Kai Winding Sextet & Red Rodney Quintet - Broadway

Broadway is the name of many streets but there is one Broadway, if you know what I mean. 

Broadway is also the name of a tune which is dedicated to the street that I mean. 

Broadway in the late '40s was the stamping ground —or, more accurately, the stomping ground— for the young modernists who had learned from Lester Young and the Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie axis. They chipped in to rent rehearsal studios in the Broadway area where they could jam if they were not working. When they did work, it was at the Three Deuces —the last holdout to feature modern jazz on 52nd Street— or on Broadway at the Roost and its successor, Bop City. 

Broadway was played quite often at the studio sessions like the ones held at Don Jose’s in the summer of 1949. 

Gerry Mulligan, Brew Moore, George Wallington, and Red Rodney were frequent participants. Anytime Mulligan is involved, there is a good chance that Broadway will be played in one form or another. His Gold Rush is based on Broadway. Broadway and/or Gold Rush have shown up in groups in which he has been a sideman, and in the various combos and orchestras he has led. 

Broadway is an example of these musicians' link to the Count Basie-Lester Young tradition. Count recorded it in 1940 with Pres as the featured soloist, and it captured the imagination of a generation of players.

This is the music they were playing on and around Broadway in the late '40s and early '50s. Broadway has changed and so has the music. Broadway has also endured. So has Broadway.

*Ira Gitler (liner notes)*

Kai Winding Sextet & Red Rodney Quintet

Broadway

Side 1

1 - A Night On Bop Mountain

(Winding)

2 - Waterworks

(Mulligan)

3 - Broadway

(McRay, Rayven)

4 - Sid's Bounce

(Kaminsky)

5 - Red Wig

(Rodney)

Side 2

6 - The Baron

(Rodney)

7 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

(Kern, T. B. Harms)

8 - Coogan's Bluff

(Rodney)

9 - This Time The Dream's On Me

(Arlen, Mercer, Remick)

10 - If You Are But A Dream

(Jaffe, Fulton, Bronx)

11 - Mark

(Rodney)

#1 to #4:

(Originally as part of "Modern Jazz Trombones" [Prestige PRLP 109])

Kai Winding (trombone), Brew Moore (tenor sax), Gerry Mulligan (baritone sax), George Wallington (piano), Curly Russell (bass), Roy Haynes (drums).

Recorded in New York, August 23, 1949.

#5 to #11:

(Originally "The New Sounds" [Prestige PRLP 122])

Red Rodney (trumpet), Jim Ford (alto sax), Phil Raphael (piano), Phil Leshin (bass), Phil Brown (drums).

Recorded in New York, September 27, 1951.