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Alyn Shipton selection from your requests in all styles and from all periods of jazz, this week including Wabash Blues by Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges in their classic small group with Harry Sweets Edison.

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Sat 25 Nov 201716:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges

    Wabash Blues

    • Back to Back / Side By Side.
    • Poll Winners.

  • John Dankworth

    The Artful Dodger

    • What The Dickens.
    • Fontana.

  • Billie Holiday

    My Old Flame

    • The Lady Sings.
    • Properbox.

  • Count Basie

    The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else

    • Kansas City 7 / Memories Ad Lib.
    • Essential Jazz Classics.

  • Lucky Thompson

    There's No You

    • Modern Jazz Group.
    • Club Francais du disque.

  • Armand J. Piron

    Bright Star Blues

    • New Orleans in New Orleans.
    • Jazz Archive.

  • Bill Greenow

    Douce France

    • Chansons.
    • Mistral.

  • Django Reinhardt

    You Rascal You

    • Swing.

  • Kathy Stobart

    2HS

    • Arbeia.
    • Spotlite.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Mack The Knife

    • The Complete Ella In Berlin.
    • Essential Jazz Classics.

  • Dizzy Gillespie & Stuff Smith

    Russian Lullaby

    • Dizzy Gillespie / Stuff Smith.
    • Verve.

  • Artie Shaw

    Summit Ridge Drive

    • The Artie Shaw Story.
    • Properbox.

  • Duke Ellington & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Overture: Nutcracker Suite

    • Complete Columbia Studio Album Collection 1959-61.
    • Columbia.

Performers:

Artist Duke Ellington / Johnny Hodges

Title Wabash Blues

Composer Meinken / Ringle

Album Back to Back / Side By Side

Label Poll Winners

Number 27353 CD 1 Track 1

Duration 6.32

Performers Harry Edison, t; Johnny Hodges, as; Duke Ellington, p; Les Spann, g; Al Hall, b; Jo Jones, d. 26 Feb 1959

Artist John Dankworth

Title The Artful Dodger

Composer Dankworth

Album What The Dickens

Label Fontana

Number TL 5203 Side 2 Track 3

Duration 1.45

Performers Gus Galbraith, Leon Calvert, Kenny Wheeler, Dickie Hawdon (tp), Tony Russell, Eddie Harvey (tb), Ron Snyder or Alf Reece (tu), Johnny Dankworth, Roy East (as,cl), Vic Ash (cl,ts), Art Ellefson (ts,b-cl), Alan Branscombe (p,vib,xyl), Kenny Napper or Spike Heatley (b), Johnny Butts (d). Special guests: Jimmy Deuchar (tp), Tony Coe, Tubby Hayes, Peter King, Ronnie Scott, Bobby Wellins, Dick Morrissey (ts), Ronnie Ross (bs), Ronnie Stephenson (d), Roy Webster (perc)

Artist Billie Holiday

Title My Old Flame

Composer Johnston / Coslow

Album The Lady Sings

Label Proper

Number Properbox 26 CD 3 Track 22

Duration 3.02

Performers Billie Holiday, v; Doc Cheatham, t; Vic Dickenson, tb; Lem Davis, as; Eddie Heywood, p; John Simmons, b; Teddy Walters, g; Sid Catlett, d. 25 March 1944

Artist Count Basie

Title The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else

Composer Jones / Kahn

Album Kansas City 7 / Memories Ad Lib

Label Essential Jazz Classics

Number 55590 Track 18

Duration 3.02

Performers Harry Edison, t; Count Basie, org; Freddie Green, g; George Duvivier, b; Jimmy Crawford, d; Joe Williams, v. 1958.

Artist Lucky Thompson

Title There’s No You

Composer Hopper / Adair

Album Modern Jazz Group

Label Club Francais Du Disque

Number 66 Track 3

Duration 4.41

Performers Lucky Thompson, ts; Henri Renaud, p; Benoit Quersin, b; Christian Garros, d.


Artist Armand J Piron

Title Bright Star Blues

Composer Bocage /Piron

Album New Orleans in New Orleans

Label Jazz Archive

Number 175992 Track 3

Duration 3.10

Performers Peter Bocage, t; John Lindsay, tb; Louis Warneke, as; Lorenzo Tio, cl, ts; Armand J Piron, vn; Steve Lewis, p; Bob Ysaguirre, b; Louis Cottrell, d. 1924

Artist Bill Greenow

Title Douce France

Composer Trenet

Album Chansons

Label Mistral

Number 02 

Duration 3.00

Performers Katherine Lanham, v; Bil Greenow cl; Martin Litton, p; Jez Cook, g; Alyn Shipton, b. Feb 2000.

Artist Django Reinhardt

Title You Rascal You

Composer Theard

Album N/A

Label Swing

Number 35

Duration 3.03

Performers Django Reinhardt, g; Louis Vola, b. Dec 37

Artist Kathy Stobart

Title 2HS

Composer Stobart

Album Arbeia

Label Spotlite

Number 409 Track 5

Duration 5.47

Performers Kathy Stobart, ts; Harry Beckett, t; Martin Blackwell, p; Harvey Weston, b; Tony Mann, d. 1978


Artist Ella Fitzgerald

Title Mack The Knife

Composer Brecht / Weill

Album The Complete Ella In Berlin

Label Essential Jazz Classics

Number 55719 Track 10

Duration 5.01

Performers: Ella Fitzgerald, v; Paul Smith, p; Jim Hall, g; Wilfred Middlebrooks, b; Gus Johnson,d. 13 Feb 1960

Artist Dizzy Gillespie / Stuff Smith

Title Russian Lullaby

Composer Berlin

Album Dizzy Gillespie / Stuff Smith

Label Verve

Number 2332 081 Side 2 Track 2

Duration 7.53

Performers Dizzy Gillespie t; Stuff Smith, vn; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul West, b; J C Heard, d.

Artist Artie Shaw

Title Summit Ridge Drive

Composer Shaw

Album Artie Shaw Story

Label Proper

Number Properbox 85 CD 3 Track 5

Duration 3.18

Performers Artie Shaw, cl; Billy Butterfield, t; Johnny Guarnieri, hcd; Al Henrdickson, g; Jud De Naut, b; Nick Fatool, d; Sep 1940.

Artist Duke Ellington

Title Overture: Nutcracker Suite

Composer Tchaikovsky arr Ellington

Album Complete Columbia Studio Album Collection 1959-61

Label Columbia

Number 88697938892 CD 5 Track 1

Duration 3.22

Performers Fats Ford, Willie Cook, Eddie Mullens, Ray Nance, t; Britt Woodman, Booty Wood, Lawrence Brown, Juan Tizol, tb; Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Aaron Bell, b; Sam Woodyard, d.1960

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Nov 201716:00
    BBC Radio 3

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