Continuum – A Journey Through Jazz
Episode 65: Thanksgiving Jazz Feast
Happy Thanksgiving! In an effort to provide you with a soundtrack which will help you prepare, clean, celebrate, cook, eat, or just chill & relax . . . here is a special episode of Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz focused on this special day – although, please feel free to listen it any time or any day regardless of whether you are celebrating or not!
If none of this applies to you – well . . . you eat, right? So – just focus on that aspect of the music – because most of the music is about food. So, come along with me right now as I travel through various jazz styles & food musings throughout the decades.
Starting in the 1930’s we go “Flying Home” with Benny Goodman & then going over to Cab Calloway’s, because “Everybody Eats When They Come To His House” . . . moving on to the 1940’s where Nat King Cole brings some “Frim Fram Sauce” & Charlie Parker gets to work “Carvin’ The Bird” . . . traveling forward into the 1950’s where Dizzy Gillespie is so hungry he is crying out “Hey Pete! Let’s Eat More Meat” & Louis Armstrong is griping about the fact that he got “All The Meat and No Potatoes” . . . continuing into the 1960’s where Johnny Griffin provides some “Low Gravy”, Jackie McLean brings the “Yams”, Lee Morgan bakes some “Cornbread”, and John Coltrane gives thanks with “Dear Lord”. There is also some rather current “Soul Food” from Cyrus Chestnut & Jon Gordon closes out with a reminder of why we’re doing all this feasting with “Thanksgiving”.
I would like to extend my gratitude to you for listening to my show. You are the reason why I create a podcast week after week, and the fact that you’re reading this & paying attention to my show is a constant motivation to keep it fresh, unique and raise the bar with each episode. So – thank you.
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Agape ya’ll,
J. Scott Fugate, ‘The Jazz Evangelist’
Continuum – A Journey Through Jazz
Episode 65: Thanksgiving Jazz Feast
Artist – Track – Album – Year
Benny Goodman Flying Home The Essential Benny Goodman 1939
Cab Calloway Everybody Eats When They Come To My House The Living Legend 1937
Louis Armstrong All That Meat And No Potatoes Satch Plays Fats 1955
Nat King Cole Frim Fram Sauce Best of Nat King Cole Trio: Vocal Classics 1945
Charlie Parker Carvin’ The Bird The Dial Masters – Original Choice Takes 1947
Dizzy Gillespie Hey Pete! Let’s Eat More Meat
The Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1954
Johnny Griffin Low Gravy Studio Jazz Party 1960
Jackie McLean Yams Vertigo 1963
Lee Morgan Cornbread Cornbread 1965
Cyrus Chestnut Soul Food Soul Food 2001
John Coltrane Dear Lord Transition 1965
Jon Gordon Thanksgiving Spark 1995
Background Music:
Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Theme The Definitive Vince Guaraldi 1973
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