10 Jazz Clips With Scary Titles

Today in the U.S., it's Halloween, an evening holiday where kids dress up in scary costumes and beg for candy at the doors of strangers by squealing, "Trick or treat." Since two companies now own virtually all the candy brands here, kids arrive home with their bags of candy only to find they have only four different types—M&Ms, Milky Way, Three Musketeers and Snickers.

To make matters worse for trick-or-treaters, parents gobble up much of their kids' candy by quietly filching their stash while they're fast asleep. As parents know, kids aren't very good about auditing their candy before bedtime. Then this weekend, parents dress up as scary characters at their own parties and keep their kids up by playing the music too loud. Kids can't get a break.

I'm giving out music for JazzWax readers who stop by the site. In celebration of the holiday, I've put together 10 jazz clips with spooky titles...

Here are The Mitchells (Whitey Mitchell, Red Mitchell and Blue Mitchell) with Frank Rehak, Pepper Adams and Frankie Capp playing Whitey Mitchell's Monster Rally in October 1958...

Monster Rally

Here's Grant Green playing Dracula in January 1970...

Here's Jackie McLean's Frankenstein in April 1963...

Here's Robin Kenyatta playing Werewolf in October 1972...

Here's Wibutee playing Mummy in 2003...

Here's Al Cohn playing The Thing in 1987...

Here's Miles Davis playing Dr. Jekyll in March 1958...

Here's Milt Buckner playing The Beast in February 1956...

Here's Grant Green playing Creature in 1976...

 

And here's Spyro Gyra playing Swamp Thing in 1989...