E01 Jazz and the Visual Arts

You can’t listen to a painting or see a song, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t really interesting places where the worlds of jazz and art overlap. We’ll explore jazz’s connection to the arts with a look at the criss-crossing paths of jazz and the visual arts with Dr. Robert O’Meally, discussing how the worlds of art and music collided during the Harlem Renaissance, explore the life and art of the jazz painter Romare Bearden, and take a look at the life and work of iconic jazz photographer William Gottlieb.

 

Episode Transcript

 

Host: Jeff Haas

Guests: Robert O’Meally and Ben Cawthra

 

Music

• Von Freeman “Sweet and Lovely”
• Ella Fitzgerald / Billy Strayhorn “Chelsea Bridge”
• Duke Ellington “Transblucency”
• Thelonious Monk “Blue Monk”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Blue ‘N’ Boogie”
• Dizzy Gillespie “52nd Street Theme”
• Ella Fitzgerald “Lover Man”
• Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
• Thelonious Monk “Misterioso”
• Nat King Cole “Mona Lisa” 
• Dizzy Gillespie “On the Sunny Side of the Street”
• Dizzy Gillespie “After Hours”
• Thelonious Monk “Bemsha Swing”
• Mary Lou Williams “A Grand Nite for Swinging”
• Dizzy Gillespie “Sea Breeze”

 

Original Air Date: February 10, 2012

 

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas

Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon

Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras

Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller

Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

 

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

 

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