Harlem's cats

They did not refuse their names, but often somewhere at the airport, on a mountain border in Switzerland or station in The Hague, they trembled when they were called by name. The names were reduced for the convenience of advertising, hokhma for the sake or departure of another religion. This is a few words about this today.

Red - Red in Russian, African Americans use as a nickname of very fair -skinned counterparts. From here, for example, Red Harland, Red Callnder, Red Alain, who were actually: William Harlend, George Silwewn Calander and Hanry Allen. Many jazzmen received their nicknames as a child. Even Lester Young wore nickname Red at school. The nicknames often talked about similarity, similarity (physical, behavioral or psychological) with different animals. Lion Smis (Lion - Leo) was William. Tiger was Tiger-Tiger (in the George passport) Hines. Ben Webter was a frog (frog). Bunny Bunny (Bunny is a rabbit) was actually Roland. William Montgomery was a monk (monk) - Moncom Montgomery. Another hare was Johnny Hodges. Well, the same great Hawkins was Hawk (Hawk), that is, a hawk.

The list is giant! Therefore, it is worth recalling that you are listening to the weekly and booty “jazz time” on the short waves of “freedom” and from our website www.svoboda.org. The microphone in Paris has Dmitry Savitsky. School nickname - owl ....

Ben Webster - See You At the Fair - 6:15 (Ben Webster - See You At the Fair - Impulse)

“See you at the fair”, “See you at the fair” of Ben Uebster, aka Frog, frog. With a frog - tenor saxophone, played: Hank Jones – Royal; Richard Davis - doublebas and Ozi Joneson - drums. March 11, 1964, New York International Fair.

Among the jazmens, in addition to the tigers, there were big eyes-Big-Eye Nelson; Texas - Tax Evans (in the metric - Hurn Evans). Filly Joe Jones, of course, was from Fili - Philadelphia; Kansas Fields was from Kansas; Dodo Michael Marmoroza - even in his youth was old -fashioned, conservative, that is, Dodo.

Shorti Biker - was short (Shorty); Chubi Jackson was Chubby - that is, chubby.

Dizzy (dizzying) earned his nickname not because he played dizzying, but because in childhood he suffered from dizziness.

Here is one of the Reds, one of the ranges that was not related to the US Communist Party:

Red Garland - But Not for ME - 5:51 ( Red Garland - Red Garland 'Piano - Prestige)

“But not for me”, “But not for me” - the Song -Standard of the Gershvinov brothers, composed for the 1930 musical “Girl Crazy”.

Red Harland - piano; Paul Chambers - doublebas and Arthur Taylor (tailor) - drums. Rudy Van Gelder recorded this trio on March 22, 1957 for Prestige.

Let's continue: the trumpeter of the tank Clayton was actually called Wilbur Dorsi Clayton. Buck in the current oral everyday life is both the dollar and the dandy. But the ancestors of Clayton were Indians, and a very ancient word buck and meant the Indian. Clayton also had a second nickname-cat-eye-a cat's eye, because he had extraordinary blue-green eyes. This first part of the nickname is CAT, the cat is most interested in today.

But ahead of us we have the usual announcement of our jazz show.

The autobiography of Miles Davis is difficult to translate. And first of all, due to the fact that he called the musicians by jazz habit, like his friends, he called cats. And the cat, of course, is not Labukh and not a dude - in this jargon there are thieves' roots. The cat in jazz is not a semi -fire cat - that is, a “guy” in everyday life. The movie heroine “Catwoman” gives the concept of unusualness, extraordinary, in this case, a cat, equal in fantastic giftedness to Batman.

About cats generally a little later.

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Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk - 6:40 (Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk - Blue Note)

“The Cat Walk”, “Fit Gait”, but also - stage of fashion salons. The theme of Donald Burd. Bird - a pipe; PAPER EdAMS-baritone-saxophone; Duke Parson - Royal; Limon Jackson - doublebas and Philly Joe Jones - drums. Rudy Van Gelder behind the flight control panel. May 2, 1961, New Jersey.

How about cats in other times, before the era of jazz?

In the Middle Ages, it was believed that the cats were servants of Satan; At the feet of the witches, always rubbed some kind of prunes, kitty. In ancient Rome, the cat was a symbol of freedom and the goddess of freedom was depicted with a cat (any suit) at the feet. In ancient Egypt, the cat was a sacred animal; It was believed that he emits "life giving heat." The goddess Bast had a cat's head. Diodorus Sicilian testified that the death penalty was waiting for the murder of the Cat of the Egyptian. In ancient Greece, the goddess Diana enraged giants by the fact that she had the habit of turning into a cat. The Prophet Muhammad loved cats and cats, and they are revered in Islamic culture.

This is only a tiny excursion into the history and mythology of cats.

And now a real jazz cat:

Cat Anderson - The Cat Hums - 6:06 (Cat Anderson - Cat Speaks - Black & Blue)

“The Cat Hums”, “The Cat purls” or, already about the author himself, the Cat of Enderson, “The cat sings under his breath.”

Total, cat, Kat Enderon Squet and Surdinka; He is the leader of the quintet; Gerard Badini-tenor Saxophone; Raymon Fola - Piano; Michelle Godry - double bass and Sam Woodard - drums. June 1, 1977, Paris.

This is not quite ordinary cat, Kat Enderonon. In its purest form, you will hear it after our classic mantrama:

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The cat, Kat Enderson, most of our listeners are familiar to the role of a soloist of the orchestras Lyionel Hampton and, to a large extent, Duke Ellington. But he also collected his own combo. This cat, like all the cats, including the homeless, was Verkholaz, that is, he often climbed into the very top of the carcassing octave, playing piercingly in the register, as the French say, Suraigu.

Cat Anderson - Cat's in the Alley - 2:24 (Cat Anderson and His Orchestra - Cat's in the Alley - Fresh Sound)

“Cat's in the alley”, “Cat in Lane” is a short, full energy play by Kat Enderonon. The composition of the enderson orchestra: a cat is a pipe; Kuentin Jackson - thrombone; Rudy Powell-Alt Sax; Bad Johnson-tenor Sax; Lira Lawet - Royal; Jimmy Wood - doublebas and Sam Woodard - drums. New York City, 1959.

I can’t refuse to myself in the pleasure and not to put the famous Supreme finale of the film by Otto prenger “Anatomy of the murder”. This is the limit of the calico to the heaven of Kat enderson:

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Upper and Outest - 2:22 (Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Anatomy of a Murder - Columbia)

Bird cries of Kat Enderson’s pipes in the final scene of the film “Anatomy of the Murder”, 1959. The music of Ellington and his big orchestra.

The last cat was born in Rosario, Argentina, on November 28, 1932. He just turned 81 years old. His real name Leandro Barbayri, but he chose a nickname Cat, in Spanish Gato. He is familiar to the world of jazz and cinema under this name - Gato Barbayri. He played pop jazz, but, having moved to the United States, he began to play something more serious, even avant-garde. For example, with the Don of Cherry (Cherry), he recorded a “Symphony for the improvisers” and the “full community” disc. He wrote music for the film Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Tango in Paris." Here is the easily recognized film leitmotif:

Gato Barbieri - Jazz Waltz - 5:45 (Gato Barbieri - Last Tango in Paris - United Artists)

“Jazz Waltz”, “Jazz Waltz” Gato Barburi, his own tenor-saxophone against the background of the symphonic orchestra of the Radio House. The sound path, in many countries forbidden until recently, the 1972 film Bernardo Bertolucci "The Last Tango in Paris."

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Here is the suite, written by a clarinetist, a saxophonist and composer Oliver Nelson specifically for a cat Barbayri. It lasts 12 minutes and is called “this very cat” - “el gato”. The recording was made in 1971 and entered Vinil in 1975 at the Flying Dutchman company:

Gato Barbieri - El Gato - 12:45 (Gato Barbieri - El Gato - Flying Dutchman)

"El Gato" - Oliver Nelson. Gato Barbayri-tenor Saxophone; Oliver Nelson-alt-saxophone; Hank Jones - Royal; Ron Carter - double bass, David Spinoza - guitar; Romeo Panke - altova flute and English horn; Phil Bodner - flute and altova flute; Danny Bank - bass clarinet; Airtto the Seasira - Prekashn, percusia and prutti Pirdi - drums.

As Scott Yanou wrote:-This is a transitional Gato Barbieuri, no longer as avant-garde as in the sixties, closer to commercial pop jazz, but still modal post-bopper and magnificent, in a duet with the second Sax, improviser ... "

I will say that the future motifs of the “Last Tango in Paris ...” are already heard in this suite ... ”

On this I say goodbye to you until next week. The podcasts of the “Time of Jazz” you will find on the website of the radio station www.svoboda.org . All you are blessings, a successful and cheerful week, Chao, Bai-Bai!