Updoc 182: Such Sweet Parallels: 5/4/12

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Ninth Room; Tutankhamun (Black Lion)

1.    William Bolcom/John Murphy: Eubie’s Luckey Day; Bolcom – The Complete Rags for Piano (Albany)
2.    Leos Janacek/Pavel Haas Quartet: String Quartet No. 1, after Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata”; Janacek – String Quartet No. 1; Pavel Haas String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 (Supraphon)
3.    Sonny Rollins: It Could Happen to You; Live in Europe 1959  Complete Recordings (Ais)
4.    Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins: You Dirty Dog; Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse)
5.    Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn: L’Absinthe; Afro-Bossa (Reprise/Collectables)
6.    Duke Ellington: Ko Ko; At Fargo 1940 Special 60th Anniversary Edition (Storyville)
7.    Duke Ellington: Such Sweet Thunder [title tune] (Columbia)
8.    Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins: Mood Indigo; Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse)
9.    Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong: Black and Tan Fantasy; The Great Summit – The Complete Sessions (Blue Note)
10.     Duke Ellington: Tone Parallel to Harlem; Ellington Uptown (Columbia)
11.     Sonny Rollins; It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing); Live in Europe 1959  Complete Recordings (Ais)
12.     Ennio Morricone: From Caravaggio to Canaletto; The Stendhal Syndrome: Original Soundtrack Recording (Drg)
13.     Sonny Rollins: How High the Moon; Live in Europe 1959  Complete Recordings (Ais)
14.     William Bolcom/American Composers Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies: Symphony No. 5; Bolcom: Violin Concerto, Fantasia Concertante, Symphony No. 5 (Argo)

Out theme: Duke Ellington: Portrait of the Lion; 33 Best of Duke Ellington (Masters of Jazz)

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