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In this week's dip into listeners' emails and letters, Alyn Shipton plays jazz from all periods, including music featuring trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler.

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Sat 12 May 201816:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sonny Rollins

    The Bridge

    • The Bridge.
    • RCA.
    • 4.

  • Kenny Wheeler

    Pretty Liddle Waltz

    • Songs For Quintet.
    • ECM.
    • 1.

  • Dick Wellstood

    Paganini's Thing

    • This is The One.
    • Audiophile.
    • 1.

  • Jack Teagarden Band

    Farewell Blues

    • Big T.
    • Proper.
    • 1.

  • Ken Colyer's Jazzmen

    Isle Of Capri

    • In the Beginning.
    • Lake.
    • 1.

  • Fats Waller

    Go Down, Moses

    • FATS WALLER / AN INTRODUCTION TO FATS WALLER 1928-1942.
    • Best of Jazz.
    • 19.

  • Nat King Cole

    Orange Coloured Sky

    • BIG BAND COLE.
    • CAPITOL.
    • 13.

  • Billie Holiday

    Willow, Weep For Me

    • Lady Sings The Blues.
    • Pollwinners.
    • 11.

  • Howard Rumsay's Lighthouse All Stars

    Viva Zapata No 1

    • West Coast Jazz.
    • Fremeaux.
    • 5.

  • Blossom Dearie

    They Say It's Spring

    • Blossom Dearie - Jazz Masters 51.
    • Verve.
    • 1.

  • Tubby Hayes

    Parisian Thoroughfare

    • Tubbs Tours.
    • Universal.
    • 6.

  • Cecil Taylor

    For The Rabbit

    • For Olim.
    • Soul Note.
    • 3.

  • Cecil Taylor

    This Nearly Was Mine

    • The World of Cecil Taylor.
    • Candid.
    • 2.

Jazz Record Requests

 Artist Sonny Rollins

Title The Bridge

Composer Rollins

Album The Bridge

Performers: Sonny Rollins, ts; Jim Hall, g; Bob Cranshaw, b; Ben Riley, d. 14 Feb 1962.

Artist Kenny Wheeler

Title Pretty Liddle Waltz

Composer Wheeler

Album Songs for Quintet

Performers Kenny Wheeler, flugelhorn; Stan Sulzmann, ts; John Parricelli, g; Chris Laurence, b; Martin France, d. Dec 2013


Artist Dick Wellstood

Title Paganini’s Thing

Composer Paganini, arr. Wellstood

Album This is The One

Label Audiophile

Performers Dick Wellstood, p; 1977.

Artist Jack Teagarden

Title Farewell Blues

Composer Schoebel. Mares, Rapollo

Album Big T

Label Proper


Artist Ken Colyer

Title Isle Of Capri

Composer Grosz / Kennedy

Album In The Beginning

Label Lake

Performers Ken Colyer, t; Chris Barber, tb; Monty Sunshine, cl; Lonnie Donega, bj; Jim Bray, b; Ron Bowden, d. 2 Sep 1953


Artist Fats Waller

Title Go Down Moses

Composer trad

Album Fats Waller/An Introduction to Fats Waller 1928-1942

Label Best of Jazz

Performers Fats Waller, org. London, 1938.

Artist Nat King Cole

Title Orange Colored Sky

Composer DeLugg / Stein

Album Big Band Cole

Label Capitol

Performers: Nat King Cole, p, v; Maynard Ferguson, Jim Salco, Buddy Childers, Chico Alvarez, Shorty Rogers, t; Milt Bernhardt, Herry Betts, Bob Fitzpatrick, Johnny Halliburton Herb Harper, tb; Bud Shank, Art Pepper, Bob Cooper, Bert Calderal, Bob Giogi, reeds; Irv Ashby, g; Joe Comfort, b; Shelly Mnne, d; Bob Constanza, perc. 16 Aug 1950.

Artist Billie Holiday

Title Willow Weep For Me

Composer Ronell

Album Lady Sings the Blues

Label Pollwinners

Performers: Harry Sweets Edison, t; Willie Smith, as; Bobby Tucker, p; Barney Kessell, g; Red Callendar, b; Chico Hamilton, d; Billie Holiday, v, 3 Sep 1954.


Artist Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars

Title Viva Zapata No 1

Composer Shorty Rogers

Album West Coast Jazz

Label Fremeaux

Performers: Shorty Rogers, t; Milt Bernhardt, tb; Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, reeds; Frank Patchen, p; Howard Rumsey, b; Shelly Manne, d; Carlos Vidal, cga. 22 July 1952.

Artist Blossom Dearie

Title They Say It’s Spring

Composer Berlin

Album Jazz Masters 51: Blossom Dearie

Label Verve

Performers: Blossom Dearie, p, v; Ray Brown, b; Herb Ellis, g; Jo Jones, d. Sep 1956

Artist Tubby Hayes

Title Parisian Thoroughfare

Composer Powell

Album Tubbs Tours

Label Universal

Performers: Tubby Hayes, ts; with Ian Hamer, Les Condon, Jimmy Deuchar, t; Keith Christie, Ken Wray, tb; Jackie Sharp, Bobby Wellins, Ronnie Ross, reeds; Terry Shannon, p; Freddie Logan, b; Allan Ganley, d. 1964

Artist Cecil Taylor

Title For The Rabbit

Composer Taylor

Album For Olim

Label Soul Note

Performers: Cecil Taylor, p;1986

Artist Cecil Taylor

Title This Nearly Was Mine

Composer Rodgers, Hammerstein

Album The World of Cecil Taylor

Label Candid

Performers Cecil Taylor, p; Buell Neidlinger, b; Denis Charles d; Oct 1960.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 May 201816:00
    BBC Radio 3

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