[JPL] 1957 / JAH anniversary celebration

[Bradley M. Stone]

As my 30th anniversary of doing jazz radio approaches next year, I am
humbled by your accomplishment of a 50-year anniversary.
Congratulations on such august achievement!  Particularly nice to see
that you are still having fun with it!

All the best,

Brad Stone



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Friends,

Next weekend, I'm having a triple celebration on my show - I'm beginning
my 24th year hosting Jazz After Hours on Public Radio International,
it's my 50th year in radio, and so I'm featuring music from one of the
greatest years of jazz recording, 1957.  I'll be playing some of the
"new sides" I was spinning as a boy radio announcer in '57, great albums
by Miles, Coltrane, Basie, Ellington, Billie, Ella, Sarah, Brubeck,
Hawkins, Dizzy, Mingus, Quincy, Rollins, Monk, Louis, Nat Cole, Gil
Evans and more!

I've noticed over the years there were an extraordinary number of 
excellent albums recorded in 1957, so I started making a list.   So far 
I've got better than 3 dozen albums including such diverse titles as

Miles / Gil Evans - Miles Ahead
Quincy Jones:  This is How I Feel About Jazz Lambert, Hendricks & Ross:
Sing A Song of Basie Monk & Coltrane
Mingus: The Clown
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Coltrane:  Blue Train
Various artists:  The Sound of Jazz  (TV show w. Billie Holiday, Pres,
Hawkins, Basie et al) Ella Fitzgerald:  Duke Ellington Songbook (with
Duke Ellington!) Ella & Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington: Such Sweet
Thunder Count Basie "Atomic" album,  as well as Basie in London Gil
Evans + ten Sarah Vaughan at Mr. Kelly's Dizzy Gillespie:  Sonny Side Up
(with Stitt & Rollins)  + Birks' Works big band sessions Nat King Cole:
The After Midnight Sessions Billie Holiday:  Songs for Distingue Lovers
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster and more....

How's that for starters?  If you can think of some other major albums
from 1957 (when records were RECORDS!)  please pass them on and I'll
include them if I have them or can run them down on our SPECIAL
ANNIVERSARY SHOW NOV 17-18.

Thanks!

Jim Wilke
Jazz After Hours, PRI
www.jazzafterhours.org 

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