"Tea for Two" "Picture me upon your knee" "Just tea for two and two for tea" "Just me for you and you for me alone" "Nobody near us to see us or hear us" "No friends or relations on weekend vacations" "We won't ever known, dear" "That we own a telephone, dear" "Day will break and I'll awake" "And start to bake that sugar cake" "For you to take for all the boys to see" "We will raise a family" "A boy for you, a girl for me" "Oh, can't you see how happy" "Oh, can't you see how happy" "Oh, can't you see how happy we would be?" "Thank you" "On January 161938 Carnegie Hall was the home of one of the famous jazz concerts ever" "Outside it was a cold night, but inside" "Well, that was another story" "The music was blazing hot" "Thanks to Benny Goodman's band and his famous quartet" "Who were joined on stage for ajam session by Count Basie" "And sidemen from Basie's and Duke Ellington's Orchestras." "Ever since then almost every important jazz musician has graced the stage of Carnegie" "In no small measure that was due to the fact that the Carnegie Hall was the New York home for" "Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic" "Those landmark shows, which began in Los Angles fifty years ago" "Were the foundation of Verve Records" "In fact J. J. Johnson who played trombone in our opening number s was at the very first concert" "Actually the lineups for those Jazz at the Phil shows" "Were virtual who's who ofjazz history" "So tonight we salute those composers and players" "Legendary masters who've made jazz an uniquely American art form" "You know way back in the 1950's when I was a kid in school studying classical music" "There was one jazz artist who showed me that to play jazz" "You didn't have to abandon your formal training" "One player who whether he was performing jazz or classical could still blow everybody outta the water" "Of course, I'm talking about Art Tatum" "Very simply, Art Tatum was one of the most incredible instrumentalist jazz has ever known" "His technique was awesome" "And his genius has intimidated virtually every other jazz pianist" "Including me" "As Fats Waller once said when he saw Art walk in to a club:" ""God is in the house"" "To play "Willow Weep for Me" in tribute to Art Tatum" "Here is one the most versatile and accomplished players in modern jazz history" "Ajazz master in his own right" "This smooth and gifted musician has been an important part of the jazz scene for five decades" "Please welcome Hank Jones" "Willow Weep for Me" "You know I was just backstage thinking what it means to me to be here tonight" "Singing with these great musicians on stage at Carnegie Hall" "My parents were both music teachers are so proud" "And Mr. Morosco my high school orchestra leader" "Well, if he could see me now" "I sang "Tea for Two" with high school orchestra and also with a small swing band back then" "And one of my dreams is that someday be in front of a big band like the Count Basie Orchestra" "Count Basie was born in New Jersey and studied with Fats Waller" "But it's sound springs from the Kansas City blues" "Basie's spare and precise playing contrasted to his band's locomotive power" "And defined one of the most distinctive and popular styles in jazz history" "After World War II when the decline of the big bands began" "Basie survived by scaling down to an octet" "But thanks to Norman Granz who signed an account to Verve Records" "Basie was be able to reform his big orchestra" "Some of his best later-day moments came in collaboration with singers like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald" "Frank Foster's "Shiny Stockings" was a hit in 1955" "In '63, Quincy Jones rearranged it for the now classic" ""Ella  Basie" album with the lyrics by all people Ella herself" "Here with the J. J. Johnson and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band" "Is a versatile performer who started singing jazz with the Thad Jones  Mel Lewis Big Band" "And has even earned a Tony Award for her role on the Broadway musical The Wiz with "Shiny Stockings" please welcome Miss Dee Dee Bridgewater" "Shiny Stockings" "Those silk shiny stockings that I wear when I'm with you" "I wear cause you told me that you dig that crazy hue" "When we go to a dance" "Do you think of romance?" "Oh no, you take a glance at those shiny stockings" "Then came along some chick with great big stockings, too" "Then you change your mind about me" "Why I never knew" "I guess I'll have to find" "A new some other kind" "The guy who digs my shiny stockings, too" "Shiny stockings" "Shiny stockings" "Then came along some chick with great big stockings, too" "And then you changed your mind about me" "Why I never knew" "I guess I'll have to find" "A new some other kind" "A guy who digs my shiny stockings now" "He'll dig my shiny stockings whoa and how" "J. J. Johnson, Kenny Burrell" "Thank you" "Well as you just heard" "To put the music across ajazz singer needs a terrific song" "Sometime even more importantly she needs a wonderful arrangement" "That's something that Ella always had when she did an incredible songbook series" "Many of those records feature brilliant arrangements by the great Nelson Riddle" "So I'm very happy to say that this next song" "Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things"" "Just One of Those Things" "As Dorothy Parker once said to her boyfriend, "fare thee well"" "As Columbus announced" "When he knew he was bounced" ""It was swell, Isabel, swell"" "As Abelard said to Eloise" ""Don't forget to drop a line to me, please"" "As Juliet cried in her Romeo's ear" ""Romeo, why can't you face the fact, my dear"" "It was just one of those things" "Just one of those crazy flings" "One of those bells that now and then rings" "Just one of those things" "It was just one of those nights" "Just one of those fabulous flights" "A trip to the moon on gossamer wings" "Just one of those things" "If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it" "When we started painting the town" "We'd have been aware that our love affair" "Was too hot, not to cool down" "Well good-bye, dear, and amen" "Here's hoping we meet now and then" "It was great fun" "But it was just one of those things" "Just one of those things" "Just one of those crazy things" "A trip to the moon on gossamer wings" "Just one of those things" "Just one of those nights" "Just one of those fabulous flights" "A trip to the moon on gossamer wings" "Just one of those things" "If we'd thought a bit, of the end of it" "When we started painting the town" "We'd have been aware that our love affair" "Was too hot, not to cool down" "So good-bye, dear, and amen" "Here's hoping we meet now and then" "It was great fun" "But it was just one of those things" "Thank you, thank you" "In his early days" "Bud Powell quickly earned a reputation for his phenomenal technique" "And he was often compared to Art Tatum" "One night Tatum went to check out the competition" "Before seeing Powell play" "Tatum was heard to say:" ""He is all right hand"" "But Powell overheard that remark and when he came out" "He played the entire set with his right hand behind his back" "One of the great innovators in the history ofjazz" "Bud Powell was to the piano what Charlie Parker was to the alto sax" "A leader who set the style for his generation and many generations of players" "Powell was purist in the fast tempos but no matter what the pace" "Powell played with an emotional fury and fire" "He was the quintessential bebop pianist" "Here to pay tribute to Bud Powell" "Please welcome Japan's premier jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita" "Parisian Thoroughfare" "Almost fifty years ago Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker led their pioneering bop quintet at 52nd St's Downbeat Club" "Just around the corner from here where we are tonight" "They tell the story of day when a young Miles Davis said:" ""Hey Dizzy, I can do everything you can do on the trumpet"" "And Dizzy replied:" ""Yah, but an octave lower"" "Dizzy Gillespie is one of the real giants ofjazz" "A founding father of bebop" "His speed, high notes harmonic sophistication and technical brilliants" "Even the shape of his horn made him a one of a kind player" "In the mid 40's" "Dizzy and friends made history as part of the legendary bop band" "Formed by the great vocalist Billy Eckstine" "One of Dizzy's busiest contributions was that he brought the Afro-Cuban rhythms of the Caribbean into jazz" "His 1947 collaboration with Chano Pozzo a legendary Cuban Conga player" "Is an exciting mix of rhythm and horn cadenzas" "Here are trumpet soloist Roy Hargrove percussionist Don Alias" "Steve Turre on shells and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band" "In a salute to Dizzy's many recordings of "Manteca"" "Manteca" "In the late 1950's" "Bill Evans joined the Miles Davis Quintet" "Bringing with him an entirely new harmonic approach to jazz piano" "According to legend" "On Bill's first night with the band when Miles wasn't playing" "He stood directly over the piano studying what Bill Evans was doing" "Now having come to jazz through Bill Evans" "I know why Miles was paying such close attention" "As did his idol Bud Powell" "Bill Evans brought the harmonies of the classical composers to jazz" "Evans showed that impressionism could swing" "That cool could embrace the warmth of romanticism" "Right now, I'd like to pay tribute to one of my idols" "By performing his classic "Turn Out the Stars"" "To do that, I've asked an old friend of mine to join me" "He is John McLaughlin" "Turn Out the Stars" "In the 1960's the American public seemed to turn away from jazz" "But there were a few artists who managed to break through" "And one of the most successful was the instantly recognizable" "Signature guitar sound of Wes Montgomery" "He began by emulating his idol Charlie Christian" "But as the story goes his original style wasn't really influenced by anybody" "Montgomery played with his thumb instead of a pick" "Because he didn't want to disturb his neighbors" "Or wake his sleeping children" "Right now we are fortunate enough to have one of the legendary musicians from that period with us tonight" "With "Walk on the Wildside" his biggest hit from the 60's" "Here is a man who was a frequent collaborator with Wes Montgomery" "And a great innovator in his own right" "Please welcome the world's greatest jazz organist, Jimmy Smith" "Walk on the Wildside" "Thank you very much thank you, thank you" "Long time ago" "Wes Montgomery and I did a thing called "Down by the Riverside"" "And God bless his soul" "We're gonna try to do it tonight I have another friend of mine" "Mr. Kenny Burrell, a great guitarist" "And we are gonna do it for you thank you" "Down by the Riverside" "Yellowstone" "Here are Herbie Hancock and John McLaughlin with their homage to Miles Davis" "It's About That Time"