Episode 381: Jazzy Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs

You wouldn't normally think of Pop Goes The Weasel, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Hickory Dickory Dock, or The Mickey Mouse March as being jazz, would you? Well Wynton Marsalis, John Coltrane, Chick Webb w Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London, Bob Dorough, Cory Weeds, Anthony Newley, Medeski Martin & Wood, Jackie McLean, and Vancouver's Jennifer Scott recreate these and other children's tunes in a new way turning them into jazz. And Slim Gaillard gets into the picture too creating his own song.

Part 1 of a 2-part series on Jazzy Nursery Rhymes and Children's Songs.