Jazz interpretations of Percy Mayfield songs

[ghost of miles]

Totally cribbing from my fellow board members here for a radio show I'm doing on Percy Mayfield tomorrow/today (Friday afternoon). So far I have the following:

Stanley Turrentine, "River's Invitation"

Oscar Brown Jr., "Please Send Me Someone to Love"

Phineas Newborn, same

Gotta be more... I'm rackin' my brain but not coming up with anything else right now. I have the Tangerine CD and both Specialty CDs, and I also have two of the sides he did for Supreme in the late 1940s, as well as a couple of Ray Charles recordings of Mayfield tunes. Just looking for several additional jazz versions to round out the show.

[Jim R]

A few more for Please Send Me Someone To Love:

Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano

Eddie Davis - Goin' To The Meetin'

Kenny Burrell - Asphalt Canyon Suite

Count Basie & Joe Williams - Compact Jazz

[couw]

Please Send Me Someone To Love, also on:

Smith, Jimmy - Rockin' the Boat

then there's Mayfield himself performing

Stone Junkie

Pusherman

on the Newport in New York '72 set.

on the same Newport set there is yet another Someone To Love as part of a medley, performed by Joe Newman, Clark Terry, tp; Illinois Jacquet, Zoot Sims, ts; Jimmy Smith, org; Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, g; Roy Haynes, ds;

As for Basie, there are performances of Someone To Love on

- Basie Swings Williams Sings (Verve)

- Joe Williams: Live in Vegas [Monad MOA 805]

the former is probably the same as on Compact Jazz

[JSngry]

Les MCann's (vocal) version of "Please Send Me Someone To Love" is my favorite other than Mayfield's own.

[couw]

the '72 jam session version of the tune turns out to be mainly Burrell and BB King kicking it around, backed by Smith and Haynes. The horns only enter for the finale. Very nice performance!

I can upload an mp3 if you want.

[Joe]

There's a great version of "PLease Send Me Someone To Love" by Frank Lowe on VISION BLUE.

[ghost of miles]

the '72 jam session version of the tune turns out to be mainly Burrell and BB King kicking it around, backed by Smith and Haynes. The horns only enter for the finale. Very nice performance!

I can upload an mp3 if you want.

Couw, that would be great! Could you put in "Stone Junkie" and "Pusherman" as well? The show airs in 6 hours, but I can have an engineer dub it pretty quickly at the station. Let me know... Thanks to everybody for your suggestions.

David

Edited September 24, 2004 by ghost of miles

[Shawn]

I really like the arrangement of Please Send Me Someone To Love on here:

[couw]

the uploading will take some more minutes. Just noticed, however, that the Pusherman and Stone Junkie are by Curtis, not Percy (duh!)

I do have a nice "Hit The Road Jack" with a European jazz combo and the ever-obscure Ms Dorothy Ellison: click (right-click save or copy-paste the address in the address bar)

[couw]

okay then, here you go:

Please Send Me Someone to Love (7.8Mb mp3) as performed by Kenny Burrell & BB King on geeetarr, Jimmy Smith on organ, and Roy Haynes on drums. Popping by for the final out are Joe Newman & Clark Terry on trumpet and Illinois Jacquet & Zoot Sims on tenor saxophone.

Recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival at the Yankee Stadium in New York on July 7, 1972.

Issued on Newport in New York '72 Vol 5: The Jimmy Smith Jam-.

[ghost of miles]

Thanks much, Couw! I'll play it on the air later today.