Jazz Watusi Catalunya Ràdio

Seguim excavant en la nostra discografia per buscar els antecedents del jazz contemporani. Escoltem big bands, solistes i cantants que van trencar pistes de mig planeta i que van desenvolupar un nou llenguatge musical.

01 Cab Calloway & His Orch - "Jumpin' jive"
02 Budd Johnson & His All-Stars - "Way downtown at the bottom of the hill"
03 Count Basie Orch. – "Topsy"
04 Chick Webb Orch. feat Ella Fitzgerald - "When I get low I get high"
05 Louis Jordan & His Timpany Five - "Saturday night fish fry"
06 Ben Webster - "Jive at six"
07 Eddie Cole & His Three Peppers - "Police"
08 Arnett Cobb - "Flyin' home"
09 Illinois Jacquet - "Mambocito Mio"
10 Charlie Ventura - "C.V Jump"
11 Jonah Jones - "No moon at all"
12 Julia Lee & His Boyfriends - "Snatch and grab it"
13 Slim & His Slam - "Bongo"
14 Amos Milburn - "Milk and water"
15 Percy Mayfield- "Louisiana"
16 Jimmy Rushing - "Russian lullaby"

Als marges s'hi viu molt fresc. Explorem territoris sonors fora de les muralles del mainstream buscant propostes aventureres que viatgin per camins poc transitats del jazz i la improvisació. Només cal obrir-se una mica d'orelles.

01 Rashaan Roland Kirk - "Spirit of above"
02 Mulatu Astatke - "Kulunmanqueleshi"
03 Salah Ragab & The Cairo jazz Band – "A tribute to Sun Ra"
04 Sun Ra and his Interplanetary Arkestra – "Enlightenment"
05 Yusef Lateef - "Before dawn"
06 Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore – "Bo-fill"
07 Elvin Jones – "Fantazm"
08 Jazz Crusaders - "The breeze and I"
09 Jazz Crusaders - "Sticky Wiked"
10 Dorothy Ashby – "Games"
11 Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - "Book of Slim"
12 Bohannon - "Save their souls"
13 Takuya Kuroda & José James - "Everybody loves the sunshine"

Sessió farcida de bones veus. El cant com a transmissor d'emocions és imbatible, així que sortim a la recerca de vocalistes d'avui i d'ahir que ens facin vibrar.

01 Lou Rawls - "When loves goes wrong"
02 Di Anne Price - "Never make your move too soon"
03 Molly Johnson - "Ode to Billy Joe"
04 Myriam Swanson & Magnolia - "He's a real gone guy"
05 Cecil L. Recchia - "Moanin'"
06 Susana Sheiman & Ignasi Terraza - "Where or When"
07 Oscar Brown Jr. - "Mr. Kicks"
08 Oscar Brown Jr. & Luiz Enrique - "Barra limpia"
09 Jazzmeia Horn - "No more"
10 Black Barbies - "The barber man"
11 Bobby Gentry - "Niki Hoeky"
12 C.W Stoneking - "The love me or die"
13 Mustat Silmät - "Hullu nainen"
14 Mel Muñiz - "Entrar a la luna"
15 Vaya con Diós & Danny Vera- "No what-if"
16 Oscar Brown Jr. & Matthew Herbert - "Brother we're you"

Exòtica, cu-bop, latin jazz, boogaloo. El bongo s'ha colat en tots aquests estils aportant misteri, diversió i acció. Explorem aquest instrument, des dels seus orígens a la Cuba oriental fins a les caves beatniks, i de les grans orquestres del Paladium als sons galàctics del free jazz.

01 Jack Costanzo - "Peanut vendor"
02 Machito & His Afro Cubans - "Mambo infieno"
03 Candido Camero - "Madrid"
04 Sabú feat. Arsenio Rodríguez - "Rhapsodia del Maravilloso"
05 Billy Taylor Trio - "Mambo Inn"
06 Joe Loco - "Nightmare"
07 earl Grant - "House of bamboo"
08 Henry Mancini - "The Boss"
09 Sabu Martinez - "Delilah"
10 Mable Scott - "Fool Burro"
11 Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble - "Mambo diablo"
12 Joe Loco - "Why don't you do right"
13 Slim Gaillard - "Bongo Cito"
14 Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet - "Midnight Sun"
15 Buddy Collette - "Bongosville"
16 Laurindo Almeida - "Club Caballeros"
17 Martin Denny - "Cubano chant"
18 Willie Bobo - "Bobo! Do that thing"

Posem en marxa la màquina de fer trontollar malucs amb una sessió plena de soul-funk-jazz, grooves contemporanis i ritmes que no caduquen mai. Budo's Band, Mighty Imperials, Greyboy All-Stars i molt més.

01 Trombone Shorty - "Tripped out slim"
02 Greyboy All-Stars - "How glad I am"
03 Jimmy McGriff - "Groove grease"
04 Mighty Imperials - "Ride Shank's mare"
05 Dyke & The Blazers - "Let a woman be a woman"
06 Ikebe Shakedown - "No answer"
07 Spanky Wilson - "Waiting for your touch"
08 Budo's Band - "Volcano song"
09 Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band - "Good to be back home"
10 Clarence Wheeler and the Enforcers - "Right On"
11 The Olympians - "Pluto's lament"
12 Bobby Rush - "Chicken heads"
13 Mitty Collier - "My babe"
14 Dizzy Gillespie - "Matrix"
15 Syl Johnson - "Different Strokes"
16 Don Byron - "There it is"
17 Willie Mitchell - "Take five"

Repassem les últimes novetats i reedicions de luxe de velles gravacions. El panorama discogràfic del jazz, amb l'auge del vinil i l'especialització del col·leccionisme, ha trobat un nínxol de mercat amb l'edició d'enregistraments perduts, àlbums descatalogats i tresors desconeguts que fan les delícies dels melòmans.


01 George Benson - "Along comes Mary"
02 James Moody - "Mambo with Moody"
03 John Wright Trio - "63rd and Cottage"
04 Cal Tjader - "Pantano"
05 Sara Vaughan - "Shulie a bop"
06 Boots Mussilli - "Tico-tico"
07 Ron Jefferson - "Ivy league blues"
08 Sahib Shahab - "Not yet "
09 Ramsey Lewis - "Back in the U.S.S.R"
10 T-Bone Walker - "Long lost lover"
11 B.B. King - "Woke up this morning"
12 Ike & Tina Turner - "I know"
13 Smokey Robinson - "Coincidentally"
14 Stanton Moore - "Poison pushy"