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In this week's selection from listeners' requests in all styles of jazz, Alyn Shipton includes the joyous Afro-Cuban sounds of Machito and his Orchestra.

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Sat 11 Jun 201616:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Three-Part Invention in B minor, BWV 801

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Decca.

  • Alan Elsdon

    Johnson Rag

    • At The Jazz Band Ball.
    • Upbeat.
    • 9.

  • Stanley Turrentine

    Look Out

    • Look Out!.
    • Blue Note.
    • 1.

  • Big Joe Turner

    Roll 'Em Pete

    • Two Classic Albums Plus.
    • AVID.
    • 2.

  • Benny Goodman

    The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise

    • Benny Goodman Lausanne 1950.
    • TCB.
    • 6.

  • Nina Simone

    Mood Indigo

    • My Baby Just Cares For Me.
    • Phoenix.
    • 1.

  • George Russell

    Honesty

    • Ezz-Thethics.
    • Riverside.
    • 5.

  • Billy Cobham

    Red Baron

    • SPECTRUM.
    • ATLANTIC.
    • 6.

  • Billy Jenkins, Dylan Bates, Nathaniel Facey, Gail Brand & Oren Marshall

    Dancing In Ornette Coleman's Head

    • Songs of Praise Live!.
    • 5.

  • Sam Coombes

    Contagion

    • Pace of Change.
    • Pol-E-Math.
    • 2.

  • MACHITO AND HIS AFRO CUBANS

    Rhumba Abierto

    • Mambo is Here To Stay.
    • 7.

Performers:

Artist Alan Elsdon
Title Johnson Rag
Album At the Jazz band Ball
Label Upbeat
Number 164 Track 9
Duration 4.00
Performers: Alan Elsdon, t; Phil Rhodes, tb; John Barnes, cl; Arthur Wood, p; Johnny Barton, bj; Mick Gilligan, b; Keith Webb, d.


Artist Stanley Turrentine
Title Look Out
Composer Turrentine
Album Look Out
Label Blue Note
Number Track 1
Duration 7.07
Performers: Stanley Turrentine, ts; Horace Parlan, p; George Tucker, b; Al Harewood, d. June 18, 1960


Artist Joe Turner
Title Roll Em Pete
Composer Johnson
Album Two Classic Albums Plus
Label Avid
Number 1142 CD 1 Track 2
Duration 3.47
Performers Big Joe Turner, v; Joe Newman, t; Lawrence Brown, tb; Pete Brown, Frank Wess, reeds; Pete Johnson, p; Freddie Green, g; Walter Page, b; Cliff Leeman, d, March 1956.


Artist Benny Goodman
Title The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
Composer Lockhart / Seitz 
Album Lausanne 1950
Label TCB
Number Track 6
Duration 5.32
Performers Benny Goodman cl; Dick Hyman, p; Ed Shaughnessy, d.


Artist Nina Simone
Title Mood Indigo
Composer Mills / Ellington / Bigard
Album My Baby Just Cares For Me
Label Phoenix
Number 131509 Track 1
Duration 4.01
Performers: Nina Simone, p, v; Jimmy Bond, b; Albert Tootie Heath, d.


Artist George Russell
Title Honesty
Composer Baker
Album Ezzthetics
Label Riverside
Number Track 5
Duration 9.04
Performers: George Russell, piano, arranger; Don Ellis, trumpet; Dave Baker, trombone; Eric Dolphy, alto sax and bass clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Joe Hunt, drums.


Artist Billy Cobham
Title Red Baron
Composer Cobham
Album Spectrum
Label Atlantic
Number Track 6 (part 2)
Duration 6.37
Performers: Billy Cobham, drums, Tommy Bolin guitar, Jan Hammer, keyboards, Lee Sklar, bass. 1973.


Artist Billy Jenkins
Title Dancing In Ornette Coleman’s Head
Composer Jenkins
Album Songs of Praise Live!
Label Babel
Number 2768 Track 5
Duration 5.33
Performers: Dylan Bates, vn; Gail Brand tb; Nathaniel Facey, as; Billy Jenkins, g; Oren Marshall, tu; Charles Hayward, d.


Artist Sam Coombes
Title Contagion
Composer Coombes
Album Pace of Change
Label Pol-E-Math
Number SCPR01 Track 2
Duration 5,45
Performers Sam Coombes, as; Yoni Zelnik, b; Julien Charlet, d. Jan 2014.


Artist Machito
Title Rhumba Abierto
Composer Machito
Album Mambo is Here To Stay
Number Track 7
Duration 2.37
Performers: Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Jun 201616:00
    BBC Radio 3

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