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In his weekly selection from listeners' emails and post, Alyn Shipton plays a wide range of jazz including tracks featuring two very different American guitarists, mainstreamer Howard Alden (along with trombonist Dan Barrett), and avant-garde player Mary Halvorsen and her Octet.

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Sat 19 May 201816:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Howard Alden & Dan Barrett Quintet

    Dickie's Dream

    • The A B Q Salutes Buck Clayton.
    • Concord.
    • 13.

  • Fletcher Henderson

    Queer Notions

    • A Study in Frustration.
    • Essential Jazz Classics.
    • 6.

  • Dinah Washington

    You Don't Know What Love Is

    • Dinah Washington and Quincy Jones Complete Sessions.
    • Essential Jazz Classics.
    • 4.

  • Mary Halvorson

    In My Solitude

    • Meltframe.
    • Firehouse 12.
    • 5.

  • Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band

    Happy Go Lucky Local

    • SAD, SWEET SONGS & CRAZY RHYTHMS.
    • CALLIGRAPH.
    • 2.

  • Eric Dolphy

    Come Sunday

    • Iron Man.
    • Charly.
    • 3.

  • Billie Holiday

    That's All I Ask of You

    • The Lady Sings.
    • Proper.
    • 15.

  • Sarah Vaughan

    Lush Life

    • Sassy.
    • Emarcy.
    • 1.

  • Robert Johnson

    Malted Milk

    • KING OF THE DELTA BLUES SINGERS VOL.2.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 12.

  • Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band

    Dream Of The Return

    • The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.
    • Mama.
    • 9.

  • Bruce Hornsby

    Harbor Lights

    • Harbor Lights.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

Jazz Record Requests

Artist Howard Alden / Dan Barrett Quintet

Title Dickie’s Dream

Composer Lester Young

Album The A B Q Salutes Buck Clayton

Label Concord

Performers Howard Alden, g; Dan Barrett, tb; Chuck Wilson, reeds; Frank Tate, b; Jackie Williams, d. June 1989

Artist Fletcher Henderson

Title Queer Notions

Composer Hawkins

Album A Study In Frustration

Label Essential Jazz Classics

Performers: Bobby Stark, Russell Smith, Red Allen, t; Dickie Wells, Sandy Williams, tb; Hilton Jefferson, Russell Procope, Coleman Hawkins, reeds; Fletcher Henderson, p; Bernard Addison, g; John Kirby b; Walter Johnson, d. 18 Aug 1933

Artist Dinah Washington

Title You Don’t Know What Love Is

Composer Raye / De Paul

Album Dinah Washington + Quincy Jones Complete Sessions

Label Essential Jazz Classics

Performers: Dinah Washington, v: Clark Terry, t; Jimmy Cleveland, tb; Paul Quinichette, ts; Cecil Payne, bars; Wynton Kelly, p; Barry Galbraith, g; Keter Betts, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 15 March 1955.

Artist Mary Halvorson

Title In My Solitude

Composer Ellington

Album Meltframe

Label Firehouse 12

Performers: Mary Halvorson, g. 2015.

Artist Humphrey Lyttelton

Title Happy Go Lucky Local

Composer Ellington

Album Sad Sweet Songs and Crazy Rhythms

Label Calligraph

Performers: Humphrey Lyttelton t; Ray Wordsworth, tb; Jimmy Hastings, as, cl, bars; Karen Sharp, ts, bars; Ted Beament, p; John Rees Jones, b; Adrian Mackintosh, d. 2005

Artist Eric Dolphy

Title Come Sunday

Composer Ellington

Album Iron Man

Label Charly

Performers: Eric Dolphy, reeds, Richard Davis, b. July 1963

Artist Billie Holiday

Title That’s All I Ask of you

Composer Pope

Album The Lady Sings

Label Proper

Performers: Charlie Shavers, trumpet; Tyree Glenn, trombone; Chu Berry, tenor sax; Sonny White, piano; Albert Casey, guitar; John Williams, bass; Cozy Cole, drums; Billie Holiday, vocals.

Artist Sarah Vaughan

Title Lush Life

Composer Strayhorn

Album Sassy

Label Emarcy

Performers: Sarah Vaughan with the Hal Mooney Orchestra April 1956

Artist Robert Johnson

Title Malted Milk

Composer Johnson

Album King of the Delta Blues Singers

Label Columbia Legacy

Performers Robert Johnson, g. 1937

Artist Bob Curnow’s LA Big Band

Title Dream of the Return

Composer Metheny

Album The Music of Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.

Label Mama

Performers Bobby Shew, Buddy Childers, Wayne Bergeron, Don Rader, Ron Stout, t; Alex Iles, Andy Martin, Chuck Hughes, Rick Culver, tb; Bob Sheppard, Jerry Pinter, Rob Lockart, Danny House, Tom Peterson, reeds; Paul Viapiano, g; Tom Warrington, b; Steve Houghton, d. 1994

Artist Bruce Hornsby

Title Harbor Lights

Composer Hornsby

Album Harbor Lights

Label RCA

Performers Bruce Hornsby, kb, v; Jimmy Haslip, b; John Molo, d; Pat Metheny, g; John Bigham, g; Jeff Lorber, Dave Duncan, electronics, Laura Creamer-Dunville, Jean Maclean, v. 1993.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 May 201816:00
    BBC Radio 3

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