WRFG’s Route 66 celebrates a time when blues, jazz, and R&B blended
together, often in the same song. The focus is on the the Jump Blues and
Early Rock’n’Roll Eras (1940s to mid-1950s) and on how those styles
and artists have evolved over the years.
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Jay McShann is this week’s featured artist. McShann led bands in Kansas City
that included Charlie Parker, Bernard Anderson, Walter Brown, and Ben Webster.
Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on January 12, 1916, James Columbus McShann
learned to play piano by watching his sister’s piano lessons and trying to practice
tunes he heard on the radio.
His piano style was heavily influenced by late-night broadcasts of pianist Earl Hines
from Chicago’s Grand Terrace Cafe: “When ‘Fatha’ (Hines) went off the air, I went to
bed”. McShann was a gifted vocalist, composer and band leader with a career
that spanned more than six decades, ending shortly before his death in 2006.
JAY McSHANN RESOURCES
Biography @ wikiepedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
Discography of American Hisctorcal Recordings
National Endowment for the Arts
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album of Label & Date
No Name Boogie
Boogie Woogie Jackson (aka Jay McShann)
Down Beat Records 1948
Get Me On Your Mind
Jay McShann Orchestra with Al Hibler
Decca Records 1943
Jumpin’ The Blues
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
American Music Texas Style 1999
Come On Over To My House
Jay McShann w/ Maria Muldaur & Duke Robillard
Still Jumpin’ The Blues 1999
Adam Bit The Apple Joe Turner Aladdin Records 1950
Old Devil Moon Robin McKelle Impressions of Ella 2023
Flyin’ Home Little Charlie & Organ Grinder Swing Skronky Tonk 2016
Boogie Woogie Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1951
Easy Living Little Jimmy Scott I Go Back Home 2016
Open The Door Richard Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five Decca Records 1947
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Dennis Gruenling Rockin’ All Day 2012
Oh, Lady Be Good! Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1947
Two Years Of Torture Ray Charles The Genius 1959
As Long as I’m Moving Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1955
Straighten Up & Fly Right Lyle Lovett Smile 2003
They Raided The Joint
Helen Humes w/ Jay McShann
Let The Good Times Roll 1973
I Ain’t Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me)
Earl Hines
Okah Records 1929
Confessin’ the Blues
Jay McShann & His Orchestra
Decca Records 8559A 1941
Hootie Blues
Jay McShann & His Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker
Decca Records 8559B 1941
Roll ‘Em C Jam Blues
Eddie Vinson & Jay McShann
Jumpin’ The Blues 1969
Evil Gal Blues Lionel Hampton w/ Dinah Washington Keynote Recordings 1944
The Calloway Boogie Cab Calloway Columbia Records 1947
St. Thomas Count Basie & His Orchestra Basie’s Beat 1967
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone) B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1953
Cupid’s Boogie
Little Esther & Mel Walker w/ The Johnny Otis Orchestra
Savoy Records 1950
A Virus Called the Blues Charles Brown & Dr. John All My Life 1990
Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Jimmy Witherspoon w/ the Jay McShann Orchestra
Supreme Records 1949
King Size Papa
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends (Jay McShann)
Capitol Records 1948
Hands Off
Jay McShann’s Orchestra w/ Priscilla Bowman
Vee Jay Records 1955
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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