WFMU: The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from January 1, 2023

Listener comments!
	11:59am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Stork and all other listeners! Happy New Year!
	🥁 12:00pm listener james from westwood: Good 2023, Stork and all!
	12:01pm fred: Happy new year Stork and all. A round of Glen Passaic sounds right to start this year on wobbly legs
	12:01pm Stork: Greetins' Greetins'!! Hey, ho Andrew in Toronto, and listener james from westwood - first hands stamped in 2023!
	🥁 12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a New Year ...& I've still never seen MarySears...
	12:01pm hyde: hello!
	12:02pm doctorjazz: Hello Stork Club Denizens! Raise your Glen Passaic in a toast, good cheer to all!
	12:02pm adamdoesit: Stork-a-roonie! Out with the McVouty, and in with the vout!
	12:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Gomen Nasai" by "Slim Gaillard" (Milt Jackson on drums, very cool)
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: Awesome start!
	12:03pm Stork: .. and hurrah, it's fred in France, Revolution Rabbit Nov63, and hyde!
	12:03pm TDK60: Hi Stork. Ya got a groove in the bag?
	12:04pm Stork: Happy NY, doctorjazz! I've never found another record with MJ playing drums.
	12:05pm Stork: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Thanks, Ait! Nice crowd in here to share it!
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Bags' Groove (Take 2)" by "Miles Davis" The story I remember on this was that Miles made Monk lay out when he was playing, couldn't stand the way he comped (Monk's unique timing, way of placing chords/notes, drove him nuts)
	🥁 12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ⦿Sun in ♑︎Capricorn, Year of Water 🐕Dog (before Chinese New Year in 1923) ' Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with hard bop and post-bop players. A very expressive player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm. He was particularly fond of the twelve-bar blues at slow tempos. On occasion, Jackson also sang and played piano. '
	🥁 12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @12:05 So this is that session.
	12:07pm Jeff Golick: ↳ doctorjazz @12:05 I've heard that story similarly, @doc. Hey all you swells. Fancy meeting you here. Do it to us, @Stork!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Monk enters when MJ starts his solo-seems Jackson didn't mind him comping.
	12:08pm Stork: adamdoesit! Happi Nooz!! What evil new concoctions will you add to the ever-fattening Stork Club Cocktail Bible and Place to Set Your Drink in 2023?
	12:08pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:06 So you're both a water hare and a scorpio, how does that work?
	12:10pm Stork: Fancy, yerself, JG! Welcome and Happy NY!
	12:11pm Stork: Thanks or the Wiki post, RevRabb! As ever, I'm going light on the artist bio stuff - trying to cram as much Milty goodness in as possible.
	12:11pm doctorjazz: And Miles is back, Monk is quiet...
	12:12pm Stork: Hey-ya-hey, TDK60!
	12:15pm adamdoesit: ↳ Stork @12:08 For those sensibly celebrating a sober January, it's all Stork Club Temperance Cocktails today: that's 8oz seltzer, 2oz orange juice, a dash of bitters… and a shot of Glen Passaic when nobody's watching.
	🥁 12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @12:08 How much time you have ?? 🐇Hare seeks to nurture & make safe - while ♏︎Scorpio seeks to penetrate & even deconstruct. 'Revolution Rabbit' is an attempt to acknowledge & embrace a fundamental paradox - like 'Ninja Turtle'. (I'd throw GenX in there too...) Water Element in the Chinese System correlates to ☿Mercury, a bit counterintuitively for the Westerner ...& so communication & nervous energy as well as emotion & sensitivity. Which is 🐇Hare enuff already... ♏︎Scorpio of course in the Western System is the Fixed Water Element sign - so similar in the Emotional ~ Intuitive business... A serious reduction of both Systems of course. In the Chinese on has an Hour, Day & Month too (the Four Pillars) - for starters...
	12:16pm doctorjazz: Got to see MJQ and Milt Jackson back in the day.
	12:19pm J T. Ramsay: #TeamJaunty
	12:21pm Listener Robert: Sounds like they're still shooting fireworks in your neighborhood by the surface noise SFX you're using.
	12:23pm Stork: Hi, and welcome in the joint, J T.!
	12:23pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:16 I does sound fitting when you tell it. I'm a yin metal pig, which mostly fits
	🥁 12:26pm WR: ↳ Song: "Gomen Nasai" by "Slim Gaillard" In several levels this recording is weird, the gibberish phrase Gaillard was dropping in after singing "gomen nasai", the possible / probable context of the POV being from occupier serviceman to occupied lady friend, and then there are the top level musicians: Webster, Brown, Jackson. What a way to make a living.
	12:26pm Stork: Happy Dappy New Year, Listener Robert! All is strangely quiet outside. Unlike in years past, when the boom-booms continued into the week. Those were indeed sampled fireworks serenading us.
	🥁 12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @12:23 Ah - '71. I say 'Boar' (my Hour) myself...
	12:27pm adamdoesit: A joyous sound. Bags was the first jazz soloist I fell for, whose lines I studied, trying to figure out how the hell they worked. Not knowing what a vibraharp was, or anything about its history, for me, the vibes were he. Happy century, Mr. Jackson!
	12:27pm chresti: Hello darling butterflies! Listening while texting
	12:29pm Stork: chresti! Happy Newest of Years to you and Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 12:29pm WR: ↳ adamdoesit @12:15 I'll have what he's having. Double.
	🥁 12:31pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @12:16 Very cool,doctorjazz, I never did.
	🥁 12:35pm WR: ↳ Song: "Bags' Groove (Take 2)" by "Miles Davis" wow what a lineup, I was reeling from the Slim song and a pedestrian dodging traffic when it played so wasn't focused on the music, will relisten.
	12:35pm Stork: Aaah, the flugelhorn of Art Farmer! Warm and wondrous!
	12:35pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:26 Yeah, I know it's the nice terminology, but yin metal means I roll with the dismissive
	12:36pm doctorjazz: MJQ was one of the 1st jazz groups I started to listen to when I started checking out jazz. I "got" John Lewis, with his deliberate, measured (and slow) playing style before I got MJ, took me a while to figure out HE was the featured soloist, and what he was psutting down. (same thing happened early on, with Bird and Diz, I "got " Dizzy Gillespie much before I "got" Charlie Parker...)
	🥁 12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @12:11 I tend to do this sort of thing with it : www.facebook.com...
	12:44pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 That reminds me of my own unorthodox way into jazz. It was the Third Stream and classically-influenced stuff that I went for right away. Then I started delving into soul-jazzy and modal-y things. It took a while before I "got" bop, hard-bop, etc. Now it's all become one big beautiful continuum to me. Soon I won't have any dislikes left in music. OK, except for 99.99 percent of metal, contemporary pop, polka, and whatever the fuck "house" is.
	12:45pm Stork: Cedar Walton is credited only with "piano" on this record. He actually plays electric throughout.
	12:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blues For Tomi-oka" by "Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, ... Great track, love Richardson's soprano!
	12:46pm Dean: Easy inroad to "house" music, or at least one species of it: Steve Hillage's System 7.
	12:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 doc, 100%. John Lewis can seem over-classicizing, prettifying, even whitening, but he made a lot of jazz fans by paring away the flesh til the bones showed blue and clear.
	🥁 12:48pm Michael 98145: Hello, All. 2022 has been shredded and already rotting in the compost. 2023 CE is fresh and clean (so far).
	12:48pm Stork: I'll never say never, Dean. I actually do like some of Hillage's stuff.
	12:49pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @12:46 Was just about to post what doc did - verbatim!
	12:51pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:48 Welcome, friend!! Sit..imbibe!!
	12:52pm fred: ↳ Stork @12:44 I guess I only dislike reggae and latin music, and Pedro is hacking at the later. Soon it will be only reggae left. I even heard Taylor Swift last week for the first time, not the voice I expected. Shows how little I know
	12:52pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @12:47 John Lewis was a vastly open-minded artist. He was an early supporter (financiall and otherwise) of Ornette Coleman, of all people.
	🥁 12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Always say that Psychedelic Rawk was a magnificent prep for anything & everything - Jazz, International, Avant-garde. After Hendrix - what kind challenge is Jazz, really ?? Can't remember ever not liking Jazz. Lucky enuff to have an older brother who'd on occasion tell me things about what the roots of everything were ...& that Black poeple had usually been there far earlier & I'd better pay attention ! Which was enuff. Also what I call 'Stealth Jazz' - where ...& when - Cartoons & Kid's Shows would have Real Jazz - yer CharlieBrowns & many things actually. It was, however, getting LPs out of the Public Library that grabbed me & shoved me across the threshold absolutely. We've discussed a few times the Smithsonian Multi-LP collections & the like. What a fabulous overview of the long History ! Up to Ornette & Cecil. Owe a lot to that. & - Coltrane hit me like a bolt straight vertically ought of the blue. Done deal.
	12:54pm fred: ↳ adamdoesit @12:47 "paring away the flesh til the bones showed blue and clear". Man, that calls for another round of Glen Passaic
	12:55pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @12:44 Stork, I saw a Black guy walking by in the park with a boombox playing. I said, that's some good funk. He scolded me, "That's not funk, that's house."
	🥁 12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:53 ...once I heard Coltrane - I knew deeply this was a Music that had a lot of the same dynamics as Rawk - but was also completely different & independent of that.
	12:57pm Stork: ↳ fred @12:54 fred, I thought adamdoesit was writing ad copy for GP.
	12:58pm Stork: Ray Brown just blew me mind again.
	🥁 12:59pm Michael 98145: I always wished i'd seen more live jazz shows ...
	1:00pm abbazabba: Hallo Stork and all! Happy New Year! I’m here for the jazz and the booze
	1:00pm TDK60: Stork, I am not very hip on the subject but I think "house" started in Detroit, as a sort of post-disco DJ music. Influenced later techno. Maybe that's too simple a sketch. Maybe another can say more.
	1:01pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @12:55 That's funny - I've had the same kind of thing happen to me. I thought I was listening to some ambient, arty modern classical hybrid... nope, house, dude. Okay, let's just delete house from my list of no-go's till I investigate further.
	1:01pm adamdoesit: ↳ Stork @12:52 Indeed. A scholar in the best sense. It's a sparkling afternoon here in New York, so I'm going to head out on the bike for a bit. If I don't make it back before the end; but, if not, I want to express my gratitude to alla youse -- DJ Stork, doctorjazz, fred, RevRabb, dean, WR, Michael 98145, TDK, den mother chresti, David in Absentia, anyone I might've missed -- for a year of great music on Sundays. 2022 was challenging in so many ways. I'm grateful to have been able to come here, meet with all of you, imbibe a few virtual cocktails, and listen. It helped get me through.
	🥁 1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:59 How hard could it be to set up little venues all over the place that feature quality Jazz artists playing affordably & accessibly ?? As it turns out ...virtually impossible.
	🥁 1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 The Company is for damn sure appreciated as well as the Music.
	🥁 1:03pm redkayak: Happy New Year, all! Adios '22, welcome '23 :)
	1:04pm TDK60: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 adamdoesit: '22 was rough for me in many ways. I even still have a cold from that year.
	1:04pm Stork: ↳ redkayak @1:03 redkayak ! Tie up and come on in!
	🥁 1:05pm redkayak: @stork - Ahoy, captain.... HNY to you and crew!
	1:06pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @1:01 Stork, in Central Park in the summers a street is set up for roller skaters to dance. Most of the music is house, or so I'm told.
	1:06pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Cosmic Ray" by "Milt Jackson, Ray Charles" Jackson is credited with guitar on this album - and Ray Charles with alto sax!
	🥁 1:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 enjoy your ride !
	1:09pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 Ditto from me, adamdoesit. And thank you for the lovely sentiments!
	🥁 1:09pm Michael 98145: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:01 Sadly, true. Few, if any survive ...
	🥁 1:15pm Michael 98145: I try to support local efforts to allow young people to express their inner jazz
	1:16pm TDK60: I think I hear some of John Lewis' Bach influence on Cortege.
	1:17pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:01 A network of small venues could work. One issue is NYC, too expensive and outside of it means driving, which is a divide
	🥁 1:22pm Michael 98145: At least most cities have annual jazz festivals ...
	🥁 1:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @1:17 Well - North New England here has enuff going on - maybe - throughout its tiny towns to add up to one reasonable culture ...if one could drive all over two or three states to appreciate it...
	🥁 1:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but to pay rent putting on Jazz seems to generally fail...
	🥁 1:25pm Michael 98145: thank goodness for this Stork Club
	1:27pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:25 :-)))
	🥁 1:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:25 Thank You, Goodness
	1:33pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @1:16 Oh, yeah. He took a lotta heat for his highbrow tastes at the time. Glad it didn't seem to affect him.
	🥁 1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trust Us It's Jazz ...T-Shirts in the lobby ...this place'll be solvent yet...
	1:37pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Blue Monk" by "Milt Jackson" Love that little Grershwin quote by Milt just there.
	🥁 1:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...course GlennP is the universal solvent...)
	1:37pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:24 Yep. One thing that worked in some rural areas is to set up a space for music/STEM classes (seriously, there can be overlap), then using the space after hours. Only works with buy-in from people, but once you ask it seems easier than expected
	1:48pm watchpocket: Stork, I want to wish you the happiest of New Years and and every super-good wish for good times to come. Also a big big thank you for this very enjoyable Milt-tennial and for your commitment to and encyclopedic knowledge of the American Classical music known as jazz and your ongoing commitment to great radio. I would hear jazz on the radio as a kid and I would crank it. But when Bitches Brew came out I picked it up right away and was officially sold on what was called jazz but is really a treasure trove of transcendent incantations. Already doing radio at that time I presented B-Brew to a mostly mystified audience yet still got calls wanting to know what it was. Music, radio, freedom, improvisation, wonderful things all. Speaking of radio, don't know if you've ever seen my little piece of the history of underground radio, but you can peruse it here at your leisure: watchpocket.net... Happy New Year, Stork, and to all Stork Club aficonados!
	1:48pm Dean: Here's your Third Stream, including one of its major proponents, Gunther Schuller.
	1:54pm fred: I'm sure there are bad versions of Lonely Woman, but they're not welcome here
	1:55pm doctorjazz: Lewis did champion Ornette (as Stork mentioned earlier). This is a lovely take
	🥁 1:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @1:55 ThirdStream version of a famous Out Classic. Interesting. Just saw he was a Composer, I guess.
	1:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:35 This place IS a solvent, at least the cocktails are...
	1:57pm Stork: Just amazes me that the MJQ was so into everything. Hard to imagine anything further away from their thing than Ornette and harmolodics.
	🥁 1:57pm WR: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 thank you for the link. will read later.
	1:59pm doctorjazz: Though, there's very little/no "harmelodics" (whatever that is) in the MJQs playing..
	🥁 1:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ WR @1:57 Yeah way kewl !
	2:00pm fred: ↳ doctorjazz @1:56 It's the Glen Passaic talking. Weird one has to get to Munster to get it
	2:01pm Stork: Heya watchpocket. Thanks for the very kind words -that guy you mentioned with the encyclopedic knowledge of jazz sounds nice - I'd love to meet him! ;) And thanks for the link - I will check that out.
	2:03pm doctorjazz: MJ:s incredibly fluid time is one of those things it took me a bit to appreciate.
	2:04pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @2:03 For a guy who rarely wrote anything that wasn't essentially a blues, he could go anywhere, with anyone, and just fit everything to a T.
	2:05pm doctorjazz: Hank Jones plays off/contrasts Bags/Trane and similar to John Lewis in the MJQ.
	🥁 2:06pm Michael 98145: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 Wow - fascinating job! Thank you.
	2:06pm hyde: this is all just ideal Reading on a Sunday Afternoon music
	2:07pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:59 Yeah, they took Ornette's melody and went utterly elsewhere with it.
	2:11pm hyde: Or it was. The s.o. just came in to vacuum the bedroom, which really killed the vibe
	2:11pm Stork: ↳ Song: "For Someone I Love" by "Milt Jackson" Another intriguing Don Sebesky affair. Really love his stuff.
	🥁 2:11pm duke: Happy New Year Stork and Storklings
	2:11pm watchpocket: WR, RevRabbit, Michael 98145, and Stork: My pleasure!
	2:12pm Stork: Sir duke!!
	2:13pm abbazabba: Wow, great chemistry with the musicians on this one
	2:14pm Stork: ↳ abbazabba @2:13 abbazabba ! Happy New Year!
	2:16pm abbazabba: Thanks, You too Stork! Happy New Year to everyone and especially the guy in the crane
	2:17pm Stork: ↳ Song: "I'm a Fool to Want You" by "Sahib Shihab" Someone's about to croon....
	2:17pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Stork, Storkles
	2:18pm Stork: ↳ abbazabba @2:16 The last I heard, he's been locked up in a mental institution after a rash of violent attacks on his neighbors.
	2:19pm Stork: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:17 O, coelacanth∅! Salutations!
	2:21pm abbazabba: What’s up Coel! Stork, that sucks. Poor guy. I’m glad I don’t live next to him
	2:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I'm a Fool to Want You" by "Sahib Shihab" I don't believe I know MJ the singer, he's quite good!
	2:24pm TDK60: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 Thanks for posting that here, watchpocket. I will like to read it. I got into "underground radio" via WBAI & WFMU as a teen.
	2:28pm fred: ↳ Stork @2:18 There goes his endorsement of the Stork Guide to Glen Passaic Cocktails. Or is that extra cred?
	2:33pm Stork: ↳ fred @2:28 It really boggles the mind - how long it's taken to have this guy committed, with all the shit he's done, including multiple assault cases. And it's not over- i expect he will have to be released at some point. It's really hard to keep someone locked up here in Germany. Personal sovereignty is a very strongly protected right here.
	2:33pm TDK60: John Lewis also did a version of this 'Midsommer' on his orchestral album 'European Windows.'
	2:35pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @2:33 I don't have that record yet, TDK60. Thanks for the tip!
	2:39pm headcleaner: Perfect time to check in... Frohes Neues, everyone!
	2:40pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @2:35 I have my father's old scratchy LP of it. Recorded with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. I don't think Milt is on it. "Third Stream" for sure. / Golly, that Music Inn up in Lenox, Mass. must've been quite the place in those days.
	2:40pm Stork: ↳ headcleaner @2:39 Frohes neues Jahr, headcleaner!!
	🥁 2:41pm Michael 98145: This has all been doubleplus great
	2:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blues In My Heart" by "Milt Jackson Septet" Pablo record label, they did lots of great music in great sound!
	🥁 2:45pm WR: ↳ Song: "Morning Glory (What's Your Story)" by "Milt Jacks... When this was playing, I was singing (in my mind) the words to the song Black Coffee. Now, catching up on the playlist, I was looking and surprised to not find Black Coffee listed. Just a little looking further and find that Mary Lou Williams had been very surprised to find she was not credited when Burke and Webster published Black Coffee 10 years after her composition Morning Glory from 1938. en.wikipedia.org... Had not known that.
	2:46pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @2:41 Thanks, Michael 98145! This is another record that it was hard not to double-dip from - but as it is, thereare a bunch of recordings I have that I couldn't fit into 4 hours at all. Between MJ's own titles, the massive MJQ discography, and MJ's many many side dates - gee whillikers!!
	🥁 2:47pm WR: ↳ hyde @2:11 Too bad hyde, I just got word that the vacuuming and mopping over here is rescheduled for tomorrow, so I am about to lay down with a book and WFMU for a while.
	2:48pm Stork: ↳ WR @2:45 Great sleuthing, WR! I gotta read up on that later.
	🥁 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Birk's Works" by "Dizzy Gillespie" Coltrane in '51
	2:50pm doctorjazz: Don't have a reference in front of me, but Trane in 51 would have been on alto sax, I believe.
	2:50pm Stork: I don't believe I've thanked Kenny Dorham today for writing Blue Bossa. Thank you, KD!
	2:51pm fred: ↳ Stork @2:33 Took me a while to reply. Of course it's an extreme case, but I saw a bunch of lives destroyed by how easy it is to commit someone here if you have the right connections. There has to be some boundaries, but money tends to mock these
	🥁 2:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @2:50 en.wikipedia.org...–1954:_Immediate_post-war_career
	2:53pm coelacanth∅: aloha abba! (delayed by the kitchen)
	🥁 2:53pm WR: ↳ Stork @2:48 And what I originally had meant to comment, what a great arrangement by Melba Liston and that I wish it was 3 or 4 times longer.
	🥁 2:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:51 ...' Although he started on alto saxophone, he began playing tenor saxophone in 1947 with Eddie Vinson. ' Any overlap I wonder ?
	🥁 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:54 ...probly just switched.
	2:55pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Flying Saucer" by "Milt Jackson" This here one is wack-a-doodle. And great.
	🥁 2:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ WR @2:47 Sunday holiday squeezed out a bonus day
	2:58pm Jeff Golick: Is the album cover corredt (At Music Inn) or the playlist (At the Museum of Modern Art)?
	2:58pm coelacanth∅: this is Brilliant!
	2:59pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Jeff Golick @2:58 Sorry about my incorredt spelling.
	3:00pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Vendome" by "Modern Jazz Quartet" There's that Johann influence again. So unhip. (Not!)
	3:00pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Vendome" by "Modern Jazz Quartet" Here's a Bach-y little number I hope you'll enjoy.
	3:01pm Stork: ↳ Jeff Golick @2:59 Good catch, JG! Thanks - will fix!
	3:02pm Stork: Is your toe tappin' to beat the band? Damn, Hawk!!
	3:02pm doctorjazz: Blues on Bach was an early MJQ album fave!
	🥁 3:02pm Michael 98145: ↳ Stork @3:02 yup
	3:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Stuffy" by "Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny ... Sounds like they're playing in different keys with this harmonization
	3:13pm Dean: Take that, Blue Öyster Cult!
	3:14pm Dean: Bags, Lockjaw, Cleanhead... I'm noticing a pattern of superficiality.
	3:17pm coelacanth∅: Löckjaw, Doug Shulkind's death metal band in high school.
	3:17pm Stork: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:17 Heh heh!!
	3:19pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:14 And Sweets! Sounds like mob names from a 40's noir movie.
	🥁 3:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ Dean @3:13 Ör, Häagen-Dazs
	🥁 3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Love this composition
	3:21pm Dean: I saw that Löckjaw a couple times. They were great. Lyrics to every song were, "Grrrrr! Grrrrrrr..." At least Sweets ain't Spats.
	3:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Shadow Wilson really is barely heard here, really "shadowing" the music; you feel him more than you hear him.
	3:22pm doctorjazz: Monk is crazy on that out chorus!
	🥁 3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Unlike Miles - just adore Monk & feel he's 'Home' ...course I didn't have to try & play with him...
	3:23pm Dean: Wow. MJQ on Apple. Had no idea.
	3:25pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Blue Necklace" by "The Modern Jazz Quartet" One of Apple Records' attempts at a crossover hit by signing the MJQ. No one bought it.
	3:26pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:23 Yeah, Dean - the record buying public had no idea either, apparently.
	🥁 3:27pm Michael 98145: Never even heard of this
	3:27pm doctorjazz: It wasn't like you'd expect the MJQ to rival the Fab Four...
	🥁 3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Dean @3:23 1967-9 apparently - very Apple years : en.wikipedia.org... - with Atlantic for miles on either side...
	3:28pm Dean: I assume it was released around the time of Wonderwall Music, Two Virgins, etc., which were also largely out of the public eye.
	3:28pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:27 It's a wild and trippy record, for sure.
	🥁 3:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of course, TheBeatles' manager BrianEpstein died 1967 - & Business went a bit mad after that. Not their particular strong suit for gifts in the late 1960s it turns out...
	3:30pm Dean: Rev's link reveals a second MJQ LP on Apple. Learn something new every day.
	3:30pm Stork: Dihan Carroll sings. (remember the 60's TV series "Julia"? If so, you are old like me).
	3:31pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:30 Oh, wow - gotta track that one down!
	🥁 3:31pm Michael 98145: Jazz was mostly submerged in the late 1960s
	3:32pm doctorjazz: I know of Under the Jasmin Tree, but the other, Space, I've never seen or heard of. Interesting.
	🥁 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:30 ...don't think JohnLennon put too many minutes into promoting Jazz I venture ...wonder what the story is precisely with them on the label !
	3:34pm doctorjazz: Went into the LP racks, I actually HAVE Under the Jasin Tree...
	🥁 3:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:31 I guess I kinda think of the space between Trane dying in '67 & BitchesBrew coming out as lost time for Jazz - which is of course as totally wrong as most shorthands. What Miles alone was doing (SilentWay +) for instance.
	3:35pm adamdoesit: Home for the finale. Wish I could always walk in the door to the sound of a Milt Jackson solo.
	3:36pm hyde: i never knew that Apple had an MJQ record either!
	3:36pm doctorjazz: Aside from Miles and the Fusion-eers that followed him, in a commercial sense, jazz WAS pretty dead then.
	3:36pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Blue Necklace" by "The Modern Jazz Quartet" Here'a kinda long post re: the MJQ on Apple, but worth it, I think: "The Jasmin Tree" was originally released in 1968, followed by "Space" in 1969. Both shine brightly in the Quartet's extensive catalogue, not just for their brilliantly understated melodic statements, their fluid, organic jazz, but for the era-defining psychedelic artwork that adorned their sleeves, and the fact that they appeared on Apple. The vast majority of the MJQ’s albums appeared under the aegis of the US music industry giant and jazz trailblazer that was Atlantic Records. Although The Beatles once famously sang that they had no kick against modern jazz, they couldn’t honestly claim to be responsible for bringing about the MJQ's two-album secondment to Apple. In fact, the instigator of this short but happy union was the first Head of Apple Records, the fondly remembered Ron Kass. Ron was the seasoned American record company professional head-hunted from Liberty Records. He was also the biggest jazz fan at Apple’s HQ, 3 Savile Row in London. "I loved Ron, he was exactly what we needed,” recalls Peter Asher, Apple's Head of A&R at the time. “He was knowledgeable, he knew the state of the business. He had the smooth American suit-and-tie thing going, which was what we thought Apple had to have in order to interface with the business world and the Capitol (EMI) world. We liked him, he understood us.” Peter continues: "The Modern Jazz Quartet came to Apple because Ron Kass was very friendly with Monte Kay, their manager. And Ron said, ‘Wouldn't it be cool for the MJQ to do an album on Apple?’ Ron's pitch was that it would make them a lot of new fans, as some Beatles fans would listen to the MJQ just because it was on Apple, and Monte really liked the idea...." A more unlikely match of artists and label you will rarely find -- the dignified, classically influenced, indelibly Afro-American Modern Jazz Quartet and the Beatles' Apple Corps, Ltd. But Apple in its Rocking '60s heyday was one of the most daringly eclectic labels on the scene, and as the sole jazz act on the roster, the MJQ was given complete artistic freedom, with no electric guitars or period psychedelia apart from the misleading cover art. The program is more or less standard, poised, painstakingly structured, gently swinging MJQ fare, the group's contrapuntal interplay as telepathic as ever. The most distinctive of John Lewis' compositions is the revolving minor-key theme of "Three Little Feelings, Pt. 1" (part of a three-movement suite), while "The Blue Necklace" has a bell going off like that of a cash register, and Milt Jackson is clearly in his element on the gospel-ish "The Jasmin Tree." An extremely rare LP even when it was in print -- the Beatles' rock audience ignored it, and MJQ's fans couldn't find it.
	3:37pm coelacanth∅: Dean @321 haha!
	3:38pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @3:35 Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your ride!
	🥁 3:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @3:36 Thx.
	3:39pm Stork: Ray Bryant tickles 'em!
	3:40pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @3:36 Stork, well at least they all gave it a try. (Apple)
	🥁 3:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @3:36 A nice idea with no promotion or distribution ...Apple.
	3:41pm Bär: Wonderful show! Glad I tuned in. Thanks for the good time!
	3:42pm hyde: along with bringing the MJQ to Apple Records, Ron Kass was also married to Joan Collins for many years. That is an interesting life
	3:42pm doctorjazz: Nice day to bike (I just got out to shop for dinner...)
	3:43pm doctorjazz: Didn't realize Under the Jasmin Tree is a rarity (though the cover on my copy has seen better days...)
	3:43pm coelacanth∅: Stork i used to like "julia". i forgot she sang.
	🥁 3:44pm Michael 98145: ↳ Stork @3:36 never had a "smooth American suit"
	3:45pm Stork: ↳ Bär @3:41 Hey, Bär! Glad you did, too! Happy New Year!!
	3:46pm hyde: this is kind of a fusion supergroup
	🥁 3:46pm Michael 98145: I sound like a broken record, but this is -always- such a great show. Thanx.
	3:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 👍
	3:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @3:42 A perfect spring afternoon… albeit in January.
	3:50pm TDK60: This show has been very special, Herr Storkendiskenjocker. My dad was a real jazz guy, from the 1940s through this year when he passed. An early memory of mine when a small child is, falling asleep to the sounds of Milt's vibes wafting upstairs from the stereo downstairs.
	3:51pm doctorjazz: ↳ adamdoesit @3:49 Hey, but you'll bike in 30 degree weather-I've become a wimp...
	3:51pm fred: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Yeah, I'm skeptical of tribute shows, but these are consistently mind-blowing in a good way. The Glen Passaic also mind-blowing, in a different way
	3:51pm doctorjazz: The gospel portion of our program...
	3:51pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Your repetitions are music to mine ears! Thanks, and thanks to everyone for crowding in and kicking off the New Year with me! This was too much fun to have been legal! Can't wait for next week - it'll be a bit... different.
	3:52pm Stork: TDK60 - that is deeply moving. Thank you for sharing that. My Dad would've kind of liked this one, too.
	🥁 3:54pm Michael 98145: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 nice memory ..
	3:54pm Hopatcong Doug: Great show. Thanks for starting the year off with some nice vibes!
	3:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sermonette" by "Milt Jackson" There's a sadly ironic nickname-Lucky was anything but, believe he wound up homeless, then died of Alzheimers. en.wikipedia.org...
	3:55pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Stork!
	3:55pm hyde: since it was 55 degrees out today on Jan. 1 (or like 12-13 for those with a superior system of measurement), i SHOULD have gone outside. but i didn't, because frankly this was amazing. thank you
	3:56pm doctorjazz: Wonderful New Year Sounds, Stork, thanks for getting the year off with a Bags! Great week/new year all, Happy Healthy!
	🥁 3:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 Righteous
	🥁 3:56pm WR: OK, last call. Thank you, Stork! Onward.
	3:56pm adamdoesit: Thank you, DJ Stork! An episode for the ages, and for the archives. Happy New Year!
	🥁 3:56pm Michael 98145: Happy New Year 2023 CE, Everyone. Off to cook a few eggs.
	🥁 3:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY ALWAYS DJ Stork ~
	🥁 3:57pm WR: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 Nice memories, TDK60.
	3:58pm fred: Thanks Stork, it was a pleasure to start the year with you. Now which of these doors is the right one?
	3:58pm Stork: THANK YOU ADAMDOESIT, DOC, WR, REVRABB, HYDE, COEL,HOPATCONG DOUG - WELCOME!! AND ALLA YOOZ OTHER BEAUTIES!!
	3:59pm Listener Robert: Yay, Stork! Happy 2023.
	4:00pm Stork: ↳ Listener Robert @3:59 Thank you, Listener Robert!! Thank you, fred!!

The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from January 1, 2023

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January 1, 2023: The Milt-Tennial
The Wizard of the Vibes turns 100 today. Milt Jackson, the great two-mallet vibraharpist from Detroit Michigan whose career spanned over 50 years, from pre-bop to bop, to third stream, and onward. A founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jackson's singing, bluesy approach to the vibes reflects his origins as a singer in the church. Yup, we'll hear him sing a little, too.

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Artist	Track	Album	Comments	Approx. start time
Slim Gaillard	Gomen Nasai "Gomen Nasai" by "Slim Gaillard"	Laughing in Rhythm: The Best of the Verve Years	Gomen Nasai Band – Slim Gaillard And His Shintoists: Bass – Ray Brown; Drums – Milt Jackson; Piano – Cyril Haynes; Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster; Written-By – Benedict Mayers, Raymond Hattori - -Recorded late December 1952 or early January 1953 in New York City
Miles Davis	Bags' Groove (Take 2)	Bags' Groove	Bass – Percy Heath; Drums – Kenny Clarke; Piano – Thelonious Monk; Trumpet – Miles Davis; Vibraphone [Vibes] – Milt Jackson - - Recorded at June 29 & December 24, 1954 - Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey	0:03:21 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Concorde "Concorde" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	Concorde	Milt Jackson – vibraphone • John Lewis – piano • Percy Heath – bass • Connie Kay – drums • Recorded: July 2, 1955 - RVG	0:12:42 (Pop-up)
DJ Milt to the Hilt	"DJ Milt to the Hilt"			0:16:19 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Bright Blues "Bright Blues" by "Milt Jackson"	Ballads & Blues	Milt Jackson – vibes • Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone; • John Lewis - piano; • Barry Galbraith, Skeeter Best – guitar • Oscar Pettiford - double bass • Kenny Clarke – drums - - Recorded in New York City on January 17, 1956	0:21:04 (Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins	The Stopper "The Stopper" by "Sonny Rollins"	Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet	Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone • John Lewis – piano • Milt Jackson – vibes • Percy Heath – bass • Kenny Clarke – drums • Tracks 1-4 recorded October 7, 1953	0:27:17 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Versailles "Versailles" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	Fontessa	John Lewis – piano • Milt Jackson – vibraphone • Percy Heath – double bass • Connie Kay – drums • Recorded • January 22, 1956 and February 14, 1956 • Studio • New York City and Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ	0:30:13 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, Connie Kay	Thinking of You	Bags' Opus	Milt Jackson – vibes • Art Farmer - trumpet • Benny Golson - tenor saxophone • Tommy Flanagan - piano • Paul Chambers - bass • Connie Kay - drums • ◦ Recorded at Nola's Penthouse Sound Studios in New York City on December 28 & 29, 1958	0:33:34 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Cedar Walton	Blues For Tomi-oka	Bags' Bag	Drums – Billy Higgins; Bass – Ray Brown; Fender Rhodes(?) – Cedar Walton; Soprano Saxophone – Jerome Richardson; Vibraphone – Milt Jackson Recorded at Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood, 21 January, 1980	0:37:54 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Skating in Central Park	European Concert Vol. 2	Milt Jackson – vibraphone • John Lewis – piano • Percy Heath – bass • Connie Kay – drums • Recorded April 11–13, 1960 in Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden	0:46:42 (Pop-up)
Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson	Blues Oriental	Things Are Getting Better	Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone • Milt Jackson - vibes • Wynton Kelly - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Art Blakey - drums • Recorded October 28, 1958 at Reeves Sound (New York City)	0:52:48 (Pop-up)
Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Mickey Roker	Caravan	A Celebration Of Duke	Bass – Ray Brown; Drums – Mickey Roker; Guitar – Joe Pass; Vibraphone – Milt Jackson; Written-By – Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol - - recorded at Group IV Studios, Hollywood, January 21, 1980.	0:57:44 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson, Ray Charles	Cosmic Ray	Soul Brothers	Ray Charles – piano, alto saxophone • Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano, guitar • Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone • Skeeter Best – guitar • Oscar Pettiford – bass • Connie Kay – drums • Recorded September 12, 1957	1:02:23 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Kiss And Run "Kiss And Run" by "Milt Jackson"	Jazz 'n' Samba	Milt Jackson – vibes; • Jimmy Heath - tenor saxophone ; • Barry Galbraith – guitar ; • Richard Davis – bass; • Connie Kay – drums; • Lillian Clark - vocals • • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 7, 1964	1:07:44 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Cortege "Cortege" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	One Never Knows (Original Film Score For No Sun In Venice)	Milt Jackson – vibraphone • John Lewis – piano • Percy Heath – bass • Connie Kay – drums • Recorded New York City; August 24, 1957, Music Inn, Lenox, MA	1:11:05 (Pop-up)
DJ Vibin' and Imbibin'	"DJ Vibin' and Imbibin'"			1:18:29 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson, Big Brass	Morning Glory (What's Your Story)	For Someone I Love	Milt Jackson – vibes • Bill Berry, Dave Burns, Thad Jones, Clark Terry, Elmon Wright, Snooky Young - trumpet • Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Willie Ruff - trombone • Ray Alonge, Paul Ingraham and Julius Watkins - French horn • Major Holley - tuba • Jimmy Jones - piano • Richard Davis - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Melba Liston - arranger, conductor • • Recorded in New York City on August 5, 1963	1:25:25 (Pop-up)
Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson	Just You, Just Me	Two Of The Few	Piano – Oscar Peterson • Vibraphone – Milt Jackson • Rec’d: RCA Recording Studio New York City January 20, 1983	1:29:02 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Blue Monk "Blue Monk" by "Milt Jackson"	The Prophet Speaks	Bass – John Clayton; • Drums – Billy Higgins; • Piano – Cedar Walton; • Tenor Saxophone – Joshua Redman ; • Vibraphone – Milt Jackson; • Vocals – Joe Williams - - -1994	1:34:07 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Around the Blues	The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra	Milt Jackson - vibraphone • John Lewis - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Unnamed orchestra (Südwestfunk?) conducted by Werner Heider and Gunther Schuller • Recorded • June 3 & 4, 1960 - - Stuttgart, West Germany	1:40:36 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Deep In A Dream "Deep In A Dream" by "Milt Jackson"	The Ballad Artistry Of Milt Jackson	Milt Jackson – vibes • Don Hammond - alto flute • Romeo Penque - reeds • Max Cahn, Alexander Cores, Paul Gershman, Julius Held, Leo Kahn, Harry Katzman, Harry Lookofsky, David Nadien, George Ockner, Gene Orloff, Leonard Posner, Sol Shapiro - violin • Al Brown, Harold Coletta, Burt Fisch, David Mankowitz - viola • Maurice Brown, Charles McCracken, Harvey Shapiro, George Ricci - cello • Gloria Agostini - harp • Jimmy Jones - piano, arranger • Barry Galbraith, Chuck Wayne - guitar • Bill Crow, Milt Hinton - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor • Recorded May 1 and September 9 & 10, 1959	1:48:57 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Lonely Woman "Lonely Woman" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	Lonely Woman	Milt Jackson - vibraphone • John Lewis - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Recorded 1962	1:52:37 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane	Bags & Trane	Bags & Trane	Milt Jackson — vibraphone • John Coltrane — tenor saxophone • Hank Jones — piano • Paul Chambers — bass • Connie Kay — drums • Recorded • January 15, 1959 • Atlantic Studios, New York City	1:58:54 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	For Someone I Love "For Someone I Love" by "Milt Jackson"	Sunflower	Milt Jackson – vibes • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn • Herbie Hancock - piano • Jay Berliner - guitar • Ron Carter - bass • Billy Cobham - drums • Ralph MacDonald - percussion • Romeo Penque - alto flute, English horn, oboe • Phil Bodner - flute, alto flute, piccolo, English horn • George Marge - clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute, English horn • Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Charles Libove, Joe Malin, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, Elliot Rosoff, Irving Spice - violin • Charles McCraken, George Ricci, Alan Shulman - cello • Margaret Ross - harp • Don Sebesky - arranger, conductor • • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on December 12 & 13, 1972 • Recorded	2:06:15 (Pop-up)
Sahib Shihab	I'm a Fool to Want You	Companionship	Bass – Jimmy Woode Drums – Kenny Clarke Flute – Sahib Shihab Piano – Francy Boland Vocals – Milt Jackson Written-By – Frank Sinatra, Wolff, Herron - - Recorded between 1964–1970 in Cologne, West Germany	2:16:33 (Pop-up)
DJ	"DJ"			2:21:05 (Pop-up)
The Howard McGhee Sextet With Milt Jackson	Sweet And Lovely	The Howard McGhee Sextet With Milt Jackson	Howard McGhee - trumpet • Milt Jackson - vibraphone; • Jimmy Heath - alto saxophone, • Will Davis - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Joe Harris - drums • Recorded December 24-31, 1947 (all recorded in Chicago for the Vitacoustic Records label)	2:25:51 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Midsommer "Midsommer" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	The Modern Jazz Quartet At Music Inn Vol. 2	Milt Jackson - vibraphone • John Lewis - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Recorded • August 3 & 31, 1958 • The Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts	2:28:50 (Pop-up)
Ray Brown, Milt Jackson	Lazy Theme	Ray Brown/Milt Jackson	Milt Jackson – vibes • Ray Brown - bass • Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Snooky Young - trumpet • Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Tom McIntosh, Tony Studd - trombone • Ray Alonge - French horn • Bob Ashton, Danny Bank, Jimmy Heath, Romeo Penque, Jerome Richardson, Phil Woods - reeds • Hank Jones - piano • Grady Tate - drums • Oliver Nelson, Jimmy Heath - arranger, conductor; written by Oscar Peterson - • Recorded • January 4 & 5, 1965	2:35:49 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson Septet	Blues In My Heart	Night Mist	Alto Saxophone – Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; Bass – Ray Brown; Drums – Larance Marable; Piano – Art Hillery; Tenor Saxophone – Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis; Trumpet – Harry "Sweets" Edison*; Vibraphone – Milt Jackson — - Recorded April 14th 1980 at Spectrum Studios, Venice, California Producer – Norman Granz	2:40:39 (Pop-up)
Dizzy Gillespie	Birk's Works "Birk's Works" by "Dizzy Gillespie"	Dee Gee – 3600 78" - B-Side	Bass – Percy Heath; Drums – "Kansas" Fields*; Guitar – Kenny Burrell; Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane; Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie; Vibraphone – Milt Jackson - Recorded in Detroit, MI, March 1, 1951	2:46:11 (Pop-up)
Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown	Blue Bossa	The Big 3	Milt Jackson – vibes • Joe Pass - guitar • Ray Brown - bass • Recorded • August 25, 1975 • Studio	2:49:16 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Flying Saucer "Flying Saucer" by "Milt Jackson"	Live At The Museum of Modern Art	Milt Jackson – vibes • James Moody - flute, vocals • Cedar Walton - piano • Ron Carter - bass • Otis "Candy" Finch - drums • • Recorded at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 12, 1965	2:54:17 (Pop-up)
Modern Jazz Quartet	Vendome "Vendome" by "Modern Jazz Quartet"	Pyramid	Milt Jackson - vibraphone • John Lewis - piano • Percy Heath - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Recorded • August 22 & 25 and December 21, 1959 and January 15, 1960 • Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts and Capitol Studios, New York City	2:59:22 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Connie Kay	Stuffy	Bean Bags	Milt Jackson – vibes • Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone • Tommy Flanagan - piano • Kenny Burrell - guitar • Eddie Jones - bass • Connie Kay - – drums • Recorded • September 12, 1958 • New York City	3:01:48 (Pop-up)
The Modern Jazz Quartet	The Jasmine Tree	More From The Last Concert	Bass – Percy Heath; Drums – Connie Kay; Piano – John Lewis; Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Milt Jackson - - Recorded on November 25, 1974 at Avery Fisher Hall, New York City	3:07:28 (Pop-up)
DJ Vibe Bar	"DJ Vibe Bar"			3:11:29 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	That's In "That's In" by "Milt Jackson"	In A New Setting	Milt Jackson – vibes • Jimmy Heath - flute, tenor saxophone • McCoy Tyner - piano • Bob Cranshaw - bass • Connie Kay - drums • • Recorded in New York City on December 9, 1964	3:16:27 (Pop-up)
Thelonious Monk	Misterioso "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk"	Genius of Modern Music Vol. 1	Piano Thelonious Monk; Bass – John Simmons; Drums – Shadow Wilson; Vibraphone – Milt Jackson - - rec'd: 15, 24 October and November 21, 1947	3:19:23 (Pop-up)
The Modern Jazz Quartet	The Blue Necklace	Under The Jasmin Tree	Milt Jackson – vibraphone; John Lewis – piano; Percy Heath – bass; Connie Kay – drums; - - Recorded and released on the Apple label, December 12, 1967	3:22:43 (Pop-up)
The Modern Jazz Quartet	La Cantatrice	The Comedy	Milt Jackson – vibraphone; • John Lewis – piano; • Percy Heath – bass; • Connie Kay – drums; • Diahann Carroll – vocals -- • Recorded October 20, 1960 and January 22, 23 & 24, 1962 • New York City	3:27:32 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis	Changes "Changes" by "Miles Davis"	Miles Davis & Milt Jackson: Complete Recordings	Miles Davis – trumpet Milt Jackson – vibraphone; Ray Bryant – piano; Percy Heath – bass; Art Taylor – drums - - Recorded August 5, 1955 by Rudy Van Gelder - Hackensack, NJ	3:33:13 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Stairway to the Stars	Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery Bags Meets Wes! / Milt Jackson Quartet	Milt Jackson – vibraphone • Wes Montgomery – guitar • Wynton Kelly – piano • Sam Jones – double bass • Philly Joe Jones – drums • Recorded • December 18–19, 1961	3:40:22 (Pop-up)
Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson	Sister Sanctified	Cherry	Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone • Milt Jackson - vibraphone • Bob James - piano, electric piano, arranger • Cornell Dupree - guitar • Ron Carter - bass • Billy Cobham - drums • Weldon Irvine Jr. - arranger (#6, 7) Recorded May 17, 18 and 24, 1972 Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ	3:43:56 (Pop-up)
Milt Jackson	Sermonette "Sermonette" by "Milt Jackson"	Plenty, Plenty Soul	Milt Jackson – vibes • Joe Newman - trumpet • Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone • Horace Silver - piano • Oscar Pettiford - bass • Connie Kay - drums • Recorded • January 5 & 7, 1957	3:49:45 (Pop-up)
DJ Good Vibratings	"DJ Good Vibratings"		THANKS ALL FOR COMING TO THE CLUB TODAY!! I ENJOYED IT IMMENSE-LIKE!! MANY MANY MANY MWAH'S!!	3:55:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:59am Andrew in Toronto: Hi there Stork and all other listeners! Happy New Year!
	🥁 12:00pm listener james from westwood: Good 2023, Stork and all!
	12:01pm fred: Happy new year Stork and all. A round of Glen Passaic sounds right to start this year on wobbly legs
	12:01pm Stork: Greetins' Greetins'!! Hey, ho Andrew in Toronto, and listener james from westwood - first hands stamped in 2023!
	🥁 12:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...a New Year ...& I've still never seen MarySears...
	12:01pm hyde: hello!
	12:02pm doctorjazz: Hello Stork Club Denizens! Raise your Glen Passaic in a toast, good cheer to all!
	12:02pm adamdoesit: Stork-a-roonie! Out with the McVouty, and in with the vout!
	12:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Gomen Nasai" by "Slim Gaillard" (Milt Jackson on drums, very cool)
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: Awesome start!
	12:03pm Stork: .. and hurrah, it's fred in France, Revolution Rabbit Nov63, and hyde!
	12:03pm TDK60: Hi Stork. Ya got a groove in the bag?
	12:04pm Stork: Happy NY, doctorjazz! I've never found another record with MJ playing drums.
	12:05pm Stork: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Thanks, Ait! Nice crowd in here to share it!
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Bags' Groove (Take 2)" by "Miles Davis" The story I remember on this was that Miles made Monk lay out when he was playing, couldn't stand the way he comped (Monk's unique timing, way of placing chords/notes, drove him nuts)
	🥁 12:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ⦿Sun in ♑︎Capricorn, Year of Water 🐕Dog (before Chinese New Year in 1923) ' Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with hard bop and post-bop players. A very expressive player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm. He was particularly fond of the twelve-bar blues at slow tempos. On occasion, Jackson also sang and played piano. '
	🥁 12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @12:05 So this is that session.
	12:07pm Jeff Golick: ↳ doctorjazz @12:05 I've heard that story similarly, @doc. Hey all you swells. Fancy meeting you here. Do it to us, @Stork!
	12:08pm doctorjazz: Monk enters when MJ starts his solo-seems Jackson didn't mind him comping.
	12:08pm Stork: adamdoesit! Happi Nooz!! What evil new concoctions will you add to the ever-fattening Stork Club Cocktail Bible and Place to Set Your Drink in 2023?
	12:08pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:06 So you're both a water hare and a scorpio, how does that work?
	12:10pm Stork: Fancy, yerself, JG! Welcome and Happy NY!
	12:11pm Stork: Thanks or the Wiki post, RevRabb! As ever, I'm going light on the artist bio stuff - trying to cram as much Milty goodness in as possible.
	12:11pm doctorjazz: And Miles is back, Monk is quiet...
	12:12pm Stork: Hey-ya-hey, TDK60!
	12:15pm adamdoesit: ↳ Stork @12:08 For those sensibly celebrating a sober January, it's all Stork Club Temperance Cocktails today: that's 8oz seltzer, 2oz orange juice, a dash of bitters… and a shot of Glen Passaic when nobody's watching.
	🥁 12:16pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @12:08 How much time you have ?? 🐇Hare seeks to nurture & make safe - while ♏︎Scorpio seeks to penetrate & even deconstruct. 'Revolution Rabbit' is an attempt to acknowledge & embrace a fundamental paradox - like 'Ninja Turtle'. (I'd throw GenX in there too...) Water Element in the Chinese System correlates to ☿Mercury, a bit counterintuitively for the Westerner ...& so communication & nervous energy as well as emotion & sensitivity. Which is 🐇Hare enuff already... ♏︎Scorpio of course in the Western System is the Fixed Water Element sign - so similar in the Emotional ~ Intuitive business... A serious reduction of both Systems of course. In the Chinese on has an Hour, Day & Month too (the Four Pillars) - for starters...
	12:16pm doctorjazz: Got to see MJQ and Milt Jackson back in the day.
	12:19pm J T. Ramsay: #TeamJaunty
	12:21pm Listener Robert: Sounds like they're still shooting fireworks in your neighborhood by the surface noise SFX you're using.
	12:23pm Stork: Hi, and welcome in the joint, J T.!
	12:23pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:16 I does sound fitting when you tell it. I'm a yin metal pig, which mostly fits
	🥁 12:26pm WR: ↳ Song: "Gomen Nasai" by "Slim Gaillard" In several levels this recording is weird, the gibberish phrase Gaillard was dropping in after singing "gomen nasai", the possible / probable context of the POV being from occupier serviceman to occupied lady friend, and then there are the top level musicians: Webster, Brown, Jackson. What a way to make a living.
	12:26pm Stork: Happy Dappy New Year, Listener Robert! All is strangely quiet outside. Unlike in years past, when the boom-booms continued into the week. Those were indeed sampled fireworks serenading us.
	🥁 12:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @12:23 Ah - '71. I say 'Boar' (my Hour) myself...
	12:27pm adamdoesit: A joyous sound. Bags was the first jazz soloist I fell for, whose lines I studied, trying to figure out how the hell they worked. Not knowing what a vibraharp was, or anything about its history, for me, the vibes were he. Happy century, Mr. Jackson!
	12:27pm chresti: Hello darling butterflies! Listening while texting
	12:29pm Stork: chresti! Happy Newest of Years to you and Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 12:29pm WR: ↳ adamdoesit @12:15 I'll have what he's having. Double.
	🥁 12:31pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @12:16 Very cool,doctorjazz, I never did.
	🥁 12:35pm WR: ↳ Song: "Bags' Groove (Take 2)" by "Miles Davis" wow what a lineup, I was reeling from the Slim song and a pedestrian dodging traffic when it played so wasn't focused on the music, will relisten.
	12:35pm Stork: Aaah, the flugelhorn of Art Farmer! Warm and wondrous!
	12:35pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:26 Yeah, I know it's the nice terminology, but yin metal means I roll with the dismissive
	12:36pm doctorjazz: MJQ was one of the 1st jazz groups I started to listen to when I started checking out jazz. I "got" John Lewis, with his deliberate, measured (and slow) playing style before I got MJ, took me a while to figure out HE was the featured soloist, and what he was psutting down. (same thing happened early on, with Bird and Diz, I "got " Dizzy Gillespie much before I "got" Charlie Parker...)
	🥁 12:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @12:11 I tend to do this sort of thing with it : www.facebook.com...
	12:44pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 That reminds me of my own unorthodox way into jazz. It was the Third Stream and classically-influenced stuff that I went for right away. Then I started delving into soul-jazzy and modal-y things. It took a while before I "got" bop, hard-bop, etc. Now it's all become one big beautiful continuum to me. Soon I won't have any dislikes left in music. OK, except for 99.99 percent of metal, contemporary pop, polka, and whatever the fuck "house" is.
	12:45pm Stork: Cedar Walton is credited only with "piano" on this record. He actually plays electric throughout.
	12:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blues For Tomi-oka" by "Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, ... Great track, love Richardson's soprano!
	12:46pm Dean: Easy inroad to "house" music, or at least one species of it: Steve Hillage's System 7.
	12:47pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @12:36 doc, 100%. John Lewis can seem over-classicizing, prettifying, even whitening, but he made a lot of jazz fans by paring away the flesh til the bones showed blue and clear.
	🥁 12:48pm Michael 98145: Hello, All. 2022 has been shredded and already rotting in the compost. 2023 CE is fresh and clean (so far).
	12:48pm Stork: I'll never say never, Dean. I actually do like some of Hillage's stuff.
	12:49pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @12:46 Was just about to post what doc did - verbatim!
	12:51pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:48 Welcome, friend!! Sit..imbibe!!
	12:52pm fred: ↳ Stork @12:44 I guess I only dislike reggae and latin music, and Pedro is hacking at the later. Soon it will be only reggae left. I even heard Taylor Swift last week for the first time, not the voice I expected. Shows how little I know
	12:52pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @12:47 John Lewis was a vastly open-minded artist. He was an early supporter (financiall and otherwise) of Ornette Coleman, of all people.
	🥁 12:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Always say that Psychedelic Rawk was a magnificent prep for anything & everything - Jazz, International, Avant-garde. After Hendrix - what kind challenge is Jazz, really ?? Can't remember ever not liking Jazz. Lucky enuff to have an older brother who'd on occasion tell me things about what the roots of everything were ...& that Black poeple had usually been there far earlier & I'd better pay attention ! Which was enuff. Also what I call 'Stealth Jazz' - where ...& when - Cartoons & Kid's Shows would have Real Jazz - yer CharlieBrowns & many things actually. It was, however, getting LPs out of the Public Library that grabbed me & shoved me across the threshold absolutely. We've discussed a few times the Smithsonian Multi-LP collections & the like. What a fabulous overview of the long History ! Up to Ornette & Cecil. Owe a lot to that. & - Coltrane hit me like a bolt straight vertically ought of the blue. Done deal.
	12:54pm fred: ↳ adamdoesit @12:47 "paring away the flesh til the bones showed blue and clear". Man, that calls for another round of Glen Passaic
	12:55pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @12:44 Stork, I saw a Black guy walking by in the park with a boombox playing. I said, that's some good funk. He scolded me, "That's not funk, that's house."
	🥁 12:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @12:53 ...once I heard Coltrane - I knew deeply this was a Music that had a lot of the same dynamics as Rawk - but was also completely different & independent of that.
	12:57pm Stork: ↳ fred @12:54 fred, I thought adamdoesit was writing ad copy for GP.
	12:58pm Stork: Ray Brown just blew me mind again.
	🥁 12:59pm Michael 98145: I always wished i'd seen more live jazz shows ...
	1:00pm abbazabba: Hallo Stork and all! Happy New Year! I’m here for the jazz and the booze
	1:00pm TDK60: Stork, I am not very hip on the subject but I think "house" started in Detroit, as a sort of post-disco DJ music. Influenced later techno. Maybe that's too simple a sketch. Maybe another can say more.
	1:01pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @12:55 That's funny - I've had the same kind of thing happen to me. I thought I was listening to some ambient, arty modern classical hybrid... nope, house, dude. Okay, let's just delete house from my list of no-go's till I investigate further.
	1:01pm adamdoesit: ↳ Stork @12:52 Indeed. A scholar in the best sense. It's a sparkling afternoon here in New York, so I'm going to head out on the bike for a bit. If I don't make it back before the end; but, if not, I want to express my gratitude to alla youse -- DJ Stork, doctorjazz, fred, RevRabb, dean, WR, Michael 98145, TDK, den mother chresti, David in Absentia, anyone I might've missed -- for a year of great music on Sundays. 2022 was challenging in so many ways. I'm grateful to have been able to come here, meet with all of you, imbibe a few virtual cocktails, and listen. It helped get me through.
	🥁 1:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:59 How hard could it be to set up little venues all over the place that feature quality Jazz artists playing affordably & accessibly ?? As it turns out ...virtually impossible.
	🥁 1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 The Company is for damn sure appreciated as well as the Music.
	🥁 1:03pm redkayak: Happy New Year, all! Adios '22, welcome '23 :)
	1:04pm TDK60: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 adamdoesit: '22 was rough for me in many ways. I even still have a cold from that year.
	1:04pm Stork: ↳ redkayak @1:03 redkayak ! Tie up and come on in!
	🥁 1:05pm redkayak: @stork - Ahoy, captain.... HNY to you and crew!
	1:06pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @1:01 Stork, in Central Park in the summers a street is set up for roller skaters to dance. Most of the music is house, or so I'm told.
	1:06pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Cosmic Ray" by "Milt Jackson, Ray Charles" Jackson is credited with guitar on this album - and Ray Charles with alto sax!
	🥁 1:08pm Michael 98145: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 enjoy your ride !
	1:09pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @1:01 Ditto from me, adamdoesit. And thank you for the lovely sentiments!
	🥁 1:09pm Michael 98145: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:01 Sadly, true. Few, if any survive ...
	🥁 1:15pm Michael 98145: I try to support local efforts to allow young people to express their inner jazz
	1:16pm TDK60: I think I hear some of John Lewis' Bach influence on Cortege.
	1:17pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:01 A network of small venues could work. One issue is NYC, too expensive and outside of it means driving, which is a divide
	🥁 1:22pm Michael 98145: At least most cities have annual jazz festivals ...
	🥁 1:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ fred @1:17 Well - North New England here has enuff going on - maybe - throughout its tiny towns to add up to one reasonable culture ...if one could drive all over two or three states to appreciate it...
	🥁 1:24pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...but to pay rent putting on Jazz seems to generally fail...
	🥁 1:25pm Michael 98145: thank goodness for this Stork Club
	1:27pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:25 :-)))
	🥁 1:29pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @1:25 Thank You, Goodness
	1:33pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @1:16 Oh, yeah. He took a lotta heat for his highbrow tastes at the time. Glad it didn't seem to affect him.
	🥁 1:35pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Trust Us It's Jazz ...T-Shirts in the lobby ...this place'll be solvent yet...
	1:37pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Blue Monk" by "Milt Jackson" Love that little Grershwin quote by Milt just there.
	🥁 1:37pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...course GlennP is the universal solvent...)
	1:37pm fred: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:24 Yep. One thing that worked in some rural areas is to set up a space for music/STEM classes (seriously, there can be overlap), then using the space after hours. Only works with buy-in from people, but once you ask it seems easier than expected
	1:48pm watchpocket: Stork, I want to wish you the happiest of New Years and and every super-good wish for good times to come. Also a big big thank you for this very enjoyable Milt-tennial and for your commitment to and encyclopedic knowledge of the American Classical music known as jazz and your ongoing commitment to great radio. I would hear jazz on the radio as a kid and I would crank it. But when Bitches Brew came out I picked it up right away and was officially sold on what was called jazz but is really a treasure trove of transcendent incantations. Already doing radio at that time I presented B-Brew to a mostly mystified audience yet still got calls wanting to know what it was. Music, radio, freedom, improvisation, wonderful things all. Speaking of radio, don't know if you've ever seen my little piece of the history of underground radio, but you can peruse it here at your leisure: watchpocket.net... Happy New Year, Stork, and to all Stork Club aficonados!
	1:48pm Dean: Here's your Third Stream, including one of its major proponents, Gunther Schuller.
	1:54pm fred: I'm sure there are bad versions of Lonely Woman, but they're not welcome here
	1:55pm doctorjazz: Lewis did champion Ornette (as Stork mentioned earlier). This is a lovely take
	🥁 1:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @1:55 ThirdStream version of a famous Out Classic. Interesting. Just saw he was a Composer, I guess.
	1:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @1:35 This place IS a solvent, at least the cocktails are...
	1:57pm Stork: Just amazes me that the MJQ was so into everything. Hard to imagine anything further away from their thing than Ornette and harmolodics.
	🥁 1:57pm WR: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 thank you for the link. will read later.
	1:59pm doctorjazz: Though, there's very little/no "harmelodics" (whatever that is) in the MJQs playing..
	🥁 1:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ WR @1:57 Yeah way kewl !
	2:00pm fred: ↳ doctorjazz @1:56 It's the Glen Passaic talking. Weird one has to get to Munster to get it
	2:01pm Stork: Heya watchpocket. Thanks for the very kind words -that guy you mentioned with the encyclopedic knowledge of jazz sounds nice - I'd love to meet him! ;) And thanks for the link - I will check that out.
	2:03pm doctorjazz: MJ:s incredibly fluid time is one of those things it took me a bit to appreciate.
	2:04pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @2:03 For a guy who rarely wrote anything that wasn't essentially a blues, he could go anywhere, with anyone, and just fit everything to a T.
	2:05pm doctorjazz: Hank Jones plays off/contrasts Bags/Trane and similar to John Lewis in the MJQ.
	🥁 2:06pm Michael 98145: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 Wow - fascinating job! Thank you.
	2:06pm hyde: this is all just ideal Reading on a Sunday Afternoon music
	2:07pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:59 Yeah, they took Ornette's melody and went utterly elsewhere with it.
	2:11pm hyde: Or it was. The s.o. just came in to vacuum the bedroom, which really killed the vibe
	2:11pm Stork: ↳ Song: "For Someone I Love" by "Milt Jackson" Another intriguing Don Sebesky affair. Really love his stuff.
	🥁 2:11pm duke: Happy New Year Stork and Storklings
	2:11pm watchpocket: WR, RevRabbit, Michael 98145, and Stork: My pleasure!
	2:12pm Stork: Sir duke!!
	2:13pm abbazabba: Wow, great chemistry with the musicians on this one
	2:14pm Stork: ↳ abbazabba @2:13 abbazabba ! Happy New Year!
	2:16pm abbazabba: Thanks, You too Stork! Happy New Year to everyone and especially the guy in the crane
	2:17pm Stork: ↳ Song: "I'm a Fool to Want You" by "Sahib Shihab" Someone's about to croon....
	2:17pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Stork, Storkles
	2:18pm Stork: ↳ abbazabba @2:16 The last I heard, he's been locked up in a mental institution after a rash of violent attacks on his neighbors.
	2:19pm Stork: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:17 O, coelacanth∅! Salutations!
	2:21pm abbazabba: What’s up Coel! Stork, that sucks. Poor guy. I’m glad I don’t live next to him
	2:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "I'm a Fool to Want You" by "Sahib Shihab" I don't believe I know MJ the singer, he's quite good!
	2:24pm TDK60: ↳ watchpocket @1:48 Thanks for posting that here, watchpocket. I will like to read it. I got into "underground radio" via WBAI & WFMU as a teen.
	2:28pm fred: ↳ Stork @2:18 There goes his endorsement of the Stork Guide to Glen Passaic Cocktails. Or is that extra cred?
	2:33pm Stork: ↳ fred @2:28 It really boggles the mind - how long it's taken to have this guy committed, with all the shit he's done, including multiple assault cases. And it's not over- i expect he will have to be released at some point. It's really hard to keep someone locked up here in Germany. Personal sovereignty is a very strongly protected right here.
	2:33pm TDK60: John Lewis also did a version of this 'Midsommer' on his orchestral album 'European Windows.'
	2:35pm Stork: ↳ TDK60 @2:33 I don't have that record yet, TDK60. Thanks for the tip!
	2:39pm headcleaner: Perfect time to check in... Frohes Neues, everyone!
	2:40pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @2:35 I have my father's old scratchy LP of it. Recorded with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. I don't think Milt is on it. "Third Stream" for sure. / Golly, that Music Inn up in Lenox, Mass. must've been quite the place in those days.
	2:40pm Stork: ↳ headcleaner @2:39 Frohes neues Jahr, headcleaner!!
	🥁 2:41pm Michael 98145: This has all been doubleplus great
	2:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Blues In My Heart" by "Milt Jackson Septet" Pablo record label, they did lots of great music in great sound!
	🥁 2:45pm WR: ↳ Song: "Morning Glory (What's Your Story)" by "Milt Jacks... When this was playing, I was singing (in my mind) the words to the song Black Coffee. Now, catching up on the playlist, I was looking and surprised to not find Black Coffee listed. Just a little looking further and find that Mary Lou Williams had been very surprised to find she was not credited when Burke and Webster published Black Coffee 10 years after her composition Morning Glory from 1938. en.wikipedia.org... Had not known that.
	2:46pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @2:41 Thanks, Michael 98145! This is another record that it was hard not to double-dip from - but as it is, thereare a bunch of recordings I have that I couldn't fit into 4 hours at all. Between MJ's own titles, the massive MJQ discography, and MJ's many many side dates - gee whillikers!!
	🥁 2:47pm WR: ↳ hyde @2:11 Too bad hyde, I just got word that the vacuuming and mopping over here is rescheduled for tomorrow, so I am about to lay down with a book and WFMU for a while.
	2:48pm Stork: ↳ WR @2:45 Great sleuthing, WR! I gotta read up on that later.
	🥁 2:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Birk's Works" by "Dizzy Gillespie" Coltrane in '51
	2:50pm doctorjazz: Don't have a reference in front of me, but Trane in 51 would have been on alto sax, I believe.
	2:50pm Stork: I don't believe I've thanked Kenny Dorham today for writing Blue Bossa. Thank you, KD!
	2:51pm fred: ↳ Stork @2:33 Took me a while to reply. Of course it's an extreme case, but I saw a bunch of lives destroyed by how easy it is to commit someone here if you have the right connections. There has to be some boundaries, but money tends to mock these
	🥁 2:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ doctorjazz @2:50 en.wikipedia.org...–1954:_Immediate_post-war_career
	2:53pm coelacanth∅: aloha abba! (delayed by the kitchen)
	🥁 2:53pm WR: ↳ Stork @2:48 And what I originally had meant to comment, what a great arrangement by Melba Liston and that I wish it was 3 or 4 times longer.
	🥁 2:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:51 ...' Although he started on alto saxophone, he began playing tenor saxophone in 1947 with Eddie Vinson. ' Any overlap I wonder ?
	🥁 2:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @2:54 ...probly just switched.
	2:55pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Flying Saucer" by "Milt Jackson" This here one is wack-a-doodle. And great.
	🥁 2:57pm Michael 98145: ↳ WR @2:47 Sunday holiday squeezed out a bonus day
	2:58pm Jeff Golick: Is the album cover corredt (At Music Inn) or the playlist (At the Museum of Modern Art)?
	2:58pm coelacanth∅: this is Brilliant!
	2:59pm Jeff Golick: ↳ Jeff Golick @2:58 Sorry about my incorredt spelling.
	3:00pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Vendome" by "Modern Jazz Quartet" There's that Johann influence again. So unhip. (Not!)
	3:00pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Vendome" by "Modern Jazz Quartet" Here's a Bach-y little number I hope you'll enjoy.
	3:01pm Stork: ↳ Jeff Golick @2:59 Good catch, JG! Thanks - will fix!
	3:02pm Stork: Is your toe tappin' to beat the band? Damn, Hawk!!
	3:02pm doctorjazz: Blues on Bach was an early MJQ album fave!
	🥁 3:02pm Michael 98145: ↳ Stork @3:02 yup
	3:07pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Stuffy" by "Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny ... Sounds like they're playing in different keys with this harmonization
	3:13pm Dean: Take that, Blue Öyster Cult!
	3:14pm Dean: Bags, Lockjaw, Cleanhead... I'm noticing a pattern of superficiality.
	3:17pm coelacanth∅: Löckjaw, Doug Shulkind's death metal band in high school.
	3:17pm Stork: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:17 Heh heh!!
	3:19pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:14 And Sweets! Sounds like mob names from a 40's noir movie.
	🥁 3:19pm Michael 98145: ↳ Dean @3:13 Ör, Häagen-Dazs
	🥁 3:20pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Love this composition
	3:21pm Dean: I saw that Löckjaw a couple times. They were great. Lyrics to every song were, "Grrrrr! Grrrrrrr..." At least Sweets ain't Spats.
	3:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Shadow Wilson really is barely heard here, really "shadowing" the music; you feel him more than you hear him.
	3:22pm doctorjazz: Monk is crazy on that out chorus!
	🥁 3:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Misterioso" by "Thelonious Monk" Unlike Miles - just adore Monk & feel he's 'Home' ...course I didn't have to try & play with him...
	3:23pm Dean: Wow. MJQ on Apple. Had no idea.
	3:25pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Blue Necklace" by "The Modern Jazz Quartet" One of Apple Records' attempts at a crossover hit by signing the MJQ. No one bought it.
	3:26pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:23 Yeah, Dean - the record buying public had no idea either, apparently.
	🥁 3:27pm Michael 98145: Never even heard of this
	3:27pm doctorjazz: It wasn't like you'd expect the MJQ to rival the Fab Four...
	🥁 3:27pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Dean @3:23 1967-9 apparently - very Apple years : en.wikipedia.org... - with Atlantic for miles on either side...
	3:28pm Dean: I assume it was released around the time of Wonderwall Music, Two Virgins, etc., which were also largely out of the public eye.
	3:28pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:27 It's a wild and trippy record, for sure.
	🥁 3:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Of course, TheBeatles' manager BrianEpstein died 1967 - & Business went a bit mad after that. Not their particular strong suit for gifts in the late 1960s it turns out...
	3:30pm Dean: Rev's link reveals a second MJQ LP on Apple. Learn something new every day.
	3:30pm Stork: Dihan Carroll sings. (remember the 60's TV series "Julia"? If so, you are old like me).
	3:31pm Stork: ↳ Dean @3:30 Oh, wow - gotta track that one down!
	🥁 3:31pm Michael 98145: Jazz was mostly submerged in the late 1960s
	3:32pm doctorjazz: I know of Under the Jasmin Tree, but the other, Space, I've never seen or heard of. Interesting.
	🥁 3:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @3:30 ...don't think JohnLennon put too many minutes into promoting Jazz I venture ...wonder what the story is precisely with them on the label !
	3:34pm doctorjazz: Went into the LP racks, I actually HAVE Under the Jasin Tree...
	🥁 3:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:31 I guess I kinda think of the space between Trane dying in '67 & BitchesBrew coming out as lost time for Jazz - which is of course as totally wrong as most shorthands. What Miles alone was doing (SilentWay +) for instance.
	3:35pm adamdoesit: Home for the finale. Wish I could always walk in the door to the sound of a Milt Jackson solo.
	3:36pm hyde: i never knew that Apple had an MJQ record either!
	3:36pm doctorjazz: Aside from Miles and the Fusion-eers that followed him, in a commercial sense, jazz WAS pretty dead then.
	3:36pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Blue Necklace" by "The Modern Jazz Quartet" Here'a kinda long post re: the MJQ on Apple, but worth it, I think: "The Jasmin Tree" was originally released in 1968, followed by "Space" in 1969. Both shine brightly in the Quartet's extensive catalogue, not just for their brilliantly understated melodic statements, their fluid, organic jazz, but for the era-defining psychedelic artwork that adorned their sleeves, and the fact that they appeared on Apple. The vast majority of the MJQ’s albums appeared under the aegis of the US music industry giant and jazz trailblazer that was Atlantic Records. Although The Beatles once famously sang that they had no kick against modern jazz, they couldn’t honestly claim to be responsible for bringing about the MJQ's two-album secondment to Apple. In fact, the instigator of this short but happy union was the first Head of Apple Records, the fondly remembered Ron Kass. Ron was the seasoned American record company professional head-hunted from Liberty Records. He was also the biggest jazz fan at Apple’s HQ, 3 Savile Row in London. "I loved Ron, he was exactly what we needed,” recalls Peter Asher, Apple's Head of A&R at the time. “He was knowledgeable, he knew the state of the business. He had the smooth American suit-and-tie thing going, which was what we thought Apple had to have in order to interface with the business world and the Capitol (EMI) world. We liked him, he understood us.” Peter continues: "The Modern Jazz Quartet came to Apple because Ron Kass was very friendly with Monte Kay, their manager. And Ron said, ‘Wouldn't it be cool for the MJQ to do an album on Apple?’ Ron's pitch was that it would make them a lot of new fans, as some Beatles fans would listen to the MJQ just because it was on Apple, and Monte really liked the idea...." A more unlikely match of artists and label you will rarely find -- the dignified, classically influenced, indelibly Afro-American Modern Jazz Quartet and the Beatles' Apple Corps, Ltd. But Apple in its Rocking '60s heyday was one of the most daringly eclectic labels on the scene, and as the sole jazz act on the roster, the MJQ was given complete artistic freedom, with no electric guitars or period psychedelia apart from the misleading cover art. The program is more or less standard, poised, painstakingly structured, gently swinging MJQ fare, the group's contrapuntal interplay as telepathic as ever. The most distinctive of John Lewis' compositions is the revolving minor-key theme of "Three Little Feelings, Pt. 1" (part of a three-movement suite), while "The Blue Necklace" has a bell going off like that of a cash register, and Milt Jackson is clearly in his element on the gospel-ish "The Jasmin Tree." An extremely rare LP even when it was in print -- the Beatles' rock audience ignored it, and MJQ's fans couldn't find it.
	3:37pm coelacanth∅: Dean @321 haha!
	3:38pm Stork: ↳ adamdoesit @3:35 Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your ride!
	🥁 3:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @3:36 Thx.
	3:39pm Stork: Ray Bryant tickles 'em!
	3:40pm TDK60: ↳ Stork @3:36 Stork, well at least they all gave it a try. (Apple)
	🥁 3:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Stork @3:36 A nice idea with no promotion or distribution ...Apple.
	3:41pm Bär: Wonderful show! Glad I tuned in. Thanks for the good time!
	3:42pm hyde: along with bringing the MJQ to Apple Records, Ron Kass was also married to Joan Collins for many years. That is an interesting life
	3:42pm doctorjazz: Nice day to bike (I just got out to shop for dinner...)
	3:43pm doctorjazz: Didn't realize Under the Jasmin Tree is a rarity (though the cover on my copy has seen better days...)
	3:43pm coelacanth∅: Stork i used to like "julia". i forgot she sang.
	🥁 3:44pm Michael 98145: ↳ Stork @3:36 never had a "smooth American suit"
	3:45pm Stork: ↳ Bär @3:41 Hey, Bär! Glad you did, too! Happy New Year!!
	3:46pm hyde: this is kind of a fusion supergroup
	🥁 3:46pm Michael 98145: I sound like a broken record, but this is -always- such a great show. Thanx.
	3:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 👍
	3:49pm adamdoesit: ↳ doctorjazz @3:42 A perfect spring afternoon… albeit in January.
	3:50pm TDK60: This show has been very special, Herr Storkendiskenjocker. My dad was a real jazz guy, from the 1940s through this year when he passed. An early memory of mine when a small child is, falling asleep to the sounds of Milt's vibes wafting upstairs from the stereo downstairs.
	3:51pm doctorjazz: ↳ adamdoesit @3:49 Hey, but you'll bike in 30 degree weather-I've become a wimp...
	3:51pm fred: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Yeah, I'm skeptical of tribute shows, but these are consistently mind-blowing in a good way. The Glen Passaic also mind-blowing, in a different way
	3:51pm doctorjazz: The gospel portion of our program...
	3:51pm Stork: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:46 Your repetitions are music to mine ears! Thanks, and thanks to everyone for crowding in and kicking off the New Year with me! This was too much fun to have been legal! Can't wait for next week - it'll be a bit... different.
	3:52pm Stork: TDK60 - that is deeply moving. Thank you for sharing that. My Dad would've kind of liked this one, too.
	🥁 3:54pm Michael 98145: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 nice memory ..
	3:54pm Hopatcong Doug: Great show. Thanks for starting the year off with some nice vibes!
	3:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Sermonette" by "Milt Jackson" There's a sadly ironic nickname-Lucky was anything but, believe he wound up homeless, then died of Alzheimers. en.wikipedia.org...
	3:55pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Stork!
	3:55pm hyde: since it was 55 degrees out today on Jan. 1 (or like 12-13 for those with a superior system of measurement), i SHOULD have gone outside. but i didn't, because frankly this was amazing. thank you
	3:56pm doctorjazz: Wonderful New Year Sounds, Stork, thanks for getting the year off with a Bags! Great week/new year all, Happy Healthy!
	🥁 3:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 Righteous
	🥁 3:56pm WR: OK, last call. Thank you, Stork! Onward.
	3:56pm adamdoesit: Thank you, DJ Stork! An episode for the ages, and for the archives. Happy New Year!
	🥁 3:56pm Michael 98145: Happy New Year 2023 CE, Everyone. Off to cook a few eggs.
	🥁 3:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY ALWAYS DJ Stork ~
	🥁 3:57pm WR: ↳ TDK60 @3:50 Nice memories, TDK60.
	3:58pm fred: Thanks Stork, it was a pleasure to start the year with you. Now which of these doors is the right one?
	3:58pm Stork: THANK YOU ADAMDOESIT, DOC, WR, REVRABB, HYDE, COEL,HOPATCONG DOUG - WELCOME!! AND ALLA YOOZ OTHER BEAUTIES!!
	3:59pm Listener Robert: Yay, Stork! Happy 2023.
	4:00pm Stork: ↳ Listener Robert @3:59 Thank you, Listener Robert!! Thank you, fred!!

The Stork Club with Stork: Playlist from January 1, 2023

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