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Here's a two chord wonder. Chord changes for Nat Adderly's Jive Samba. The reason this samba is jive, is that in the first five beats of the Bb7 chords, Adderly uses the riff that was used to mark the punch lines of jokes on the Rowan And Martin Laugh-In comedy program that was on American TV around the time this tune was written.

BENNY GOLSON...
FROM NPR MUSIC... Shortly after his arrival in New York, Golson was one of 57 jazz greats asked to pose at a mass photo shoot for anEsquire magazine feature. The famous Art Kane photo from 1958, known as "Great Day in Harlem" or simply "Harlem 1958," places Golson alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk and a host of other musicians.

The historic photo and Benny Golson both got renewed attention, due to their roles in the Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal. The film's subplot includes Tom Hanks' character's autograph hunt for all who were in the photo — including Golson, who makes a brief appearance on screen... MORE from NPR..

Musicians in the photograph

Red Allen Buster Bailey Count Basie Emmett Berry Art Blakey Lawrence Brown Scoville Browne Buck Clayton Bill Crump Vic Dickenson Roy Eldridge Art Farmer Bud Freeman Dizzy Gillespie Tyree Glenn Benny Golson Sonny Greer Johnny Griffin Gigi Gryce

Coleman Hawkins J.C. Heard Jay C. Higginbotham Milt Hinton Chubby Jackson Hilton Jefferson Osie Johnson Hank Jones Jo Jones Jimmy Jones Taft Jordan Max Kaminsky Gene Krupa Eddie Locke Marian McPartland Charles Mingus Miff Mole Thelonious Monk Gerry Mulligan

Oscar Pettiford Rudy Powell Luckey Roberts Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing Pee Wee Russell Sahib Shihab Horace Silver Zutty Singleton Stuff Smith Rex Stewart Maxine Sullivan Joe Thomas Wilbur Ware Dickie Wells George Wettling Ernie Wilkins Mary Lou Williams Lester Young

“When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire,” Dizzy Gillespie recalled, “I said to myself, ‘Here’s my chance to see all these musicians without going to a funeral.’”

The subjects caught in Kane’s lens spanned the stylistic range from New Orleans to Chicago to Swing to Bebop to Modern. The oldest, Harlem stride pianist Luckey Roberts, was 71.

Seven Steps...
Recording Date
Apr 16, 1963 - May 14, 1963

All Together for Music in PPS!

ALL TOGETHER IN MUSIC FOR PPS!

DATE: Saturday, May 14
TIME: gether at 12:45, sing at 1:00, done by 1:30
WHERE: Director Park,
in downtown Portland between Yamhill and Taylor and Park and 9th avenue.

"We want to share our love of music and demonstrate how music can bring folks together from different neighborhoods and different schools and still have a common experience through music. This event will bring students from all over the district together to sing 4 songs."

(This event is not a rally or political event).

Monk, Lateef, Lightsey, Leonhart, Davis and Montgomery 11am to 1pm, today on KMHD broadcast of HARD CHOICES

Thelonious Monk offers it "Straight No Chaser" (post bop) Yusef Lateef is "Part of the Search" (hard bop), Kirk Lightley can "Speak No Evil" (post bop), Andy Laverne sees a "Double Standard" (post bop), Jay Leonhart is "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (hard bop), Art Davis provides "Evidence" (post, hard bop) for Wes Montgomery who interprets "Blue Monk" in 1965 (video) on HARD CHOICES http://hardchoicesblog.blogspot.com/ -Shawn K

Shirley Nanette on Oregon Art Beat

Watch it here now or tomorrow night on OPB TV.

Percy Heath (1923), Bob Florence, Wynton Marsalis, and Wayne Shorter.

Bassist (hard bop) Percy Heath's birthday (1923-4/28/2005) in London with MJQ (video), Bob Florence (post bop) "With All the Bells and Whistles," Wynton Marsalis (post bop) illustrating "Bright Corners," and "In Walked Bud" with Art and Thelonious- on HARD CHOICES Saturday 11am to 1pm.

Wayne Shorter -photo Thomas Doms



A product of one of jazz's most illustrious families, Percy Heath and his sublime, swinging bass served as the cornerstone of the Modern Jazz Quartet for over four decades. Heath was born in Wilmington, NC, on April 23, 1930. The second of four children, he was raised in Philadelphia, receiving his first instrument, a violin, at the age of eight. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, and assigned to fly P-4s and P-47s as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen. Heath managed to avoid combat, and after World War II ended, he purchased a standup bass and enrolled in Philadelphia's Granoff School of Music. After a stint behind pianist Red Garland, he signed on with the house band at the local Down Beat Club. There he met bebop trumpeter Howard McGhee, and by 1947, Heath and his saxophonist brother Jimmy were touring as members of McGhee's sextet, appearing the following year at the premiere Festival International de Jazz in Paris. The Heath brothers relocated to New York City in 1949, and there Percy collaborated with a who's who of postwar jazz icons including Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Sonny Rollins. From 1950 to 1952, he and Jimmy reunited as members of Dizzy Gillespie's sextet.