Episode 383:Jazz Albums Created Out of Love

I'm playing recordings where 'love' inspired the particular composition or album. It includes love for a partner, a child or infant, musical companions, love that came from a spiritual awakening, love for a pet, and in one instance for a generation of family members subjected to hardships born by racial discrimination.

And in the middle of it all I make a very short detour by playing an old 78rpm record of an old time fiddle tune----a detour that eventually takes us back to Wayne Shorter. Sort of.

Addendum: SONG LIST

• Prayer for Tomorrow--John Donaldson (From "We Were Together, I Forget The Rest) 2926

• Acknowledgment--John Coltrane (from A Love Supreme)

• Rosebud (for Keiko Robson)--Sharon Minemoto. (Goodbye Strawberry Hill, the theme being the internment of people of Japanese Ancestra duriing and after World War II. The love is Minemoto's love for her family who had to go through this.

• Ceora--Lee Morgan (from Cornbread). Love for a young girl Morgan and his partner informally fostered

• Ana Marie--Wayne Shorter. (reflects the love Shorter and much of the jazz community felt for Ana Maria Shorter)

• Diana--Wayne Shorter (from Native Dancer, a tribute to Diane Purim, infant daughter of Airto and Flora)

• Big Four Special---Wally Traugott. (a detour....a Canadian old time fiddler who later was recording engineer for Native Dancer)

• Infant Eyes---Reuben James (Wayne Shorter stated "I saw all infancy in Miyako's eyes, everyne who'd ever been an infant")

• My Lima---Josh Cohen. (from We Are Home. Dedicated to his late dog who was diagnosed with cancer at age 4).