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Alyn Shipton selects music in all styles and periods of jazz from listeners' suggestions and includes tracks by the great American tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, as well as local traditional fare from the Bristol's Avon Cities Jazz Band.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 20 Feb 201616:00

Music Played

  • Count Basie & Frank Sinatra

    I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

    Performer: Count Basie & Frank Sinatra. Performer: Frank Sinatra. Performer: Count Basie.
    • Sinatra-Basie.
    • 9.
  • Ben Webster & Ben Webster

    Makin' Whoopee

    • Three Classic Albums Plus.
    • Avid.
    • 1.
  • Michel Petrucciani

    Looking Up

    • Live!.
    • Blue Note.
    • 6.
  • Sun Ra & The Sun Ra Arkestra

    Bye Bye

    • The Singles.
    • Evidence.
    • 5.
  • Avon Cities Jazz Band

    Shimme-Sha-Wobble

    Performer: Avon Cities Jazz Band. Performer: Freddy Randall.
    • British Traditional Jazz: A Potted History.
    • Lake.
    • 5.
  • Clarence Williams

    Mean Blues

    • Clarence Williams Rarities.
    • Parlophone.
    • 3.
  • Emile Barnes and Lawrence Tocca with Billie Pierce & Emile Barnes And Lawrence Tocca

    Shake It and Break It

    • Classic Sounds of New Orleans.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 25.
  • Sam Rivers

    When I Fall In Love

    • A New Perception.
    • Blue Note.
    • 1.
  • The Jazz Crusaders

    Scratch

    • Live at the Lighthouse 66.
    • Pacific Jazz.
    • 7.
  • Cannonball Adderley & Cannonball Adderley

    Blue Daniel

    • The Quintessence.
    • Fremeaux & Associes.
    • 11.
  • George Shearing

    Mambo In Chimes

    Performer: George Shearing. Performer: George Shearing. Performer: Wes Montgomery. Performer: Buddy Montgomery. Performer: Armando Peraza. Performer: Ricardo Chimelis. Performer: Monk Montgomery. Performer: Walter Perkins.
    • George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers.
    • Jazzland.
    • 11.
  • BUD FREEMAN & Bud Freeman and His Orchestra

    The Eel

    • It's Got To Be The Eel.
    • Affinity.
    • 4.

Performers:

Artist Count Basie / Frank Sinatra
Title I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Composer Ahlert / Young
Album Sinatra-Basie
Label Essential Jazz Classics
Number 55596 Track 9
Duration 2.34
Performers: Frank Sinatra, v; Al Aarons, Sonny Cohn, Al Porcino, Thad Jones, Fip Ricard, t; Henry Coker, Rufus Wagner Benny Powell, tb; Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Eric Dixon, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Count Basie p; Freddie Green, g; Buddy Catlett, b; Sonny Payne, d; LA, Oct 1962.


Artist Ben Webster
Title Making Whoopee
Composer Donaldson / Kahn
Album Three Classic Albums Plus
Label Avid
Number 1038 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 4.34
Performers Ben Webster, ts; Oscar Peterson, p; Herb Ellis, g; Ray Brown, b; Stan Levey, d. 15 Oct 1957


Artist Michel Petrucciani
Title Lookiing Up
Composer Petrucciani
Album Live!
Label Blue Note
Number 0777 7 80589 2 2 Track 6
Duration 8.04
Performers: Michel Petrucciani, p; Steve Logan, b; Victor Jones, d; Adam Holzman, kb. 1991.


Artist Sun Ra
Title Bye Bye
Composer Matt Swift
Album The Singles
Label Evidence
Number 22164-2 CD 1 Ttrack 5
Duration 2.49
Performers: The Cosmic Rays, including Calvin Barron with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra, Sun Ra, kb; Richard Evans, b; Robert Barry, d. 1955


Artist Avon Cities Jazz Band
Title Shimme-sha-wobble
Composer Williams
Album British Traditional Jazz: A Potted History
Label Lake
Number 300 CD 2 Track 5
Duration 3.00
Performers: Geoff Nichols, t; Ray Bush, cl; Mike Hitchings, tb; Jan Ridd, p; Wayne Chandler, bj; Malcolm Wright, b; Basil Wright, d. 6 Oct 1956


Artist Clarence Williams
Title Mean Blues
Composer Billy Smythe-Art Gilhan
Album Clarence Williams Rarities
Label Parlophone
Number PMC 7049
Duration 2.53
Performers: Thomas Morris, t; John Mayfield, tb; Sidney Bechet, ss; Clarence Williams, p; Buddy Christian, bj, 14 Nov 1923.


Artist Emile Barnes and Lawrence Tocca with Billie Pierce
Title Shake It and Break It
Composer Patton
Album Classic Sounds of New Orleans
Label Folkways
Number 40183 Track 25
Duration 3.44
Performers Lawrence Tocca, t; Harrison Brazelee, tb; Emile Barnes, cl; Billie Pierce, p; Albert Glenny, b; Cie Frazier, d. 1951


Artist Sam Rivers
Title When I Fall In Love
Composer Heyman / Young
Album A New Perception
Label Blue Note
Number 4249 Track 1
Duration 5.45
Performers Sam Rivers, ts; Hal Galper, p; Herbie Lewis , b; Steve Ellington, d. 11 Oct 1966

Artist The Jazz crusaders
Title Scratch
Composer Wayne Henderson
Album Live at the Lighthouse, 66
Label Pacific Jazz
Number CDP 7243 8 37988 2 7 Track 7
Duration 8.02
Performers: Wilton Felder, ts; Wayne Henderson, tb; Joe Sample, p; Leroy Vinnegar, b; Stix Hooper, d. Jan 1966.


Artist Cannonball Adderley
Title Blue Daniel
Composer Rosolino
Album The quintessence
Label Fremeuax
Number 291 CD 2 Track 11
Duration 7.30
Performers: Nat Adderley,, c; Cannonball Adderley, as; Victor Feldman, p; Sam Jones, b; Louis Hayes, d; Oct 1960.

Artist George Shearing
Title Mambo in Chimes
Composer Armando Peraza
Album George Shearing and the Montgomery Brothers
Label Jazzland
Number Track 11
Duration 2.26
Performers George Shearing, p; Monk Motgomery b; Wes Montgomery, g; Buddy Montgomery, vib;


Artist Bud Freeman
Title The Eel
Composer Freeman
Album It’s Got To Be The Eel
Label Affinity
Number 1008 Track 4
Duration 2.48
Performers: Bud Freeman, ts; Max Kaminsky, ts; Pee Wee Russell, cl; Brad Gowans, vtb; Dave Bowman, p; Eddie Condon, g; Clyde Newcombe, b; Danny Alvin, d. 19 Jul 1939


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  • Sat 20 Feb 201616:00

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