JazzWax List: 16 for Mother's Day

Sunday is Mother's Day. Whether you're traveling to mom's house, can't make it there this weekend or just have fond memories, here are 16 jazz tracks to remind you of her love and care. They are in order of my favorites, with the album's title in parenthesis. All are available as downloads:

1. Mother Knickerbopper—Chubby Jackson (Chubby's Back)
2. Lady Chatterley's Mother—Gerry Mulligan (Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard)
3. Four Mothers—Shorty Rogers (Very Best of Shorty Rogers)
4. Motherland—Meredith d'Ambrosio  (Silent Passion)
5. Old Mother Nature Calls—Horace Silver (United States of Mind)
6. My Mother's Eyes—Sonny Stitt (Salt and Pepper)
7. The Brothers Go to Mother's—Henry Mancini (Peter Gunn)
8. Mother of Earl—Bill Evans (At the Montreux Jazz Festival)
9. Helen's Mother's Song—George Cables (Looking for the Light)
10. Mother Goose—Bunny Berigan (Bunny Berigan: 1937)
11. Your Mother and Mine—Bix Beiderbecke (Trumbology)
12. Mother—Ray Charles (Thanks for Bringing Love Around Again)
13. Mama Don't Allow—Sonny Stitt (Low Flame)
14. M-O-T-H-E-R—Sonny Sitt (Sonny's Blues)
15. My Mother Told Me—Nat King Cole (Unforgettable: Remastered)
16. Universal Mother—Don Cherry (Hear & Now)

Comments

[Mel House]

Another for mother:

Mother Goose Jumps (Woody Herman)

Mel

[ortega]

Don Cherry for a mother? How can you be so cruel?

[Ed Leimbacher]

Lots of Stitt, grit and Mother wit in your list. Could ever-sentient other-Sonny Rollins really not have recorded any suitable candidate? Meanwhile, for no coherent reason I am reminded of Jack Lemmon in The Apartment, sitting at the bar getting sadly smashed on martinis, arranging his toothpicked olives and telling the bartender, "Lemme have another one of those little mothers..." (That's Billy Wilder for you: ever sentimental.)

[irv chamberlain]

How about ......

And Her Mother Came Too - Bobby Short

The Whistler's Mother in Law - Bing Crosby

[Ed Leimbacher]

Oops, I forgot to mention that great old standard (played by many), "Mom's the Word."

[John P. Cooper]

"Mama, Pin a Rose on Me" - Mary Lou Williams

[Jon-Erik Kellso]

"Mama's Gone, Goodbye" is a good ol' good one.

"Mother Popcorn," by James Brown...hehe.

"Theme From Shaft..."

[Rab Hines]

All fine choices ... but God bless the child who's got her own...