Playlist

 

1.     Bird

 

a.      Koko (The Charlie Parker Story - 1945)

b.      Groovin' High (Live at King Rooster - 1948) (The Immortal Charlie Parker)

c.      Parker's Mood (Bird - The Soundtrack - 1948)

d.      April in Paris (Charlie Parker with strings - 1949)

e.      Night & Day (Big Band - 1953)

 

2.     Art Pepper

 

a.      Blues In (Modern Art - 1956)

b.      Bewitched  (Modern Art - 1956)

c.      Dona Lee (Art Pepper + Eleven - 1959)

d.      My Funny Valentine (Live at the Jazz Showcase - 1977)

e.      Diane (So In Love - 1980)

 

3.     Lee Konitz

 

a.      Subconscious Lee (Lee Konitz Live at Storyville, Boston - 1954)

b.      Round about Midnight (Lee Konitz with strings; An Image - 1958)

c.      You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Motion - 1961)

d.      What Is This Thing Called Love (Alone Together- 1997)

 

4.     Cannonball Adderley

 

a.      Oleo (Miles Davis Sextet, Live at the Plaza - 1958)

b.      Love for sale (Miles Davis Sextet - 1958

c.      Work Song (Cannonball A. Sextet, live at the BBC - 1964)

d.      Gumba Gumba (Accent on Africa - 1968)

e.      Humming (with George Duke, live at the Olympia, Paris - 1972)

 

5.     Ornette Coleman

 

a.      When will the blues leave (Something Else! - 1958)

b.      Chronology (The Shape Of Jazz To Come - 1959)

c.      Faces & Places (At The Golden Circle Stockholm - 1965)

d.      Broad Way Blues (New York is Now!- 1968)

e.      Voice Poetry (Body Meta - 1978)

 

6.     Eric Dolphy

 

a.      Miss Ann (Far Cry - 1960)

b.      G.W. (Here And There- 1961)

c.      Impressions (John Coltrane Quintet Live at the Congress Halle, Frankfurt - 1961)

d.      Fire Waltz (Live at the Five Spot, NYC - 1961)

 

7.     Roscoe Mitchell

 

a.      Ornette (Roscoe Mitchell Sextet's Sound - 1966)

b.      Oh Susanna (Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble - 1967)

c.      Theme de Yoyo (A.E.O.C. - Les Stances a Sophie - 1970)

d.      Ericka (Noonah- 1977)

e.      Alto solo (Live at Cankarjev Dom, Lljbljana - 2013)

 

8.     Julius Hemphill

 

a.      Hard Blues (Coon Bid'ness - rec. 1972)

b.      Echo Two (Morning/ìEvening) (Live in New York - 1976)

 

 

9.     Kenny Garrett

 

a.     Human Nature (Live with Miles Davis at the Zenith, Paris - 1989)

b.     Sing a Song of Song (Live at Juan Les Pins fet. Pat Metheny - 1995)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alto saxophones stands in jazz as pork stands in the Emilian cuisine: it wouldn't taste the same without it.