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In this week's selection from listeners' requests by letter and email, Alyn Shipton includes a vintage track by clarinettist Omer Simeon and piano virtuoso Earl Hines. Plus a range of requests for jazz from many other styles and periods.

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Music Played

  • Lionel Hampton & Lionel Hampton And His Sextet

    Chasin With Chase

    • Air Mail Special.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.

  • Omer Simeon

    Smokehouse Blues

    • Reuben Reeves and Omer Simeon Complete Recorded Works 1929 - 33.
    • Jazz Perspectives.
    • 11.

  • Wally Fawkes

    Six Bells Stampede

    • FLOOK DIGS JAZZ.
    • LAKE.
    • 18.

  • François Rilhac

    Somebody Stole My Gal

    • It's Only A Paper Moon.
    • Black and Blue.
    • 2.

  • Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins

    Love For Sale

    • Pocket Full of Miracles.
    • Vanguard.
    • 5.

  • Ella Fitzgerald, Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Louis Jordan & Chick Webb

    This Time It's Real

    • The Legendary Vol 2.
    • ABM.
    • 15.

  • Duke Ellington & Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Work Song (from Black, Brown And Beige)

    • Carnegie Hall Concert December 1944.
    • Prestige.
    • 1.

  • Kevin Fitzsimmons & Kevin Fitszimmons

    This Masquerade

    • Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club.
    • Jazzwurx.
    • 4.

  • Bobby Enriquez

    Yesterdays

    • The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez.
    • Crescendo.
    • 10.

  • Carla Bley

    Misterioso

    • That's The Way I Feel Now.
    • A and M.
    • 5.

  • Shotgun Jazz Band

    Girl, You'd Better Use Your Head

    • Don't Give Up The Ship.
    • Shotgun Jazz Band.
    • 3.

  • Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong & Fitzgerald, Ella & Louis Armstrong

    Summertime

    • Complete Normal Granz sessions.
    • One Records.
    • 2.

Performers

Artist Lionel Hampton
Title Chasin’ With Chase
Composer Shivers / Neale
Album Airmail Special
Label Naxos
Number 8.120651 Track 16
Duration 2.56
Performers: Karl George, trumpet; Marshall Royal, clarinet, alto sax.; Ray Perry, violin; "Sir Charles" Thompson, piano; Irving Ashby, guitar;
Vernon Alley, string bass; Shadow Wilson, Lionel Hampton, drums, 8 April 1941


Artist Omer Simeon
Title Smokehouse Blues
Composer Morton
Album Reuben Reeves and Omer Simeon Complete Recorded Works 1929-33
Label Jazz Perspectives
Number JPCD 1516-2 Track 11
Duration 2.37
Performers Omer Simeon, cl; Earl Hines, cl; Hayes Alvis, bb; Wallace Bishop, d. 21 Aug 1929


Artist Wally Fawkes
Title Six Bells Stampede
Composer Hughes / Munn
Album Flook Digs Jazz
Label Lake
Number 143 Track 18
Duration 2.44
Performers Spike Mackintosh, t; Wally Fawkes, cl; John Mumford, tb; Collin Bates, p; Russ Allen, b; John Armitage, d. April 1959.


Artist François Rilhac
Title Somebody Stole My Gal
Composer Wood
Album It’s Only a Paper Moon
Label Black and Blue
Number Track 2
Duration 3.27
Performers: François Rilhac, p. 1986


Artist Ruby Braff / Ellis Larkins
Title Love For Sale
Composer Cole Porter
Album Pocket Full of Miracles
Label Vanguard
Number 8516 Track 5
Duration 5.43
Performers: Ellis Larkins, p; Ruby Braff, c. released 1957


Artist Ella Fitzgerald
Title This Time It’s Real
Composer Shivers/ Bernich / Emmerich
Album The Legendary Vol 2
Label ABM
Number 1068 Track 15
Duration 3.10
Performers Taft Jordan, t; Sandy Williams, tb; Louis Jordan, as; Teddy McRae, ts; Tommy Fulford, p; Bobby Johnson, g; Beverly Peer, b; Chick Webb, d; Ella Fitzgerald, voc. 3 May 1938


Artist Duke Ellington
Title Work Song (from Black Brown and Beige)
Composer Ellington
Album Carnegie Hall Concert December 1944
Label Prestige
Number 2PCD 24073-2 CD 2 Track 1
Duration 7.00 [applause at 6.46]
Performers Rex Stewart, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, Shelton Hemphill, t; Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, tb; Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Al Sears, Otto Hardwicke, Jimmy Hamilton, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Frad Guy, g; Junior Raglin, b; Hillard Brown, d. 19 Dec 1944.


Artist Kevin Fitzsimmons
Title This Masquerade
Composer Russell
Album Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Label Jazzwurx
Number JWR012 Track 4
Duration 3.22 (EOM 3.16)
Performers Kevin Fitzsimmons, v; Frank Griffiths, ts; Leon Greening, p; Adam King, b; Matt Fishwick, d. 2017.


Artist Bobby Enriquez
Title Yesterdays
Composer Kern
Album The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez
Label Crescendo
Number Track 10
Duration 3.58
Performers Bobby Enriquez, piano. 1983.


Artist Carla Bley
Title Misterioso
Composer Monk
Album That’s The Way I Feel Now
Label A and M
Number 66600 LP1 Side A Track 5
Duration 8.43
Performers: Mike Mantler, t; Gary Valente, tb; Vincent Chancey, frh; Bob Stewart, tu; Steve Slagle, as; Johnny Griffin, ts; Carla Bley, kb; Hiram Bullock, g; Steve Swallow, b; Victor Lewis, d; Hal Wilner, v. 1984


Artist Shotgun Jazz Band
Title Girl, You’d Better use your head
Album Don’t Give Up The Ship
Label Shotgun Jazz Band
Number 888174078496Track 3
Duration 4.00
Performers: Marla Dixon - Trumpet & Vocals; Christopher Johnson - Tenor Saxophone; Michael Magro – Clarinet; Peter Loggins – Trombone; Tyler Thomson – Bass; Justin Peake – Drums; John Dixon – Banjo; 2013.


Artist Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Title Summertime
Composer Gershwin
Album Complete Normal Granz sessions
Label One Records
Number 59805 CD 3 Track 2
Duration 5.01
Performers: Ella Fitzgerald, v; Louis Armstrong t, v; Russ Garcia Orchestra. 1957

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Jun 201716:00
    BBC Radio 3

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