Jazz Casual – Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and Woody Herman and His Swinging Herd

Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (Jones/Lewis & Herman)
Studio album by Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd
Recorded 1963 (Herman) and 1968 April 22 (Jones / Lewis), KQED TV, San Francisco
Genre Jazz
Length 58:01
Producer Ralph Gleason
Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra chronology
Live at the Village Vanguard
(1967)
Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual...
(1968)
The Big Band Sound... Featuring Miss Ruth Brown
(1968)
Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (Jones/Lewis & Herman)
Video by Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd
Recorded 1963 (Herman) and 1968 April 22 (Jones / Lewis), KQED TV, San Francisco
Genre Jazz
Length 58:01
Label Idem
Producer Ralph Gleason
Alternate compilation / release
same Jones/Lewis Band material combined with a Dave Brubeck and an MJQ performance
Alternate compilation / release
same Woody Herman Band material combined with additional Herman Band performances

Jazz Casual - The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd consists of a recording of a Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd appearance from 1963 and a Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra appearance from 1968 that were combined and released as a single DVD video and also as an audio CD. Jazz Casual was a KQED-produced television show of studio performances by major jazz musicians. The same material has also been released in different packages (e.g. a DVD of the Jones/Lewis Orchestra tracks combined with the 1961 appearance of the Dave Brubeck Quartet and the 1962 Modern Jazz Quartet appearance and another DVD including all 3 Woody Herman appearances from 1963 and 1964 which were both also part of an 8 DVD complete set of all 28 Jazz Casual TV episodes.)

Track listing

  1. "Just Blues" – 4:41
  2. Thad Jones, Introductions – 0:36
  3. "St.Louis Blues" – 12:18
  4. Interview With Thad, Mel, Section Leader – 4:07
  5. "Kids Are Pretty People" – 5:39
  6. "Don't Get Sassy" – 1:05
  7. "Molasses" – 6:30
  8. Interview – 4:43
  9. "El Toro Grande" – 4:52
  10. Woody Speaks – 0:21
  11. "Lonesome Old Town" – 3:42
  12. Woody Speaks – 0:22
  13. "That's Where It Is" – 4:06
  14. "Cousins" – 4:18

Tracks 1-6: Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Tracks 7-14: Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd

Personnel

Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra:

Woody Herman and his Swinging Herd:

References