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Steel Guitar Jazz: Listening Library

Honeysuckle Rose

Sweet Georgia Brown

C-Jam Blues

(Buddy Charleton (with Ernest Tubb))
(Ellington)

Lush Life

(JERRY GLEASON)
Billy Strayhorn

Birdland

(JAN JONSSON)
Joe Zawinul

Round Midnight

(JAN JONSSON)
Thelonius Monk

Passing Through

C-Jam Blues

Night in Tunisia/Ladybird

(JOHN HEINRICH)
Gillespie/Paperelli & Dameron

Naima

(LIONEL WENDLING)
John Coltrane

Blues in F

(LIONEL WENDLING)
John Coltrane

Unknown

(DAN TYACK with 'Battlestar Dislexica')
Miles Davis

Time

(BD Bassett)
Pink Floyd

Ahtram

(Russ Wever)
Smith/Harper

A Light on Gilmor

(Susan Alcorn)
S. Alcorn

All the Things You Are

(Frank Rogers)
2006
Hammerstein/Kern
from Frank's CD, 'Blue Plate Special'

Autumn in New York

(Richard Nelson)
2004
Vernon Duke
from Richard's CD, 'Moment's Notice'

Avalon

(Herby Wallace)
2000
Rose, Jolson & DeSilva
from the CD, 'Mr. Wallace & Company'

Because of You

(Al Bragg)
Hammerstein/Wilkinson
From the CD, 'Northern Steel II' available at BobTaillefer.com

Bernie's Tune

(Al Vescovo)
Bernie Miller
from Al's CD, 'Steelin' Some Jazz', available from A.V. Unlimited, PO Box 7287, Van Nuys, CA. 91406

Billie's Bounce

(Frank Rogers)
2006
Charlie Parker
from Frank's CD, 'Blue Plate Special'

Blue Bossa

(Bob Taillefer)
2006
Kenny Durham
from the CD, 'Bob Taillefer y los Hermanos'

Body & Soul

(Doug Jernigan)
2006
John Green
from the CD, 'Doug Jernigan Plays Jazz Standards'

Brown Derby

Cherokee

(Buddy Emmons)
Ray Noble
from the 1963 album, 'Steel Guitar Jazz'

C-Jam Blues

(Buzz Evans)
Duke Ellington
from Buzz's CD, 'Mile High Live- Vol. 1' (originally recorded 1980-81

Dialing Out

(Dave Easley)
2007
Alan Hampton
from the CD, 'Angle of Incidence', with Jim Stahlhut, Seamus Blake, Alan Hampton and Reggie Quinerly

Donna Lee

(Buck Reid)
2007
Charlie Parker
From Buck's CD, 'A Work in Progress'. For more info, visit: www.BuckReid.com

Donna Lee

(Mark Krutke)
Charlie Parker

Don't Fence Me In

(Andy Schick)
2007
Cole Porter
From the Canadian compilation CD, "Northern Steel II", available HERE

Dreams of India - Part 2

Everybody's Talkin'

(Rusty Young)
Fred Neil
From the compilation LP, "Suite Steel"

'Flintstones' excerpt

(David Wright)
from the CD, 'David Wright, featuring Janice Allen'

Goodbye Porkpie Hat

(Rick Schmidt)
Charles Mingus
Rick's popular underground recording, on steel guitar and vocals

Green Dolphin St

(Maurice Anderson)
2005
Kaper/Washington
from the CD, 'Out of Nowhere' by Maurice Anderson & Jim Stahlhut (with Alan Hampton & Reggie Quinerly)

How High the Moon excerpt

(Don Curtis)
with the Valerie Tichacek Trio
Don was our MYSTERY STEELER #1, and NO ONE recognized him! Better luck next time - LOL!

Lush Life

(Jim Cohen)
Billy Strayhorn

Mad Max

(MIKE BAGWELL)
Charles Hedgepath

Make Your Point

(Randy Beavers)
2007
Randy Beavers
from Randy's CD, 'The Next Step'

Moment's Notice

(Richard Nelson)
2004
John Coltrane
from Richard's CD, 'Moment's Notice'

Monk Medley (excerpt)

(Susan Alcorn)
for more information, please visit www.SusanAlcorn.com and www.myspace.com/SusanAlcorn

Not But Not for Me

(Dave Easley)
1998
Gershwin
Recorded with Dave's group, '3now4'

Oleo

(Buddy Emmons)
Sonny Rollins
from the 1963 album, 'Steel Guitar Jazz'

One Note Samba

(Jerry Gleason)
A.C. Jobim
from the fine Oregon steeler and guitarist, Jerry Gleason

Perdido

Same Time, Same Place

(Bob Taillefer)
2006
Michel Taillefer
From the CD, 'Bob Taillefer y los Hermanos'

Secret Love

(Maurice Anderson)
2004
Fain/Webster
from the CD, 'Bobby Caldwell and his Friends of Steel, Vol. 1' (originally recorded in 1973)

Some Other Blues

(Ron Halldorson)
Ron is an outstanding jazz steel player from Canada, who used to play bass for Lenny Breau!

Song for My Father

(Russ Wever)
2006
Horace Silver
exclusive SteelGuitarJazz.com unreleased recording from the 2006 Central Illinois Steel Guitar Association's Annual Show

So What?

(MIKE BAGWELL)
Miles Davis

Speak Low

(Al Vescovo)
Nash/Weill
from Al's CD, 'In the Steel of the Night (An Instrument of Mass Seduction)'

Steel Minor

(Tommy White)
from the CD, 'Tommy White: By Request'

Straight, No Chaser

(Jim Cohen)
Thelonius Monk
From the CD, 'Bop-a-Billy Swing!' by Beats Walkin'), available HERE

Summer Cruise

(Casey O'Neal)
2004
O'Neal/Fath
from the CD, 'Michael Fath's Le Jazz'. Casey is a Virginia-based pedal steeler who recorded with this 9-piece jazz big band

Tenor Madness

(Jim Cohen)
2003
Sonny Rollins
from Jim's CD, 'Four to the Bar'

When Sunny Gets Blue

(Doug Jernigan)
2006
Marvin Fisher
from the CD, 'Doug Jernigan Plays Jazz Standards'

Yardbird Suite

(Jim Cohen)
2003
Charlie Parker
from Jim's CD, 'Four to the Bar'