Jazz Goes Folk

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz
Length: 58:56

An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring jazz interpretations of folk tunes from the late 1950s and early 1960s, while the folk revival was sweeping American college campuses. Read the full description.

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Playing: Jazz Goes Folk
From: WFIU

51ejcxk-lal__sl500_aa240__small In the late 1950s and early 1960s the folk-music movement in America hit a commercial zenith with artists such as the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary enjoying great success-particularly on college campuses, competing with jazz as the countercultural music of choice. Several jazz artists responded to the movement with albums based around folk-music themes.

"Jazz Goes Folk" features music by unsung hardbop heroes saxophonist Harold Land and trumpeter Carmell Jones (from their LP Jazz Impressions of Folk Music, John Benson Brooks' Folk Jazz U.S.A.. and Alabama Concerto, singer Frances Faye's Sings Folk Songs (with a swingin' version of "Skip to My Lou"), clarinetist Bill Smith's Folk Jazz, and saxophonist Clifford Jordan's Leadbelly tribute These Are My Roots, as well as recordings by jazz mavericks Fred Katz and David Amram.

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s the folk-music movement in America hit a commercial zenith with artists such as the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary enjoying great success-particularly on college campuses, competing with jazz as the countercultural music of choice. Several jazz artists responded to the movement with albums based around folk-music themes.

"Jazz Goes Folk" features music by unsung hardbop heroes saxophonist Harold Land and trumpeter Carmell Jones (from their LP Jazz Impressions of Folk Music, John Benson Brooks' Folk Jazz U.S.A.. and Alabama Concerto, singer Frances Faye's Sings Folk Songs (with a swingin' version of "Skip to My Lou"), clarinetist Bill Smith's Folk Jazz, and saxophonist Clifford Jordan's Leadbelly tribute These Are My Roots, as well as recordings by jazz mavericks Fred Katz and David Amram.