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That Devilin' Tune, Vol. 4

That Devilin' Tune, Vol. 4

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That Devilin' Tune, Vol. 4

That Devilin' Tune, Vol. 4

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Overview

The 36-disc anthology bearing the antiquated title That Devilin' Tune covers a timeline extending from 1895 to 1951. During those years, sound recording technology and the increased rapidity of travel and communications caused jazz to evolve more quickly than anyone ever dreamt that it could or would. Vol. 4 revisits the cultural landscape in the U.S. during the years immediately following the Second World War, when singers like Doris Day and Peggy Lee were succeeding in a marketplace increasingly dominated by pop vocalists, even while musical innovators like Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Warne Marsh, and Lennie Tristano were expanding the possibilities of creative improvisation in ways that resonated with what was being accomplished in all of the arts throughout the world. Vol. 4's 195 tracks vividly illustrate the contrasting simultaneity that makes mid-20th century music so compelling in retrospect. Here, modernists such as Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Dodo Marmarosa, Miles Davis, Lee Konitz, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Mariano mingle with survivors and living legends like blueswoman Hociel Thomas, bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson, pioneer jazz violinist Joe Venuti, and old-time jazz heroes Kid Ory, Big Eye Louis Nelson De Lisle, Omer Simeon, Knocky Parker, and Kid Thomas. There's also a rare live recording of the Dizzy Gillespie band when its lineup included a virtually unknown tenor saxophonist named John Coltrane. The variety in this set is stunningly variegated but never seems irrationally programmed, even if hyper-expressive vocalist Al Hibbler is in the same playlist with archetypal Cuban drummer Chano Pozo, Argentine bandoneon virtuoso Astor Piazzolla, ex-vaudevillian Al Jolson, and heavyweight country & western swing players Merle Travis, Moon Mullican, and Hank Penny, representing the rural honky tonk outgrowth of ragtime, barrelhouse, boogie, and swing. That Devilin' Tune was the title of Vol. 1, an action-packed anthology of vaudeville, ragtime, hot jazz, and novelty music dating back as early as 1895, and may at first seem odd as applied to this fourth installment, which is so filled with early modernity, but the lesson here is simple enough. As an overall title for the entire set and each of its volumes, 'That Devilin' Tune' emphasizes the fact that jazz and anything it touches has always existed as one continuous braid of traditions. Furthermore, it is that healthy tendency to absorb and be absorbed by other genres that makes jazz so exciting, challenging, rewarding, and predictably unpredictable. That's what this gigantic anthology of great music is all about. ~ arwulf arwulf

Product Details

Release Date: 11/01/2006
Label: Music & Arts Programs Of America / Music & Arts / West Hill Radio Archives
UPC: 4015023160064
Rank: 144544

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Blue Skies  - Louis Armstrong  - Frank Sinatra
  2. Big Chief Pawnee  - Earl Bostic  - Shirley Scott  - Rex Stewart
  3. Good for Nothin' Joe  - Kay Starr
  4. We'll Be Together Again  - Les Brown  - Doris Day
  5. Sometimes I'm Happy  - Joe Stafford
  6. Don't Blame Me  - Mel Powell
  7. I Wonder  - Louis Armstrong
  8. Did You Ever Love a Woman  - Gatemouth Moore
  9. Cannonball Rag  - Merle Travis
  10. I'm Confessin'  - Lil Armstrong  - J.C. Higginbotham  - Jonah Jones
  11. Swingin' on Central  - Nat Cole  - Herbie Haymer  - Charlie Shavers
  12. Get Happy  - Harry "Sweets" Edison  - Les Paul
  13. Tall, Dark, And Handsome  - Ivie Anderson
  14. Dizzy Atmosphere  - Dizzy Gillespie  - Al Haig  - Charlie Parker
  15. Rifftide  - Coleman Hawkins  - Howard McGhee
  16. Air Mail Special  - Charlie Christian  - Billy Eckstine  - Benny Goodman  - Jimmy Mundy
  17. Don't Blame Me  - Billy Eckstine  - Dorothy Fields  - Jimmy McHugh  - Sarah Vaughan
  18. Revolutionary Blues, Pt. 1  - Mezz Mezzrow
  19. Minor Riff  - Fletcher Henderson
  20. Barefoot Boy with Cheek  - Boyd Raeburn
  21. (From) Ebony Concerto  - Woody Herman
  22. Mean to Me  - Bill Harris
  23. Waiting for the Train to Come Home  - Peggy Lee

Disc 2

  1. 1919 Rag  - Kid Ory
  2. Somebody Loves Me  - Nat King Cole  - Buddy Rich  - Lester Young
  3. Hollywood Hi Hat  - Tommy Dorsey
  4. 52nd Street Theme  - Dizzy Gillespie
  5. Dodo's Bounce  - Dodo Marmarosa  - Lucky Thompson
  6. Who Put the Benzedrine...  - Harry "The Hipster" Gibson
  7. Pete's Lonesome Blues  - Pete Johnson
  8. 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do  - George Lewis  -  Original Zenith Brass Band
  9. Bebop in Pastel  -  Be Bop Boys
  10. Ecuador  - Stan Kenton
  11. Lady McGowran's Dream  - Woody Herman
  12. China Boy  - Frankie Trumbauer
  13. Something to Remember You By  - Benny Carter  - S. White
  14. Up a Lazy River  - Benny Goodman
  15. This Subdues My Passion  - Charles Mingus
  16. Junkman Rag  - Lucky Roberts
  17. When I'm in My Tea  - Jo Jo Adams
  18. Lover Man  - Mel Powell
  19. Naked City  - Raymond Scott
  20. Sweet Lorraine  -  Metronome All-Stars  - Frank Sinatra
  21. Gambler's Dream  - Papa Mutt Carey  - Hociel Thomas
  22. Over the Rainbow  - Boyd Raeburn
  23. Thermodynamics  - Howard McGhee

Disc 3

  1. I Found a New Baby  - Don Byas
  2. Serge's Urge  - Serge Chaloff  -  DiNovi
  3. Ballin' the Jack  - Art Hodes
  4. Baila la Conga  -  Lecuona Cuban Boys
  5. Improvisation for the March of Time  - Wild Bill Davison
  6. Save It Pretty Mama  - Frank Signorelli
  7. Jazz Me Blues  - Pete Daily
  8. Cyclops  - Ray McKinley
  9. Yesterdays  - Lennie Tristano
  10. And That's for Sure  - Allen Eager  - D. Jordan
  11. Blue Brew  - Brew Moore
  12. On the Sunny Side of the Street  - Billy Bauer  - Dizzy Gillespie  - John LaPorta  - Charlie Parker  - Lennie Tristano
  13. Half Step Down  - Coleman Hawkins  - F. Navarro
  14. So Easy  - Dexter Gordon  - Leo Parker
  15. New York City Blues  - Duke Ellington
  16. Mingus Fingers  - Lionel Hampton
  17. I'm Confessin'  - Louis Armstrong
  18. Sweet Lorraine  - Red Allen
  19. Thermopolae  - Stan Kenton
  20. It's Only a Paper Moon  - Ethel Waters
  21. How Come You Do Me  - Miff Mole
  22. My Little Brown Book  - Al Hibbler

Disc 4

  1. Alexander's Ragtime Band  - Irving Berlin  - Bing Crosby  - Al Jolson
  2. Laura  - Sidney Bechet
  3. Ritmo Afro Cuban  - Chano Pozo
  4. Blue Turning Grey Over You  - Sidney Bechet  - J.P. Johnson  - Wooden Joe Nicholas  - Muggsy Spanier
  5. Exactly Like You  - Johnny Guarnieri
  6. Cherokee  - Art Tatum
  7. Lady Be Good  - Ella Fitzgerald
  8. Don't Blame Me  - Lennie Tristano
  9. Slow Drivin', Pt. 1-2  - Papa Mutt Carey
  10. Time  - Mary Ann McCall
  11. Shorty's Got to Go  -  Johnson
  12. Quejas de Bandoneon  - Astor Piazzolla
  13. Who's to Blame  - T. Texas Tyler
  14. Locked Out  - Hank Penny
  15. Pomus Blues  - Doc Pomus
  16. Aintcha Got Music  - James P. Johnson
  17. Nightmare Allen  - Allen Eager  - Doug Mettome
  18. Jockey Blues  - P.L. Johnson  - Joe Turner
  19. Garbage Can Blues  - Kay Starr
  20. I Thought About You  - Nellie Lutcher
  21. What Is This Thing Called Love  - Buddy Rich
  22. Lonely Moments  - Benny Goodman
  23. Out of Nowhere  - Charlie Parker
  24. Bop Alley  -  Blakey

Disc 5

  1. Fine and Dandy  - Serge Chaloff
  2. Tone Painting, Pst. 1 & 2  - Dodo Marmarosa
  3. Somebody Loves Me  - Bud Powell
  4. Off Minor  - Thelonious Monk
  5. Leapin Leo  - G. Ammon  - Howard McGhee  - Leo Parker
  6. Just One of Those Things  - Django Reinhardt
  7. L' Ana  - Chubby Jackson
  8. Koko  - Dizzy Gillespie  - Charlie Parker
  9. Relaxin' at Camrillo  - Dizzy Gillespie
  10. Monk's Mood  - Thelonious Monk
  11. Polka Dots and Moonbeams  - Claude Thornhill
  12. Tuxedo Junction  - Harry James
  13. I Hear a Rhapsody  -  Brubeck
  14. Out of the Blue  - Hadda Brooks
  15. Seventh Avenue Express  - Count Basie
  16. Little Orgg  - Tony Fruscella  - Chick Maures  - Bill Triglia
  17. What Is This Thing Called Love  - Anita O'Day
  18. Half Nelson  - Miles Davis
  19. Sil Vous Plais  -  Davis
  20. Our Delight  - Tadd Dameron
  21. The Fuller Bop Man  -  Moody

Disc 6

  1. Boperation  - Fats Navarro
  2. Wrong Road Blues  -  Duncan
  3. Cottontop  - Stan Hasselgard
  4. Just You Just Me  - Lester Young
  5. My Old Flame  - Charlie Parker
  6. Robbin's Nest  - Sir Charles Thompson
  7. Wanderer's Swing  -  Ramsey
  8. Relaxin'  - Sonny Stitt
  9. Cuba  - Charlie Barnet
  10. Keeps on Raining  - Billie Holiday
  11. Professor Bop  - Babs Gonzales
  12. Overtime  -  Metronome All-Stars
  13. Bee Jay  - J.J. Johnson
  14. Lestorian Mode  - Johnny Carisi
  15. Waterworks  - Gerry Mulligan
  16. Southside Swing  - Wardell Gray
  17. Focus  - Tadd Dameron
  18. Out of Nowhere  - Jimmy Dorsey
  19. A Bird in Igor's Yard  - Buddy DeFranco
  20. T & S  - Stan Getz
  21. Stan Gets Along  - Stan Getz
  22. Bird of Paradise  - Charlie Parker
  23. Tempus Fugit  - Bud Powell

Disc 7

  1. Grandpa's Spells  - Knocky Parker  - Omer Simeon
  2. Gassin' the Wig  - Roy Porter
  3. Perdido  - Hampton Hawes  - Art Pepper
  4. Babylon  - Charlie Mariano
  5. The Scene Changes  - Gil Fuller
  6. I'm Confessin'  - Erroll Garner
  7. Tautology  - Lee Konitz  - Lennie Tristano
  8. Marshmallow  - Lee Konitz  - Wayne Marsh
  9. When Your Lover Has Gone  - Julia Lee
  10. Cindy Lou  - Walter Brown
  11. Spider's Webb  - D. Jordan  - Don Lanphere
  12. Out of Nowhere  - Arne Domnerus  - James Moody
  13. Clarinet Marmalade  - Big Eye Louis Nelson
  14. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm  - Bud Powell  - Sonny Stitt
  15. Body and Soul  - Lester Young
  16. Southern Hospitality  - Moon Mullican
  17. Salt Your Pillow Down  - Dickie Jones  - Benny Leaders
  18. Nice Work If You Can Get It  - M. Davis  - Sarah Vaughan
  19. Come Rain or Come Shine  - June Christy
  20. You May Not Love Me  - Teddi King
  21. Flying the Coop  - Chubby Jackson
  22. Red Hills and Green Barns  - Ralph Burns  -  Pierce
  23. Solitaire  - Stan Kenton  - Bill Russo

Disc 8

  1. Apple Blossoms  - Joe Venuti
  2. Singin' in the Rain  - Dave Brubeck
  3. Liza  - Al Haig
  4. Dancing on the Ceiling  - Barbara Carroll
  5. The New Piano Roll Blues  - Duke Ellington
  6. Song of the Wanderer  - Al Hibbler
  7. Ornithology  - Charlie Parker
  8. Lover Come Back to Me  - Tony Scott
  9. Love Lies  - Jack Teagarden
  10. Short Wave  - Maynard Ferguson
  11. Zulu's Parade  - Dicky Wells
  12. I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You  - Earl Hines
  13. Early Spring  - Ralph Burns  - Miles Davis  - Bernard LaPorta  -  Metronome All-Stars
  14. Dusky and Sandy  - Bud Powell
  15. Black and Blue  - Dicky Wells
  16. Signal  - Stan Getz
  17. Seventh and Union  - Hank Garland
  18. Panama  -  Thomas
  19. You Tell Me Your Dream  -  Eureka Brass Band

Disc 9

  1. Doggin' Blues  - Linda Hopkins  - Johnny Otis
  2. Will You Still Be Mine  - Ahmad Jamal
  3. All the Things You Are  - Hampton Hawes
  4. It Could Happen to You  - Bud Powell
  5. The Happening  - Paul Gonsalves
  6. Denial  - Miles Davis  - J. McLean
  7. Aviary  - Charlie Mariano
  8. Godchild  - Red Norvo
  9. Mark  - J. Ford  - Red Rodney
  10. With a Song  - Sonny Rollins
  11. Ezz-Thetic  - Miles Davis  - Lee Konitz
  12. I'm a Fool to Want You  - Dinah Washington
  13. Weary Blues  - George Lewis
  14. Birk's Works  - John Coltrane  - Dizzy Gillespie
  15. Polka Dot  - George Wallington
  16. Fireworks  - Claude Bolling  - Roy Eldridge
  17. Stardust  - Johnny Otis  - Ben Webster

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Benny Goodman   Primary Artist
Charlie Barnet   Primary Artist
Chano Pozo   Primary Artist
Doc Pomus   Primary Artist
Frankie Trumbauer   Primary Artist
Don Byas   Primary Artist
John Coltrane   Primary Artist
Joe Venuti   Primary Artist
Charlie Shavers   Primary Artist
Ella Fitzgerald   Primary Artist
Don Lanphere   Primary Artist
Johnny Carisi   Primary Artist
Doris Day   Primary Artist
Gatemouth Moore   Primary Artist
Sarah Vaughan   Primary Artist
Erroll Garner   Primary Artist
Stan Kenton   Primary Artist
Stan Hasselgard   Primary Artist
Sir Charles Thompson   Primary Artist
Bill Harris   Primary Artist
Coleman Hawkins   Primary Artist
Claude Bolling   Primary Artist
James Moody   Primary Artist
Barbara Carroll   Primary Artist
Benny Carter   Primary Artist
Fats Navarro   Primary Artist
Frank Sinatra   Primary Artist
Ben Webster   Primary Artist
Earl Bostic   Primary Artist
Dodo Marmarosa   Primary Artist
Ethel Waters   Primary Artist
Les Paul   Primary Artist
Harry James   Primary Artist
Herbie Haymer   Primary Artist
Woody Herman   Primary Artist
Dave Brubeck Octet   Primary Artist
Dave Brubeck   Primary Artist
Nat Pierce Orchestra   Primary Artist
Wayne Marsh   Primary Artist
Original Zenith Brass Band   Primary Artist
James Moody & His Modernists   Primary Artist
Kid Thomas & His Algiers Stompers   Primary Artist
Rip Ramsey And His Texas Wanderers   Primary Artist
Les Brown   Primary Artist
Buddy Rich   Primary Artist
Gerry Mulligan   Primary Artist
Hadda Brooks   Primary Artist
Hampton Hawes   Primary Artist
Hank Penny   Primary Artist
Bill Triglia   Primary Artist
Moon Mullican   Primary Artist
Mel Powell   Primary Artist
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers   Primary Artist
Al Haig   Primary Artist
Muggsy Spanier   Primary Artist
Astor Piazzolla   Primary Artist
Al Jolson   Primary Artist
Al Hibbler   Primary Artist
Papa Mutt Carey   Primary Artist
Brew Moore   Primary Artist
Buddy DeFranco   Primary Artist
Bud Powell   Primary Artist
George Wallington   Primary Artist
Gil Fuller   Primary Artist
Dizzy Gillespie   Primary Artist
Lionel Hampton   Primary Artist
June Christy   Primary Artist
Pete Daily   Primary Artist
Kay Starr   Primary Artist
Nellie Lutcher   Primary Artist
Ray McKinley   Primary Artist
Raymond Scott   Primary Artist
The Metronome All-Stars   Primary Artist
Red Rodney   Primary Artist
Omer Simeon   Primary Artist
Rex Stewart   Primary Artist
Miff Mole   Primary Artist
Tommy Dorsey   Primary Artist
George Lewis   Primary Artist
Johnny Guarnieri   Primary Artist
Charlie Parker   Primary Artist
Joe Turner   Primary Artist
Eureka Brass Band   Primary Artist
Lee Konitz   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong   Primary Artist
John LaPorta   Primary Artist
Wardell Gray   Primary Artist
Walter Brown   Primary Artist
Lennie Tristano   Primary Artist
Merle Travis   Primary Artist
Wild Bill Davison   Primary Artist
Julia Lee   Primary Artist
Peggy Lee   Primary Artist
Lester Young   Primary Artist
Dinah Washington   Primary Artist
Jonah Jones   Primary Artist
Lil Armstrong   Primary Artist
Howard McGhee   Primary Artist
Jimmy Dorsey   Primary Artist
Linda Hopkins   Primary Artist
Charlie Mariano   Primary Artist
Dexter Gordon   Primary Artist
Nat Cole   Primary Artist
Red Allen   Primary Artist
Big Eye Louis Nelson   Primary Artist
Lucky Roberts   Primary Artist
G. Ammon   Primary Artist
Tommy Duncan And His Western All Stars   Primary Artist
Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes   Primary Artist
Chick Maures   Primary Artist
Dickie Jones   Primary Artist
Wooden Joe Nicholas   Primary Artist
Joe Stafford   Primary Artist
Serge Chaloff   Primary Artist
T. Texas Tyler   Primary Artist
Tony Fruscella   Primary Artist
Hank Garland   Primary Artist
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson   Primary Artist
Harry "Sweets" Edison   Primary Artist
Hociel Thomas   Primary Artist
Stan Getz   Primary Artist
Ivie Anderson   Primary Artist
J.C. Higginbotham   Primary Artist
J.J. Johnson   Primary Artist
Duke Ellington   Primary Artist
Jack Teagarden   Primary Artist
Count Basie   Primary Artist
Ahmad Jamal   Primary Artist
Tony Scott   Primary Artist
Jo Jo Adams   Primary Artist
Django Reinhardt   Primary Artist
Lecuona Cuban Boys   Primary Artist
James P. Johnson   Primary Artist
Claude Thornhill   Primary Artist
Fletcher Henderson   Primary Artist
The Be Bop Boys   Primary Artist
Frank Signorelli   Primary Artist
Pete Johnson   Primary Artist
Nat King Cole   Primary Artist
Roy Eldridge   Primary Artist
Roy Porter   Primary Artist
Mary Ann McCall   Primary Artist
Mezz Mezzrow   Primary Artist
Maynard Ferguson   Primary Artist
Miles Davis   Primary Artist
Red Norvo   Primary Artist
Earl Hines   Primary Artist
Miles Davis Nonet   Primary Artist
Anita O'Day   Primary Artist
Thelonious Monk   Primary Artist
Art Hodes   Primary Artist
Art Pepper   Primary Artist
Art Tatum   Primary Artist
Allen Eager   Primary Artist
Charles Mingus   Primary Artist
Tadd Dameron   Primary Artist
Paul Gonsalves   Primary Artist
Teddi King   Primary Artist
Shirley Scott   Primary Artist
Sidney Bechet   Primary Artist
Sonny Rollins   Primary Artist
Sonny Stitt   Primary Artist
Billy Bauer   Primary Artist
Babs Gonzales   Primary Artist
Billie Holiday   Primary Artist
Billy Eckstine   Primary Artist
Kid Ory   Primary Artist
Bing Crosby   Primary Artist
J.P. Johnson   Primary Artist
Boyd Raeburn   Primary Artist
Chubby Jackson   Primary Artist
Knocky Parker   Primary Artist
Leo Parker   Primary Artist
Johnny Otis   Primary Artist
Dicky Wells   Primary Artist
Reginald Beane   Accompaniment

Technical Credits

Benny Goodman   Composer
Leo Parker   Composer
Johnny Carisi   Composer,Arranger
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Charlie Christian   Composer
K. Abe   Photography
Bob Parent   Photography
J. Ford   Composer
William Claxton   Photography
Ray Avery   Photography
F. Navarro   Composer
D. Jordan   Composer
William Gottlieb   Photography
Bernard LaPorta   Composer
Chas Stewart   Photography
Papa Mutt Carey   Composer
Doug Mettome   Composer
S. White   Composer
Lucky Thompson   Composer
M. Davis   Composer
J. Lewis   Arranger
J. McLean   Composer
P.L. Johnson   Composer
Denise Di Novi   Composer
L. Williams   Arranger
Benny Leaders   Composer
Ralph Burns   Arranger,Composer
Bill Russo   Composer
Arne Domnerus   Composer
Jimmy Mundy   Composer
Chris Kelsey   Liner Notes
Irving Berlin   Composer
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