WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 31, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎭 6:53pm Listener Gregory: Came for the acid, stayed for the jazz!
	7:00pm Charles: hello to all the darlings!
	7:00pm Bob in Los Angeles: Gee, I hope I'm not too early.
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hello Dah-lings!
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hellooooo Gregory, Charles, Bob and doctorjazz!!!!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: Gil Evans. Have we forgotten him in the rush to the avant-garde? Always beautiful.
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: I'm here for the hands.
	7:03pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis" Cool selection! Gil Evans orch/arrangement!
	7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: I should also do a show dedicated to acid musicals (eg Hair) and hands musicals (eg Hands on a Hardbody)
	🎭 7:04pm WR: ↳ TonyR @7:03 And now am I supposed to write that I am here for the acid?
	7:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @7:04 Watch out for the brown acid on Bronwyn's show...
	7:05pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Greets...
	🎭 7:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis" When I am really here for that gorgeous tuba playing we just heard.
	🎭 7:07pm WR: Hi Threemoons.
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn and Broadway Jazz fans! There are lots of out there Jazz versions of B'way tunes, as well as old school jazz band takes on 'em!
	🎭 7:07pm TonyR: Jazz and showtunes in bed with each other. I blame jazz cigarettes.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Hmmmm. Metallica playing "Hey Big Spender."
	7:08pm Webhamster Henry: Next time: Acid Rock takes on show tunes.
	🎭 7:09pm TonyR: There IS Big Brother and Janis doing "Summertime".
	🎭 7:11pm TonyR: Sadly, Blue Cheer never did "Send in the Clowns".
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: Bronwyn raises a good question about whether jazz still has a close relation with standards. In my experience, in live shows, bands often play their own compositions with maybe a single standard thrown in near the end. @doctorj, you go to more jazz shows than anyone here, probably. What do you think?
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:13 (This comment applies mostly to younger groups perhaps.)
	🎭 7:15pm TonyR: Joe Perry of Aerosmith used to toss off "Strangers in the night" in guitar solos. Show tune?
	7:21pm Listener Gregory: It would be very edifying if we argued for every song whether it is “really” jazz. Great choice with the Cassandra Wilson, Ms B!!
	7:25pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ TonyR @7:15 nope
	7:30pm Charles: All I know is that they're all great songs to wash bathroom tiles to.
	7:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: good luck with those tiles!!!
	7:32pm Charles: It never ends with those tiles! But so does the jazz so i'm good!
	7:33pm Webhamster Henry: I was stuffing envelopes.
	7:36pm Listener Gregory: Howard Brubeck???
	7:42pm Charles: When I was learning english it took me forever to understand when to put an "s" or not at the end of a verb. I don't need Frank Traynor's jazz preachers to make me doubt myself!
	7:44pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:36 Howard Brubeck!!!
	7:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:13 I'm certainly no expert on this subject, but I can offer an opinion (possibly without merit). Up until around the 60a, jazz and show music were popular culture (your parents likely had Miles' Kind of Blue and Ella Sings Cole Porter Songbook in their record collection. Then in the 60s jazz took a left turn, Coltrane, free jazz. Show tunes became more rock oriented, simpler changes. Shows I've seen recently, while they may have great performances, rarely have your leaving with the runes stuck in your head-they're more likely opera recitative. Last to me is a whole shift in what it takes to perform music. Until the 60s, some folks just played or sang songs written by songwriters. By the end of the 60s you had to be performing your own material to be a "serious" artist-this spilled over into jazz as well. It's ot 100 percent, but those are the trends, so show music isn't in the jazz repertoire the day it was in the 40s and 50s. Whew...sorry, long winded answer...
	7:48pm Listener Gregory: Sonny Rollins knew more standards than anyone. He played a number of obscure show tunes and would sneak in quotes of others in his solos.
	7:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "There's No Business Like Show Business" by "Sonny... Love this! Rollins loved show tunes!
	7:48pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love that about him!
	🎭 7:51pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:47 This seems very true to me. Of course, there's also the phenomenon of modern jazz musicians doing an album of standards (e.g., Tom Rainey and NYC downtown artists, or tributes to a composer). You are an expert, @doctorj! Don't sell yourself short.
	7:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: I was gonna say, doctorjazz says "I'm not an expert" and proceeds to prove himself an expert :)
	7:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 It's true, those fabulous compositions from The American Songbook still are material for jazz musicians. But it's not as automatic as it once was, I don't think. And I haven't heard anyone do jazz versions of tunes from, say, Parade (which I saw a few weeks ago), where singers would fall all ovet themselves to perform a hot new tune on Ed Sullivan from, say, The Sound Of Music.
	🎭 7:55pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Yep, plenty of those, the series of albums led by Paul Motian in the 90s, Tyshawn Sorey's recent "Off Broadway". But recent jazz artists (last 20 years) doing any tunes from last 20 years of broadway, hmmmm. Maybe some Sondheim?
	7:56pm Bronwyn Bishop: I would kill for jazz versions of Parade. And it would be super funny to hear jazz version of Dear Evan Hansen or Come from Away
	8:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56 I loved all 3 shows, but I can't say I remember songs from them (Ben Platt is just amazing, btw!)
	8:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: I want Ben Platt to play the lead in my musical adaptation of the Richard Linklater film Bernie, since it's a plot requirement that the character have a beautiful tenor voice. When I saw Parade and he was sitting there onstage all throughout intermission I kinda wanted to climb up there and pitch him on it
	🎭 8:03pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56 Looking up the musical, Parade: Holy crap, I did not know that a musical of the Leo Frank "incident" existed.
	8:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:03 It's quite intense, and terrifically done.
	8:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:03 That would've been great (and likely got you booted for the 2nd half of the show). That was an interesting choice for Platt, though.
	8:07pm Listener Gregory: 11 is 13 in DJ years, so great work!
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: Paint Your Wagon Film Fest at Monty Hall!
	8:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 I used to think I know something about music, ,before I started listening a lot to WFMU, and learned that I don't know nothin'!
	8:09pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Hello darlings! sorry I'm late but had to color my hair.
	🎭 8:09pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @8:04 The Leo Frank exhibit at the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage was my introduction to Leo Frank. Chilling in itself and also in how it was entwined in the revival of the KKK.
	8:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:09 Haven't seen the exhibit (was at that museum once a long while ago).. It is a chilling incident (and not all that surptising given American history...)
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: The best thing about that Oscar Peterson performance was the sound of (what I take to be) Ray Brown on bass. Oh, man.
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Ella!!! You lit up my face, and MsJazz's as well!
	🎭 8:20pm Listener Gregory: Boirds do it!
	8:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... And Ella and Louis-the height of musical interaction, these records are all fabulous!
	8:23pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... Oscar Peterson on piano here The rest of the band: Bass – Ray Brown Drums – Louie Bellson* Guitar – Herb Ellis Piano – Oscar Peterson
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ doctorjazz @8:21 I especially like their Stompin' at the Savoy!
	🎭 8:23pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @8:12 It was there in 2016-17. mjhnyc.org... In the "before times" I used to go there regularly, the rotating exhibits are always powerful and revisiting the main exhibit worthwhile as well. I've not yet started going out in public regularly, maybe soon.
	🎭 8:23pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown again on this one. @doctorj!!! Why do you do me this way?
	8:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @8:09 hello lizzie!!!
	8:26pm doctorjazz: Some folks dislike OP a lot; I went through that for a bit, but how can someone who was 1st choce for Satch be bad? (I saw him live once at a JVC jazz festival show, what Newport Jazz is now)
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: Interesting how they turned Let’s Do It into a blues.
	8:28pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan" Got to see her once as well! (was my favorite female vocalist before Ella supplanted her for 1st place. Blossom Deary is up there, but has such a different persona).
	8:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan" I always thought Sarah Vaughan had the voice of an opera singer (but not the sensibility),
	🎭 8:29pm WR: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... For some perspective on career of Louis Armstrong, heard this 1924 recording on Thursday morning "Under 64 not Allowed" on Sheena's stream: ↳ Song: "Countin' The Blues" by "Ma Rainey" Personnel according to Discogs listing for Biograph LP compilation: Countin' The Blues (Tk. 3) Banjo – Charlie Dixon Clarinet – Buster Bailey Cornet – Louis Armstrong Drums – Kaiser Marshall Piano – Fletcher Henderson Trombone – Charlie Green
	8:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:29 It goes back to 1922, he knocked the music world out in King Oliver's band.
	🎭 8:32pm WR: ↳ WR @8:29 Not just the 33 years between the recordings but the changes in the world and music between those dates.
	🎭 8:35pm WR: Oscar Levant can be fit into that too, I bet.
	8:35pm Dean: Do you know Previn's record with a gospel group?
	8:35pm Bob in Los Angeles: Great idea Bronwyn, I'm reminding you... to write it down.
	8:39pm Dean: Red Mitchell had a son he gave up for adoption. I worked in the city where that son became a council member. Spit and image of his dad.
	8:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Shelly Manne & His Friends" It's hard to avoid this record on a Jazz showtunes show!
	🎭 8:44pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:26 Peterson was a great musician, but he kind of did the same thing throughout a long career, and that caused a reaction to him, I think. If you have two or three albums of his, you should enjoy them and not keep buying more, to avoid satiation. In my humble opinion!
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" I thought Stan Getz was playing earlier on the show, but it was Paul Desmond (in the Dave Brubeck Qt). Hmmm...
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" BTW, great choice, BB!
	8:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:44 He had incredible chops, could play faster than most of us can think! I think that gave folks the impression he was soulless, didn't have depth in his playing (I'm not a super fan, but I like hearing his records now).
	8:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" Don't know of this album'pair up, very cool!
	🎭 8:50pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:46 Getz and Evans have a good live record from a later date, too. It would have been great for them to do a whole tour together, but I think they each had their ideas of what to do as leaders, and Getz was not too cooperative about such things.
	8:50pm Webhamster Henry: In this vein, I put the Previn /J J Johnson "Mac The Knife" on a mix tape for my kids.
	🎭 8:52pm Listener Gregory: OK, Bronwyn, did you have expert help in putting together this program? These choices are too good for random selection. (Written after opening notes of Body & Soul.)
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "John Coltrane" Trane on Body and Soul, up until his version, THE version was by Coleman Hawkins.
	8:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 What LG said-however you did it, you done did good! Great show!
	8:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: aww thanks guys :)
	🎭 8:55pm Listener Gregory: Dexter Gordon used this same arrangement (including the piano background) when he later did the song in his US return.
	8:56pm Webhamster Henry: No need to play "My Favorite Things," it's implied.
	8:57pm Webhamster Henry: Join me at Midnight for the Midnite Matinee chimera MASHville: www.wfmu.org...
	8:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:56 No time either...
	🎭 8:58pm WR: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57 thank you for the link, after my bedtime but will be sure to circle back for the archive.
	8:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ WR @8:58 The archive will be a WFMU classic!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57 Same-if my eyes are still open, will check it out, if now will circle back to it in the archives. Sounds fun!
	🎭 9:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:50 I think I remember the story of that Getz/Evans record now that Bronwyn mentioned the dates. The artists and producer decided that the recording wasn't up to snuff, so it wasn't released. Then after both of them left the label, it decided to release it after all. The performance is a bit rough, but it still has some good moments of playing by both.
	🎭 9:02pm Listener Gregory: Fantastic show, Ms Bishop! Speaking as a jazz person and not a musical person, I can say that you did the jazz side of things beautifully.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the acid-free jazz, Bronwyn!
	🎭 9:04pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn! Looking forward to the "Hands" episode.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 31, 2023

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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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March 31, 2023: Putting the Jazz in Acid Jazz Hands

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Miles Davis	Buzzard Song "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis"	Porgy and Bess	Columbia	1959	Music: George Gershwin	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Blossom Dearie	To Keep My Love Alive	Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs	Verve Records	1960	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	0:12:28 (Pop-up)
Mel Torme & Margaret Whiting	All You Need Is a Quarter	Broadway, Right Now!	Verve	1960	Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	0:14:25 (Pop-up)
Cy Coleman, Skeeter Best & Aaron Bell	Little Biscuit	A Jazzman's Broadway	Harbinger Records	2018	Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg	0:16:46 (Pop-up)
Cassandra Wilson	Shall We Dance? "Shall We Dance?" by "Cassandra Wilson"	Blue Skies	JMT	1988	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	0:18:53 (Pop-up)
Frank Traynor and the Jazz Preachers	seventy-six trombones	Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers Plays Show Tunes	W&G	1967	Music: Meredith Willson	0:26:13 (Pop-up)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Tonight "Tonight" by "The Dave Brubeck Quartet"	Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein	Columbia	1961	Music: Leonard Bernstein	0:29:53 (Pop-up)

Fred Hersch	A Cock-Eyed Optimist "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" by "Fred Hersch"	Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein	Nonesuch	1996	Music: Richard Rodgers	0:41:00 (Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins	There's No Business Like Show Business	Work Time	Prestige	1956	Music: Irving Berlin	0:43:46 (Pop-up)
Chet Baker	I Talk to the Trees "I Talk to the Trees" by "Chet Baker"	Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe	Craft Recordings	1959	Music: Frederick Loewe	0:50:02 (Pop-up)
Earl Rose	More I Cannot Wish You "More I Cannot Wish You" by "Earl Rose"	Guys and Dolls	Amadeus	2005	Music: Frank Loesser	0:55:48 (Pop-up)
Charl du Plessis Trio	I Got Rhythm	Baroqueswing Vol. II	Claves	2016	Music: George Gershwin	1:00:46 (Pop-up)

Oscar Peterson	Why Can't You Behave	Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Song Book	The Verve Music Group	1959	Music: Cole Porter	1:10:12 (Pop-up)
Ella Fitzgerald	It Might As Well Be Spring	Sweet and Hot	Decca	1955	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Nancy Wilson	I Remember "I Remember" by "Nancy Wilson"	Love, Nancy	Columbia	1994	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Louis Armstrong	Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)	Ella and Louis Again	Verve	1957	Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter	1:17:57 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	No Count Sarah	Mercury	1955	Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics: Otto Harbach	1:26:35 (Pop-up)

Andre Previn, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell	I'm Talkin' with My Pal	Pal Joey	RevOla	2009	Music: Richard Rodgers	1:37:24 (Pop-up)
Shelly Manne & His Friends	Show Me	Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady	RevOla	2009	Music: Frederick Loewe	1:39:23 (Pop-up)
Stan Getz & Bill Evans	Night and Day	Stan Getz & Bill Evans	Verve	1973	Music: Cole Porter	1:43:16 (Pop-up)
John Coltrane	Body and Soul "Body and Soul" by "John Coltrane"	Coltrane's Sound	Atlantic	1964	Music: Johnny Green Lyrics: Edward Heyman, Robert Sour & Frank Eyton	1:51:35 (Pop-up)

Frank Sinatra	The Lady Is a Tramp	A Swingin' Affair!	Capitol Records	1957	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart	2:00:30 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 6:53pm Listener Gregory: Came for the acid, stayed for the jazz!
	7:00pm Charles: hello to all the darlings!
	7:00pm Bob in Los Angeles: Gee, I hope I'm not too early.
	7:01pm doctorjazz: Hello Dah-lings!
	7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hellooooo Gregory, Charles, Bob and doctorjazz!!!!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: Gil Evans. Have we forgotten him in the rush to the avant-garde? Always beautiful.
	🎭 7:03pm TonyR: I'm here for the hands.
	7:03pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis" Cool selection! Gil Evans orch/arrangement!
	7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: I should also do a show dedicated to acid musicals (eg Hair) and hands musicals (eg Hands on a Hardbody)
	🎭 7:04pm WR: ↳ TonyR @7:03 And now am I supposed to write that I am here for the acid?
	7:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @7:04 Watch out for the brown acid on Bronwyn's show...
	7:05pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Greets...
	🎭 7:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "Buzzard Song" by "Miles Davis" When I am really here for that gorgeous tuba playing we just heard.
	🎭 7:07pm WR: Hi Threemoons.
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn and Broadway Jazz fans! There are lots of out there Jazz versions of B'way tunes, as well as old school jazz band takes on 'em!
	🎭 7:07pm TonyR: Jazz and showtunes in bed with each other. I blame jazz cigarettes.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Hmmmm. Metallica playing "Hey Big Spender."
	7:08pm Webhamster Henry: Next time: Acid Rock takes on show tunes.
	🎭 7:09pm TonyR: There IS Big Brother and Janis doing "Summertime".
	🎭 7:11pm TonyR: Sadly, Blue Cheer never did "Send in the Clowns".
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: Bronwyn raises a good question about whether jazz still has a close relation with standards. In my experience, in live shows, bands often play their own compositions with maybe a single standard thrown in near the end. @doctorj, you go to more jazz shows than anyone here, probably. What do you think?
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:13 (This comment applies mostly to younger groups perhaps.)
	🎭 7:15pm TonyR: Joe Perry of Aerosmith used to toss off "Strangers in the night" in guitar solos. Show tune?
	7:21pm Listener Gregory: It would be very edifying if we argued for every song whether it is “really” jazz. Great choice with the Cassandra Wilson, Ms B!!
	7:25pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ TonyR @7:15 nope
	7:30pm Charles: All I know is that they're all great songs to wash bathroom tiles to.
	7:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: good luck with those tiles!!!
	7:32pm Charles: It never ends with those tiles! But so does the jazz so i'm good!
	7:33pm Webhamster Henry: I was stuffing envelopes.
	7:36pm Listener Gregory: Howard Brubeck???
	7:42pm Charles: When I was learning english it took me forever to understand when to put an "s" or not at the end of a verb. I don't need Frank Traynor's jazz preachers to make me doubt myself!
	7:44pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:36 Howard Brubeck!!!
	7:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:13 I'm certainly no expert on this subject, but I can offer an opinion (possibly without merit). Up until around the 60a, jazz and show music were popular culture (your parents likely had Miles' Kind of Blue and Ella Sings Cole Porter Songbook in their record collection. Then in the 60s jazz took a left turn, Coltrane, free jazz. Show tunes became more rock oriented, simpler changes. Shows I've seen recently, while they may have great performances, rarely have your leaving with the runes stuck in your head-they're more likely opera recitative. Last to me is a whole shift in what it takes to perform music. Until the 60s, some folks just played or sang songs written by songwriters. By the end of the 60s you had to be performing your own material to be a "serious" artist-this spilled over into jazz as well. It's ot 100 percent, but those are the trends, so show music isn't in the jazz repertoire the day it was in the 40s and 50s. Whew...sorry, long winded answer...
	7:48pm Listener Gregory: Sonny Rollins knew more standards than anyone. He played a number of obscure show tunes and would sneak in quotes of others in his solos.
	7:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "There's No Business Like Show Business" by "Sonny... Love this! Rollins loved show tunes!
	7:48pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love that about him!
	🎭 7:51pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:47 This seems very true to me. Of course, there's also the phenomenon of modern jazz musicians doing an album of standards (e.g., Tom Rainey and NYC downtown artists, or tributes to a composer). You are an expert, @doctorj! Don't sell yourself short.
	7:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: I was gonna say, doctorjazz says "I'm not an expert" and proceeds to prove himself an expert :)
	7:55pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 It's true, those fabulous compositions from The American Songbook still are material for jazz musicians. But it's not as automatic as it once was, I don't think. And I haven't heard anyone do jazz versions of tunes from, say, Parade (which I saw a few weeks ago), where singers would fall all ovet themselves to perform a hot new tune on Ed Sullivan from, say, The Sound Of Music.
	🎭 7:55pm WR: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 Yep, plenty of those, the series of albums led by Paul Motian in the 90s, Tyshawn Sorey's recent "Off Broadway". But recent jazz artists (last 20 years) doing any tunes from last 20 years of broadway, hmmmm. Maybe some Sondheim?
	7:56pm Bronwyn Bishop: I would kill for jazz versions of Parade. And it would be super funny to hear jazz version of Dear Evan Hansen or Come from Away
	8:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56 I loved all 3 shows, but I can't say I remember songs from them (Ben Platt is just amazing, btw!)
	8:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: I want Ben Platt to play the lead in my musical adaptation of the Richard Linklater film Bernie, since it's a plot requirement that the character have a beautiful tenor voice. When I saw Parade and he was sitting there onstage all throughout intermission I kinda wanted to climb up there and pitch him on it
	🎭 8:03pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:56 Looking up the musical, Parade: Holy crap, I did not know that a musical of the Leo Frank "incident" existed.
	8:04pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:03 It's quite intense, and terrifically done.
	8:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @8:03 That would've been great (and likely got you booted for the 2nd half of the show). That was an interesting choice for Platt, though.
	8:07pm Listener Gregory: 11 is 13 in DJ years, so great work!
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: Paint Your Wagon Film Fest at Monty Hall!
	8:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @7:51 I used to think I know something about music, ,before I started listening a lot to WFMU, and learned that I don't know nothin'!
	8:09pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: Hello darlings! sorry I'm late but had to color my hair.
	🎭 8:09pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @8:04 The Leo Frank exhibit at the New York Museum of Jewish Heritage was my introduction to Leo Frank. Chilling in itself and also in how it was entwined in the revival of the KKK.
	8:12pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:09 Haven't seen the exhibit (was at that museum once a long while ago).. It is a chilling incident (and not all that surptising given American history...)
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: The best thing about that Oscar Peterson performance was the sound of (what I take to be) Ray Brown on bass. Oh, man.
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Ella!!! You lit up my face, and MsJazz's as well!
	🎭 8:20pm Listener Gregory: Boirds do it!
	8:21pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... And Ella and Louis-the height of musical interaction, these records are all fabulous!
	8:23pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... Oscar Peterson on piano here The rest of the band: Bass – Ray Brown Drums – Louie Bellson* Guitar – Herb Ellis Piano – Oscar Peterson
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ doctorjazz @8:21 I especially like their Stompin' at the Savoy!
	🎭 8:23pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @8:12 It was there in 2016-17. mjhnyc.org... In the "before times" I used to go there regularly, the rotating exhibits are always powerful and revisiting the main exhibit worthwhile as well. I've not yet started going out in public regularly, maybe soon.
	🎭 8:23pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown again on this one. @doctorj!!! Why do you do me this way?
	8:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @8:09 hello lizzie!!!
	8:26pm doctorjazz: Some folks dislike OP a lot; I went through that for a bit, but how can someone who was 1st choce for Satch be bad? (I saw him live once at a JVC jazz festival show, what Newport Jazz is now)
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: Interesting how they turned Let’s Do It into a blues.
	8:28pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan" Got to see her once as well! (was my favorite female vocalist before Ella supplanted her for 1st place. Blossom Deary is up there, but has such a different persona).
	8:29pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by "Sarah Vaughan" I always thought Sarah Vaughan had the voice of an opera singer (but not the sensibility),
	🎭 8:29pm WR: ↳ Song: "Let's Do It (Let's fall in love)" by "Louis Armst... For some perspective on career of Louis Armstrong, heard this 1924 recording on Thursday morning "Under 64 not Allowed" on Sheena's stream: ↳ Song: "Countin' The Blues" by "Ma Rainey" Personnel according to Discogs listing for Biograph LP compilation: Countin' The Blues (Tk. 3) Banjo – Charlie Dixon Clarinet – Buster Bailey Cornet – Louis Armstrong Drums – Kaiser Marshall Piano – Fletcher Henderson Trombone – Charlie Green
	8:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @8:29 It goes back to 1922, he knocked the music world out in King Oliver's band.
	🎭 8:32pm WR: ↳ WR @8:29 Not just the 33 years between the recordings but the changes in the world and music between those dates.
	🎭 8:35pm WR: Oscar Levant can be fit into that too, I bet.
	8:35pm Dean: Do you know Previn's record with a gospel group?
	8:35pm Bob in Los Angeles: Great idea Bronwyn, I'm reminding you... to write it down.
	8:39pm Dean: Red Mitchell had a son he gave up for adoption. I worked in the city where that son became a council member. Spit and image of his dad.
	8:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Show Me" by "Shelly Manne & His Friends" It's hard to avoid this record on a Jazz showtunes show!
	🎭 8:44pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:26 Peterson was a great musician, but he kind of did the same thing throughout a long career, and that caused a reaction to him, I think. If you have two or three albums of his, you should enjoy them and not keep buying more, to avoid satiation. In my humble opinion!
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" I thought Stan Getz was playing earlier on the show, but it was Paul Desmond (in the Dave Brubeck Qt). Hmmm...
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" BTW, great choice, BB!
	8:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:44 He had incredible chops, could play faster than most of us can think! I think that gave folks the impression he was soulless, didn't have depth in his playing (I'm not a super fan, but I like hearing his records now).
	8:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Night and Day" by "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" Don't know of this album'pair up, very cool!
	🎭 8:50pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @8:46 Getz and Evans have a good live record from a later date, too. It would have been great for them to do a whole tour together, but I think they each had their ideas of what to do as leaders, and Getz was not too cooperative about such things.
	8:50pm Webhamster Henry: In this vein, I put the Previn /J J Johnson "Mac The Knife" on a mix tape for my kids.
	🎭 8:52pm Listener Gregory: OK, Bronwyn, did you have expert help in putting together this program? These choices are too good for random selection. (Written after opening notes of Body & Soul.)
	8:53pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Body and Soul" by "John Coltrane" Trane on Body and Soul, up until his version, THE version was by Coleman Hawkins.
	8:54pm doctorjazz: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:52 What LG said-however you did it, you done did good! Great show!
	8:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: aww thanks guys :)
	🎭 8:55pm Listener Gregory: Dexter Gordon used this same arrangement (including the piano background) when he later did the song in his US return.
	8:56pm Webhamster Henry: No need to play "My Favorite Things," it's implied.
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	8:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:56 No time either...
	🎭 8:58pm WR: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57 thank you for the link, after my bedtime but will be sure to circle back for the archive.
	8:59pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ WR @8:58 The archive will be a WFMU classic!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Webhamster Henry @8:57 Same-if my eyes are still open, will check it out, if now will circle back to it in the archives. Sounds fun!
	🎭 9:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:50 I think I remember the story of that Getz/Evans record now that Bronwyn mentioned the dates. The artists and producer decided that the recording wasn't up to snuff, so it wasn't released. Then after both of them left the label, it decided to release it after all. The performance is a bit rough, but it still has some good moments of playing by both.
	🎭 9:02pm Listener Gregory: Fantastic show, Ms Bishop! Speaking as a jazz person and not a musical person, I can say that you did the jazz side of things beautifully.
	9:03pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks for the acid-free jazz, Bronwyn!
	🎭 9:04pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn! Looking forward to the "Hands" episode.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 31, 2023

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