This gentleman left an indelible stamp in the world of jazz. Pates Place pays tribute to Miles Davis. So What! and Blue In Green both on Kind of Blue Miles Ahead the title track, of course, on Miles Ahead The Duke on Miles Ahead It Ain’t Necessarily So Summertime There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ – [...]

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington has often been called a genius and a number of fine biographies will illuminates the whys and where fors. Here’s a very short list: (1) Duke Ellington’s autobiography Music Is My Mistress; (2) Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse; (3) The World of Duke [...]

  Pate’s Place pays tribute to Herbie Hancock, one of the real giants in the world of jazz.   Watermelon Man on the Best OfCD.   Driftin’ also on Herbie’s Best Of CD.         Just Enough / Canteloupe Island The first features Herbie and Eliane Elias on her CD titled Solos & Duets, and the second is from [...]

This edition of Pates Place we salute a select group of composers who have birthdays in February. Harold Arlen composed “I’ve Got the World on a String”. Here Lena Horne sings (lyrics by Ted Koehler) and Phil Woods plays on Lena: A New Album. Harold Arlen also wrote “Ill Wind”. This time Koehler’s lyrics are [...]

This special edition of Pate’s Place is proud to bring you some of the superbly talented ladies in our business.   DIVA, an all-female big band headed by drummer Sherri Maricle, playing You Stepped Out of a Dream and If I Should Lose You – both tunes are on Something’s Coming     Pianist Lynne [...]

Pate’s Place reaches back to bring you the talent of the great Gene Ammons. The Twister (on “Greatest Hits-The 50s”) and Exactly Like You (on “JUG”). Tangerine and Old Man River (both on “JUG”). Let it Be You (on “JUG”) and Lullaby Of the Leaves (on “Late Hour Special”). Happy Blues (on “Greatest Hits-The 50s”) [...]

This edition of Pates Place we turn to an almost forgotten instrument in jazz – the Clarinet. Here’s Eddie Daniels. SAVOY (on the GRP CD titled Collection) AJA’S THEME / EAST OF THE SUN (on Breakthrough and Collection, respectively) SOON / SICILIANO (on Dave Grusin’s Gershwin Connection and Breakthrough, respectively) CIRCLE DANCE (on Breakthrough) SOFT [...]

This edition of Pates Place we’re going to delve into the field of different arrangements of the same song. SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON TOP as played by   George Shearing on How Beautiful Is Night Ahmad Jamal on Okeh Jazz compilation and the Gene Harris and the Philip Morris SuperBand on Live at Town [...]

His jazz compositions will live forever. Cookin’ At The Continental / Lunceford Legacy (Cookin’ on The Best Of Horace Silver, vol 1 and Lunceford is on It’s Got to Be Funky) Señor Blues / When You’re In Love (Señor on the GRP All-Stars’ All Blues and Love is from Silver’s It’s Got To Be Funky) [...]

Many entertainers are known by their first names only, but this genius is one of the few known by just his first initial “Q”. Meet the great Quincy Jones. Stockholm Sweetening / Evening In Paris (both on This is How I Feel About Jazz) Quince /The Quintessence (on Count Basie’s One More Time and The [...]