BLUES DANCE - Part 1

George Shearing Quintet – The Swingin's Mutual (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks 1960)

Tango jams

Jazz & Blues

04 Don G - No Meu Carro (Feat Hugo Pina)

Ray Charles Live

The Right Time (Live at Newport Jazz Festival, Rhode Island, 7/5/1958)

Reunion With Chet Baker

Stardust

The Original Quartet With Chet Baker

Makin' Whoopee (1998 Digital Remaster)

The Concert Jazz Band

Sweet And Slow

Lean on Me: The Best of Bill Withers

Grandma's Hands

Live In Swing City- Swingin' With Duke

Black and Tan Fantasy (Live)

Jump Jack Jump!

Please Mr. Jailer (Album Version)

LaVern

I'll Never Be Free

Today And Tomorrow

When Sunny Gets Blue

The Swingin's Mutual!

The Nearness Of You (Remastered 1992) [feat. Nancy Wilson]

Mar Dulce

Pa' Bailar

El Anden (feat. Mala Rodríguez)

Forever Michael

You Are There (Album Version)

Very Best Of Dean Martin

Takes Two To Tango

Young at Heart

Oh! Look At Me Now

Night Train

Hymn To Freedom

Dan Rosati - Tenor Sax
Backing Track:
Hal Gaper - Piano
Steve Gilmore - Bass
Bill Goodwin - Drums
Three Versions of Jazz Classic “On Green Dolphin Street”
Miles Davis never stood still. Similar to Coltrane and Picasso, Davis's artistic evolution stemmed from a restless pursuit of new ideas and a desire to always keep his music fresh. He once said he’d rather work with a new group of inferior musicians compared to better players in past groups simply so as not to sound the same. Such was Davis’s sensibility and modus operandi.

And thus, we can feature Miles Davis’s three different recordings of the standard “On Green Dolphin Street” without fear of boredom or repetition.

"On Green Dolphin Street": What a strange name for a song. It was a theme song for a film, but who wrote it? Does anybody even remember the film?

Green Dolphin Street is a 1947 film starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed about two English sisters who fall in love with the same man and the confusion that follows. It’s complicated, 

The song's composer, Bronislaw Kaper, was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1902 and started musical training at six.
Green Dolphin Street is likely the most obscure and least-known of all the films Kaper scored. Miles Davis made Kaper’s title track for the film famous with his 1958 studio version, which we hear first. It was recorded at Columbia's legendary 30th street studios, a temple of sound now sadly reduced to a parking lot. 

The second version of "On Green Dolphin Street" was recorded live on March 22, 1960 at a concert in Stockholm, Sweden. Coltrane had already told Davis he was leaving the band after this European tour, and indeed left as soon as the tour ended. It’s a different band, with Wynton Kelly at the piano and no Cannonball Adderley. Coltrane’s solo is a tour-de-force; one can discern ‘Trane’s continued evolution even only two years after the 1958 studio recording.
The third and final version we hear was recorded 5 ½ years later, at a Chicago club called The Plugged Nickel. Miles Davis liked being in Chicago around Christmas, and enjoyed playing in this small club. It featured a new quintet that Davis led from 1965-68: Wayne Shorter on tenor, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums. Together they turn the song inside out, playing slightly off, in-key and off-key. Miles never wanted to play a song the same way twice, and this song provides good evidence of that. I particularly like Wayne Shorter’s abstract solo, playing with and against the harmonic changes. It’s pure genius.
Miles put this song on the Jazz map and many Incredible Jazz musicians performed and recorded it: Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, George Shearing, Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, Albert Ayler, Sonny Rollins, Eddie Harris, Eddie Lockjaw Davis

On Green Dolphin Street 2 Project 

On Green Dolphin Street

All Night Long (feat. Nancy Wilson)

Born To Be Blue (Remastered) [feat. Nancy Wilson]