Favoriting The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter: Playlist from May 26, 2024 Favoriting

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Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Count Basie  M Squad Theme (excerpt)   Favoriting Basic Basie  MPS  1969  Eric Dixon (fl) Freddie Green (g) Norman Keenan (b) Harold Jones (d) Chico O'Farrill (arr), et al. 
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Red Garland 

M Squad Theme   Favoriting

Red In Bluesville 

Prestige 

1969 

4/17/1959: Red Garland (p) Sam Jones (b) Art Taylor (d) 

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Charlie Parker's Reboppers  Now's the Time   Favoriting Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions  Savoy Jazz  1988  11/26/1945: Miles Davis (tp Dizzy Gillespie (p) Charlie Parker (as) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) 
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Miles Davis All Stars  Sippin' at Bells   Favoriting Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions  Savoy Jazz  1988  11/26/1945: Miles Davis (tp Dizzy Gillespie (p) Charlie Parker (as) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)    0:08:23 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker Quintet  Embraceable You   Favoriting The Legendary Dial Masters, Vol. 1  Stash  1989  10/28/1947: Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Duke Jordan (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) 
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Charlie Parker All-Stars  Ah-Leu-Cha   Favoriting Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions  Savoy Jazz  1988  9/18/1948: Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) 
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Charlie Parker All-Stars  Constellation   Favoriting Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions  Savoy Jazz  1988  9/18/1948: Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d)    0:17:02 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis  Move   Favoriting The Complete Birth Of The Cool  Capitol  1998  9/18/1948. Royal Roost. WMCA-AM broadcast. Personnel via Peter Losin's Miles Ahead: Miles Davis (tpt); Michael Zwerin (tb); Junior Collins (frh); Bill Barber (tuba); Lee Konitz (as); Gerry Mulligan (bs); John Lewis (p); Dillon "Curley" Russell (b); Max Roach (d) 
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Charlie Parker All-Stars  Perhaps   Favoriting Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions  Savoy Jazz  1988  9/24/1948: Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) John Lewis (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) 
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Miles Davis and His Orchestra  Boplicity   Favoriting The Complete Birth Of The Cool  Capitol  1949  4/22/1949: Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Sandy Siegelstein (fhr) Bill Barber (tu) Lee Konitz (as) Gerry Mulligan (bar,arr) John Lewis (p,arr) Nelson Boyd (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Gil Evans (arr) 
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Music behind DJ:
Mary Lou Williams 

Medi I   Favoriting

Zoning 

Smithsonian Folkways 

 

1/17/1974, with Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar). DJP edit. 

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Miles Davis  Weirdo   Favoriting Miles Davis Volume 1  Blue Note  1988  3/6/1954: Miles Davis (tpt); Horace Silver (p); Percy Heath (b); Art Blakey (d). 
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Miles Davis All Stars  Blue 'n' Boogie   Favoriting Walkin'  Prestige  1957  4/9/1954: Miles Davis (tp) J.J. Johnson (tb) Lucky Thompson (ts) Horace Silver (p) Percy Heath (b) Kenny Clarke (d) 
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Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants  The Man I Love (false start & take 1)   Favoriting Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants [RVG Remasters]  Prestige  2008  12/24/1954: Miles Davis (tp) Milt Jackson (vib) Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b) Kenny Clarke (d) 
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Music behind DJ:
Don Pullen 

Big Alice (alternate take)   Favoriting

Richard's Tune 

Sackville 

 

2014 CD reissue of "Solo Piano Album" with two bonus tracks. Recorded 1975. 

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Miles Davis  'Round Midnight   Favoriting Miles Davis At Newport 1955-1975, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4  Columbia  2015  7/17/1955: Miles Davis (tp) Zoot Sims (ts) Gerry Mulligan (bar) Thelonious Monk (p) Percy Heath (b) Connie Kay (d) 
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The Miles Davis Quintet  It Never Entered My Mind   Favoriting Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet  Prestige  1960  5/11/1956: Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (d) 
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The Miles Davis Quintet  Oleo   Favoriting Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet  Prestige  1958  10/26/1956: Miles Davis (tp) John Coltrane (ts) Red Garland (p) Paul Chambers (b) Philly Joe Jones (d) 
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Miles Davis  Lady Be Good   Favoriting Miscellaneous Davis 1955-1957  Jazz Unlimited  1994  11/19/1956: Zurich. Miles Davis (tp) Lester Young (ts) Rene Urtreger (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Christian Garros (d) 
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Miles Davis Quintet  Solar   Favoriting In Concert At The Olympia, Paris 1957  Fresh Sound Records  2023  11/30/1957: Miles Davis (tp) Barney Wilen (ts) Rene Urtreger (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (d) 
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Miles Davis  Florence sur les Champs-Élysées   Favoriting The Original Mono Recordings  Columbia Legacy  2013  December 1957: Miles Davis (tp) Barney Wilen (ts) Rene Urtreger (p) Pierre Michelot (b) Kenny Clarke (d) 
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Music behind DJ:
Susie Ibarra Trio 

Dreams (Alternate Take)   Favoriting

Radiance 

Hopscotch 

1999 

7/18/1999: Cooper-Moore (p,harp,diddley-bo) Charles Burnham (vln) Susie Ibarra (d,perc) 

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Miles Davis  On Green Dolphin Street   Favoriting Jazz Track  Columbia  1959  5/26/1958: Miles Davis (tp) Cannonball Adderley (as) John Coltrane (ts) Bill Evans (p) Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d) 
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Miles Davis  Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab   Favoriting Porgy and Bess  Columbia  1959  7/29/1958: Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans 
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Miles Davis  Well You Needn't (unedited)   Favoriting In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk: Complete  Columbia Legacy  2003  4/22/1961, second set. Miles Davis (tp) Hank Mobley (ts) Wynton Kelly (p) Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d) 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🕰 6:48pm
Listener Gregory:

Nice picture! Is that the Stork Club?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @6:48
Hang on, I will caption it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
doctorjazz:

Hello DJ Peter, listening on the road (will be driving home from Boston)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
tom tom the pipers son:

hello peter and all...
  7:01pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, keep one eye on our comments and the other on the road, for safety.
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Jeff Golick:

M Squad borrowed a little from Now's the Time? Hi!
  7:05pm
Listener Gregory:

I’ve always been puzzled about why Parker hired Miles, whose trumpet skills were not great at the time. And he had almost no experience playing w national-level acts, no?
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ Song: "Now's the Time" by "Charlie Parker's Reboppers"
And...Dizzy on piano? (Looking at the notes.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
DJ Peter:

Hey Jeff: yeah maybe! and maybe Monk's "Raise Four" took from M Squad?

Hi LG, Doc, tom tom. Everyone keep your eyes where they should be, and you can leave the ears part to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Jeff Golick @7:06
I think the story is that Sadik Hakim was a little too amped up, so Dizzy relieved him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
DJ Peter:

Jumping ahead now to the Parker quintet led by Miles, with Bird on tenor
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:05
Maybe he knew he could push him around a bit? And maybe also wanted a contrasting style from the trumpet (which Miles definitely took from when he was picking sax players).
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Jeff Golick:

Somewhere in the astral plane, Phil Schaap turns his lonely ears to you...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Jeff Golick @7:10
Woo woo woo!
  7:11pm
Listener Gregory:

Well, I think Parker’s record in paying side musicians was spotty, and Miles would be less likely to complain. “Go back to Julliard if you don’t like it!”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
DJ Peter:

Miles now sounds totally assured. Two tracks from this session followed by an aircheck... yeah, following up this session with a gig at the Roost, can you imagine?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
doctorjazz:

I do know all thus Bird like the back of my hand (and it I'd great to hear them)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
tom tom the pipers son:

at a charle parker birthday concert in tompkins square park, max roach told the story of when davis was in charlie parker group he could not play dizzy's parts, he was not fast enough, so they told him to use a mute and that was how he started using a mute
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
DJ Peter:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:22
Wow, do you remember which band Max was playing with? (assuming he played and didn't just emcee)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ DJ Peter @7:25
max was solo...it was a beautiful day and it felt he just played to nature...a very natural solo set
  🕰 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
WR:

Hi DJ Peter and folks. Many more Miles to go.
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Jeff Golick:

Art Blakey might not be the person you want to see after just kicking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Jeff Golick @7:37
Hey WR!

Hmm, I'm sure you're right Jeff. But had Miles taken up boxing by this time?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Peter and all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
DJ Peter:

Salutations coelachanthø!
  7:41pm
Listener Gregory:

Haven’t heard Weirdo in a long time. It sounds like a slowed-down Walkin’, no?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:41
Indeed. First recorded by Ammons & Stitt as "Swampy" if memory serves. Then the ornamentation got added and it was credited to Richard Carpenter, who certainly didn't write it and certainly was a piece of work. The kinda guy where you check that your wallet is still in your pocket after he walks away.
  7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

I think every major jazz musician should have recorded w Milt Jackson.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:52
Dig!

Again contrasts: Milt's prolixity, followed by Monk's acerbic wit.
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Kat in the chat:

Good evening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
DJ Peter:

Hi Kat! I hear you caught Marshall Allen's 100th, sorry I missed it! Didn't realize you were on the scene in Philly!
  7:55pm
Listener Gregory:

Does anyone else sense some passive aggression in Monk’s solo?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ DJ Peter @7:55
Yeah I moved to Philly a year ago, the Arkestra is a local band for me now, haha
  8:01pm
Listener Gregory:

Interesting story about Monk. Why on earth hire him and then tell him not to play? You knew what you were getting. Maybe the producer hired him.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
doctorjazz:

Break in the driving, digging the sounds! On the roadfor the rest.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Kat in the chat @7:58
Awesome, next time I'm at Solar Myth I'll try to wear some WFMU gear, say hi if you see me. (Have tickets for Nicole Mitchell, I think that's Friday?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ DJ Peter @8:05
I don't have plans for Solar Myth coming up but I'll try to remember to shout them out here if I do! Yeah I definitely accosted a couple at the Arkestra show with WFMU T-shirts, one of them had the John Allen "Jazz" shirt which I've never seen in the wild
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "It Never Entered My Mind" by "The Miles Davis Qui...
elements of 'everytime i say goodbye ' in this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
DJ Peter:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:11
Yeah... the pedal point... so sexy...
Avatar 🕰 8:14pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ DJ Peter @8:12
This rhythm section deserves kudos just as much as those of the "Great Quintets."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "It Never Entered My Mind" by "The Miles Davis Qui...
From the first of the marathon quintet sessions... up next from the second (and RVG may have messed up on the mic placement for the bass, it's a bit harsher than he usually went for)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Oleo" by "The Miles Davis Quintet"
this sounds very much gillespie
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tom tom the pipers son:

esp the opening "line"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
DJ Peter:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:17
👍
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
DJ Peter:

Gonna keep rollin' into the next set: Miles in Europe
  8:24pm
Listener Gregory:

Interesting that Oleo is a Sonny Rollins tune but is much more closely associated w Miles. I’ve had musicians tell me (well, one) that it’s his composition. Did Rollins play it much?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
tom tom the pipers son:

seems like young is playing 'brighter' than usual
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:24
Didn't he do it on that live album with Don Cherry?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
DJ Peter:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:24
Certainly not Prez at his tip top, but I think he must have been happy to be feted across Europe and I'm sure Miles showed him mucho respect
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ DJ Peter @8:27
that's nice to imagine... he actually didn't play much...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "Solar" by "Miles Davis Quintet"
In contrast with a lot of great compositions, "Solar" was quickly picked up by many... and yet this is the only other time Miles is caught on tape performing it. (Originally from the flip side of the Walkin' LP)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
DJ Peter:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @8:28
I hear a lot of Lester in Miles's playing: the mid-register, laying back rhythmically, floating over the chord changes (unlike Coleman Hawkins), making a virtue of the frailty of his tone...
Avatar 🕰 8:31pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ DJ Peter @8:29
Is it based on the chords of How High the Moon? I've heard it a few dozen times, but this is the first it's occurred to me. I am not that sharp.
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Jeff Golick:

↳ DJ Peter @8:29
I believe Solar is shown/notated on Davis's gravestone. And also that there is some question around authorship?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:31
The intriguing thing about Solar (and I think why musicians took to it) is that you can play it as a 12-bar blues, but it has intriguing harmonies if you want to lean into them.
Avatar 🕰 8:32pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Jeff Golick @8:31
An authorship dispute involving Miles? Come on, Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
DJ Peter:

There's similarity to "How High the Moon" for sure, but it cycles back after 12 bars... maybe foreshadowing a characteristic of the Wayne-Herbie-Ron-Tony quintet's compositions, which disguise where the form repeats
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ DJ Peter @8:31
yes i thought young 'brighter' tone was an accommodation to miles davis and sounds like you're saying davis took to it with kindness. i did not listen that closely
Avatar 🕰 8:41pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ DJ Peter @8:35
It may have been an idiosyncracy of the pianist's chords.
  8:46pm
Listener Gregory:

Re: Green Dolphin… remind me to play this at my funeral.
Avatar 8:47pm
DL in LA:

↳ Song: "Florence sur les Champs-Élysées" by "Miles Davis"
Loved this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
DJ Peter:

↳ DL in LA @8:47
Hey DL, glad! Even sexier when you watch Jeanne Moreau walking around Paris with Miles as her soundtrack!
  8:52pm
Listener Gregory:

They’re so fresh and fine, and they’re just off the vine—strawberries!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
DJ Peter:

↳ Song: "Well You Needn't (unedited)" by "Miles Davis"
Speaking of tone... to me this is Miles at his absolute technical peak, where he can make the trumpet do whatever he wants. Of course what made him an amazing artist was that he could do great things when his lip wasn't cooperating too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
DJ Peter:

Primal Ice Cream with Solo Mon coming up... wfmu.org...
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tom tom the pipers son:

oh. gee thanks peter...
Avatar 8:58pm
northguineahills:

ack, here for the end!
  8:59pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks a lot, Peter. You managed to find some good stuff in his catalog. Very enjoyable show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
DJ Peter:

↳ northguineahills @8:58
ack!
Avatar 8:59pm
DL in LA:

↳ DJ Peter @8:49
What movie?
  🕰 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
WR:

Thank you! DJ Peter! Wasn't on the playlist much but we enjoyed all the tunes and info.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
DJ Peter:

Louis Malle's "Life to the Scaffold" aka "Elevator to the Gallows" aka "Ascenseur sur l'echafaud"
Avatar 9:00pm
DL in LA:

Def checking this archive later!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
DJ Peter:

Thanks everybody!
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Kat in the chat:

Thanks Peter!
Avatar 🕰 Swag For Life Member 9:32pm
Jeff Golick:

Belated thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Peter! (belated)
Avatar 9:51pm
DL in LA:

↳ DJ Peter @8:59
Thanks Peter!!
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doctorjazz:

Great show, listened on my drive, thanks DJ Peter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
DJ Peter:

↳ DJ Peter @7:44
Correction: the Ammons-Stitt release (4/26/1950) was named "Gravy." 3/4 of this session has Carpenter's name on the tracks. It has been reported that Carpenter found musicians who needed money (habitually) and got his name on their compositions in the process.
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