We're doing a little bit of a divergence from our normal thing. This program usually explores the developments in jazz since 1960 or so and focuses almost exclusively on the I want guard. Night the weather and it was just a nice nice couple of days being around friends and family and can a chance to eat. Some good food. If I were just sort of hartal around the radio tonight listen to some piano music well we just heard Elmo hope trio. An album simply called Hope trio. Hope the piano player Jimmy Bond on bass Frank Butler. Is a drummer the piece that we heard like someone in love. Going back to the beginning of that set. We started off with Jackie terrace and. Jackie terrace and. From his album reach and we played I should care actually I think that closed out the last set but it's Ok it's always good to hear the names again because we always have a pencil or nearby if we want one where Garland Red Garland solo Red Garland from an album title red alone again reissued on the original jazz classics originally on the prestige mood Ville moods ville. Imprints and from Red Garland we heard when I fall in love. When I was a kid my dad. It was a commercial photographer and did headshots for actors and artists and dancers and musicians and what have you he started out doing only kids. And finished his career doing only adults but he had a studio in New York for many many years and finished his career in Philadelphia one of his great loves was cast but jazz of a certain. Era So when I was growing up he would on Sundays he was really. You know after we'd all have big breakfast a lot of kids 7 kids in the family and we had this huge dining room table and we. Have coffee and tell stupid jokes and. Have some breakfast and then we do something outside usually my dad would then proceed to make up his sleep deficit week and crash on the living room couch and put his arm over his eyes to keep the sunlight out and you knew that was a good time for you to make yourself scarce don't make any noise let the old man sleep but we had a record changer you know some of you know what a record changer is it's a regular turntable except it had a spindle that was very tall and the ability to stack multiple LP records I know that is heresy now because we know L.P.'s are the thing again and we're supposed to treat them with white cotton gloves what we just played our records back then you know we were careful but we didn't get. Crazy about it. Put a stack of records maybe 3 quarters of an inch deep on there 2022 minutes a side 23 minutes aside. And if you hung out in that room you were able to keep quiet. The trouble. You know the whole education. In jazz piano. Jazz of a certain developmental stage so I listened to a lot of Red Garland Red Garland was my dad's favorite pianist. And. Ray Bright we hear a little bit later on but I heard a lot of these but one of the things about Red Garland. Is He was a panel player. In Miles Davis' quintet the 1st. Major quintet Miles had the one with John Garland it with John Coltrane in it and so I heard a lot of Coltrane lot of Miles Davis and a lot of red coral and I started to learn the names of different drummers different bass players and started to see them with regularity. And a high time I hear read girl and one is just a magnificent. 3rd lyrical piano player Oh very spare a lot of ways he doesn't play a zillion notes. Well it's really nice exams kind of like visiting with my old man now but I can't. Read Garland. When I fall in love and was in there from a record called moments notice. The very young Christian McBride thing Christian McBride was 20 or 21 years old on this maybe one of his very 1st dates on the base Jackie's and it is the drummer. From Harold's may burn we heard the title track No we didn't we heard moments notice we heard moments notice the album Looking on the bright side on the Japanese the i.w. Record label and then we snuck in a little bit of Duke Ellington I don't know if you picked up on that Duke Ellington album titled piano reflections you heard Ellington's December blue. And then finishing up with Elmo hopes trio like someone in love all of our play lists are on our website so if you're curious and you can't remember you know it's not convenient to call. Take a look at our website k k u p o r g and you can browse and see any playlist if you once in a while we get a call here at the studio Hey what were you playing like last Wednesday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon I have no idea. What that year I didn't do it whatever it was it's not me. But we now have the ability to look at that stuff and you can do it from home too k k u p o r g is a program guide tells you what we do when we do it you can find play lists and actually these shows are now archived for 2 weeks after they air you can listen to them on the website also. Let's get back to some music one of my favorite current favorite piano players is a guy named Dave barrel. Who year or so ago got a lifetime achievement award at the Vision Festival the New York City Vision Festival is a celebration of the jazz of encores Dave has been around for a really long time now he's 80 or so. So we're going to hear Dave playing Jelly Roll Morton his. Pieces we're going to hear the pearls. Comments or questions Studio line is always open 408-260-2999 or 831-4801 night night night you're listening to k.k. U.p.d. . I am. Clueless. Louis. Louis. Louis. An. Outlet. To a. Oh . 000-000-0000 extension 008. Blue. When you started this set off with Dave Berle the floral the Jelly Roll Joyce is the record and we heard. A piece by Jelly Roll Morton Jelly Roll Morton wrote called the pearls and one of the things that most. Of or many people or. Not really familiar with is that ragtime music the music that was the valving at the very dawn of what we call jazz. For the most part was not played. Very fast it was not speed demon music it was almost comic of relaxed and you can really dig into the melody of it. Make no mistake there were. Passages in this music that was finger busting difficult and there were regular contests among these piano players. To play the most complicated thing. That they could but. You had to make it look easy to kind of sweat playing this music so I really like what Dave has done here has really taken the pace of some of his music and brought it way way down the Jelly Roll Joyce. Record label out of Connecticut. And then some Felonious Monk Felonious Monk recorded live in San Francisco for Gazey hall and I can 1959. Robbie my dear. Is what we heard from Felonious Monk. Felonious alone in San Francisco on the riverside record label. Mayberg her old maid burned playing Bobby Timmons composition that there that dare I said it like a child might say it that very known that there. Written by Bobby Timmons and. There were lyrics that were written to this song. And I am drawing a complete blank as to who wrote. The case there are some wonderful vocal versions of this song that there the one that's coming to mind immediately Jordan's Sheila Jordan from an album titled portrait of Sheila which is an 11 star record in need day of the week but this magnificent version of their on their misty the record from Harold may burn and Bobby Timmons composition there and then just now Andrew Hill doing Daryn that dream from for on a reg. That brings us up to date we're just going to jump right back into it I hope your someplace warm and safe and if you are out on the roads taking a little bit easy take it slow it's really dark up it's really hard to see. You know where things are no people are partying and things like that maybe not at their starkest So let's make some allowance for everybody. To see tomorrow and see what that breaks but you know it's at midnight you know what's going to happen. It is the 1st. Sunday of the month that means verge Verges in the house verge will take you from midnight until I think 7 o'clock in the morning. An extraordinary range of radio history musical history. Some things that defy category so I stay urge you to stay tune for on the verge. You will not be disappointed if you are an insomniac this is where you want to be if you are just a fan of really interesting hard to hear ever music this is where you want to be and stay up all night. We talked about Jackie Byard earlier in the So he is the piano player on Eric dollface 1st date as a leader the one that we use as our theme song thank you Bard is one of those pianists who embodies the entire history of jazz piano and somebody who literally could have played the phone book and made it swing and made a beautiful and made it interesting and like nobody else could have played it. This is great sex pets of the early to mid 1960 s. Jackie Byard was often the piano player in there and within the confines of a single song. It would give you the whole history of jazz piano and make it work within the context of that song. We're going to hear now from a solo. Record by Jackie by j a k I by the way j k I By heard the day an album titled blues for smoke which song for a candid record label which I believe candid was run by Charles Mingus. We're going to hear something called the Spanish tens number one Spanish tends was a term Jelly Roll Morton used. For flavoring. Of music that came in from the Caribbean in through New Orleans. And see if we can hear some of that. You're listening to kick a new piece. Yes I've. I've. Some Art Tatum for you someone to watch over me. Recorded in 1949. Heart Tatum. Mazing there's a story that I heard when Charlie Parker 1st came to New York he had a good job. He wasn't much for doing regular kind of work he worked very very hard at his music but the. Ordinary jobs. But he got a job washing dishes in a chicken house in a house. Open Harlem this particular roaster House apparently had a piano player wasn't so unusual actually those of you who have been in this area for a really long time we used to have pizza places that had pipe organs right with the concert Well it's drums and what have you on the on the walls Well the were chicken sacks that head piano players and there's Charlie Parker the Great. Parker one of the definitive voices of 20th century music washing dishes in the back there the piano player apparently was Art Tatum. And Bird. Got a whole history a whole doctoral course load of harmony. And how the pieces get put together. Right there who has. Never been able to verify whether that's a real true story or it's an embellishment or to just yanked out a whole cloth but I've always liked the idea. That you can learn great things in. Dubious circumstance keep your eyes open you know keep ears open. You're listening to the Cupertino My name's Leo Murphy the program black white and blue will be here for another hour and we're just focusing on piano players this evening we started off with Jackie Byard from the album titled blues for smoke the Spanish teens number one. Channeling a little bit of chili Roll Morton there. And then Earl Hines you talk about the dawn of jazz the major voices at the very very beginning you think of Louis Armstrong you think of.