BLACK HISTORY MONTH: JOHNNY COLES: This very adaptable black trumpeter and flugelhorn player managed to work successfully with such diverse leaders as Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans and Charles Mingus. I’m sure that you’ve got something by him in your LP or CD collection with at least one of these bands. But did you know that he made at least three recordings as a leader? We’ll hear cuts from these three CDs, made in 1961, 1963 and 1982.
During the program, we’ll introduce you to PETR CANCURA, the new Programming Manager for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and we’ll play you a sample cut from Gord Grdina’s East Van Strings, who will be playing at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage on February 21.
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: The Warm Sound
Tune: Pretty Strange
Label: Koch Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: The Warm Sound
Tune: Babe’s Blues
Label: Koch Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: The Warm Sound
Tune: Come Rain or Come Shine
Label: Koch Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: The Warm Sound
Tune: Room 3
Label: Koch Jazz
Artist: Gordon Grdina’s East Van Strings
Album: The Breathing of Statues
Tune: Holy Departure
Label: Songlines
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: Little Johnny C
Tune: So Sweet My little Girl
Label: Blue Note
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: Little Johnny C
Tune: Hobo Joe
Label: Blue Note
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: Little Johnny C
Tune: My Sweet Passion
Label: Blue Note
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: New Morning
Tune: Sound of Love
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: New Morning
Tune: United
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: New Morning
Tune: New Morning
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: New Morning
Tune: I Don’t Know Yet
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Artist: Johnny Coles
Album: New Morning
Tune: Mister B
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
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“In A Mellow Tone” is on CKCU every Wednesday from 9:00 to 11:00pm
at 93.1FM in Ottawa and around the world on the Internet at
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Bill Coleman, 1904-1981
About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
