JAY MCSHANN & FRIENDS (1982) Jazz Showcase NYE | Live Concert | Jazz | Full Album

Jazz McShann & Friends at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago on NPR's Jazz Alive New Year's Eve. Recorded and broadcast by NPR on 12/31/1982 on WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station. Hosted by NPR's Ben Sidran and Joe Segal.
Jay McShann & Friends:
Jay McShann-Piano & Vocals
Eddie Lockjaw Davis-Tenor Sax
Eddie De Haas-Bass
Claude Williams-Violin
Wilbur Campbell-Drums
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Publication date: 1982-12-31
Topics: Jay McShann, Jazz Showcase, Chicago, New Year's Eve, NPR, Jazz Alive, live concert, FM broadcast, WBEZ
Language: English
01- Introduction to Jay McShann
02- Vine Street Boogie
03- 'Fore Day Rider
04- Slow Drag Blues
05- Introduction
06- Smooth Sailing
07- These Foolish Things
08- How High the Moon
09- Introduction
10- Eddie Lockjaw Davis talks to the audience
11-Auld Lang Syne (New Year 1983)
12-Tangerine
13-Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
14-Exactly Like You
15-There Is No Greater Love
16-Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Retraction to earlier comments
17-I'm Just A Lonely So and So
18-Kansas City
19-Closing comments
20-WBEZ station break
James Columbus "Jay" McShann (January 12, 1916 - December 7, 2006) was a jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and bandleader. He led bands in Kansas City, Missouri, that included Charlie Parker, Bernard Anderson, Walter Brown, and Ben Webster.
McShann moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1936, and set up his own big band which variously featured Charlie Parker (1937-42), Al Hibbler, Ben Webster, Paul Quinichette, Bernard Anderson, Gene Ramey, Jimmy Coe, Gus Johnson (1938-43), Harold "Doc" West, Earl Coleman, Walter Brown, and Jimmy Witherspoon, among others.
His first recordings were all with Charlie Parker, the first as the Jay McShann Orchestra on August 9, 1940.
The band played both swing and blues numbers, but played blues on most of its records; its most popular recording was "Confessin' the Blues" with Walter Brown on vocals. The group disbanded when McShann was drafted into the Army in 1944.
After his return two years later, he found that small groups were now taking the place of big-bands in the jazz scene.
McShann told the Associated Press in 2003: "You'd hear some cat play, and somebody would say, 'This cat, he sounds like he's from Kansas City.' It was Kansas City Style. They knew it on the East Coast. They knew it on the West Coast. They knew it up North, and they knew it down South.
After World War II McShann began to lead small groups featuring the blues shouter Jimmy Witherspoon. Witherspoon began to record with McShann in 1945 and, fronting McShann's band, he had a hit in 1949 with "Ain't Nobody's Business".
As well as writing much material, Witherspoon continued recording with McShann's band, which also featured Ben Webster. McShann had a modern rhythm and blues hit with "Hands Off", featuring a vocal by Priscilla Bowman, in 1955.
In the late 1960s, McShann often performed as a singer as well as a pianist, often with violinist Claude Williams. He continued recording and touring through the 1990s.
Well into his 80s, McShann still performed occasionally, particularly in the Kansas City area and Toronto, Ontario, where he made his last recording, "Hootie Blues", in February 2001, after a recording career of 61 years.
In 1979, he appeared prominently in The Last of the Blue Devils, a documentary film about Kansas City jazz.
One of McShann's favorite stories to tell was how band member and friend Charlie Parker got his nickname "Bird". During their drive to a gig in Nebraska with a car full of musicians, the driver of the car accidentally hit a chicken.
According to McShann, Parker requested the driver turn around so he could get the bird, and sat with it in the backseat of the car all the way to Lincoln. Once they arrived he asked the keeper of the home they were staying in to cook it up for him.
McShann died on December 7, 2006, in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 90.
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Thanks for uploading this. Can't get enough of Jay McShann at the moment!

[@songpoets-ramcey]

The great Hootie! With his buddies "the Fiddler" & "Lockjaw"! As good as it gets. - Ramcey in Columbus, GA.

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