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Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes the classic recording of "The Prisoner's Song" by trumpeter Bunny Berigan.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 17 Sep 201616:00

Music Played

  • Art Blakey

    Cranky Spanky

    • Hard Bop.
    • CL1040.
    • 1.
  • Bud Powell

    You Go To My Head

    • Amazing Bud Powell, Vol.1.
    • Blue Note.
    • 5.
  • Paul Desmond

    Line For Lyons

    • Audrey: Live in Toronto 1975.
    • DOMINO.
    • 3.
  • Fairweather-Brown All Stars & Fairweather/Brown All Stars

    China Boy

    • British Traditional Jazz A History.
    • Lake.
    • 22.
  • Bunny Berigan & Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra

    The Prisoner's Song

    • Let's Do It.
    • Acrobat.
    • 7.
  • Bob Crosby

    Oh Mistress Mine

    • Vol 9 Them There Eyes.
    • Halcyon.
    • 19.
  • Dizzy Gillespie

    The Champ

    • Four Classic Albums.
    • AVID.
    • 8.
  • Miles Davis

    My Old Flame

    • Birth of the Cool.
    • ASV.
    • 8.
  • Toots Thielemans

    Bluesette

    • Bluesette.
    • Blue Train.
    • 1.
  • Louis Stewart

    Detour Ahead

    • String Time.
    • Villa.
    • 4.
  • George Russell & George Russell And The Living Time Orchestra

    Life On Earth Begins

    • The Africa Game.
    • BLUE NOTE.
    • 1.

Performers:

Artist Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Title Cranky Spanky
Composer Bill Hardman
Album Hard Bop (Complete Columbia / RCA Albums vol 2)
Label Columbia Legacy
Number 88725435992 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 4.49
Performers: Bill Hardman, t; Jackie McLean, as; Sam Dockery, p; Spanky DeBrest, b; Art Blakey, d. Dec 1956.

Artist Bud Powell
Title You Go To My Head
Composer Coots / Gillespie
Album Amazing Bud Powell, Vol, 1
Label Blue Note
Number 7243 5 32136 2 6 Track 5
Duration 3.15
Performers Bud Powell, p; Tommy Potter, b; Roy Haynes, d. August 1949.

Artist Paul Desmond
Title Line for Lyons
Composer Mulligan
Album Audrey: Live in Toronto, 1975
Label Domino
Number 89120 Track 3
Duration 7.24
Performers: Paul Desmond, as; Ed Bickert, guitar, Don Thompson, bass and Jerry Fuller, drums

Artist Fairweather-Brown all stars
Title China Boy
Composer Boutelje / Winfree
Album British Traditional Jazz A History
Label Lake
Number 300 CD 2 Track 22
Duration 2.33
Performers: Al Fairweather, t; Tony Milliner, tb; Sandy Brown, cl; Stan Greig, p; Al McPake, g; Tim McMahon, b; Graham Burbidge, d. 1957

Artist Bunny Berigan
Title The Prisoner’s Song
Composer Massey
Album Let’s Do It
Label Acrobat
Number 145 Track 7
Duration 4.12

Artist Bob Crosby
Title Oh Mistress Mine
Composer Matlock / Shakespeare
Album Vol 9 Them There Eyes
Label Halcyon
Number DHDL 128 Track 19
Duration 2.54
Performers: Crosby, Bob (ld); Butterfield, Billy (tp); Smith, Warren (tb); Fazola [Prestopnick], Irving (cl); Miller, Eddie (ts); Bean, Floyd (p); Haggart, Bob (b); Bauduc, Ray (dr); Mann, Marion (voc) ; Matlock, Matty (arr)

Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title The Champ
Composer Gillespie
Album Four Classic Albums
Label Avid
Number AMSC968 CD 2 Track 8
Duration 4.44 (music out at 4.39)
Performers Dizzy Gillespie. Emmett Berry, Carl Warwick, Quincy Jones, Joe Gordon, t; Melba Liston, Frank Rehak, Rod Leavitt, tb; Phil Woods, Jimmy Powell, Ernie Wilkins, Billy Mitchell, Marty Flax, reeds; Walter Davis p; Nelson Boyd, b’ Charlie Persip, d. 1957

Artist Miles Davis
Title My Old Flame
Composer Johnston / Coslow
Album Birth of The Cool
Label ASV
Number 5567 Track 8
Duration 6.35
Performers: Miles Davis, t; Sonny Rollins, ts; Walter Bishop Jr, p; Tommy Potter, b; Art Blakey, d. 5 Oct 1951.

Artist Toots Thielemans
Title Bluesette
Composer Thielemans
Album Bluesette
Label Blue Train
Number Track 1
Duration 2.48
Performers: Toots Thielemans, g, whistling. 1962

Artist Louis Stewart
Title Detour Ahead
Composer Ellis, Frigo, Carter
Album String Time
Label Villa
Number CD003 Track 4
Duration 8.15
Performers: Louis Stewart (guitar), Terje Venaas (bass), Ole-Jacob Hansen (drums), Knut Mikalsen (guitar).

Artist George Russell and Living Time Orchestra
Title Life on Earth Begins
Composer Russell
Album The Africa Game
Label Blue Note
Number 85103 Track 1
Duration 6.38
Performers: Mike Piepman, Mark Harvey, Chris Passin, Ray Okituni, t; Chip Kaner, Peter Cirelli, Jeff Marsanskas, tb; George Garzone, Gary Joynes, Dave Mann, Janus Steprans, Brad Jones, reeds; Bruce Barth, Mark Rossi, kb; Bob Nieske, Bill Urmson, b; Mark White, g; Keith Copeland, d. Olu Bata perc. 1984.

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  • Sat 17 Sep 201616:00

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