VARIOUS ARTISTS / “Spring Time Mixtape”
The winter has been hard. I’m a sun man, myself. Like Sir Noz hates to dance, I hate cold weather, so you know I be looking forward to Spring. Without any further ado here is a “Spring Time Mixtape”—fifteen songs about Spring.
A lot of these are classics, a couple are classic performances of classics but there are also a few you’ve probably not heard before, especially our lead-off feature by Hugh Masekela.
Hugh’s song is one of my favorites. I think he has painted an excellent musical portrait that is upful, joyful and full of good humor but at the same time does not ignore that spring doesn’t last forever. In addition to Hugh, I deeply enjoy some of the vocal renditions of standards—take particular note to Lorez Alexandria, Betty Carter, Freddy Cole and Abbey Lincoln. All four of them are stylists of the highest order.
Enjoy.
—Kalamu ya Salaam
Spring Time Mixtape Playlist
01 “Spring” - Revival - Hugh Masekela
02 “Spring” - Kicking Cans - Dori Caymmi
03 “Some Other Spring” - The Grand Encounter - Dianne Reeves
04 “It Might As Well Be Spring” - No Cover No Minimum - Billy Eckstine
05 “It Might as Well Be Spring” - Verve Jazz Masters 44 - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
06 “It Might As Well Be Spring” - More Of The Great Lorez Alexandria
07 “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” - Standards - Mimi Fox
08 “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” - Inside Betty Carter
09 “You Must Believe In Spring” - Always - Freddy Cole
10 “Spring Is Here” - But Beautiful - Joe Locke, Kenny Barron
11 “Spring Is Here” - Very Early - Sandra Booker
12 “Joy Spring” - Love For Sale - Vahag Petian & Clarence Johnson III
13 “Joy Spring” - High Standards - Jackie And Roy
14 “Up Jumped Spring” - Born To Be Blue - Freddie Hubbard
15 “Up Jumped Spring” - You Gotta Pay The Band - Abbey Lincoln
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 12:35 am and is filed under Cover. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a Reply
| top |