Routes: A Jazz Impressions Podcast – Episode 3

Episode 3 of Routes: A Jazz Impressions Podcast features a pair of classic tracks from a duo of Detroit jazz legends. Along the way we discuss kalimbas, the history of Strata East Records and Slugs’ Saloon in New York, as well as the historic Fillmore West and the San Francisco hippie scene.

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Tracklists below (SPOILERS!)

OLLIE

  • Dorothy Ashby – For Some We Loved (The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby, Cadet, 1970)
  • Stanley Cowell – Travelin’ Man (Musa – Ancestral Streams, Strata East, 1974)
  • Music Inc. – Orientale (Live At Slugs’ Volume 1, Strata East, 1972)
  • Bobby Hutcherson – Orientale (Medina, Blue Note, 1980)
  • Jackie McLean & Tina Brooks – Medina (Street Singer, Blue Note, 1980)
  • Jackie McLean – Appointment In Ghana (Jackie’s Bag, Blue Note, 1960)
  • Donald Byrd – Ghana (Byrd In Flight, Blue Note, 1960)

DAN

  • Dorothy Ashby – For Some We Loved (The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby, Cadet, 1970)
  • Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Muddy Waters – Who Do You Love (Super Blues, Checker, 1967)
  • Quicksilver Messenger Service – Who Do You Love Suite (Happy Trails, Capitol Records, 1969)
  • Santana – Toussaint L’Overture [Live] (Santana III, Columbia, 2006)
  • Donald Byrd – Ghana (Byrd In Flight, Blue Note, 1960)

Author: Dan

Music obsessive with more CDs than he knows what to do with. Determined to hear every Blue Note record under the sun and anything by Andrew Hill. Loves Bill Evans and Gil Evans, ambivalent on Lee Evans.