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Friday July 24 2015 - Cootie Williams

Henderson's Roseland Orch., "Raisin' the Roof," Fletcher Henderson: A Study in Frustration (Columbia)

Joe Turner & His Memphis Men, "Mississippi Moan," Duke Ellington: The Okeh Ellington (Columbia)

Harlem Footwarmers, "Ring Dem Bells," Duke Ellington: The Okeh Ellington (Columbia)

Harlem Footwarmers, "Sweet Chariot," Duke Ellington: The Okeh Ellington (Columbia)

Duke Ellington & His Orch., "Echoes of the Jungle," Highlights from the Centennial Edition (RCA)

Duke Ellington & His Orch., "Blue Harlem," 1932-1933 (Classics)

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch., "Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)," 1936, Vol. 1 (Classics)

Barney Bigard & His Jazzopators, "Clouds in My Heart," Duke Ellington: The Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 (Columbia)

Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, "Downtown Uproar," Duke Ellington: The Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 (Columbia)

Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, "Blue Reverie," Duke Ellington: The Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 (Columbia)

Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, "Digga Digga Doo," Duke Ellington: The Duke's Men: The Small Groups, Vol. 1 (Columbia)

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch., "Riding on a Blue Note," 1938, Vol. 1 (Classics)

Lionel Hampton & His Orch., "Ring Dem Bells," Hot Mallets (Bluebird)

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orch., "Doin' the Voom Voom," 1939 (Classics)

Duke Ellington & His Orch., "Concerto for Cootie," Blanton-Webster Band (Bluebird)

Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters, "Dry Long So," Duke Ellington: 1939-1940 (Classics)

Duke Ellington & His Orch., "Harlem Air Shaft," Blanton-Webster Band (Bluebird)

Duke Ellington & His Orch., "In a Mellotone," Blanton-Webster Band (Bluebird)

Benny Goodman Sextet, "Royal Garden Blues," 1940 (Classics)

Benny Goodman & His Orch., "Superman," Plays Eddie Sauter (Hep)

Cootie Williams & His Orch., "'Round Midnight," 1941-1944 (Classics)

Cootie Williams/Wini Brown, "'Round Midnight," Around Midnight (Jero)

Stewart-Williams & Co., "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess," Porgy & Bess Revisited (DRG/Warner Bros.)

Duke Ellington, "Tuxedo Junction," Recollections of the Big Band Era (Atlantic)

Duke Ellington, " Concerto for Cootie," Great Paris Concert (Atlantic)

Duke Ellington, " Tutti for Cootie," Great Paris Concert (Atlantic)

Duke Ellington, "Portrait of Louis Armstrong," New Orleans Suite (Atlantic)

Cootie Williams, "Just in Time," In Hi-Fi (RCA)

Seth Markow has been playing piano since age 7, clarinet (now bass clarinet) since 9, and has been a dedicated jazz fan since he was 13. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in music composition, has played and studied African and Asian music, and is a longtime member of the Javanese orchestra Gamelan Kyai Gandrung. He has also played in jazz, blues, rock, reggae, and world beat bands, as well as various classical ensembles. A radio host since 1976 and a Hawaii resident since 1979, his jazz show The Real Deal began in 1983 and has been heard on HPR-2 since that stream went on the air in 1989.
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