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In this week's selection from listeners' letters and emails, Alyn Shipton selects music from across all jazz styles including a swing jam session with the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, teamed up with the tenor saxophonist Chu Berry

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Music Played

  • Benny Carter

    Bugle Call Rag

    • The Classic Years Benny Carter.
    • PRESTIGE ELITE.
    • 6.

  • Louis Armstrong

    Muskrat Ramble

    • Louis Armstrong Complete New York Town Hall & Boston Symphony Concerts.
    • DEFINITIVE RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • Lars Gullin

    Darn That Dream

    • Lars Gullin Quartet.
    • Artist.
    • 2.

  • Lionel Hampton

    Shufflin' At The Hollywood

    • THE LIONEL HAMPTON STORY.
    • PROPER.
    • 13.

  • Charlie Parker

    Koko

    • Bird of Paradise.
    • Chant du Monde.
    • 5.

  • Miles Davis

    So What

    • Live in Den Haag.
    • Lonehill.
    • 6.

  • Wynton Kelly & The Wynton Kelly Trio

    The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

    • Complete Live At The Half Note.
    • PHOENIX.
    • 6.

  • Sarah Jane Morris & Antonio Forcione

    Superstition

    • Compared To What.
    • FALLEN ANGEL.
    • 8.

  • Ralph Wyld & Mosaic

    Subterranea

    • Subterranea.
    • Edition.
    • 4.

  • Gill Manly

    Up Above My Head

    • Going Home - Live at Hooodoos Lounge.
    • Gill Manly.
    • 1.

  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

    Summertime

    • Porgy & Bess.
    • VERVE.
    • 2.

Performers:

Artist Benny Carter
Title Bugle Call Rag
Composer Meyers / Pettis / Schoebel
Album The Classic Years
Label Prestige Elite
Number CDSGP0972 CD 2 Track 6
Duration 2.48
Performers: Benny Carter, as; cl; Bobby Stark, t; Jimmy Harrison, tb; Coleman Hawkins, ts; Horace Henderson, p; Benny Jackson, g; John Kirby, tu.

Artist Louis Armstrong
Title Muskrat Ramble
Composer Ory
Album Complete NY Town Hall and Boston Symphony Hall Concerts
Label Definitive
Number DRCD11291 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 6.16
Performers: Louis Armstrong, t; Jack Teagarden, tb; Barney Bigard, cl; Dick Cary, p; Arvell Shaw, b; Sid Catlett, d. 30 Nov 1947.

Artist Lars Gullin
Title Darn That Dream
Composer Burke / Van Heusen
Album Lars Gullin Quartet
Label Artist
Number AEP 409 S 1 T 2
Duration 6.01
Performers: Lars Gullin, bars; Lars Bagge, p; Claes Lindroth, b; Sture Kallin, d. 1960.

Artist Lionel Hampton
Title Shufflin at the Hollywood
Composer Hampton / Reuss
Album The Lionel Hampton Story
Label Proper
Number Properbox 12 CD 1 Track 13
Duration 3.00
Performers Chu Berry, ts; Lionel Hampton, vib; Clyde Hart p; Allan Reuss, g; Milt Hinton, b; Cozy Cole, d. 5 April 1939

Artist Charlie Parker
Title Koko
Composer Parker
Album Bird of Paradise
Label Chant du Monde
Number 274 1369.70 CD 1 Track 5
Duration 2.58
Performers: Dizzy Gillespie, t, p; Charlie Parker, as; Argonne Thornton, p; Curley Russell, b; Max Roach, d. 26 Nov 1945.

Artist Miles Davis
Title So What
Composer Davis
Album Live in Den Haag
Label Lonehill
Number 10206 Track 6
Duration 8.50
Performers: Miles Davis t; John Coltrane, ts; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 2 April 1959.

Artist Wynton Kelly
Title The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
Composer Rodgers / Hammerstein
Album Complete Live at the Half Note
Label Phoenix
Number 131505 CD 1 Track 6
Duration 5.21
Performers: Wes Montgomery, g; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 26 June 1965.

Artist Sarah Jane Morris / Antonio Forcione
Title Superstition
Composer Stevie Wonder
Album Compared To What
Label Fallen Angel
Number AFSJM002 Track 8
Duration 3.55
Performers Sarah Jane Morris, v; Antonio Forcione, g; Martyn Baker, perc. 2016.

Artist Mosaic
Title Subterranea
Composer Ralph Wyld
Album Subterranea
Label Edition
Number 1077 Track 4
Duration 8.48
Performers: Ralph Wyld, vib; James Copus, t; Sam Rapley, cl; Cecilia Bignall, cello; Misha Mullov-Abbado, b; Scott Chapman d. 2016.

Artist Gill Manly
Title Up Above My Head
Composer Trad / Tharpe
Album Going Home - Live at Hoodoos Lounge
Label Gill Manly
Number 
Duration 3.03
Performers: Gill Manly, voc; Trevor Hyett, mandola, Thomas Coffey, g. ,

Artist Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong
Title Summertime
Composer Gershwin, Gershwin and Heywood
Album Porgy and Bess
Label Verve
Number 06025 17448209 Track 2
Duration 4.58
Performers: Louis Arsmtrong, t, v; Ella Fitzgerald, v; studio orchestra 1957.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Oct 201616:00
    BBC Radio 3

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