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From this week's postbag of listeners' letters, postcards, emails and tweets, Alyn Shipton selects music in all styles of jazz, including a candidate for hottest record ever made by veteran New Orleans soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet.

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Sat 8 Apr 201716:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sidney Bechet & Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers

    Shag

    • Summertime.
    • Marshall Cavendish.
    • 1.

  • Bix Beiderbecke & Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang

    Trumbology

    • The Bix Beiderbecke Story.
    • Proper.
    • 22.

  • Dizzy Gillespie

    Groovin' For Nat

    • Groovin' For Nat.
    • 2.

  • Teddy Wilson-Dave Shepherd Quartet, Teddy Wilson & Dave Shepherd Quintet

    Flyin' Home

    • Teddy Wilson with the Randy Colville and Dave Shepherd Quartet.
    • Jazzology.
    • 6.

  • Larry Coryell

    Spaces (Infinite)

    • Spaces.
    • Vanguard.
    • 1.

  • Gary Burton

    Fleurette Africaine

    • Lofty Fake Anagram.
    • BGO.
    • 3.

  • Jam Experiment

    It's You

    • Jam Experiment.
    • Jam Experiment.
    • 1.

  • Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis & Ray Brown

    It Never Entered My Mind

    • Three Classic Albums Plus.
    • Avid.
    • 8.

  • Glenn Miller

    In The Mood

    • Essential Glenn Miller. Vol 1.
    • Sony/BMG.
    • 1.

  • Cannonball Adderley & Miles Davis

    Autumn Leaves

    • SOMETHIN' ELSE.
    • BLUE NOTE.
    • 1.

Performers:

Artist Sidney Bechet
Title Shag
Composer Bechet
Album Summertime
Label Marshall Cavendish
Number CD 015 Track 1
Duration 3.08
Performers: Sidney Bechet, ss; Tommy Ladnier, t; Teddy Nixon, tb; Hank Duncan, p; Wilson Myers, b; Morris Morand, d. 15 Sept 1932.


Artist Bix Beiderbecke
Title Trumbology
Composer Trumbauer
Album Bix Beiderbecke Story
Label Proper
Number Properbox 66 CD 1 Track 22
Duration 3.00
Performers: Frank Trumbauer c-melody sax & director, Bix Beiderbecke cornet, Bill Rank trombone, Jimmy Dorsey clarinet & alto sax, Paul Mertz piano & arranger, Eddie Lang guitar, Howdy Quicksell banjo, and Chauncey Morehouse drums.


Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title Groovin’ For Nat
Composer Gillespie
Album Compact Jazz
Label Verve
Number 314 511 393-2 Track 2
Duration 3.18
Performers Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Gordon, Ermett Perry, Carl Warwick, Quincy Jones, t; Frank Rehak, Melba Liston, Rod Levitt, tb; Phil Woods, Jimmy Powell, Ernie Wilkins, Billy Mitchell, Marty Flax, reeds; Walter Davis, Jr, p; Nelson Boyd, b; Charlie Persip, d, May/June 1956.


Artist Teddy Wilson / Dave Shepherd Quartet
Title Flyin’ Home
Composer Hampton, Goodman, Robin
Album Teddy Wilson with the Randy Colville and Dave Shepherd Quartet
Label Jazzology
Number JCD 337 Track 6
Duration 5.35
Performers: Dave Shepherd, cl; Teddy Wilson, p; Ronnie Greaves, vib; Peter Chapman, b; Johnny Richardson, d. Manchester, 1967.


Artist Larry Coryell
Title Spaces (Infinite)
Composer Julie Coryell
Album Spaces
Label Vanguard
Number Side 1 Track 1
Duration 9.16
Performers: Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin, g; Chick Corea, elp; Miroslav Vitous, b; Billy Cobham, d. 1970


Artist Gary Burton
Title Fleurette Africaine
Composer Ellington
Album Lofty Fake Anagram
Label BGO
Number CD 723 CD 1 Track 3
Duration 3.36
Performers: Gary Burton, vib; Larry Coryell, g; Steve Swallow, b; Bob Moses, d.


Artist Jam Experiment
Title It’s You
Composer Bone
Album Jam Experiment
Label Jam Experiment
Number 0 692264 689314 Track 1
Duration 5.13
Performers Alexander Bone, as; Rory Ingham, tb; Toby Comeau, kb; Joe Lee, b; Jonny Mansfield, perc. 14 Nov 2016.


Artist Ben Webster
Title It Never Entered My Mind
Composer Rodgers and Hart
Album Three Classic Albums Plus
Label Avid
Number 1038 CD 1 Track 8
Duration 5.46
Performers Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, ts; Oscar Peterson, p; Herb Ellis, g; Ray Brown, b; Alvin Stoller, d. 16 Oct 1957.


Artist Glenn Miller
Title In The Mood
Composer Garland / Razaf
Album Essential Glenn Miller. Vol 1
Label Sony/BMG
Number Track 1
Duration 3.36
Performers: Glenn Miller, Al Mastren, and Paul Tanner, trombones; Clyde Hurley, Lee Knowles, and Dale McMickle, trumpets; Wilbur Schwartz, clarinet; Hal McIntyre, alto sax; Tex Beneke, Al Klink, and Harold Tennyson, tenor saxes; Chummy MacGregor, piano; Richard Fisher, guitar; Rowland Bundock, string bass; and Moe Purtill, drums. 1 Aug 1939


Artist Cannonball Adderley
Title Autumn Leaves
Composer Kosma, Prevert, Mercer
Album Somethin’ Else
Label Blue Note
Number 7243 4 95329 2 2
Duration 10.58
Performers: Miles Davis, t; Cannonball Adderley, as; Hank Jones, p; Sam Jones, b; Art Blakey, d. 9 March 1958.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Apr 201716:00
    BBC Radio 3

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