Cool Jazz - S02E11

A laid back look at the world of cool jazz, the people who shaped it, and how their revolution helped spark a mid-century East coast/West Coast rivalry in jazz. We’ll talk with our jazz historian Lewis Porter about the birth of the “cool” aesthetic in jazz, listen to some of the champions of the cool sound, and get to know the cool, quirky and often unsung saxophonist who shaped the sound of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Lewis Porter, Doug Ramsey

Music

• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Unsquare Dance”
• Chris Connor “Get Out of Town”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “The Lady is a Tramp”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Godchild”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Venus de Milo”
• Lester Young “These Foolish Things”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Frenesi” 
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “The Way You Look Tonight” 
• Anita O'Day “My Heart Belongs To Daddy”
• Chris Connor “I Get A Kick Out Of You”
• Peggy Lee “Fever”
• Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day”
• Chris Connor “Moon Ray”
• Miles Davis Nonet “Jeru”
• Claude Thornhill “Robbin's Nest”
• Miles Davis “Boplicity”
• Miles Davis “Blues for Pablo” 
• Miles Davis “Concierto de Aranjuez”
• Miles Davis “Will O’ the Wisp”
• Miles Davis and Gil Evans “Summertime” 
• Miles Davis and Gil Evans “I Loves You, Porgy”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “I'm Beginning to See the Light”
• Dave Brubeck “I'm In a Dancing Mood”
• Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Walkin’ Shoes
• Art Pepper “Birks Works”
• Chet Baker “That Old Feeling”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Let's Fall in Love”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Audrey”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Blue Rondo à la Turk”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Three to Get Ready”
• Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Jeepers Creepers”

Original Air Date: November 28, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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