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The New York Musical Melting Pot 1945-59
In the post today was this great and dead cheap sealed new 2 CD compilation of classic music from NY. Just £4.50 and contains a 72-page book within its contents.
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This is what Wire said in June 2011 -
"Opening with Duke Ellington’s “Take The ‘A’ Train” – the 1941 version with that roomwarming Ray Nance solo – this is the first in a series of six double CD compilations. Produced by Joe Strummer biographer Kris Needs, it is predicated on the thought that the synchronicity between the different musics that have evolved inside parallel New York neighbourhoods is a phenomenon as intriguing as the musics themselves. Any album that slams Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” up against Cage’s Indeterminacy is OK with me.
That Ellington opener is symbolic. The subway is New York City’s “main artery”, Needs says, and soon we’re hitching a different ride with Frankie Lymon’s “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”. Then Machito, Louis Armstrong, Faye Adams, Harry Belafonte, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Dizzy and Miles bring us to Mingus’s Lester Young tribute piece, before the nostalgia vibe crashes and burns with the Cage track.
Thelonious Monk’s “Brilliant Corners” sounds like the future, too, on disc two, which shifts the focus away from jazz; Dave Van Ronk, Sonny Terry, The Drifters and Big Joe Turner bump into Raymond Scott’s prescient electronica and Allen Ginsberg reading from Howl. Why does the time feel right to launch a compilation series like this? Needs quotes August Darnell’s feeling that “Manhattan has become an island for the very wealthy” and this is about preserving “fast-vanishing” magic. Pity there’s no Harlem stride piano or Charlie Parker (the latter for copyright reasons), but Needs’s introductory essay is essential reading.
Philip Clark"
The track list -
Disc: 1
1. Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train **
2. Cozy Cole - Bad **
3. Frankie Lymon & Teenagers- Why Do Fools Fall In Love **
4. Machito - Mucho Mambo
5. Faye Adams - Shake A Hand **
6. Louis Armstrong - Yellow Dog Blues **
7. Almanac Singers - Talking Union **
8. Harry Belafonte - Matilda **
9. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher **
10. Danny Taylor - Coffee Daddy Blues **
11. Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca **
12. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue **
13. Five Satins - In The Still Of The Nite **
14. Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York **
15. Miles Davis - Summertime **
16. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat **
17. John Cage - Indeterminacy Pt 2
Disc: 2
1. Cozy Cole -Topsy Pt 2
2. Honeycones - Op
3. Horace Silver - Senor Blues [Newport Jazz Fest]
4. Josh White - Southern Exposure **
5. New Lost City Ramblers - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live **
6. Dave Van Ronk - Duncan & Brady **
7. Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues **
8. Drifters - Money Honey **
9. Big Joe Turner - Morning Noon And Night **
10. The Embers - Paradise Hill **
11. Paragons - Twilight **
12. Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show **
13. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
14. Raymond Scott - Ripples **
15. Allen Ginsberg - Howl
The 72 page book between the two CD's in this package. Awesome!
This is what Wire said in June 2011 -
"Opening with Duke Ellington’s “Take The ‘A’ Train” – the 1941 version with that roomwarming Ray Nance solo – this is the first in a series of six double CD compilations. Produced by Joe Strummer biographer Kris Needs, it is predicated on the thought that the synchronicity between the different musics that have evolved inside parallel New York neighbourhoods is a phenomenon as intriguing as the musics themselves. Any album that slams Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” up against Cage’s Indeterminacy is OK with me.
That Ellington opener is symbolic. The subway is New York City’s “main artery”, Needs says, and soon we’re hitching a different ride with Frankie Lymon’s “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”. Then Machito, Louis Armstrong, Faye Adams, Harry Belafonte, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Dizzy and Miles bring us to Mingus’s Lester Young tribute piece, before the nostalgia vibe crashes and burns with the Cage track.
Thelonious Monk’s “Brilliant Corners” sounds like the future, too, on disc two, which shifts the focus away from jazz; Dave Van Ronk, Sonny Terry, The Drifters and Big Joe Turner bump into Raymond Scott’s prescient electronica and Allen Ginsberg reading from Howl. Why does the time feel right to launch a compilation series like this? Needs quotes August Darnell’s feeling that “Manhattan has become an island for the very wealthy” and this is about preserving “fast-vanishing” magic. Pity there’s no Harlem stride piano or Charlie Parker (the latter for copyright reasons), but Needs’s introductory essay is essential reading.
Philip Clark"
The track list -
Disc: 1
1. Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train **
2. Cozy Cole - Bad **
3. Frankie Lymon & Teenagers- Why Do Fools Fall In Love **
4. Machito - Mucho Mambo
5. Faye Adams - Shake A Hand **
6. Louis Armstrong - Yellow Dog Blues **
7. Almanac Singers - Talking Union **
8. Harry Belafonte - Matilda **
9. Cab Calloway - Minnie The Moocher **
10. Danny Taylor - Coffee Daddy Blues **
11. Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca **
12. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue **
13. Five Satins - In The Still Of The Nite **
14. Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York **
15. Miles Davis - Summertime **
16. Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat **
17. John Cage - Indeterminacy Pt 2
Disc: 2
1. Cozy Cole -Topsy Pt 2
2. Honeycones - Op
3. Horace Silver - Senor Blues [Newport Jazz Fest]
4. Josh White - Southern Exposure **
5. New Lost City Ramblers - How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live **
6. Dave Van Ronk - Duncan & Brady **
7. Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues **
8. Drifters - Money Honey **
9. Big Joe Turner - Morning Noon And Night **
10. The Embers - Paradise Hill **
11. Paragons - Twilight **
12. Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show **
13. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
14. Raymond Scott - Ripples **
15. Allen Ginsberg - Howl
The 72 page book between the two CD's in this package. Awesome!