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In this week's selection from listeners' requests for all styles and periods of jazz in emails and letters, Alyn Shipton includes a classic track by trumpeter Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter, as well as more traditional sounds from Frankie Trumbauer, Pee Wee Russell and Muggsy Spanier.

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Music Played

  • Christian McBride

    Optimism

    • Bringin' It.
    • Mack Avenue.
    • 11.

  • Duke Ellington & Count Basie

    To You

    • First Time.
    • Avid.
    • 13.

  • Simon Spillett

    Yesterday I Heard The Rain

    • Square One.
    • Gearbox.
    • 3.

  • Lee Morgan

    You Go To My Head

    • The Gigolo.
    • Blue Note.
    • 5.

  • Sidney Bechet & Claude Luter

    Les Oignons

    • Moulin a Cafe.
    • Milan.
    • 3.

  • Humphrey Lyttelton

    Blue and Sentimental

    • 1959.
    • Lake.
    • 10.

  • Frankie Trumbauer

    Shivery Stomp

    • 1928-1929.
    • Classics.
    • 24.

  • Muggsy Spanier

    Jazz me Blues

    • Muggsy A-Z: A Portrait of Muggsy Spanier.
    • Upbeat.
    • 21.

  • Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers

    There'll Be Some Changes Made

    • James P Johnson 1928-1938.
    • Classics.
    • 19.

  • Miles Davis

    So What

    • Miles Davis with John Coltrane: Complete Columbia Recordings.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

Performers:

Artist Christian McBride

Title Optimism

Composer Steve Davis

Album Bringin’ It

Label Mack Avenue

Number Track 11

Duration 7.05

Performers: include Frank Greene, Freddie Hendrix, Brandon Lee, Nabat Isles, t; Steve Davis, Michael Dease, James Burton, Douglas Purviance, tb; Steve Wilson, Todd Bashaw, Ron Blake, Dan Pratt, Carl Maraghi, reeds; Xavier Davis, p; Christian McBride, b; Quincy Phillips, d. 2017

Artist Duke Ellington / Count Basie

Title To You

Composer Thad Jones

Album First Time (on Ellington 4 classic albums)

Label Avid

Number 1158 CD 2 Track 13

Duration 3.53

Performers Sonny Cohn, Thad Jones, Lonnie Johnson, Snooky Young, t; Henry Coker, Quentin Jackson, Benny Powell, Urbie Green, tb; Marshall Royal, Budd Johnson, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Eddie Jones, b; Sonny Payne, d; Ed Mullins, Fats Ford, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, t; Juan Tizol, Laurence Brown, Louis Blackburn, tb; Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, reeds; Aaron Bell, b; Sam Woodyard, d. July 1961.

Artist Simon Spillett

Title Yesterday I Heard The Rain

Composer Lees, Manzanero

Album Square One

Label Gearbox

Number 1512 Side A Track 3

Duration 7.03

Performers Simon Spillett, ts; John Critchenson, p; Alec Dankworth, b; Clark Tracey, d. 2013

Artist Lee Morgan

Title You Go To My Head

Composer Coots / Gillespie

Album The Gigolo

Label Blue Note

Number 854212 Track 5

Duration 7.22

Performers Lee Morgan, t; Wayne Shorter, ts; Harold Mabern, p; Bob Cranshaw, d; Billy Higgins, d. 1965.

Artist Sidney Bechet and Claude Luter

Title Les Oignons

Composer trad

Album Moulin à Café

Label Milan

Number 399 277-2 Track 3

Duration 4.14

Performers Guy Lognon, Claude Rabanit, t; Bernard Zacharias, tb; Claude Luter, cl; Sidney Bechet, ss; Raymond Fol, p; Claude Philippe bj; Roland Bianchini, b; Moustache Galepides, d. 30 May 1952.

Artist Humphrey Lyttelton

Title Blue and Sentimental

Composer Basie, Livingston, David

Album 1959

Label Lake

Number 282 CD 1 Track 10

Duration 3.43

Performers Humphrey Lyttelton, t; John Picard, tb; Tony Coe, Ronnie Ross, as; Jimmy Skidmore, Kathy Stobart, ts; Joe Temperley, bars; Ian Armit, p; Brian Brockleurst, b; Eddie Taylor, d. 9 Feb 1959.

Artist Frankie Trumbauer

Title Shivery Stomp

Composer Ellis

Album 1928-1929

Label Classics

Number 1216 Track 24

Duration 2.47

Performers: Andy Secrest, Charles Margolis, t; Bill Rank, tb; Min Leibrook, Izzy Friedman, Charles Strickfadden, reeds; Joe Venuti, vn; Lennie Hayton, p; Eddie Lang, g; George Marsh, d. 22 May 1929.

Artist Muggsy Spanier

Title Jazz me Blues

Composer Delaney

Album Muggsy A-Z: A Portrait of Muggsy Spanier

Label Upbeat

Number 215 Track 21

Duration 4.21

Performers: Muggsy Spanier, c; Lou McGarity, tb; Pee Wee Russell, cl; Boomie Richman, ts; Jess Stay, p; Hy White, g; Bob Haggart, b; George Wettling, d. 17 Oct 1944.

Artist Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers

Title There’ll Be Some Changes Made

Composer Overstreet

Album James P Johnson 1928-1938

Label Classics

Number 671 track 19

Duration 2.50

Performers: Max Kaminsky, t; Dicky Wells, tb; Pee Wee Russell, cl; Al Gold, ts; James P Johnson, p; Freddie Green, g; Wellman Braud, b; Zutty Singleton, d. 31 Aug 1938.

Artist Miles Davis

Title So What

Composer Davis

Album Miles Davis with John Coltrane: Complete Columbia Recordings

Label Columbia

Number AC6K 65833 CD 4 Track 4

Duration 9.22

Performers: Miles Davis t; Cannonball Adderley, as; John Coltrane, t; Bill Evans p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 2 March 1959

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Feb 201816:00
    BBC Radio 3

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