Blue Note. A Story of Modern Jazz (BBC) Page #2
- Year:
- 1997
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at his lips
whose jacket has a fine
one-button roll
does not know upon what riff
the music slips
its hypodermic needle to his soul,
but, softly, as the tune
comes from his throat,
trouble mellows in a golden note.
# Dee-bee di-bi
Bi-dee-dee-doo-dee.
Yes.
Baby, huh, what can happen?
I think Alfred started right when
He was just sort of like going
with the trends
and he happened to discover two
really quintessential musicians
in the process and that led him into
a thing of capturing musicians
whose prime had been passed
but yet were still vibrant
and moving forward.
Bechet, George Lewis,
The Port of Harlem Jazzmen,
were sort of his first groups
that represented a kind of
modernist approach,
and the Meade Lux Lewis
Celeste Quartet.
It wasn't until he really, you know,
was able to develop a following
with the label that he could take
This is the original recording,
original pressing,
Sidney Bechet, Summertime,
from 1940.
This is what created the cash flow
that allowed Blue Note to continue.
It was like blood, like water,
like air, you know? I mean...
'We'd like to do a brand-new thing
for you, at this time,
'from our most recent
Blue Note album.'
That's got it.
There was a whole thing...
That whole thing,
that went down there for a minute,
you know?
Freddie Hubbard. Clifford Brown.
Oh, Un Poco Loco. Bum-bum-ba!
I don't know that Alfred was an
everyday, garden-variety German.
Unadulterated. Undiluted. Pure.
The real deal is all Alfred Lion and
Frank Wolff were interested in.
Bu-dum-bu-dum-bu-dum da-da
Bu-dum-bu-dum-bu-dum da-da.
What? I mean,
sat down and tried to play that.
I know I did!
MUSIC:
Come On Everybody (Get Down)by Us3
No problem. Thank you for calling.
Bye.
Hello, Vanguard. Can I help you?
Yes. Ron Carter will be here,
two shows, 9:
30 and 11:30.Yes. You may, sir.
Hold on one moment, please.
Wait, wait, 9:
30 or 11:30?11:
30, OK. Two people?Monaco?
M-O-N-A-C-O? Spell.
That's what I said. Monaco.
Very good, sir.
So come at 11 o'clock.
Thank you.
When you come to the door,
they'll seat you.
They'll give you the best seat
in the house. OK?
Bye. Oh, my goodness.
Luckily, I don't seat people.
Anyway, there we are.
In New York, at our apartment,
which was kind of cute,
right down here in the Village.
Yes, I was young.
I was about 17 or 18
when I met Alfred
but I used to listen to his records
on the radio,
I didn't know who he was,
and he had an office
and he invited me up and I did go,
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