Jazz and Food - S02E10

A musical feast dedicated to some of the best food themed jazz with stories and sounds from the kitchen at one of New York’s hottest clubs, and the favorite dishes of some of the biggest icons in jazz. We’ll listen to music from the undisputed king of food jazz, talk with John Colbert who owned the oldest continually operating jazz club in the world, and hear from Lorraine Gordon whose office is the kitchen at the Village Vanguard.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Lorraine Gordon, John Colbert, Phil Murray

Music

• Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “In the Kitchen”
• Nina Simone “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
• Nat King Cole Trio “The Frim Fram Sauce”
• Louis Jordan “Hungry Man” 
• Louis Jordan “Ration Blues”
• Louis Jordan “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
• Louis Jordan “Beans and Cornbread”
• James Brown “Mother Popcorn”
• Fats Waller “All That Meat And No Potatoes”
• Fats Waller “Smashing Thirds”
• Jimmy Smith “Mack the Knife”
• James Carter “Sack Full of Dreams”
• Shirley Horn “Peel Me A Grape”
• Frank Zappa “Call Any Vegetable”
• Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House”
• Thelonious Monk “Tea for Two”
• Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man”
• Rosemary Clooney “Mangos”
• The Andrews Sisters “Hold Tight”
• Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster “Tangerine”

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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