| • Scott
Hamilton & Friends—Save Your Love For Me—2008—Across
The Tracks—Concord
• Steve Turre—Brother
Ray—2007—Rainbow People—High Note
• Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis—Ain’t Nobody’s
Business—2007—Two Men With The Blues—Blue Note
• Louis Jordan—I Want You To Be My Baby—1953—Best
Of—MCA
The 4th of July is the
traditional birth date of Louis Armstrong (actually born Aug. 4th).
The following sets harkens back to KUSP’s tradition of playing
Armstrong on July 4th:
• Louis Armstrong—Aunt Hagar’s Blues—1954—Plays
W.C. Handy—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five—West End Blues—1928—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers—Wild Man Blues—1927—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five—Skid-Dat-De-Dot—1926—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven—Weary Blues—1927—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And
His Hot Five—Two Deuces—1928—Portrait Of The Artist
As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five—Muggles—1928—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five—Basin Street Blues—1928—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra—Memories
Of You—1930—Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And
His Orchestra—What Did I Do To Be So (Black And Blue)—1929—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra—Ain’t Misbehavin’—1929—Portrait
Of The Artist As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra—I Can’t Believe
That You’re In Love With Me—1930—Portrait Of The Artist
As A Young Man 1923-1934—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong—Blue Turning Grey Over You—1956—Satch
Plays Fats—Columbia
• Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington—Azalea—1961—Louis
Armstrong: An American Icon—Hip-O
The 85th Anniversary of
the birth of Elmo Hope (June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967):
• Elmo Hope Sextet—Eyes So Beautiful As Yours—1961—Homecoming—Riverside
• Elmo Hope Ensemble—Three Silver Quarters—1963—Hope
From Rikers Island—Chiaroscuro LP
• Elmo Hope Trio—Bird’s View—1966—Last
Sessions—Inner City LP
• Elmo Hope—When Johnny Comes Marching Home—1961—Hope-Full—Riverside
• Elmo Hope Quintet—Yaho—1955—Hope Meets Foster—Prestige
LP
Pianist Ronnie Mathews
(Dec. 2, 1935 – June 28, 2008) passed away last Saturday at age
72:
• Ronnie Mathews, incl. Frank Foster—Thews’ Blues—1978—Roots,
Branches And Dances—Bee Hive LP
• Ronnie Mathews—Tenor Madness—1989-- At Cafe Des
Copains—Sackville
• Woody Shaw, incl. Ronnie Mathews—Jean Marie—1976—Little
Red’s Fantasy—32Jazz
• Roy Hargrove, incl. Ronnie Mathews—Salina’s Dance—2005—Nothing
Serious—Verve |