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In this week's selection of listeners' requests, covering many styles of jazz, Alyn Shipton revisits the collaboration between pianist Teddy Wilson and the Dutch Swing College Band.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 7 May 201616:00

Music Played

  • CAB CALLOWAY & CAB CALLOWAY

    The Scat Song

    • CAB CALLOWAY AND CO.
    • RCA JAZZ TRIBUNE.
    • 9.
  • Jimmy Yancey

    At The Window

    • Volume 3 Dec 1943-1950.
    • Document.
    • 8.
  • Dudley Moore

    Just One of Those Things

    • From Beyond The Fringe.
    • El Records.
    • 10.
  • Dutch Swing College Band And Teddy Wilson & Dutch Swing College Band And Teddy Wilson

    Limehouse Blues

    • Dutch Swing College Band and Teddy Wilson.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.
  • Thelonious Monk & Thelonious Monk

    Blue Monk

    • Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection: Live at the Jazz Workshop Complete.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Cleo Laine

    Unlucky Woman (Born On A Friday)

    • Born on a Friday.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Don Redman & Don Redman

    Shakin' The African

    • Shakin' The African.
    • Chante Du Monde.
    • 16.
  • Skelton-Skinner All Stars & Skelton Skinner Allstars Big Band

    Billie's Bounce

    • Cookin' With The Lid On.
    • Diving Duck.
    • 2.
  • Illinois Jacquet

    Round Midnight

    • The Blues That's Me.
    • Prestige.
    • 3.
  • June Tabor, Iain Ballamy & Huw Warren & Quercus

    Come Away Death

    • Quercus.
    • ECM.
    • 2.
  • Oscar Peterson & Oscar Peterson

    Falling In Love With Love

    • Three Classic Albums Plus.
    • AVID.
    • 12.

Performers:

Artist Cab Calloway
Title The Scat Song
Composer Calloway
Album Cab Calloway and Co
Label RCA Jazz tribune
Number ND 89560 CD 1 Track 9
Duration 2.45
Performers: Lammar Wright, Doc Cheatham, Ed Swayzee, t; DePriest Wheeler, Harry White, tb; Eddie Barefield, Andy Brown, Arville Harris, Foots Thomas, reeds; Bennie Payne, p; Morris White g; Al Morgan, b; Leroy Maxey, d. Sep 1933.


Artist Jimmy Yancey
Title At The Window
Composer Yancey
Album Vol 3 Dec 1943 - 1950
Label Document
Number 5043 Track 8
Duration 3.05
Performers: Jimmy Yancey, p; Dec 1943.


Artist Dudley Moore
Title Just One of Those Things
Composer Porter
Album From Beyond the Fringe
Label El/Cherry red
Number 248 Track 10
Duration 3.49
Performers: Dudley Moore, p; Peter McGurk, b; Chris Karan, d. August 1962.


Artist Dutch Swing College Band and Teddy Wilson
Title Limehouse Blues
Composer Braham
Album Dutch Swing College Band and Teddy Wilson
Label Parlophone
Number 7164 Side 1 Track 4
Duration 5.24
Performers: Henk Bos Van Drakenstein, b; Bob Kaper, cl; Bert De Kort, c; Dick Kaart, tb; Teddy Wilson, p; Arie Ligtart, g; Huub Janssen, d. Peter Schilperoort, ts 1972


Artist Thelonious Monk
Title Blue Monk
Composer Monk
Album Complete Columbia Live Albums Collection: CD 5 Live at the Jazz Workshop Complete
Label Columbia
Number 88697995802 / 10 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 7.04
Performers Thelonious Monk, p; Charlie Rouse, ts; Larry Gales, b; Ben Riley, d. 1964.


Artist Cleo Laine
Title Unlucky Woman (Born on a Friday)
Composer Carol and Leonard Feather
Album Born on a Friday
Label RCA
Number 5113 Side B Track 3
Duration 3.35
Performers: Cleo Laine (vocals); Chris Spedding, Laurence Juber , Brian Daly (guitar); Paul Hart (violin, keyboards); Fred Parrington, Ted Bryett, John Willison, Derek Solomons, Michael Rennie, Celia Mitchell, Harold Parfitt, Guy Daines, Gerry Richards, James Archer, Homi Kanga, Sidney Sax (violin); Norris Bosworth, George Turnland, David Bellman (viola); Dennis Southard (cello); John Dankworth (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Ray Swinfield (alto saxophone); Victor Ash (tenor saxophone); Mike Page (baritone saxophone); Derek Watkins (trumpet); Dave Horler (trombone); George Martin, Max Middleton (keyboards); Graham Morgan, Richard Bailey , Roy Jones (drums).


Artist Don Redman
Title Shakin’ The African
Composer Arlen / Koehler
Album Histoire des Big Bands
Label Chante Du MOnde
Number 574 1481.90 CD 2 Track 16
Duration 2.42
Performers: Don Redman, as, v; Leonard Davis, Langstone Curl, Henry Allen, t; Fred Robinson, Benny Morton, tb; Edward Inge, Rupert Cole, Bob Carroll, reeds; Horace Henderson, p; Talcot Reeves, bj; Bob Ysaguirre, b; Manzie Johnson, d. NY 15 Oct 1931.


Artist Skelton / Skinner All Stars
Title Billie’s Bounce
Composer Parker
Album Cooking with the Lid On
Label Diving Duck
Number 015 Track 2
Duration 5.03
Performers: Matt Skelton – Drums, Colin Skinner - Lead Alto, Anthony Kerr – Vibraphone, Graham Harvey – Pian, Colin Oxley – Guitar, Jeremy Brown – Bass, Mark Crooks - Alto Sax, Luke Annesley - Tenor Sax, Olly Wilby - Tenor Sax, Gemma Moore - Baritone Sax, Mike Lovatt - Lead Trumpet, Danny Marsden – Trumpet, Craig Wild – Trumpet, Steve Fishwick – Trumpet, Gordon Campbell - Lead Trombone, Andy Wood – Trombone, Richard Wigley - Trombone


Artist Illinois Jacquet
Title Round Midnight
Composer Monk
Album The Blues That’s Me
Label Prestige
Number P 7331 Track 3
Duration 6.52
Performers Illinois Jacquet, bassoon; Wynton Kelly, p; Tiny Grimes, g; Buster Williams, b; OIiver Jackson, d.


Artist June Tabor, Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren
Title Come Away Death
Composer Ballamy
Album Quercus
Label ECM
Number 372 4555 Track 2
Duration 6.31
Performers: June Tabor, v; Iain Ballamy, ts, ss; Huw Warren, p. March 2006.


Artist Oscar Peterson
Title Falling in Love With Love
Composer Rodgers / Hart
Album Three Classic Albums PLus
Label Avid
Number 1106 CD 2 Track 12
Duration 6.16
Performers: Oscar Peterson, p; Ray Brown, b; Herb Ellis, g.

Broadcast

  • Sat 7 May 201616:00

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