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Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests, including tracks from Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. With the Brubeck Quartet's version of Ellington's Take the A Train.

This week's dip into the emails and letters from listeners takes us to the mutual admiration between Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Alyn Shipton plays the Brubeck Quartet's famous version of Duke's theme tune, "Take the A Train" written by Strayhorn, amid other requests in all styles of jazz.

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Sat 6 Aug 201617:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johnny Hodges

    Used To Be Duke

    • THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS.
    • AVID.
    • 16.

  • Dave Brubeck & The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    Take The A Train

    • TIME WAS.
    • PROPER.
    • 4.

  • Blind Willie Johnson

    God Moves On The Water

    • News and the Blues.
    • CBS.
    • 5.

  • J.C. Higginbotham & J.C. Higginbotham and His Six Hicks

    Higginbotham Blues

    • New Orleans Playing Away Jazz.
    • ABM.
    • 14.

  • Buddy de Franco & Art Tatum & Art Tatum

    Deep Night

    • Group Masterpieces Volume 1.
    • Pablo.
    • 1.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    You're The Top

    • Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.
    • Verve.
    • 8.

  • Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck

    There'll Never Be Another You

    • The White House Sessions.
    • Columbia Legacy.
    • 17.

  • Miles Davis & Miles Davis Sextet

    Old Folks

    • Some Day My Prince Will Come.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Monty Alexander

    Nite Mist Blues

    • Live! At The Montreux Festival.
    • MPS.
    • 1.

  • Fats Waller

    Minor Drag

    • Handful of Keys.
    • Proper.
    • 11.

  • Cootie Williams, Lou McGarity, Les Robinson, Skippy Martin, Johnny Guarnieri, Artie Bernstein & Jo Jones

    Blues In My Condition

    • Swing St Vol 3.
    • TAX.
    • 3.

Performers:

Artist Johnny Hodges
Title Used to Be Duke
Composer Hodges
Album Three Classic Albums Plus (2nd Set)
Label Avid
Number 1040 CD 1 Track 16
Duration 7.23
Performers: Johnny Hodges, as, ldr; Harold Baker, t; Lawrence Brown, tb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl; Harry Carney, bars; Call Cobbs, p; John B Williams, b; Louie Bellson, d. 5 Aug 1954.

Artist Dave Brubeck
Title Take the A Train
Composer Strayhorn
Album Time Was
Label Proper
Number Properbox 90 CD 4 Track 7
Duration 6.10
Performers Paul Desmond, as; Dave Brubeck, p; Bob Bates, b; Joe Dodge, d. March 1954.

Artist Blind Willie Johnson
Title God Moves on the Water
Composer Johnson
Album News and the Blues
Label CBS
Number 4672492 Track 5
Duration 3.01
Performers: Blind Willie Johnson, g, v. 11 Dec 1929

Artist J C Higginbotham
Title Higginbotham Blues
Composer Higginbotham
Album New Orleans Playing Away Jazz
Label ABM
Number 1163 Track 14
Duration 3.28
Performers: Henry Allen, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Charlie Holmes, as; Luis Russell, p; Will Johnson, g; Pops Foster, b; Paul Barbarin, d.

Artist Buddy de Franco / Art Tatum
Title Deep Night
Composer Vallee / Henderson
Album Group Masterpieces Vol 1
Label Pablo
Number 2405 430 2 Track 1
Duration 5.47

Performers Buddy De Franco, cl; Art Tatum, p; Red Callendar, b; Bill Douglass, d. 6 Feb 1956
Artist Ella Fitzgerald
Title You’re the top
Composer Porter
Album Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
Label Verve
Number CD 2 Track 8
Duration 3.35
Performers: Ella Fitzgerald and the Buddy Bregman Orchestra;

Artist Tony Bennett / Dave Brubeck
Title There’ll Never Be Another You
Composer Warren, Gordon
Album The White House sessions
Label Columbia Legacy
Number 88883718042 Track 17
Duration 3.29
Performers Tony Bennett, v; Dave Brubeck, p; Gene Wright, b; Joe Morello, d. 1962

Artist Miles Davis
Title Old Folks
Composer Hill / Robison
Album Some Day My Prince Will Come
Label CBS
Number 466312 Track 2
Duration 5.14
Performers: Miles Davis, t; Hank Mobley., ts; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d March 1961

Artist Monty Alexander
Title Nite Mist Blues
Composer Jamal
Album Live! At The Montreux Festival
Label MPS
Number 817 487-2 Track 1
Duration 10.11
Performers: Monty Alexander, p; John Clayton, b; Jeff Hamilton, d. 1976

Artist Fats Waller
Title Minor Drag
Composer Waller
Album Handful of Keys
Label Proper
Number Properbox 71 CD 1 Track 11
Duration 2,47
Performers Charlie Gaines, t; Charlie Irvis, tb; Arville Harris, reeds; Fats Waller, p; Eddie Condon, bj. 1 March 1929

Artist Cootie Williams
Title Blues in My Condition
Composer Williams
Album Swing St Vol 3
Label Tax
Number 8034 Track 3
Duration 3.01
Performers: Cootie Williams t; Lou McGarity tb; Les Robinson, as; Skippy Martin, bars; Johnny Guarnieri, p; Artie Bernstien, b; Jo Jones, d. May 7, 1941.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Aug 201617:00
    BBC Radio 3

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