David Luebbert

Red album covers only — what’s your pick?

@SVG__Collection Afro Blue Impressions by the John Coltrane Quartet

What’s a live album that captures an artist at their absolute best?

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/rZC7mEzczEI?si… This duo that organist Larry Young recorded with Elvin Jones is one of the best covers of “Monk’s Dream”. Has a different feel than Monk’s, but I think Monk would have respected the individuality and spirit of this performance.

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/0OBpvi9uZpI?si… This was Monk’s first recording of “Monk’s Dream”. Whenever Art Blakey was Monk’s drummer, as he was here, you could reliably expect something marvelous to happen. Monk’s sense of time was unusual, but Blakey’s big ears were up for that challenge.

What’s a great song with “dream” in the title?

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/r7OG-Oqb5qE?si… “Nica’s Dream” written by Horace Silver to honor Pannonica de Koenigswarter, the Rothschild descendent who did so much to support jazz players in New York during the 50’s through the 70’s.

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/kBn_lQBh9JA?si… “Dance of the Dream Man” created by Angelo Badalamenti for the “Twin Peaks” soundtrack. When Agent Cooper visits the Black Lodge in a dream and hears Laura Palmer whisper in his ear who had killed her, afterwards a liitle man in red dances to this ditty.

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/DfphvOjxP4E?si… The song title is translated more accurately for Karrin Allyson’s album “Imagina” as “Living on Dreams”. She sings Jobim’s Portugeuse lyrics to begin the song and then the English version to end the track.

@SVG__Collection Jobim had agreed to record with Henderson. Unfortunately he fell ill, and passed on before that could happen.

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/ystDA_PgL9M?si… Cassandra Wilson’s “Dancing In Dream Time” from her album “Jumpworld”, which she recorded with members of the M-Base collective. Steve Coleman’s alto sax joins as the song ends.

@SVG__Collection Every piece on the Night Dreamer album, Shorter’s first of many for Blue Note Records, made it into the first volume of the Berklee Real Book. Young musicians of the late 60’s and early 70’s were very interested to learn these pieces and understand how they worked.

@SVG__Collection They all spoke the same musical language. When they got to Rudy Van Gelder’s studio, magic happened.

@SVG__Collection Every piece on the “Night Dreamer” album, Shorter’s first of many for Blue Note Records, was collected in the first volume of the Berklee Real Book, which demonstrates the interest young musicians of the early 70’s had for this music.

@SVG__Collection When it’s time to wake up and the entire band comes back with the trumpets on top, it’s glorious. Seemingly an invigorating rest, after mysterious dreaming.

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/6azx7A9hzHs?si… Eddie Palmieri’s “Just A Little Dream” takes a hard surprise twist into diminished harmony when the dreaming starts for the solos (violin, Brian Lynch’s trumpet, and then the drummers).

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/hSfhowdHjR0?si… The title track of Gretchen Parlato’s album “In A Dream”

@SVG__Collection youtu.be/ryawZFlnyv4?si… Helen Merrill’s performance of “Day Dream”, singing the lyric that was later written for the piece, is a different kind of wonderful.

@SVG__Collection To be more precise, Billy Strayhorn’s composition “Day Dream”, performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

@SVG__Collection m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXrQo… Duke Ellington’s “Day Dream” with wonderful alto sax playing playing by Johnny Hodges