind! Happy birthday, Dex!!!
	🥁 12:01pm listener james from westwood: Good Sunday, Stork and all!
	12:01pm Listening Out There: Ogument
	🥁 12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...them noir Cool era photos of Dexter are kinda the absolute definitive Jazz images...
	12:02pm hyde: well, this looks promising.
	12:03pm Doug Schulkind: Billy Eckstine's childhood home is a few doors down from a really excellent moule frites restaurant here in Pittsburgh.
	12:04pm StringOFperils: Jeff, it you're still there, thanks!
	12:04pm chresti: Hi Stork and big cheese titans of listening!
	12:05pm DJpeterDE: I'm down with Dex! Is the woman in the third from last photo Maxine? (The last photo clearly is)
	12:05pm StringOFperils: Hello, Stork! Hello Big Scallion! Hello everybody!
	12:06pm Franco Twinkie: Howdeeho Storkyoh!
	12:09pm Stork: Well, well, well now, listener james from westwood - wearing spats! Listening Out There lookin' zootie, RevRabb Nov63 always most fly,StorngOFperils - splendiferous, chresti: entirely zesty! DJpeterDE - oh, me! And Franco Twinkie - lookin' almost kinky!
	🥁 12:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm confident we're all aware that Spats is short for Spatterdashes ...but it's only right nonetheless to reflect on it occasionally...
	12:14pm abbazabba: Cheers to that, Stork. Fuck this darkness
	12:16pm Stork: The Stork welcomes StorngOfperils, chaperoned by StringOFperils.
	12:17pm Stork: OH, dang! Just realized I forgot to back-announce the other two lovely tracks in that opening set. Please consult the playlist to be in the know.
	12:18pm Stork: Have a double martini, abbazabba - do!
	12:18pm coelacanth∅: good evening Stork, storkles
	12:19pm Stork: I raise my glass to coel: skoll!!
	🥁 12:22pm WR: Hi. Still listening to the drummer stream. Stork, you announced all 3 recordings.
	12:25pm doctorjazz: Hey, Stork and Storkers! In and out today, with the fam!...
	12:25pm Stork: WR: Guess I forgot to remember that I didn't forget.
	12:27pm Stork: doc jazz: hail to thee and thy fam-i-LEE! Great to see you!
	🥁 12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I can hang with this little 1963 band for a while... Glad they were Recorded this well.
	12:28pm Stork: Now class, note down all the musical quotes Dexter throws in. Have a few extra pens handy for the task.
	🥁 12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ok - so - Bud made it to July 31, 1966...
	12:30pm Stork: RevRabb: this was a Blue Note record, done in Paris. The engineer therefore wasn't the usual Rudy van Gelder, but Claude Ermelin. Great job indeedy!!
	12:37pm doctorjazz: Nice car music...
	12:38pm doctorjazz: Nice car music...
	12:39pm doctorjazz: So nice, I said it twice!
	🥁 12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' He was among the most influential early bebop musicians, which included other greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant". His studio and performance career spanned over 40 years. Gordon's sound was commonly characterized as being "large" and spacious and he had a tendency to play behind the beat. He was known for inserting musical quotes into his solos, with sources as diverse as "Happy Birthday" and well known melodies from the operas of Wagner. This is not unusual in jazz improvisation, but Gordon did it frequently enough to make it a hallmark of his style. One of his major influences was Lester Young. Gordon, in turn, was an early influence on John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Rollins and Coltrane then influenced Gordon's playing as he explored hard bop and modal playing during the 1960s. Gordon was known for his genial and humorous stage presence. He was an advocate of playing to communicate with the audience, which was his musical approach as well. His improvisation was remarkably engaging and intelligent, but never gratuitously complex or unusual. It was always a conversation simultaneously delightful and intellectual. One of his idiosyncratic rituals was to recite lyrics from each ballad before playing it. A photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon taking a smoke break at the Royal Roost in 1948 is one of the iconic images in jazz photography... Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the Bertrand Tavernier film Round Midnight (Warner Bros, 1986) '...
	12:44pm Stork: Happy motoring, doctorjazz!!
	🥁 12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...presuming a different Carl Perkins, Jazzman...
	12:47pm Stork: Yeah, RevRabb- this track is with Kenny Drew and not Perkins. The session with Perkins is excellent, but for some reason way inferior in audio quality, even though the sessions were done very close to each other.
	🥁 12:50pm David (in London): Hello Stork and all Sunday groovers here gathered,
	12:52pm Stork: This album represents almost or maybe all of Dexter's recorded output for the entire 50's decade, due to his spending most of that time behind bars. He refused to write about it when preparing his biography. His widow/manager Maxine couldn't convince him to include those years. He told her if she wanted to, she could research and write about it (the two didn't meet until the mid-70's). So she did. www.amazon.de...
	12:54pm Stork: Greetings, David (In London)!
	🥁 12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Carl in question : www.discogs.com...
	12:56pm hyde: i was just reading Maxine's piece on Dexter Gordon and the Academy Awards. Apparently Martin Scorsese visited the set of Round Midnight and after seeing Gordon act he told her "pack your bags, you're going to the Oscars".
	1:00pm Stork: I think Scorsese was in the film, as well. It's a really fine flick. Bobby Hutcherson is in it, as well. Playing and acting.
	1:02pm hyde: yeah, i saw it when it came out! i don't remember Scorsese being in it, though i'm sure he is. 1986 was a loooong time ago
	1:06pm Stork: I think Scorcese also helped convince a studio to make the film. He and Tavernier the director were good friends.
	🥁 1:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Scorsese always with the strong connection to Musics.
	1:09pm Stork: Great solo here (Gingerbread Boy) by Ronnie Mathews.
	🥁 1:09pm David (in London): Despite the occasional misstep, Scorsese has been a force for good in film and music. Used his clout to get good things done. Can't ask for more than that.
	1:10pm hyde: ah, Scorsese plays Dexter Gordon's agent. ANd apparently he was there when Tavernier signed the deal to do the film with Irwin Winkler
	1:10pm Stork: Yeah, David - he and Jagger didn't hit it off for some reason. Shine a Light was a wasted opp to make a live Stones doc.
	🥁 1:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Presuming they locked him up in the 'war on drugs'...whole 1950s damn. Marable got himself busted to be with him ! DAMN. I say again.
	1:19pm StringOFperils: Pretty hard to celebrate Fasching when there's a long-range nuclear missile system all primed and ready to go, aimed at YOU.
	1:19pm StringOFperils: With a madman at the helm.
	1:20pm Stork: Yeah, SOp, and they cancelled it before Hitlerskaya made that threat.
	1:21pm Stork: Actually, Fasching is the name for Karneval in southern Germany, but close enough.
	🥁 1:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: With Ian MacDonald's passing - was listening to the KingCrimson debut album on BobBrainen's ...& moved powerfully again by 'Epitaph'. Comes unbidden to mind.
	1:22pm StringOFperils: Oh, I did not know that. I'll add that to the long list. Thanks!
	🥁 1:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ian *McDonald
	1:25pm Stork: @RevRabb: you can read about the insane anti-drug codes in LA during the 50's - the so-called "internal possesion of drugs" laws. Incomprehensibly stupid and unconstitutional. Needle marks or dilated, or contracted pupils was enough to get you tossed in the slammer. Needless to say, most of those characteristics were observed and acted on in cases of brown-skinned people.
	1:26pm Stork: I hadn't realized that Ian McDonald was in Foreigner. May the Lord forgive him one execrable band in a long career.
	🥁 1:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah I don't know what that was about.
	1:27pm StringOFperils: Money and a job I reckon.
	🥁 1:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: L.A. - 1950s. Interesting - as the cabaret cards in NYC are talked about all the time...
	🥁 1:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wouldn't be surprised if there were hangovers from the zoot suit riot days, &tc. ...everybody thinks California was & is always so Progressive - but Money Talks...
	🥁 1:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& of course always easy to romanticize earlier periods like the uptight 1950s without remembering the social breakthroughs that have occurred since ...the 1960s' excesses should be weighed against those...
	1:35pm hyde: Ian McDonald apparently also played baritone sax on T Rex's "Get it On (Bang a Gong)" though i confess i've never really noticed the sax on that song much
	1:37pm Stork: Boy, I really screwed up the playlist this set. Now it's set to rights.
	1:38pm Stork: Wowie, Art Blakey was great on Gotham City!
	1:39pm StringOFperils: I screw up the playbook, and feign dignity while I live with it.
	2:02pm adamdoesit: Hello Stork and swells. You've been with me, in one ear, since the show began. Barkeep, a round of Glen Passaic for the assembled, the good stuff, from the canister that makes the Geiger counter sing. We drink to the defenders of free Ukraine. With this melting cup, let us taste the bitterness of their struggle.
	🥁 2:03pm David (in London): adamdoesit, ahoy to you.
	2:03pm adamdoesit: Ahoy, David in London!
	🥁 2:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Almost wonder if keeping him on ice in the 1950s might have ironically helped prolong his career ?
	2:05pm Stork: Ahh, adamdoesit! Such largess! And not sparing our most radioactive reserves - all for your friends! Anyone who leaves today without sprouting a few frightening mutations have themselves to blame.
	2:06pm FUCK PUTIN...∅: cheers adam
	2:06pm doctorjazz: Wotta playlist! Archives for me, for shooah!
	2:07pm adamdoesit: Cheers, coel.
	2:08pm Stork: Not sure how that would have worked, RevRabb. He always played at the top of his game, no matter how long the layoff. He was simply robbed of those years. And jail was of course a horror for him.
	2:09pm Stork: love this version of The Panther with Junior Mance. Not to take away from the original with Tommy Flanagan, but this one's more funky.
	🥁 2:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He's unremitting joy & pleasure alright. He seems to have always been laughing & kind - sidestepped the Junk many Boppers were into, maybe...
	🥁 2:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Miles of course said the same about Bird. He's rehearsing the band - & Bird just doesn't show up. Time to play - Bird falls in without a flaw or a worry...
	🥁 2:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...no - addiction was apparently tied in with his incarcerations & such in the 1950s, like so many others: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥁 2:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I beg your pardon as I get caught up with History...
	2:26pm Stork: Good onya, RevRabb. Getting locked up in Paris was the last straw for him with dope. He never used after that, according to Maxine.
	2:31pm Robm: Hello fellow stork club listeners
	2:32pm Stork: Hoya hiya heya, Robm!
	2:33pm Robm: Hi your self stork don’t get a chance to listen to often
	🥁 2:35pm David (in London): Hey Robm.
	2:36pm Robm: @DIL hello too been listening to a lot of BBC the past couple of days
	2:36pm Stork: Jackie and Dex. This is sax-is-faction.
	2:37pm Stork: Glad you dropped in Robm. What's your poison (we only serve poison here. Ask around)?
	2:38pm Robm: I guess rumband coke
	2:40pm Stork: Headphones make this duet sh'wowzer!!
	2:40pm Robm: I meant rum and coke sorry
	2:42pm Stork: Harry, put the rumband back. Give him a Cuba Libre, on the house.
	2:43pm Robm: @Stork ha ha
	2:43pm Stork: 5 - count'em - 5 tenor saxes on Flying Home.
	🥁 2:44pm David (in London): Can we crack open the rum babas instead please Stork?
	2:48pm Stork: OK, I hadda look it up, David inL: A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (about a 5 cm tall, slightly tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms
	2:50pm Stork: Sounds like a drunken rent party
	3:12pm Stork: Yup, that's Luba Boschenko on Harp. You doubted it?
	3:15pm adamdoesit: I thought it was Rum Babaschenko, but what do I know?
	3:19pm hyde: this show has been spectacularly great background music for my afternoon reading. thanks!
	3:34pm Stork: I believe you just christened a new Stork Club cocktail specialty, adamdoesit. Another Double Rum Babaschenko for you, sir?
	3:36pm adamdoesit: I don't think I've ever listened to Dex for this long at a stretch. His quotes remind me a bit of Johnny Griffin; his held notes, Booker Ervin. But maybe that's just the Double Rum Babaschenko talking? Yes, please, barkeep -- it's only scientific to have a second one review the work of the first.
	3:37pm Stork: Lady C's show awaits in fewer than 20 ticks. Her show is entiled big white cloud tonight/today, and it's drifiting right over this way: wfmu.org...
	3:39pm David in London: I’ll have one more quick Rum Babaschenko for the road I reckon.
	3:39pm Stork: As always, good Cluberinas and -inos, it's been a tenor saxophone blast to be wit chuz today. Already cooking up another cockamamie show for next Sunday. Hope you enjoyed - and return - and tell a friend. (Mwah)
	3:40pm Stork: With all speed, David (in London)
	3:42pm adamdoesit: Cheers, David-in-London. Here's baba in your schenko. Stork, I could listen four hours more. Thank you for this towering tenor tour.
	3:43pm Stork: I think almost everyone was influenced by Dexter. Coltrane said he def was, and I can imagine Griffin in particular wanted to get that enormous, spacious tone too.
	3:44pm Stork: The cool thing is that Dex said Coltrane influenced him in turn when he went for the modal stuff.
	3:45pm adamdoesit: Makes sense. Griffin: little guy, playing big. Very big.
	3:45pm Stork: So big.
	3:48pm Stork: Thanks, all. Hotcha, already!
	3:53pm chresti: Thanks Stork! I may need to be carried out, unless I can just lay down awhile longer in this big cushy booth..
	3:54pm Stork: (claps hand) servants! Bring chresti's sedan chair! Make haste!!
	3:54pm Stork: (claps Hands)
	3:55pm David in London: Thanks Stork, great times at the Club today.
	3:56pm StringOFperils: Thanks Sir Stork!
	3:57pm FUCK PUTIN...∅: Thanks Stork take care
	3:57pm vanhooserd: Great stuff! Glad I got in on the last hour & got to hear Dexter sing for the first time.
	3:58pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, Stork! Wonderful sounds all afternoon!
	3:58pm Jack Tourette: Hi Stork. Thanks for not kicking me out last week! As usual, I wasn't able to listen live, but will listen to the archived show. Have a great week.
	🥁 3:58pm duke: Thanks Stork
	3:59pm Doug Schulkind: Lady Chanticleer and Ritual Music is up next: wfmu.org...
	3:59pm Stork: Thanks, David in London, 'n alluyah.
	4:00pm Stork: Jack n Duke n Dougie n vanhooserd - HUGZ!!
	🥁 4:03pm WR: Thank you Stork!
	5:39pm DJpeterDE: Hey Stork -- I'm catching up after missing the last bit of your show. The Lionel Hampton track, "Apple Core," is Gerry Mullligan's bari sax (not Dexter). (Good stuff in any case!)

The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from February 27, 2022

View Stork's profile

With billows and blasts from choirs and orchesters
Buskers and talkers
Big bands and squawkers,
the Stork Club has retained its qualities of decaying elegance and dwindling significance since the late 1950s.

Sunday Noon - 3pm (EST) | On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Give the Drummer Radio LIVE Audio Streams (Get help): Pop-up | 128k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to The Stork Club with Stork playlists | Next playlist -->

February 27, 2022: Dexter Ninety-Nine

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Billy Eckstine and his Orchestra	Blowing The Blues Away	78" DeLuxe (2001-B) (1944) B-Side	Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra Featuring: :::::Piano - John Malachi :::::Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie :::::Tenor Sax - Eugene Ammons, Dexter Gordon
Helen Humes With Dexter Gordon's Orchestra	Ain't Gonna Quit You Baby	Settin' The Pace - Dexter's Mood	Baritone Saxophone – Maurice Simon :::::Bass – Red Callender :::::Drums – J.C. Heard :::::Piano, Arranged By – Ernie Freeman :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Trumpet – Vernon Smith (2) :::::Vocals – Helen Humes :::::Written-By – Milton - Recorded: Los Angeles, November 20, 1950	0:04:07 (Pop-up)
Red Norvo Ensemble	Bop "Bop" by "Red Norvo Ensemble"	Settin' The Pace - Bop	Bass – Red Callender :::::Drums – Jackie Mills :::::Guitar – Barney Kessel :::::Piano – Dodo Marmarosa :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Giuffre :::::Trumpet – Ray Linn :::::Vibraphone – Red Norvo :::::Written-By – Norvo, Shorty Rogers - - Recorded: Los Angeles, November 30, 1947.	0:06:57 (Pop-up)
DJ Booyah!	"DJ Booyah!"			0:10:00 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	It All Began "It All Began" by "Dexter Gordon"	Dexter Gordon - Speaks (Blue Note 60's Box)		0:13:29 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon Quartet	Ruby, My Dear	Manhattan Symphonie	Bass – Rufus Reid :::::Drums – Eddie Gladden :::::Piano – George Cables Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon - - Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York - 1978	0:15:10 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	A Night In Tunisia "A Night In Tunisia" by "Dexter Gordon"	Our Man in Paris	Bud Powell – piano • Pierre Michelot – bass • Kenny Clarke – drums • - - 1963	0:23:52 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Ca'purange (Jungle Soul)	Ca'purange	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • Thad Jones – trumpet, flugelhorn • Hank Jones – piano • Stanley Clarke – double bass • Louis Hayes – drums - - - Recorded: June 22, 1972 - Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey	0:32:07 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon Quartet	Confirmation	Complete Kenny Drew & Carl Perkins Sessions	Double Bass – Leroy Vinnegar ::::::Drums – Lawrence Marable ::::::Piano – Kenny Drew ::::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon - - Recorded in Hollywood in September 1955	0:41:58 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Soul Sister "Soul Sister" by "Dexter Gordon"	Dexter Calling	Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone • Kenny Drew - piano • Paul Chambers - bass • Philly Joe Jones - drums - - Recorded May 9, 1961 Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ	0:49:45 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Gingerbread Boy "Gingerbread Boy" by "Dexter Gordon"	Homecoming: Live At The Village Vanguard	Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone • Woody Shaw - trumpet, flugelhorn • Ronnie Mathews - piano • Stafford James - bass • Louis Hayes - drums • Recorded New York, 1976 December 11, 12	0:57:25 (Pop-up)
DJ Dextrose	"DJ Dextrose"			1:11:00 (Pop-up)
Gene Ammons/Dexter Gordon	The Chase	The Chase!	Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone • Jodie Christian - piano • Rufus Reid - bass • Wilbur Campbell - drums - — - Recorded July 26, 1970 North Park Hotel, Chicago, Illinois	1:17:46 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Gotham City "Gotham City" by "Dexter Gordon"	Gotham City	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • George Benson – electric guitar • Cedar Walton – piano • Percy Heath – bass • Art Blakey – drums - - -Recorded August 11–12, 1980	1:28:09 (Pop-up)
Karin Krog & Dexter Gordon	Blues Eyes	Some Other Spring	Karin Krog - vocals • Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone, vocals • Kenny Drew - piano • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass • Espen Rud - drums - - Recorded May 10, 1970 Oslo, Norway	1:37:28 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon Trio	Lullaby For A Monster	Lullaby for a Monster	Dexter Gordon - tenor saxophone • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass • Alex Riel - drums • Recorded June 15,1976	1:42:20 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Home Run "Home Run" by "Dexter Gordon"	The Resurgence Of Dexter Gordon	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • Martin Banks – trumpet • Richard Boone – trombone • Dolo Coker – piano • Charles Green – bass • Lawrence Marable – drums • • Recorded: October 13, 1960 - United Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA	1:48:50 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Tivoli "Tivoli" by "Dexter Gordon"	Blues A La Suisse	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • Hampton Hawes – piano, electric piano • Bob Cranshaw – electric bass • Kenny Clarke – drums • Recorded during concert performance at the 1973 Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival; Saturday, July 7, 1973	1:53:55 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon With Junior Mance	The Panther	At Montreux	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • Junior Mance – piano • Martin Rivera – bass • Oliver Jackson – drums • • Recorded • June 18, 1970 • Montreux, Switzerland	2:01:59 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Dexter On Bird "Dexter On Bird" by "Dexter Gordon"	Dexter Gordon - Speaks (Blue Note 60's Box)		2:11:24 (Pop-up)
Sir Charles Thompson And His All Stars	The Street Beat	Settin' The Pace - Blowing The Blues Away	Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker :::::Bass – Jimmy Butts :::::Drums – J.C. Heard :::::Guitar – Danny Barker :::::Piano – Sir Charles Thompson :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Trumpet – Buck Clayton :::::Written-By – Sir Charles Thompson Recorded: New York, September 4, 1945	2:13:13 (Pop-up)
Sir Charles Thompson And His All Stars	Takin' Off	Settin' The Pace - Blowing The Blues Away	Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker :::::Bass – Jimmy Butts :::::Drums – J.C. Heard :::::Guitar – Danny Barker :::::Piano – Sir Charles Thompson :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Trumpet – Buck Clayton :::::Written-By – Sir Charles Thompson - - Recorded: New York, September 4, 1945	2:15:42 (Pop-up)
DJ Dexedrine	"DJ Dexedrine"			2:18:47 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Those Were The Days	Tower of Power!	Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone • James Moody – tenor saxophone (track 1) • Barry Harris – piano • Buster Williams – bass • Albert "Tootie" Heath – drums - - Recorded April 2 & 4, 1969 New York City	2:24:23 (Pop-up)
Jackie McLean & Dexter Gordon	I Can't Get Started	The Source	Alto Saxophone – Jackie McLean :::::Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen :::::Drums – Alex Riel :::::Piano – Kenny Drew :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon - - - Recorded live at "Montmartre Jazzhus", Copenhagen Recorded July 20 & 21, 1973	2:32:20 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Flying Home "Flying Home" by "Dexter Gordon"	North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts	Bass – Gene Ramsay :::::::Drums – , Gus Johnson :::::::Piano – Hank Jones :::::::Tenor Saxophone – Arnett Cobb , Budd Johnson , Buddy Tate, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet - -Recorded in Carrousel Zaal, The Hague, Netherlands, 1979	2:39:37 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Boy Saxophonist "Boy Saxophonist" by "Dexter Gordon"	Dexter Gordon - Speaks (Blue Note 60's Box)		2:50:32 (Pop-up)
Lionel Hampton	Apple Core "Apple Core" by "Lionel Hampton"	Vintage Hampton: Rare Recordings With All-Star Guests	Bass – George Duvivier :::::Congas – Candido :::::Drums – Oliver Jackson :::::Guitar – Bucky Pizzarelli :::::Piano – Hank Jones :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Vibraphone – Lionel Hampton - - 1977	2:54:10 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	In A Sentimental Mood	L.T.D. Live At The Left Bank	Bass – Victor Gaskin :::::Drums – Percy Brice :::::Piano – Bobby Timmons :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon - - Recorded in performance at the Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, MD May 4, 1969	3:00:26 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon & Orchestra	Ernie's Tune	More Than You Know	Bass Trombone – Axel Windfeldt :::::Bass, Electric Bass [Fender] – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen :::::Cello – Erling Christensen :::::Conductor, Arranged By – Palle Mikkelborg :::::Congas, Percussion – Klaus Nordsøe :::::Drums – Ed Thigpen :::::Flugelhorn – Idrees Sulieman :::::Flute [C, Alto, Bass] – Bent Larsen :::::French Horn – Preben Garnov :::::Guitar – Ole Molin :::::Harp – Luba Boschenko :::::Oboe, English Horn – Erwin Jacobsen :::::Piano, Electric Piano – Thomas Clausen :::::Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Trombone – Richard Boone, Vincent Nilsson :::::Trumpet – Idrees Sulieman :::::Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Allan Botschinsky, Benny Rosenfeld :::::Viola – Bjarne Boie Rasmussen - - - Recorded at Rosenberg Studio, Copenhagen	3:09:11 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	It's Only A Paper Moon	Sophisticated Giant	Drums – Eddie Gladden :::::Piano – George Cables :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon (tracks: 7, 8) :::::Trombone – Curtis Fuller :::::Trumpet – Woody Shaw :::::Vocals – Eddie Jefferson - - -recorded at Columbia Studios on January 26, 1979	3:18:52 (Pop-up)
DJ Dexmore	"DJ Dexmore"			3:24:02 (Pop-up)
Gene Ammons	'Treuz Bleu "'Treuz Bleu" by "Gene Ammons"	Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux	Congas – Kenneth Nash :::::Drums – Kenny Clarke :::::Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw :::::Electric Piano – Hampton Hawes :::::Alto Saxophone – Cannonball Adderley :::::Cornet – Nat Adderley :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Written-By – Gene Ammons Recorded during concert performance at the 1973 Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival; Saturday, July 7, 1973	3:30:08 (Pop-up)
Dexter Gordon	Jelly, Jelly, Jelly	Tokyo 1975	Bass – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen :::::Drums – Albert “Tootieˮ Heath :::::Piano – Kenny Drew :::::Tenor Saxophone – Dexter Gordon :::::Vocals – Dexter Gordon - - - Recorded at Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, October 1, 1975.	3:47:07 (Pop-up)
DJ Dex Education	"DJ Dex Education"			3:54:45 (Pop-up)

RSS feeds for The Stork Club with Stork: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed

| E-mail Stork | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by The Stork Club with Stork |

Listener comments!
	11:55am Stork: How doot-doot-dee-doo, Clubbies? Come on in and listen to the master blow your mind! Happy birthday, Dex!!!
	🥁 12:01pm listener james from westwood: Good Sunday, Stork and all!
	12:01pm Listening Out There: Ogument
	🥁 12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...them noir Cool era photos of Dexter are kinda the absolute definitive Jazz images...
	12:02pm hyde: well, this looks promising.
	12:03pm Doug Schulkind: Billy Eckstine's childhood home is a few doors down from a really excellent moule frites restaurant here in Pittsburgh.
	12:04pm StringOFperils: Jeff, it you're still there, thanks!
	12:04pm chresti: Hi Stork and big cheese titans of listening!
	12:05pm DJpeterDE: I'm down with Dex! Is the woman in the third from last photo Maxine? (The last photo clearly is)
	12:05pm StringOFperils: Hello, Stork! Hello Big Scallion! Hello everybody!
	12:06pm Franco Twinkie: Howdeeho Storkyoh!
	12:09pm Stork: Well, well, well now, listener james from westwood - wearing spats! Listening Out There lookin' zootie, RevRabb Nov63 always most fly,StorngOFperils - splendiferous, chresti: entirely zesty! DJpeterDE - oh, me! And Franco Twinkie - lookin' almost kinky!
	🥁 12:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'm confident we're all aware that Spats is short for Spatterdashes ...but it's only right nonetheless to reflect on it occasionally...
	12:14pm abbazabba: Cheers to that, Stork. Fuck this darkness
	12:16pm Stork: The Stork welcomes StorngOfperils, chaperoned by StringOFperils.
	12:17pm Stork: OH, dang! Just realized I forgot to back-announce the other two lovely tracks in that opening set. Please consult the playlist to be in the know.
	12:18pm Stork: Have a double martini, abbazabba - do!
	12:18pm coelacanth∅: good evening Stork, storkles
	12:19pm Stork: I raise my glass to coel: skoll!!
	🥁 12:22pm WR: Hi. Still listening to the drummer stream. Stork, you announced all 3 recordings.
	12:25pm doctorjazz: Hey, Stork and Storkers! In and out today, with the fam!...
	12:25pm Stork: WR: Guess I forgot to remember that I didn't forget.
	12:27pm Stork: doc jazz: hail to thee and thy fam-i-LEE! Great to see you!
	🥁 12:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I can hang with this little 1963 band for a while... Glad they were Recorded this well.
	12:28pm Stork: Now class, note down all the musical quotes Dexter throws in. Have a few extra pens handy for the task.
	🥁 12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ok - so - Bud made it to July 31, 1966...
	12:30pm Stork: RevRabb: this was a Blue Note record, done in Paris. The engineer therefore wasn't the usual Rudy van Gelder, but Claude Ermelin. Great job indeedy!!
	12:37pm doctorjazz: Nice car music...
	12:38pm doctorjazz: Nice car music...
	12:39pm doctorjazz: So nice, I said it twice!
	🥁 12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...' He was among the most influential early bebop musicians, which included other greats such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), so he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant". His studio and performance career spanned over 40 years. Gordon's sound was commonly characterized as being "large" and spacious and he had a tendency to play behind the beat. He was known for inserting musical quotes into his solos, with sources as diverse as "Happy Birthday" and well known melodies from the operas of Wagner. This is not unusual in jazz improvisation, but Gordon did it frequently enough to make it a hallmark of his style. One of his major influences was Lester Young. Gordon, in turn, was an early influence on John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Rollins and Coltrane then influenced Gordon's playing as he explored hard bop and modal playing during the 1960s. Gordon was known for his genial and humorous stage presence. He was an advocate of playing to communicate with the audience, which was his musical approach as well. His improvisation was remarkably engaging and intelligent, but never gratuitously complex or unusual. It was always a conversation simultaneously delightful and intellectual. One of his idiosyncratic rituals was to recite lyrics from each ballad before playing it. A photograph by Herman Leonard of Gordon taking a smoke break at the Royal Roost in 1948 is one of the iconic images in jazz photography... Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the Bertrand Tavernier film Round Midnight (Warner Bros, 1986) '...
	12:44pm Stork: Happy motoring, doctorjazz!!
	🥁 12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...presuming a different Carl Perkins, Jazzman...
	12:47pm Stork: Yeah, RevRabb- this track is with Kenny Drew and not Perkins. The session with Perkins is excellent, but for some reason way inferior in audio quality, even though the sessions were done very close to each other.
	🥁 12:50pm David (in London): Hello Stork and all Sunday groovers here gathered,
	12:52pm Stork: This album represents almost or maybe all of Dexter's recorded output for the entire 50's decade, due to his spending most of that time behind bars. He refused to write about it when preparing his biography. His widow/manager Maxine couldn't convince him to include those years. He told her if she wanted to, she could research and write about it (the two didn't meet until the mid-70's). So she did. www.amazon.de...
	12:54pm Stork: Greetings, David (In London)!
	🥁 12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The Carl in question : www.discogs.com...
	12:56pm hyde: i was just reading Maxine's piece on Dexter Gordon and the Academy Awards. Apparently Martin Scorsese visited the set of Round Midnight and after seeing Gordon act he told her "pack your bags, you're going to the Oscars".
	1:00pm Stork: I think Scorsese was in the film, as well. It's a really fine flick. Bobby Hutcherson is in it, as well. Playing and acting.
	1:02pm hyde: yeah, i saw it when it came out! i don't remember Scorsese being in it, though i'm sure he is. 1986 was a loooong time ago
	1:06pm Stork: I think Scorcese also helped convince a studio to make the film. He and Tavernier the director were good friends.
	🥁 1:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Scorsese always with the strong connection to Musics.
	1:09pm Stork: Great solo here (Gingerbread Boy) by Ronnie Mathews.
	🥁 1:09pm David (in London): Despite the occasional misstep, Scorsese has been a force for good in film and music. Used his clout to get good things done. Can't ask for more than that.
	1:10pm hyde: ah, Scorsese plays Dexter Gordon's agent. ANd apparently he was there when Tavernier signed the deal to do the film with Irwin Winkler
	1:10pm Stork: Yeah, David - he and Jagger didn't hit it off for some reason. Shine a Light was a wasted opp to make a live Stones doc.
	🥁 1:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Presuming they locked him up in the 'war on drugs'...whole 1950s damn. Marable got himself busted to be with him ! DAMN. I say again.
	1:19pm StringOFperils: Pretty hard to celebrate Fasching when there's a long-range nuclear missile system all primed and ready to go, aimed at YOU.
	1:19pm StringOFperils: With a madman at the helm.
	1:20pm Stork: Yeah, SOp, and they cancelled it before Hitlerskaya made that threat.
	1:21pm Stork: Actually, Fasching is the name for Karneval in southern Germany, but close enough.
	🥁 1:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: With Ian MacDonald's passing - was listening to the KingCrimson debut album on BobBrainen's ...& moved powerfully again by 'Epitaph'. Comes unbidden to mind.
	1:22pm StringOFperils: Oh, I did not know that. I'll add that to the long list. Thanks!
	🥁 1:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Ian *McDonald
	1:25pm Stork: @RevRabb: you can read about the insane anti-drug codes in LA during the 50's - the so-called "internal possesion of drugs" laws. Incomprehensibly stupid and unconstitutional. Needle marks or dilated, or contracted pupils was enough to get you tossed in the slammer. Needless to say, most of those characteristics were observed and acted on in cases of brown-skinned people.
	1:26pm Stork: I hadn't realized that Ian McDonald was in Foreigner. May the Lord forgive him one execrable band in a long career.
	🥁 1:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yeah I don't know what that was about.
	1:27pm StringOFperils: Money and a job I reckon.
	🥁 1:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: L.A. - 1950s. Interesting - as the cabaret cards in NYC are talked about all the time...
	🥁 1:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wouldn't be surprised if there were hangovers from the zoot suit riot days, &tc. ...everybody thinks California was & is always so Progressive - but Money Talks...
	🥁 1:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& of course always easy to romanticize earlier periods like the uptight 1950s without remembering the social breakthroughs that have occurred since ...the 1960s' excesses should be weighed against those...
	1:35pm hyde: Ian McDonald apparently also played baritone sax on T Rex's "Get it On (Bang a Gong)" though i confess i've never really noticed the sax on that song much
	1:37pm Stork: Boy, I really screwed up the playlist this set. Now it's set to rights.
	1:38pm Stork: Wowie, Art Blakey was great on Gotham City!
	1:39pm StringOFperils: I screw up the playbook, and feign dignity while I live with it.
	2:02pm adamdoesit: Hello Stork and swells. You've been with me, in one ear, since the show began. Barkeep, a round of Glen Passaic for the assembled, the good stuff, from the canister that makes the Geiger counter sing. We drink to the defenders of free Ukraine. With this melting cup, let us taste the bitterness of their struggle.
	🥁 2:03pm David (in London): adamdoesit, ahoy to you.
	2:03pm adamdoesit: Ahoy, David in London!
	🥁 2:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Almost wonder if keeping him on ice in the 1950s might have ironically helped prolong his career ?
	2:05pm Stork: Ahh, adamdoesit! Such largess! And not sparing our most radioactive reserves - all for your friends! Anyone who leaves today without sprouting a few frightening mutations have themselves to blame.
	2:06pm FUCK PUTIN...∅: cheers adam
	2:06pm doctorjazz: Wotta playlist! Archives for me, for shooah!
	2:07pm adamdoesit: Cheers, coel.
	2:08pm Stork: Not sure how that would have worked, RevRabb. He always played at the top of his game, no matter how long the layoff. He was simply robbed of those years. And jail was of course a horror for him.
	2:09pm Stork: love this version of The Panther with Junior Mance. Not to take away from the original with Tommy Flanagan, but this one's more funky.
	🥁 2:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: He's unremitting joy & pleasure alright. He seems to have always been laughing & kind - sidestepped the Junk many Boppers were into, maybe...
	🥁 2:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Miles of course said the same about Bird. He's rehearsing the band - & Bird just doesn't show up. Time to play - Bird falls in without a flaw or a worry...
	🥁 2:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...no - addiction was apparently tied in with his incarcerations & such in the 1950s, like so many others: en.wikipedia.org...
	🥁 2:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I beg your pardon as I get caught up with History...
	2:26pm Stork: Good onya, RevRabb. Getting locked up in Paris was the last straw for him with dope. He never used after that, according to Maxine.
	2:31pm Robm: Hello fellow stork club listeners
	2:32pm Stork: Hoya hiya heya, Robm!
	2:33pm Robm: Hi your self stork don’t get a chance to listen to often
	🥁 2:35pm David (in London): Hey Robm.
	2:36pm Robm: @DIL hello too been listening to a lot of BBC the past couple of days
	2:36pm Stork: Jackie and Dex. This is sax-is-faction.
	2:37pm Stork: Glad you dropped in Robm. What's your poison (we only serve poison here. Ask around)?
	2:38pm Robm: I guess rumband coke
	2:40pm Stork: Headphones make this duet sh'wowzer!!
	2:40pm Robm: I meant rum and coke sorry
	2:42pm Stork: Harry, put the rumband back. Give him a Cuba Libre, on the house.
	2:43pm Robm: @Stork ha ha
	2:43pm Stork: 5 - count'em - 5 tenor saxes on Flying Home.
	🥁 2:44pm David (in London): Can we crack open the rum babas instead please Stork?
	2:48pm Stork: OK, I hadda look it up, David inL: A rum baba or baba au rhum is a small yeast cake saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream. It is most typically made in individual servings (about a 5 cm tall, slightly tapered cylinder) but sometimes can be made in larger forms
	2:50pm Stork: Sounds like a drunken rent party
	3:12pm Stork: Yup, that's Luba Boschenko on Harp. You doubted it?
	3:15pm adamdoesit: I thought it was Rum Babaschenko, but what do I know?
	3:19pm hyde: this show has been spectacularly great background music for my afternoon reading. thanks!
	3:34pm Stork: I believe you just christened a new Stork Club cocktail specialty, adamdoesit. Another Double Rum Babaschenko for you, sir?
	3:36pm adamdoesit: I don't think I've ever listened to Dex for this long at a stretch. His quotes remind me a bit of Johnny Griffin; his held notes, Booker Ervin. But maybe that's just the Double Rum Babaschenko talking? Yes, please, barkeep -- it's only scientific to have a second one review the work of the first.
	3:37pm Stork: Lady C's show awaits in fewer than 20 ticks. Her show is entiled big white cloud tonight/today, and it's drifiting right over this way: wfmu.org...
	3:39pm David in London: I’ll have one more quick Rum Babaschenko for the road I reckon.
	3:39pm Stork: As always, good Cluberinas and -inos, it's been a tenor saxophone blast to be wit chuz today. Already cooking up another cockamamie show for next Sunday. Hope you enjoyed - and return - and tell a friend. (Mwah)
	3:40pm Stork: With all speed, David (in London)
	3:42pm adamdoesit: Cheers, David-in-London. Here's baba in your schenko. Stork, I could listen four hours more. Thank you for this towering tenor tour.
	3:43pm Stork: I think almost everyone was influenced by Dexter. Coltrane said he def was, and I can imagine Griffin in particular wanted to get that enormous, spacious tone too.
	3:44pm Stork: The cool thing is that Dex said Coltrane influenced him in turn when he went for the modal stuff.
	3:45pm adamdoesit: Makes sense. Griffin: little guy, playing big. Very big.
	3:45pm Stork: So big.
	3:48pm Stork: Thanks, all. Hotcha, already!
	3:53pm chresti: Thanks Stork! I may need to be carried out, unless I can just lay down awhile longer in this big cushy booth..
	3:54pm Stork: (claps hand) servants! Bring chresti's sedan chair! Make haste!!
	3:54pm Stork: (claps Hands)
	3:55pm David in London: Thanks Stork, great times at the Club today.
	3:56pm StringOFperils: Thanks Sir Stork!
	3:57pm FUCK PUTIN...∅: Thanks Stork take care
	3:57pm vanhooserd: Great stuff! Glad I got in on the last hour & got to hear Dexter sing for the first time.
	3:58pm Doug Schulkind: Thanks, Stork! Wonderful sounds all afternoon!
	3:58pm Jack Tourette: Hi Stork. Thanks for not kicking me out last week! As usual, I wasn't able to listen live, but will listen to the archived show. Have a great week.
	🥁 3:58pm duke: Thanks Stork
	3:59pm Doug Schulkind: Lady Chanticleer and Ritual Music is up next: wfmu.org...
	3:59pm Stork: Thanks, David in London, 'n alluyah.
	4:00pm Stork: Jack n Duke n Dougie n vanhooserd - HUGZ!!
	🥁 4:03pm WR: Thank you Stork!
	5:39pm DJpeterDE: Hey Stork -- I'm catching up after missing the last bit of your show. The Lionel Hampton track, "Apple Core," is Gerry Mullligan's bari sax (not Dexter). (Good stuff in any case!)

The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from February 27, 2022

Listener comments!

(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson