Jonathan Mernit

Sunday Brunch 11/19

Celebrating Wynton Kelly’s 75^th Birthday Anniversary
12/2/31 – 4/12/71
Pianist, Composer, Leader, Sideman, and Accompanist

Ruth Brown - So Long - R.I.P. 1/12/28 - 11/18/06

Dinah Washington w. Walter Buchanan Orch – Please Send Me Someone to Love 3:07
Mercury Session, NYC 2/27/51

Dinah Washington – Make the Man Love Me – For Those in Love 5:35
Mercury Session, NYC 3/15/55

Wynton Kelly – Cherokee - Piano Interpretations 3:05
Wynton Kelly – Born To Be Blue - Piano Interpretations 3:21
Blue Note Session, NYC 7/25 & 8/1/51 - with Oscar Petiford (b)

J.J. Johnson Quintet – Jay – 45-1651 3:42
Blue Note Session, Hackensack, N.J. 9/24/54 - with J.J. Johnson (tb) & Charles Mingus (b) Kenny Clarke (d)

Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Whisper Not – Birks Works 5:17
Verve Session, NYC 4/8/57

Abbey Lincoln – Strong Man - That’s Him 4:59
Riverside Session, NYC 10/28/57 with Sonny Rollins (ts) Kenny Dorham (tp) Max Roach (d)

Wynton Kelly Trio – You Can’t Get Away – Piano 6:21
Riverside Session, NYC 1/31/58 with Kenny Burrell (g) Paul Chambers (b)

Wynton Kelly Sextet – Kelly Blue - Kelly Blue 10:46
Riverside Session, NYC 2/19/59 Benny Golsen (ts) Nat Adderley (tp) Bobby Jasper (fl)

John Coltrane – Naima – Giant Steps 4:21
Atlantic Session, NYC 12/2/59

Second Hour

Wynton Kelly Trio – Temperance – Wynton Kelly at Midnight 7:30
Vee Jay Session, NYC 4/27/60

Phone Interview with Grace Metivier, Director of the Wynton Kelly Founation

Miles Davis Sextet – Someday My Prince Will Come – Someday My Prince Will Come 9:02
Columbia Session, NYC 3/21/61 with Hank Mobley (ts) John Coltrane (ts)

Terri Thorton – Lullaby of the Leaves - Devil May Care
Riverside Session, NYC 12/23/60

Wynton Kelly Quartet – Joe’s Avenue – Wynton Kelly! 2:52
Vee Jay Session, NYC 4/21/61

Lorez Alexandria – I’ve Never Been in Love Before – Lorez Alexandria The Great 2:45
Impulse Session, LA, Ca 1964

Wynton Kelly Trio – On The Trail – It’s All Right 4:33
Verve Session, NYC 3/64

Wes Montgomery with Wynton Kelly Trio – Unit 7 – Smokin’ at the Half Note 6:45
Verve Session, NYC 6/65

Wynton Kelly Trio – Scufflin’ – Full View 3:02
Milestone Session, NYC 9/66 Ron McClure (b)

Wynton Kelly Trio – Kelly’s Blues – Last Trio Session 7:51
Delmark Session, Chicago 8/4/68 Paul Chambers (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)