Showing posts with label Count Basie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Count Basie. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2013

We Celebrate Count Basie Birthday with Jazz-O-Rama on the Waterlogg Radio Network (WRN)

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"Open the Door, Richard: The 78s of Count Basie" - "An Interview with Friz Freleng" - "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! To Julie Newmar, With Love, Ellis" with special guest star Julie Newmar and "Bob Campett's Time for Beany part 1"

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Catwoman herself Julie Newmar visits Joe Bev's "Camp Waterlogg" for her birthday starting Friday, August 16, on The Waterlogg Radio Network (WRN). Other WRN shows include birthday tributes to Count Basie and Friz Freleng.

JULIE NEWMAR out guest
on the COMEDY-O-RAMA HOUR
Listeners can enjoy all of WRN's programming free of charge all in one place anytime by visiting www.waterlogg.com

Or by subscribing on iTunes: 
JAZZ-O-RAMA: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id611001393 
CARTOON CARNIVAL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id624696898 
COMEDY-O-RAMA: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id572142422 
JOE BEV X: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id627773341


The WRN Schedule for Friday, August 16, 2013:
The Jazz-O-Rama Hour:  "Open the Door, Richard: The 78s of Count Basie" (born August 21, 1904)
Cartoon Carnival: "An Interview with Friz Freleng" (born August 21, 1905)
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! To Julie Newmar, With Love, Ellis" with special guest star Julie Newmar (born August 16, 1933)
The Joe Bev Experience: "Bob Campett's Time for Beany part 1"

LISTEN COUNT BASIE
ON JAZZ-O-RAMA HERE:

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id611001393 

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour
"Open the Door, Richard: The 78 RPM Records of Count Basie," 
including: Swingin' The Blues (1938), Swingin' The Blues (1947), Boo Hoo (1937), Topsy (1937), Exactly Like You (1937), Rat Race (1950), Open The Door, Richard Out The Window (1937), Cheek to Cheek (1947), South (1947), Doggin' Around (1938), Solidasa Rock (1950), Swinging At The Daisy Chain (1937), Smarty (You Know It All) (1937), Every Tub (1937), Seventh Avenue Express (1947)

LISTEN FRIZ FRELENG
 ON CARTOON CARNIVAL HERE:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id624696898 

Cartoon Carnival
"An Interview with Friz Freleng"
host Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) will present his interview with Warner Brother Cartoon director Friz Freleng, which was recorded at The Circle Gallery, South Street Seaport, NYC, on July 25, 1990.






HEAR JULIE NEWMAR
ON COMEDY-O-RAMA HERE:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id572142422 

The Comedy-O-Rama Hour
Camp Waterlogg: "To Julie Newmar, With Love, Ellis" 
Guest star Julie Newmar helps Ellis the Boatkeeper (Played by Joe Bev) pick out flowers for his wedding to Elise (played by Lorie Kellogg). This week's Comedy-O-Rama also features three Pedro Pablo Sacristan stories: "Batbird," "Tubby the Potbellied Cat," and "The Flying Contest", and part two of the first new "Our Miss Brooks" story since 1959.
MORE BOB CLAMPETT
ON THE JOE BEV X:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id627773341




The Joe Bev Experience
Bob Clampett's "Time for Beany" part 1
Host Joe Bevilacqua presents an interview with Stan Freberg, a live performance of Jay Ward's "Dudley DooRight" with June Foray, Joe Bev., Corey Burton, Matt Hurwitz, and Lee Harris, part three of "Willoughby and the Professor Meet Bartizan the Genie," (1975), Daws Butler teaches Joe Bev how to be a voice actor, part three (1975), and Uncle Dunkle and Donnie in "Johnny the Giraffe" (2009).








On next week's Waterlogg Radio Network:
Jazz-O-Rama: "Java Jive: Jazz About Coffee" part 1
Cartoon Carnival: "An Interview with June Foray and Bill Scott" part 1
Comedy-O-Rama: "Camp Waterlogg: Seedling Fever Hits Ranger Lorie" with special guest star June Foray
The Joe Bev X: "Bob Campett's Time for Beany" part 2

Sound Stages Radio is airing two unique Joe Bev Audio Theater shows per week:
Tuesdays 8:30 am ET, repeat Wednesdays 2:30 pm ET and Fridays 1:30 pm Fridays, repeat Saturdays 5:00 pm, streamed at http://www.soundstagesradio.com.


All Waterlogg Productions titles are available for sale through the company's Internet portal http://www.waterlogg.com



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COR PODCAST
JAZZ PODCAST
JOEBEV PODCAST
The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes 
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
CARTOON PODCAST
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

More about Waterlogg Productions at: http://www.waterlogg.com.

Friday, April 26, 2013

"Java Jive: Jazz About Coffee" on "Jazz-O-Rama" Saturday, April 27, 3:30 pm ET on CRAGG!



Nat King Cole, Ray Noble, Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers, Saturday as part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Comedy-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, starting 2:30 pm ET, 1:30 CT, 11:30 PT on cultradioagogo.com!

"Java Jive: Jazz About Coffee" 


Jazz about coffee will fill the air on the 39th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing Saturday, April 27th at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT, on http://www.CultRadioAGoGo.com (part of Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, beginning at 2:20 pm ET / 11:30 am PT).




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This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM & LP Jazz with a Sense of Humor: "Java Jive: Jazz About Coffee" including Nat King Cole, Ray Noble, Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers, Henry Mancini, The Ink Spots, and J.J. Johnson. 



1. You're the Cream in My Coffee 
Nat King Cole (1946) 
December 18, 1946 
Pathe Studios, New York 
Nat Cole (vocal, piano), Oscar Moore (guitar), Johnny Miller (bass) 

2. You're The Cream In My Coffee 
The Ambassadors Orchestra, Frank Sylvano vocal (1928) 
The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown for the Broadway musical Hold Everything! and was featured in the Warner Brothers film version of the musical in 1930. The song was later recorded by Les Brown, the Ray Conniff Singers, and many others. 

Ray Noble


3. You're The Cream In My Coffee 
The Ray Noble Orchestra, Al Bowlly, vocal (1929) 
Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era known as the "Golden Age of British music", notably for his longtime friend and associate Al Bowlly, including Love Is The Sweetest Thing, Cherokee, The Touch of Your Lips, I Hadn't Anyone Till You and his signature tune, The Very Thought of You. Noble also played a radio comedian opposite American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's stage act of Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy, and American comedy duo Burns and Allen, later transferring these roles from radio to TV and popular films. 


4. Coffee in the Morning (Kisses at Night) - Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers (1933) 
Recorded on November 14, 1933. The song was used in the movie "Moulin Rouge" (1934). The Boswell Sisters appeared in the film, after Constance Bennett and Russ Columbo introduced it. 


Henry Mancini






5. Goofin' at the Coffeehouse 
Henry Mancini (1959) 
From the LP More Peter Gunn, featuring the Sound Stage All Stars. 


6. Java Jive 
The Ink Spots (1940) 
Hoppy Jones, Deek Watson, Bill Kenny, and Charlie Fuqua sing Milton Drake's words join Ben Oakland's music. 

7. Coffee in the Morning 
The Lew Stone Duriam Dance Band, Al Bowlly, vocal (1934) 

8. Coffee Pot 
J.J. Johnson (1954) 
J.J. Johnson - trombone 
Wynton Kelly - piano 
Charles Mingus - bass 
Kenny Clarke - drums 
Sabu Martinez - conga 
From the LP: Eminent J.J. Johnson Volume 2 

9. Coffee and Cakes 
Una Mae Carlisle (1941) 
A talent discovery of the great Fats Waller, Una Mae Carlisle achieved much success as both a performer and songwriter. She developed a long-term relationship with publisher, producer, and frequent record-label manager Joe Davis, who sold upwards of 20,000 copies of some of her releases. Carlisle's original songs, such as "I See a Million People" and "Walkin' by the River," were smashes, covered by many popular artists such as Cab Calloway and Peggy Lee. 


10. Black Coffee 
Sarah Vaughan (1949) 
Written in 1948 by Sonny Burke and the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Sarah Vaughan charted with this song in 1949 on Columbia. 
Recorded in January, 1949 and released on this Columbia label record. This was the first hit for Sarah Vaughn after signing with Columbia in 1948.

11. Black Coffee 
Sonny Criss (1966) 
Sonny Criss - This is Criss, Prestige 
Sonny Criss, alto sax 
Walter Davis, Jr., piano 
Paul Chambers, bass 
Alan Dawson, drums 
Recorded on October 21, 1966; Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 
The Brazilian Jazz Quartet




12. Black Satin 
The Brazilian Jazz Quartet (1958) 
Brazilian Jazz Quartet - Coffee and Jazz 
Label: Columbia 
Casé (José Ferreira Godinho Filho) - sax 
Moacyr Peixoto - piano 
Rubens Barsotti (Rubinho) - drums 
Luiz Chaves - bass 
The Brazilian Jazz Quartet, an obscure jazz quartet from the late 50's featuring Moacyr Peixoto (piano), José Ferreira Godinho Filho "Casé" (sax), Rubens Barsotti "Rubinho" (drums) and Luiz Chaves Oliveira da Paz "Luiz Chaves" (bass). As a matter of fact, this group should be considered as a sort of embryo of the legendary "Zimbo Trio". The Zimbo Trio is a Brazilian instrumental ensemble, established in 1964 in São Paulo, and originally comprising Amilton Godoy (piano), Luís Chaves (bass) and Rubinho Barsotti (drums). The Trio was one of the most influential groups of Brazilian music in the second half of the 20th century. Over 45 year career and 51 albums recorded, the Zimbo Trio has won worldwide recognition, touring the world, and spreading Brazilian instrumental music. 

13. A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich & You 
Roger Wolfe Kahn & His Orchestra (1926) 
A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich And You 
(Rose / Dubin / Meyer)    12-15-1925    New York, New York Victor 
19935-A 
A song written by Joseph Meyer, with lyrics by Al Dubin and Billy Rose for Charlot's Revue. It was often used as backing music in Warner Brothers' cartoons during scenes depicting hunger, cooking, or eating.

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra 




14. Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (1942) 
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with refrain by Marion Hutton, Ernie Caceres and The Modernaires recorded their version in New York City on January 5, 1942. It was released by Bluebird Records as catalog number B 11450A (in USA) and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number BD 5784. 
Written by Irving Berlin for the musical comedy Face the Music, which opened in 1932.

Joe Bevilacqua 
Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) is the recipient of the 2013 Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award. Bevilacqua will accept the award at the  reception being held at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, on Sunday, April 28, 2013. For more information, read: http://www.prlog.org/12085461-joe-bevilacqua-receives-2013-kean-university-distinguished-alumni-award.html

Bev has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.


In addition to The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, he also produces The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, The Joe Bev Experience and Cartoon Carnival, with new podcasts every week. Go to: http://www.waterlogg.com 


WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS
4 PODCASTS
COR PODCAST
JAZZ PODCAST
JOEBEV PODCAST
The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes 
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
CARTOON PODCAST
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online




LIKE THE JAZZ-O-RAMA SHOW? CHECK OUT OUR DOCUMENTARY...


Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait

by Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Winton Marsalis, Donald Newlove, Leonard Lopate, Louis Armstrong

Length: 59 min. 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.


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Friday, April 19, 2013

Remastered Classic Modern Jazz LPs Cuts on "Jazz-O-Rama" Saturday, April 20, 3:30 pm ET on CRAGG!


Count Basie, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, more. Saturdays as part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Comedy-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, starting 2:30 pm ET, 1:30 CT, 11:30 PT streamed over cultradioagogo.com!


The remastered music of Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Lee Morgan, and Dave Brubeck will fill the air on the 38th edition of Joe Bev's Jazz-O-Rama Hour airing Saturday, April 20th at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PT, at http://www.CultRadioAGoGo.com (part of Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, beginning at 2:20 pm ET / 11:30 am PT).



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This Saturday Joe Bev presents 78 RPM & LP Jazz with a Sense of Humor:"My Favorite LP Cuts of the 1950s & 60s", including: Count Basie, Art Blakey, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown & Max Roach, Miles Davis, and Horace Silver.

1. Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet - Parisian Thoroughfare (self titled, 1955)
2.  Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Dat Dere ("The Big Beat", 1960) by 
3. The Miles Davis Quintet - Seven Steps to Heaven (title track, 1963)
4. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown: Time in Outer Space (title track, 1962) 
5. Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - For Minors Only ("Hard Drive", 1957)
6. Count Basie - Blues In Hoss' Flat ("Chairman of the Board", 1958)
7. Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train (title track, 1962)
8. Lee Morgan - Untitled Boogaloo ("The Procrastinator", 1969)
9. Horace Silver - "Baghdad Blues" ("Blowin' The Blues Away", 1959)


Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Parisian Thoroughfare is a Richie Powell arrangement of the Bud Powell composition performed by the short-lived Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet, and their debut self-tilted studio album, recorded August 2, 3 & 6, 1954 and February 24 & 25, 1955, and released in 1955 on the EmArcy label. The producer was Bob Shad. Personnel: Clifford Brown – trumpet; Harold Land – tenor saxophone; George Morrow – bass; Richie Powell – piano; Max Roach – drums

Dat Dere was first recorded in 1960 by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers on the album "The Big Beat". Oscar Brown Jr. penned the lyrics later for the song's release on his 1961 début album "Sin & Soul...and Then Some".

Seven Steps to Heaven was the eighth studio album by Miles Davis, recorded May 14, 1963 in New York, and released in 1963 by Columbia Records. Personnel: Miles Davis – trumpet, George Coleman – tenor sax, Herbie Hancock – piano, Ron Carter – bass, Tony Williams – drums.


Dave Brubeck Quartet
Countdown: Time in Outer Space is the 1962 Dave Brubeck composition dedicated to John Glenn, recorded for the The Dave Brubeck Quartet Columbia studio album of the same name.  Personnel: Dave Brubeck – piano; Paul Desmond – alto saxophone; Joe Morello – drums; Eugene Wright – double bass.

For Minors Only was recorded by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers for the album "Hard Drive", recorded in New York City, NY October 11, 1957. Personnel: Bill Hardman – Trumpet; Johnny Griffin – Tenor Sax; Junior Mance – Piano; Spanky DeBrest – Bass; Art Blakey –  Drums.

Frank Foster wrote Blues In Hoss' Flat and performed on the 1958 Roulette album "Chairman of the Board." Basie is accompanied on this March 28, 1958, recording by Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley and Joe Newman on trumpet, Henry Coker, Al Grey and Benny Powell on trombone, Marshal Royal on clarinet/alto sax, the composer on alto sax/flute, Billy Mitchell and Frank Foster on tenor sax, Charlie Fowlkes on baritone sax, Freddie Green on guitar, Eddie Jones on bass and Sonny Payne on drums. 


Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscar Peterson Trio's album "Night Train" was released in 1962 by Verve Records, featured Oscar Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on bass, and Ed Thigpen on drums. It was produced by Norman Granz.

Untitled Boogaloo was first recorded for "The Procrastinator" the album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note label, featuring performances by Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins. It was originally issued in 1978 as a double LP featuring tracks recorded in three different sessions: July 1967, September 1969 and October 1969.  Final track from Morgan's 1967-1969 "Sonic Boom" sessions album. Personnel on the two sessions: Lee Morgan (trumpet); David "Fathead" Newman, George Coleman (tenor saxophone); Julian Prester (trombone); Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern (piano); Ron Carter, Walter Booker (bass); Billy Higgins, Mickey Roker (drums).


Horace Silver
Horace Silver's "Baghdad Blues" was recorded: August 29, 1959, and released on the Blue Note Classic "Blowin' The Blues Away", with Horace Silver on piano; Blue Mitchell on trumpet; Junior Cook on tenor saxophone; Gene Taylor on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums.




WATERLOGG PRODUCTIONS
4 PODCASTS
COR PODCAST
JAZZ PODCAST
JOEBEV PODCAST
The Joe Bev Experience Podcast on iTunes 
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online
CARTOON PODCAST
OR click on the link to the right to hear us online

Joe Bev
Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) has been producing radio in many genres since 1971 when he was 12. At 19 in 1980, Bev became the youngest person to produce a radio show for public radio. He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy. Bev also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton. 

Bev also produces, directs, writes and voices half of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, now in his 55th week, which is has been highest rated radio show on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! for many weeks. Joe Bev's other weekly radio show, The Jazz-O-Rama Hour debuted at #2. 

Last year, the veteran voice actor added his third hour for Cult Radio, called The Joe Bev Experience which airs right after The Jazz-O-Rama Hour. 

More about Waterlogg Productions at http://www.waterlogg.com.



LIKE THE JAZZ-O-RAMA SHOW? CHECK OUT OUR DOCUMENTARY...


Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis: A Joe Bev Musical Sound Portrait

by Joe Bevilacqua Narrated by Joe Bevilacqua, Winton Marsalis, Donald Newlove, Leonard Lopate, Louis Armstrong

Length: 59 min. 

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music of legendary trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary with Edward R. Murrow.


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