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Alyn Shipton with your requests for jazz from all periods and in all styles - instrumental, vocal or experimental

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1 hour

Last on

Sat 28 Jan 201716:00

Music Played

  • Original Dixieland Five

    Tiger Rag

    • Original Dixieland Jazz Band: 1921 & 1936.
    • EPM.
    • 9.
  • Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals & Freddie Keppard

    Stock Yards Strut

    • King Oliver: Snag It.
    • Marshall Cavendish.
    • 20.
  • Sidney Bechet

    Weary Way Blues

    • Sidney Bechet and Bunk Johnson.
    • Blue Note.
    • 3.
  • Versatile Four

    Down Home Rag

    • Ragtime to Jazz 1912 - 1919.
    • Timeless.
    • 6.
  • Echoes of Swing

    Original Dixieland One-Step

    • Dancing.
    • ACT.
    • 15.
  • Freddie Hubbard

    In a Mist

    • Sky Dive.
    • CTI.
    • 2.
  • Benny Carter, Frank Rosolino, Ben Webster, Barney Kessel & Shelly Manne

    Old Fashioned Love

    • Benny Carter Jazz Giant.
    • Contemporary.
    • 1.
  • Earl Okin

    Madraguda

    • Bossa Britannica.
    • Preiser Records.
    • 1.
  • Inter Cities Jazz Band

    I'm Gonna Lock My Heart

    • Wishing.
    • Camelia.
    • 4.
  • Coleman Hawkins

    Body And Soul

    • La Grande Histoire Du Jazz.
    • Le Chant Du Monde.
    • 20.
  • Muggsy Spanier, Ray Mckinstry, George Zack, Bob Casey & Pat Pattison

    Big Butter and Egg Man

    • Great Original Performances 1931 and 39.
    • BBC.
    • 1.
  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band

    Sphinx

    • The London Recordings.
    • World Records.
    • 6.
  • Kid Ory

    Tiger Rag

    • Vogue.

Performers:

Artist Original Dixieland Five
Title Tiger Rag
Composer La Rocca
Album Original Dixieland Jazz Band: 1921 & 1936
Label EPM
Number ZET728 Track 9
Duration 2.38
Performers: Nick La Rocca, c; Eddie Edwards, tb; Larry Shields, cl; J Russel Robinson, p; Tony Sbarbaro, d. 2 Sept 1936.


Artist Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals
Title Stock Yards Strut
Composer Keppard
Album King Oliver: Snag It
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD 020 Track 20
Duration label says 3.05 but I think is is 2.28
Performers: Freddie Keppard, t; Johnny Dodds, cl; Eddie Vincent, tb; Arthur Campbell, p; Jasper Taylor, perc. Sept 1926.


Artist Sidney Bechet
Title Weary Way Blues
Composer Bechet
Album Sidney Bechet and Bunk Johnson
Label Blue Note
Number BLP 7008 Side 2 Track 3
Duration 3.16
Performers: Sidney Bechet, Albert Nicholas, cl; Art Hodes, p; Pops Foster, b; Danny Alvin, d. 1946.


Artist Versatile Four
Title Down Home Rag
Composer Sweatman
Album Ragtime to Jazz 1912-1919
Label Timeless
Number Track 6
Duration 3.41
Performers: George Archer, d; Gus Haston, reeds; Tony Tuck, Charlie Mills, bj. 1916


Artist Echoes of Swing
Title Original Dixieland One Step
Composer LaRocca / Shields
Album Dancing
Label ACT
Number Track 15
Duration 3.10
Performers: Colin Dawson, t; Chris Hopkins, as; Bernd Lhotzky, p; Oliver Mewes, d. 2015


Artist Freddie Hubbard
Title In a Mist
Composer Beiderbecke
Album Sky Dive
Label CTI
Number 6018 Side 1 Track 2
Duration 7.05
Performers: Freddie Hubbard, t; Keith Jarrett, p; Ron Carter, b; Billy Cobham, d. plus big band, October 1972.


Artist Benny Carter
Title Old Fashioned Love
Composer Johnson, Mack
Album Jazz Giant
Label Contemporary
Number S7555 Track 1
Duration 7.59
Performers: Frank Rosolino (trombone), Benny Carter (alto sax, arrange), Ben Webster (tenor sax), André Previn (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Shelly Manne (drums)


Artist Earl Okin
Title Madraguda
Composer Okin
Album Bossa Britannica
Label Preiser
Number 90804 Track 1
Duration 6.09
Performers: Earl Okin, v, g, p; Simon Woolf, b; Simon Morton, d. 2009.


Artist Inter Cities Jazz band
Title I’m Gonna Lock My Heart
Composer Eaton, Shand
Album Wishing
Label Camelia
Number TF2 Side 2 Band 4
Duration 4.00
Performers: Teddy Fullick, t; Dick Cook, cl; Roy Maskell, tb; Maggie Kinson, v, p; Alyn Shipton, b; Norman Emberson, d. 1980.


Artist Coleman Hawkins
Title Body and Soul
Composer Heyman, Sour, Eyton, Green
Album La Grande Histoire Du Jazz
Label Le Chant Du Monde
Number Track 20
Duration 2.42
Performers Coleman Hawkins-ts, Gene Rodgers-p, Tommy Lindsay and Joe Guy -trp, Earl Hardy-trb, Jackie Fields, Eustis More-alt, William Oscar Smith-b, Arthur Herbert-d. 1939


Artist Muggsy Spanier
Title Big Butter and Egg Man
Composer Venable
Album Great Original Performances 1931 and 39
Label BBC
Number RPCD 609 Track 1
Duration 3.06
Performers: Muggsy Spanier, c; Rod Cless, cl; George Brunies, tb; George Zack, p; Bob Casey, b; Al Sidell, d, 1939.


Artist Original Dixieland Jazz band
Title Sphinx
Composer J. Berni Barbour
Album The London Recordings
Label World Records
Number SH220 Side 2 Track 6
Duration 3.12
Performers D.J. LaRocca, cornet; Emile Christian, trombone; Larry Shields, clarinet; J. Billy Jones, piano; Tony Sbarbaro, drums. 1920


Artist Kid Ory
Title Tiger Rag
Composer La Rocca
Label Vogue
Number V2011 Side A
Duration 3,17
Performers Mutt Carey, t; Barney Bigard, cl; Kid Ory, tb; Buster Wilson, p; Bud Scott, g; Ed Garland, b; Minor Hall, d. 1946


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