28/10/2017
Alyn Shipton's selection of jazz in all style and from all eras includes music from the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, who experimented with instrumentation and texture in their music.
In this week's pick of requests for jazz in all styles and from all eras, Alyn Shipton's selection includes music from the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra. This band, led by the innovative arrangers Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan, experimented with instrumentation and texture to create some entirely original big band music in the early 1950s, which was massively influential on subsequent large jazz orchestras.
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The Sauter–Finegan Orchestra
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- Memories of Goodman and Miller.
- RCA Victor.
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Louis Armstrong & Bing Crosby
Gone Fishin'
- Highlights From His American Decca Years.
- GRP.
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Chris Barber
Saratoga Swing
- Live in East Berlin.
- Black Lion.
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Miles Davis
He Loved Him Madly
- Get Up With It.
- Columbia.
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Wynton Marsalis
Happy Feet Blues
- Live at the Village Vanguard.
- Blue Note.
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Keith Tippett
Stately Dance for Miss Primm
- You Are Here...I Am There.
- Polydor.
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Billie Pierce & De De Pierce
Love Songs of the Nile
- Atlantic New Orleans Sessions.
- Mosaic.
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Dizzy Gillespie
A Night In Tunisia
- Dizzy Gillespie (1946 - 1949).
- RCA Jazz Tribune.
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Dizzy Gillespie
My Man
- Have Trumpet, Will Excite.
- Poll Winners.
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Dizzy Gillespie
Kush
- Gillespiana & Carnegie Hall Concert.
- Verve.
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Dizzy Gillespie
Manteca
- Bebop Enters Sweden 1947-49.
- Dragon.
Performers:
Artist Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Title Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Composer trad arr Sauter
Album Memories of Goodman and Miller
Label RCA Victor: LSP 1634
Number Track 4
Duration 3.23
Performers Al Block, Al De Risi, Bill Finegan, Bobby Nichols, Danny Bank, Danny Finton,Doc Severinsen, Eddie Sauter, Elden Bailey, Gene Allen, Gil Cohen, Harvey Estrin,Harvey Philips, Jay McAllister, Jimmy Thompson, Joe Ferrante, Joe Venuto, John Lesko, Max Bennett, Mousey Alexander, Mundell Lowe, Nick Travis. Raymond Shiner, Romeo Penque, Sunny Russo, Steras Charas, Thomas Mitchell, Trigger Alpert, Verlye Mills, Wally Kane, Walter Rosenberger.
Artist Louis Armstrong + Bing Crosby
Title Gone Fishin’
Composer Kenny / Kenny
Album Highlights From His American Decca Years
Label GRP
Number 26382 CD2 Track 5
Duration 2.29
Performers Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby, v with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, 27 April 1951
Artist Chris Barber
Title Saratoga Swing
Composer Ellington
Album Live in East Berlin
Label Black Lion
Number BLCD-7605 CD1 S2 Track1
Duration 8.58
Performers Pat Halcox, t; Chris Barber, tb; John Crocker, as, cl; Stu Morrison, bj; John Slaughter, g; Jackie Flavelle, b; Graham Burbidge, d. 26 Nov 1968.
Artist Miles Davis
Title He Loved Him Madly
Composer Davis
Album Get Up With It
Label Columbia
Number C2K 63970 CD1 Track1
Duration 4.05 (part play)
Performers Miles Davis, t; org; Dave Liebman, fl; Pete Cosey, Reggie Lucas, Dominque Gaumont, g; Michael Henderson, b; Al Foster, d; Mtume, perc. June 1974.
Artist Wynton Marsalis
Title Happy Feet Blues
Composer Marsalis
Album Live at the Village Vanguard
Label Columbia
Number Blue Note: 604-38 CD 5 Track 4
Duration 6.12
Performers Wynton Marsalis, t; Michael White, cl; Wycliffe Gordon, tb; Victor Goines, reeds; Eric Reed, p; Reginald Veal, b; Herlin Riley, d. 1993.
Artist Keith Tippett
Title Stately Dance for Miss Primm
Composer Tippett
Album You are here…I am There
Label Polydor
Number 2384004 S2 Track5
Duration 6.51
Performers Marc Charig, c; Nick Evans, tb; Elton Dean, as; Keith Tippett, p; Jeff Clyne, b; Alan Jackson, d. 1970
Artist Billie and De De Pierce
Title Love Songs of the Nile
Composer Brown / Freed
Album Atlantic New Orleans Sessions
Label Mosaic
Number MD4-179 CD3 Track 1
Duration 4.07
Performers De De Pierce t; George Lewis, cl; Louis Nelson, tb; Billie Pierce p, v; Papa John Joseph, b; Abbey Chinee Foster, d. 1962
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title A Night In Tunisia
Composer Gillespie, Paparello
Album Dizzy Gillespie (1946 – 1949)
Label RCA RCA Jazz Tribune:
Number ND-89763 CD1 Track 3
Duration 3.03
Performers Dizzy Gillespie, t; Don Byas, ts; Milt Jackson, vib; Al Haig, p; Bill DeArango, g; Ray Brown, b; J C Heard, d. 1946.
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title My Man
Composer Charles, Pollack, Willemitz, Yvain
Album Have Trumpet, Will Excite
Label Poll Winners
Number 27343 Track 2
Duration 4.15
Performers Dizzy Gillespie, t; Les Spann, g; Junior Mance, p; Sam Jones, b; Lex Humphries, d. 1959.
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title Kush
Composer Gillespie
Album Gillespiana & Carnegie Hall Concert
Label Verve
Number 314 519809-2 Track 9
Duration 4.10
Performers Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Carl Warwick, John Frosk, Nick Travis, t; George Matthews, Arnett Sparrow, Paul Faulise, Britt Woodman, tb; Gunther Schuller, Jim Buffington, John Barrows, Richard Herd, tb; Don Butterfield, tu; Leo Wright, as, fl; Lalo Schifrin, p; Art Davis, b; Chuck Lampkin, d; Ray Barretto, Julio Colazo, Jose Mangual, perc. March 1961.
Artist Dizzy Gillespie
Title Manteca
Composer Gillespie
Album Bebop Enters Sweden 1947-9
Label Dragon
Number 479005 Track 8
Duration 3.17
Performers Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Burns, Benny Bailey, Lamar Wright, Elmon Wright, t; William Shepherd, Ted Kelly, tb; John Browb, Howard John son, Joe Gayles, George Nicholas, Cecil Payne, reeds; John Lewis, p; Al McKibbon, b; Kenny Clarke, d; Chano Pozo, cga. 2 Feb 1948.
Broadcast
- Sat 28 Oct 201716:00BBC Radio 3
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