Diane Monroe and her quartets and more, from Max Roach to Heitor Villa-Lobos and well beyond: Saturday Music Club on Friday

Diane Monroe, improvising violinist

playlist partially selected by her cousin, April Landrum
Diane Monroe's selected media tracks 
Further audio tracks

The Max Roach Double Quartet in Stuttgart, 1990

Max Roach, drums
Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet
Odean Pope, saxophone
Tyrone Brown, bass
Diane Monroe, violin
Lesa Terry, violin
Maxine Roach, viola
and Eileen Folson, cello:
The Max Roach Quartet and the Uptown String Quartet

The Uptown String Quartet at Duke University, 1993


The Uptown String Quartet: "Overture" (Odean Pope)


The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Irish Monk"

Diane Monroe - Violin Tony Miceli - Vibes Tony Marino - Bass Todd Isler - Percussion

The Diane Monroe Quartet: "Blues for Miles"


The Diane Monroe Collective: "Du Bois Diddy"


Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: "Bachians Brazilieras #5" (Heitor Villa-Lobos)


Diane Monroe, featured soloist, Orchestra 2001:
Canto di Ritorno (Concerto for Violin and Small Orchestra) (Andrew Rudin)

Diane Monroe and Tony Miceli: At Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, 22 May 2017


Jose Bowen and Diane Monroe: "After You've Gone"


Melody Gardot (featuring Diane Monroe): "Gone"


Diane Monroe and the Z Big Band: "Funk" (from Concerto for Violin and Big Band by Evan Solot)

...includes nearly four minutes of spoken introduction by others.

Diane Monroe interview: 19 December 2018

The soundtrack composers in the NIGHT GALLERY: Saturday Music Club submitted for your approval on Sunday

Night Gallery was a disappointing television series, to say the least, even given the occasional excellences in individual episodes (they had the wit to adapt Fritz Leiber stories, but never very well; oddly, they did some of the best dramatization of Lovecraft we've seen). But in one regard, it was a pretty remarkable assembly, even for its time...check the soundtrack composers list from IMDb:

Series Music by  
Eddie Sauter ... (17 episodes, 1971-1973) 

Paul Glass ... (11 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Oliver Nelson ... (7 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Robert Prince ... (5 episodes, 1970-1971) 


Gil Melle ... (4 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Robert Bain ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972) 


John Lewis ... (2 episodes, 1971-1972) 


Billy Goldenberg ... (1 episode, 1969)


Benny Carter ... (1 episode, 1971)


Lalo Schifrin ... (1 episode, 1972)


Frank Skinner ... (1 episode, 1972)

Saturday Music Club: the Third Stream's Biggest Hits (all in one collection, yours for only...the clicks...)(it's all for the clicks, man)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Blue Rondo a la Turk"


The Gil Evans Orchestra featuring Miles Davis: "It Ain't Necessarily So"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Django"


The Charles Mingus Band: "Haitian Fight Song"


The John Coltrane Quartet: "Afro-Blue"


The Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet: "Blues March"


The Gerry Mulligan Tentette: "Walking Shoes"


The Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: "Kogun" (at 19:34)


The Oliver Nelson Septet: "Stolen Moments"


The Chico Hamilton Quartet featuring Eric Dolphy: "In a Sentimental Mood"


The Jimmy Giuffre Trio: "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West"

And the alternate that might well be the better choice here, "The Train and the River"

Paul Bley: "Ida Lupino" 


The George Russell Smalltet (featuring Bill Evans, aka the Kid): "Concerto for Billy the Kid"


The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: "Cubano Be/Cubano Bop"


Randy Weston Band: "Niger Mambo"


Thelonious Monk: "'Round Midnight"


The Max Roach Quintet: "Blues Waltz"


David Amram Band (featuring Harold Land and Carmel Jones): "Slightly Manchurian Blues" (The Manchurian Candidate soundtrack)


Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: "Midnight Indigo"


Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Charles Mingus: "Caravan"


An anthology I've liked for decades: 

Valentine's Day Music Club: Third Stream Music for the day

Happy Valentine's Day!















Charles Mingus Group: "What Is This Thing Called Love?"


Thelonious Monk: "Crepuscle with Nellie"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "One Never Knows"/"Minor Love"


The Brubeck/Mulligan Quartet with Paul Desmond: "All the Things You Are"

Dave Brubeck/Lee Konitz/Anthony Braxton/Alan Dawson/Jack Six: "All the Things You Are"
Gil Evans and Lee Konitz: "All the Things You Are"

Bill Evans Trio: "Waltz for Debby"


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "Love Isn't Everything"


The Max Roach Chorus and Orchestra featuring Abbey Lincoln: "Lonesome Lover"


Carmen McRae: "Easy as You Go"


George Russell Smalltet: "You Are My Sunshine"


Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature

Saturday Music Club: Some 3rd Stream Music: Mingus & Dolphy, Macero, Lee & Blake, Hamilton, Prince, MJQ & Almeida, Amram & D'Rivera, Quavaria

Charles Mingus Sextet: "So Long, Eric"


Teo Macero and His Orchestra: "Neally"


Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "Vanguard"


Chico Hamilton Quintet: "The Wind"


Bob Prince and His Orchestra: "Ground Base"

The Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida: "Fugue in A Minor"


David Amram and Paquito D'Rivera et al.: "Waltz from After the Fall"


Quavaria: "Cendrillon et la moine: A Fugue on a Theme from Thelonious Monk's 'Round 'Midnight'"

Saturday Music Club: some music documentaries

Lennie Tristano


John Cage


Doc Watson


The Go! Team


women in jazz


US folk music

(part two, in small increments beginning with this one--copyright challenge on the full episode, though pt. 3 is available in one chunk)

Miriam Makeba
 

Saturday Music Club: more newer schools of jazz and jazz-offshoot

Chamber jazz:
Chico Hamilton Quintet: "Blue Sands"


The Jazz Abstractions Band: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk (Criss Cross)"


Jan Garbarek Quartet: "Molde Canticle"


New acoustic/"New Age":
Paul Winter Consort: "Icarus"


Dave Grisman Quartet (with the Tonight Show Band): "Dawg Jazz"


Steve Tibbetts, Marc Anderson, Ani Choying Dolma:


Jazz into "world music":
Gabor Szabo: "Bacchanal"


Return to Forever: "Light as a Feather"


Randy Weston et al.: "African Rhythms"


Jazz dance:
Chico Hamilton: "Conquistadores"


Elvin Jones/Richard Davis Band: "Raunchy Rita"


Charles Mingus Band: "Ysabel's Table Dance"


The Modern Jazz Quartet: "The Jasmine Tree"

 Brubeck Quartet: "Three's a Crowd":

And just because:
Toshiko Akiyoshi and John Lewis: "Willow Weep for Me"


Dave Grisman Quintet: "Dawg's Rag"

November's "Forgotten" Music: Third Streaming

So, here are four of the best of the many brilliant third stream (jazz/"classical" hybrid) albums I've loved for decades, and all had been essentially out of print, till last month's rerelease of the two Modern Jazz Quartet albums they recorded for Apple Records in the latter '60s, and high time. The Teo Macero tracks on What's New? have been reissued in several Macero compilations over the years, including his own release of The Best of Teo Macero; the George Russell item is barely in print in import status (the Koch disc does include some different bonus tracks than the BMG/RCA Bluebird first cd issue from the 1980s); and the Brubeck Quartet/NY Symphony Orchestra album was repackaged on vinyl, but never actually offered in its entirety on cd...the Bernstein showtune tracks were shunted off onto a showtune compilation disc, and only one movement of four of the Howard Brubeck "Dialogues" has been issued on cd. As in, time for some barking and nipping, and not just of the owners of the RCA masters for Russell.

As with ebooks not exactly solving all our OP books problems, not by a long shot, so too has the failure of mp3 and similar technology to speed certain reissue plows been disenheartening...though thank goodness at least occasional movement in the right direction, such as the Apple remasters, are made. It's a nice reading of "Yesterday" by the MJQ, the bonus track.






Please see Scott Parker's blog for more "forgotten" music, perhaps leaning Xmassy for most (mine will make fine seasonal/solstice gifts...).