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Among today's requests from listeners for all styles of jazz, Alyn Shipton plays music by the saxophonist Andy Hamilton. Jamaican born and a stalwart of the Birmingham jazz scene for over half a century, he would have been 100 this week.

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Sat 24 Mar 201816:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Howard McGhee & Fats Navarro

    Double Talk

    • Bebop Spoken Here: How High The Moon.
    • Proper.
    • 23.

  • Django Reinhardt

    Reverie

    • Integrale Django Reinhardt Vol 19.
    • Fremeaux.
    • 5.

  • Jacques Loussier

    L'Ile Joyeuse

    • Plays Debussy.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.

  • Andy Hamilton & the Blue Notes

    Silvershine

    • Silvershine.
    • World Circuit.
    • 7.

  • Louis Armstrong

    You Rascal You

    • C'est Si Bon.
    • Proper.
    • 18.

  • Stacey Kent

    It Never Entered My Mind

    • In Love Again.
    • Candid.
    • 4.

  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Some Days There Just Ain't No Fish

    • In Person, 1949-55.
    • Avid.
    • 11.

  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhauser)

    Music Arranger: Donald Lambert. Performer: Donald Lambert.
    • n/a.
    • Bluebird.
    • 1.

  • Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt

    Autumn Leaves

    • Boss Tenors/Dig Him.
    • American Jazz Classics.
    • 14.

  • Duke Ellington

    Fleurette Africaine

    • Money Jungle.
    • Blue Note.
    • 4.

Performers:

Artist Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro

Title Double Talk

Composer McGhee / Navarro

Album Bebop Spoken Here: How High The Moon

Label Proper

Number Properbox 10 CD 3 Track 23

Duration 5.35

Performers: Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro, t; Ernie Henry, as; Milt Jackson, p; Curley Russell, b; Kenny Clarke, d. 11 Oct 1948.

Artist Django Reinhardt

Title Reverie

Composer Debussy

Album Integrale Django Reinhardt Vol 19

Label Fremeaux

Number FA319 CD 1 Track 5

Duration 3.07

Performers: Django Reinhardt, g; André Ekyan, cl; Ralph Schecroun, p; Alf Masselier, b; Roger Paraboschi, d. May 1950.

Artist Jacques Loussier

Title L’Ile Joyeuse

Composer Debussy

Album Plays Debussy

Label Telarc

Number 83511 Track 5

Duration 6.06

Performers: Jacques Loussier, p; Benpit Dunoyer De Segonzac, b; André Arpino, d. 2000.


Artist Andy Hamilton and The Blue Notes

Title Silvershine

Composer Hamilton

Album Silvershine

Label World Circuit

Number 025 Track 6

Duration 8.03

Performers: Andy Hamilton, David Murray, ts; Graeme Hamilton, t; Sam Brown, p; Ralph DeCambre, g; Pablo Brown, b; Johnny Hoo, d; Nana Tsiboe, perc. 1991.



Artist Louis Armstrong

Title You Rascal You

Composer Theard

Album C’est Si Bon

Label Proper

Number Properbox 24 CD 4 Track 18

Duration 3.12

Performers: Louis Armstrong t; Trummy Young, tb; Ed Hall, cl; Hilton Jefferson, George Dorsey, Seldon Powell, Dave McRae, reeds; Billy Kyle, p; Everett Barksdale, g; Squire Gersh,b; Barrett Deems, d. 1957

Artist Stacey Kent

Title It Never Entered my Mind

Composer Rogers

Album In Love Again

Label Candid

Number 79786 Track 4

Duration 4.39

Performers: Stacey Kent, v; Jim Tomlinson, ts; David Newton, p; Colin Oxley, g; Simon Thorpe, b; Jasper Kviberg, d. 2002


Artist Hoagy Carmichael

Title Some Days There Just Ain’t No Fish

Composer Sigman / Russell

Album In Person, 1949-55

Label Avid

Number AMBX 150 CD 8 T 11

Duration 2.35

Performers: Hoagy Carmichael with Matty Matlock’s All Stars, plus Four Hits and a Miss, v.

Band probably includes: Dick Cathcart, t; Ted Vesely, tb; Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller, Joe Rushton, reeds; Marvin Ash, p; George Van Eps, g; Phil Stephens, b; Ben Pollack, d. 1949


Artist Donald Lambert

Title Pilgrim’s Chorus

Composer Wagner, arr Lambert

Album n/a

Label Bluebird

Number B11250 Side A

Duration 2.40

Performers Donald Lambert, p. 1941


Artist Gene Ammons / Sonny Stitt

Title Autumn Leaves

Composer Kosma / Prevert

Album Boss Tenors / Dig Him

Label American Jazz Classics

Number 99059 Track 14

Duration 4,10

Performers: Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, ts; John Houston, p; Charles Williams, b; George Brown, d. August 1961.


Artist Duke Ellington

Title Fleurette Africaine

Composer Ellington

Album Money Jungle

Label Blue Note

Number CDP 7 46398 2 Track 4

Duration 3.33

Performers Duke Ellington, p; Charles Mingus, b; Max Roach, d. 1962.

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Mar 201816:00
    BBC Radio 3

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