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In a selection of requests from listeners' letters and emails, Alyn Shipton includes music by Florida-born pianist Don Shirley.

In this week's selection of requests from listeners' letters and emails, Alyn Shipton includes music by Florida-born pianist Don Shirley (1927-2013) who was also a psychologist and classical composer. His jazz work experimented with unusual timbres and he treated every improvisation as a composition.

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Sat 23 Sep 201716:00
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Music Played

  • Johnny Hodges

    C Jam Blues

    • Mess Of Blues.
    • Lonehill Jazz.
    • 18.

  • Miles Davis

    I Thought About You

    • Someday My Prince Will Come.
    • Columbia.
    • 6.

  • Tete Montoliu

    Giant Steps

    • Hot House.
    • Steeplechase.
    • 1.

  • Don Shirley

    In A Moorish Marketplace

    • Don Shirley Trio.
    • Cadence.
    • 3.

  • Jimmy Yancey

    How Long Blues No.2

    • Complete Recorded Works Vol.1.
    • Document.
    • 17.

  • Detroit Special

    Detroit Special

    • Yonder Come the Blues.
    • Document.
    • 22.

  • Glenn Miller

    In The Mood

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

  • Billie Holiday

    Fine And Mellow

    Performer: José James.
    • Yesterday I Had The Blues.
    • Blue Note.
    • 3.

  • Artie Shaw

    The Grabtown Grapple

    • The Artie Shaw Story.
    • Properbox.
    • 5.

  • Tony Coe

    Tony's Basement

    • Tony's Basement.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.

  • Bill Frisell

    Ornen

    • Sky.
    • Rune Grammofon.
    • 1.

  • Kiri Te Kanawa

    Why Don't You Do Right

    • Sidetracked.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

Performers:

C JAM BLUES

Johnny Hodges

Composer Ellington / Bigard

Album Mess of Blues

Label Phono 87263 Track 18

Duration 5.09

Performers Johnny Hodges, as; Earl Hines, p; Kenny Burrell, g; Richard davis, b; Joe Marshall, d. Jan 1966.

I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU

Miles Davis

Composer Mercer / Van Heusen

Album Someday My Prince Will Come

Label Columbia 4663122 Track 6

Duration 4.53

Performers Miles Davis, t; Hank Mobley, ts; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d, March 1961.

GIANT STEPS

Tete Montoliu

Composer Coltrane

Album Hot House

Label Steeplechase 37027/8 CD 2 Track 1

Duration 6.24

Performers: Tete Montoliu, p; Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen, b; Tootie Heath d, May 1974.

IN A MOORISH MARKETPLACE

Don Shirley

Title In A Moorish Marketplace

Composer Shirley

Album Don Shirley Trio

Label Cadence 25046 Track 3

Duration 3.25

Performers Don Shirley, p; Ken Fricker, Bass and Juri Taht, Cello, 1960.

HOW LONG BLUES NO. 2 

Artist Jimmy Yancey

Composer Carr

Album Complete Recorded Works Vol 1

Label Document

Number 5041 Track 17

Duration 3.04

Performers Jimmy Yancey, p. 4 May 1939

DETROIT SPECIAL

Big Bill Broonzy

Composer Broonzy

Album Yonder Come the Blues

Label Document 32-20-1 Track 22

Duration 2.57

Performers: Big Bill Broonzy, v, g; Black Bob, p; Bill Settles, b. 16 Sept 1936.

IN THE MOOD

Glenn Miller

Composer Garland / Razaf

Album Essential Glenn Miller. Vol 1

Label Sony/BMG 82876692412

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

FINE AND MELLOW

José James

Composer Holiday

Album Yesterday I Had The Blues

Label Blue Note

Number 00600406536204 Track 3

Duration 5.12

Performers: Jose James, v; Jason Moran, p; John Pattitucci, b; Eric Harland, d. 2015.

THE GRABTOWN GRAPPLE

Artie Shaw

Composer Shaw, Harding

Album The Artie Shaw Story

Label Properbox 85 CD 4 track 5

Duration 2.58

Performers Roy Eldridge, t; Artie Shaw, cl; Dodo Marmarosa, p; Barney Kessel, g; Morris Rayman, b; Louis Fromm, d. 2 Aug 1945.

TONY’S BASEMENT

Tony Coe

Composer Coe

Album Tony’s Basement

Label Columbia SCX 6170 S 2 T 5

Duration 4.56

Performers Tony Coe, ts; Bill LeSage, p; Dennis Bowden, b; Barry Morgan, d; Lansdowne String Quartet. 1967

ORNEN

Bill Frisell

Composer Rypdal

Album Sky

Label Rune Grammofon

Number RLP 2195 Track 1

Duration 5.53

Performers Bill Frisell, g. 2017

WHY DON’T YOU DO IT RIGHT

Kiri Te Kanawa

Composer McCoy

Album Sidetracked

Label Philips 4340922 Track 11

Duration 3.49

Performers: Kiri Te Kanwa, v; Andre Previn, p; Mundell Lowe, g; Ray Brown, b. 1992

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 Sep 201716:00
    BBC Radio 3

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