“Strange Enchantment” is a program of Halloween-related jazz, including music from Duke Ellington (“Stalking Monster”), Bill Evans (“Witchcraft”), Kay Starr (“The Headless Horseman”), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (“Haunted Feelings”)and a very young Gil Evans with Skinny Ennis (“Strange Enchantment”) as well as tracks from Andrew Hill, Miles Davis, and Lenny Bruce’s Dracula-as-roadweary-musician monologue. You’ll also hear the true story of the New Orleans Axeman, who wreaked bloody mayhem in New Orleans in 1918-19 and who promised to spare anyone who happened to be playing jazz. You can read more about the New Orleans Axeman here.
Music Heard On This Episode
Miss D.D.
Mary Lou Williams — Black Christ of the Andes (Smithsonian Folkways, 1964)
