"Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron" on Night Lights

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Last week's Night Lights show on composer and pianist Tadd Dameron, including commentary from Dameron biographer Paul Combs, is up for online listening:

Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron

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Up today in honor of the 101st anniversary of Dameron's birth:

Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron

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We re-aired Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron with special guest Paul Combs this past week, and it remains archived for online listening.

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One more go-around this past week for 

Our Delight: The Music Of Tadd Dameron

[Jim Duckworth]

Outstanding work, sir.

 

[Rooster_Ties]

37 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Outstanding work, sir.

Yes indeed!!  These radio-show-size hour-long meals of music, perfectly portioned -- and seasoned with wonderful information! -- are just a delight!!

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You guys are too kind!  The show has certainly benefitted from all the years I've spent hanging around this joint (going on 20, and 20+ if you count the old BNBB as the predecessor to this forum).  Ralph Burns centennial program on the way tomorrow.  

[Teasing the Korean]

A name-dropping former music professor, upon flubbing the chords to "Lady Bird:"  "Tadd would kill me if he heard that!"
 

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

A name-dropping former music professor, upon flubbing the chords to "Lady Bird:"  "Tadd would kill me if he heard that!"
 

Yeah, his chords and his voicings were unique. He could make a small band (with Fats Navarro, Allen Eager, Curley Russell and Kenny Clarke) sound like a larger group. 
For example "Our Delight". I can´t read more than the basics of chords progressions but I played it from ear and got those voicings even if I had to play it in trio. The way you lay the chords, the punctations, and it will sound like a "mini orchestra"......

And of course his out-chorusses, where he replaces the theme melody with a new line, you hear it on "Good Bait" , on "Our Delight" ....wonderful.....

Somewhere I told the story about me and a bunch of fellow teenagers sharing the passion for jazz, how we "discovered" Tadd Dameron. 
It was around 1977 when that Miles Davis - Tadd Dameron in Paris 1949 came out and despite the terrible sound quality we dug it. And when I discovered the "Mating Call" - Tadd with Trane and told other kids that this Tadd Dameron played with Miles AND Trane, those who only knew Miles and Trane answered "if you say he played with Miles and Trane or they played for him, he must be a "big chief". And later we had fun humming his themes and his out-chorusses while sittin in the boat , fishing for trout. 

And for me Tadd Dameron is also a very unique pianist. That short solos are little "miniatura art pieces" as a friend of mine who also discovered Tadd thru me stated and damn right he was....