Blue Note hour you host at the local jazz station - what do you play the first show?

Let's say you hosted a Blue Note hour at a local jazz radio station. What do you play the first show?

Here's how I might start it

- Shorter - Speak No Evil (gotta start it off right)
- Herbie - Oliloqui Valley
- Henderson - Punjab
- Moncur - Air Raid
- Green - Minor League
- Hutcherson - Rojo
- Turrentine - But Not For Me - Up at Minton's
- Dorham - Autumn in New York - Cafe Bohemia
- Burrell - Chitlins

 

How cool! Lee Morgan mr Kenyatta maybe?
I might combine Grant Green and hutcherson with Idle Moments for the first hour

 

I would love that gig! Here are my initial spins...

Mode For Joe-Joe Henderson
Search For The New Land-Lee Morgan
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum-Wayne Shorter
Street Singer-Tina Brooks
Backstage Sally-Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Maiden Voyage-Herbie Hancock

 

Lee Morgan- In What Direction Are You Headed
Bobbi Humphrey- Harlem River Drive
Jack Wilson- Harbor Freeway 5 P.M.
Hank Mobley- Bossa Deluxe
Duke Pearson- The Phantom

 

Crisis from Freddie Hubbard's "Ready For Freddie" has to be on the list.

 

Mimosa by Herbie Hancock too.

 

Kind Of Blue

then maybe ..

Kind Of Blue

then in keeping with the theme Id go with..

Kind Of Blue..

Id mix it up and play ...

Kind Of Blue (starting with side 2)

Maybe then Id dig deep and play
some cover bands doing..

Kind Of Blue

At midnight Id play..

Kind Of Blue..backwards

then end with..

Kind Of Blue







Oh wait...you said Blue Note not albums that have Blue in them!

 

I'd be sure to include tracks by Art Hodes, Sidney Bechet, Edmond Hall, Howard McGhee and Theloniouc Monk.

 

Sidewinder. Lee Morgan.

 

How long a show is this? The trick would be to stricke a balance between things that are prototypically Blue Note and representing the breadth of the label throughout it's now 80+ year history.

 

However long you want! Or maybe an hour long What would you play to represent the label's breadth?

 

Let's say it's a Blue Note album that for some mysterious reason happened to be released by Columbia

 

This would indeed be fun.

Carolyn - Hank Mobley
Melancholee - Lee Morgan
Search for Peace - McCoy Tyner
I Was So Young and You Were So Beautiful - Bill Charlap
Night Flower - Donald Byrd
Soul Lament - Kenny Burrell
Flip Side - Norah Jones
These Foolish Things - Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims
Undercurrent - Kenny Drew
Liquid Spirit - Gregory Porter

 

I would take some tracks from these albums:

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Herbie Hancock - Empyeran Isles
Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling...
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Hank Mobley - No Room For Squares
Kenny Burrell - Introducing Kenny Burrell