For our fifth and final Black History Month program, we’ll be hearing the recordings made on October 11, 1978, October 4, 1979 and October 5, 1979 for the Danish JAZZCRAFT label by black bebop pioneers Benny Bailey, Teddy Edwards and Howard McGhee.
We’ll also give you a taste of the music of Canadian drummer Harris Eisenstadt, whose band will be playing at the NAC Fourth Stage on
Monday March 5.
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Get It On
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Nostalgia
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Blues For Helene
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Jonas
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: You Never Know
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Brownie Speaks
Label: Storyville
Artist: Harris Eisenstadt
Album: Canada Day II
Tune: Judo With Tokyo Joe
Label: Songlines
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Funky Senor
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Benny Bailey Sextet
Album: Home Run
Tune: Alone Together
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: Relaxing At The Camarillo
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: Reflections
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Wise In Time
Tune: I Remember Clifford
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: On A Misty Night
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: Moose The Mooche
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: Blues In The Closet
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: In Walked Bud
Label: Storyville
Artist: Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards Quintet
Album: Young At Heart
Tune: Yardbird Suite
Label: Storyville
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Bill Coleman, 1904-1981
About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
