Jazz Record Requests at Free Thinking
... at Free Thinking: Live from Sage Gateshead, Alyn Shipton is joined for live music and requests by violinist Emma Fisk and guitarist James Birkett.
This week's programme comes live from Sage Gateshead and Alyn Shipton is joined for live music and requests by violinist Emma Fisk and guitarist James Birkett
New Generation thinkers also appear with requests and, among this week's requests from regular listeners for all styles of jazz including tracks by Erroll Garner, Django Reinhardt and Ella Fitzgerald, Alyn also plays music to mark the 90th birthday this week of American saxophonist Bob Wilber, who has made his home in Britain for many years, and become a national jazz treasure. A pupil of Sidney Bechet, and a player who first visited the UK with Eddie Condon's band, Wilber also co-led Soprano Summit and directed the Ellingtonian soundtrack music for Francis Ford Coppola's film "Cotton Club".
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Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass
Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
- Take Love Easy.
- Pablo.
- 7.
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Duke Ellington
Time's a Wastin'
- Time's a Wastin'.
- Naxos.
- 001.
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Erroll Garner
S'wonderful
- The Complete Concert By The Sea.
- Columbia Legacy.
- 004.
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Sidney Bechet & Bob Wilber's Wildcats
Polka Dot Stomp
- Shake Em Up.
- Avid.
- 019.
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Billie Holiday
Fine and Mellow
- Billie Holiday / Lester Young Complete Studio Sessions.
- Essential Jazz Classics.
- 025.
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Michael Brecker & UMO Jazz Orchestra
Invitation
- Live in Helsinki 1995.
- Random Act.
- 001.
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Norma Winstone
Touch Her Soft Lips and Part
- Descansado - Songs for Films.
- ECM.
- 010.
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Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
Charleston
- Complete String Quintet.
- Label Ouest.
- 014.
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Nicola Farnon
Let There Be Love
- Nicola Farnon Trio Live - A Day at the Market.
- Nicolafarnonmusic.com.
- 001.
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Miles Davis
Straight No Chaser
- At Newport 1955-75.
- Columbia.
- 007.
Performers:
MUSIC: Cheese and Crackers (Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang) c.2.48
Emma Fisk, violin / James Birkett, guitar, Alyn Shipton, bass.
Artist Ella Fitzgerald / Joe Pass
Title Gee Baby Ain;t I good to you
Composer Razaf, Redman
Album Take Love Easy
Label Pablo
Number 20031 Track 7
Duration 4.00
Performers Ella Fitzgerald v; Joe Pass, g. Rec 1973.
Artist Duke Ellington
Title Time’s A Wastin’
Composer Duke and Mercer Ellington, Don George
Album Time’s a Wastin’
Label Naxos
Number 8.120811 Track 1
Duration 3.05
Performers: Rex Stewart, Cat Anderson, Shelton
Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Ray Nance, t; Joe Nanton, Claude Jones, Lawrence Brown,
tb; Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwicke, Al Sears, Harry Carney,
reeds; Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn,
p; Fred Guy, g; Junior Raglin, b; Sonny Greer, d.
Artist Erroll Garner
Title Swonderful
Composer Gershwin
Album The Complete Concert By The Sea
Label Columbia Legacy
Number 88875120842 CD 2 Track 4
Duration 2.38
Performers Erroll Garner, p; Eddie Calhoun, b; Denzil Best, d. 19 Sept 1955
Artist Sidney Bechet with Bob Wilber’s Wildcats
Title Polka Dot Stomp
Composer Sissle, Bechet, Tolliver
Album Shake Em Up
Label Avid
Number AMSCD 694 CD 2 Track 19
Duration 2.42
Performers: Johnny Glasel, t; Bob
Mielke, tb; Bob Wilber, cl, Sidney Bechet, ss; Dick Wellstood, p; Charlie Traeger,
b; Denny Strong d; 14 July 1947.
Artist Billie Holiday
Title Fine and Mellow
Composer Holiday
Album Billie Holiday / Lester Young Complete Studio Sessions
Label Essential Jazz Classics
Number 55683 CD 3 Track 25
Duration 6.31 (Suggest we fade on trombone solo at 4.29)
Performers: Doc
Cheatham, t; Vic Dickenson, tb; Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, ts;
Mal Waldron, p; Danny Barker, g; Jim Atlas, b; Jo Jones, d. Dec 1957.
Artist Michael Brecker / UMO Jazz Orchestra
Title Invitation
Composer Bronislaw Kaper
Album Live in Helsinki 1995
Label Random Act
Number 1018 Track 1
Duration 5.06
Performers: Michael Brecker and
UMO Jazz Orchestra
Artist Norma Winstone
Title Touch Her Soft Lips and Part
Composer Walton / Winstone
Album Descansado – Songs for Films
Label ECM
Number 578 6989 track 10
Duration 3.00
Performers: Norma Winstone, v;
Glauco Venier, p; Klaus Gesing bcl; Mario Brunello, vc; Helge Andreas
Norbakken, perc. March 2017.
Artist Django Reinhardt /
Stephane Grappelli
Title Charleston
Composer Johnson
Album Complete String Quintet
Label Label Ouest
Number 304031.2 CD 3 Tr 14
Duration 2.55
Performers Stephane Grappelli, vn; Django Reinhardt, Pierre Ferré, Marcel
Bianchi, g; Louis Vola, b. 21 April 1937
Artist Nicola Farnon
Title Let There Be Love
Composer Rand / Grant
Album Nicola Farnon Trio Live – A Day at the Market
Label Nicolafarnnonmusic.com
Number Track 1
Duration 3.58
Performers Nicola Farnon, b, v; Piero Tucci, p; Phil Johnson, d.
Artist Miles Davis
Title Straight No Chaser
Composer Parker
Album At Newport 1955-75
Label Columbia
Number 88875081952 CD 1 Track 7
Duration fade to fit (track runs 8.48, and we ought to come out in the piano solo at about 5.35]
Performers Miles Davis, t;
Cannonball Adderley, as; John Coltrane, ts; Bill Evans, p; Paul Chambers, b;
Jimmy Cobb, d. 3 July 1958.
MUSIC: Sunday (Conn, Styne, Krueger,
Miller) 3.35
Emma Fisk, vn; James Birkett, g; Alyn Shipton, b.
Broadcast
- Sat 10 Mar 201816:00BBC Radio 3
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