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Jimmy Hastings and John Horler

In this week's selection of requests from listeners' emails and letters, asking for all styles and periods of jazz, Alyn Shipton includes music from two great British jazz players, saxophonist and clarinettist Jimmy Hastings and pianist John Horler.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 16 Jun 201816:00

Music Played

  • Gene Krupa’s Swing Band

    Leave Us Leap

    • Gene Krupa Story.
    • Proper.
    • 5.
  • Duke Ellington

    Stevedore Stomp

    • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Selected Favourites Vol 24.
    • Charly.
    • 2.
  • Lester Young Kansas City Six

    I Want A Little Girl

    • Lester Young Story.
    • Proper.
    • 16.
  • John Horler & Jimmy Hastings

    Child's Play

    • Childrens hour.
    • Main Stem.
    • 2.
  • The London Jazz Players

    The News Where You Are

    • The News Where You Are.
    • London Jazz Players.
    • 1.
  • Horace Silver

    Psychedelic Sally

    • Retrospective.
    • Blue Note.
    • 8.
  • Miles Davis

    Petits Machins

    • Complete Columbia Studio Recordings.
    • Columbia.
    • 9.
  • Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan

    Blessed Are The Poor (Sermon On The Mount)

    • Live at the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Donald Byrd

    Wind Parade

    • Places and Spaces.
    • Blue Note.
    • 2.
  • Wendy Kirkland Quartet

    It's Not Unusual

    • Piano Divas.
    • Wendy Kirkland.
    • 6.

Jazz Record Requests

Artist Gene Krupa

Title Leave Us Leap

Composer Finckel

Album Gene Krupa Story

Label Proper

Performers Don Fageruist, Bill Conrad, Joe Triscari, Tony Russo, t; Leon Cox, Tommy Pedersen, Bill Culley, tb; Murray Williams, Francis Antonelli, Charlie Ventura, Andy Pino, Stuart Olson, reeds; Teddy Napoleon, p; Ed Yance, g; Clyde Nexcombe, b; Gene Krupa, d. plus String section; 22 Jan 1945.

Artist Duke Ellington

Title Stevedore Stomp

Composer Ellington

Album Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Selected Favourites Vol 24

Label Charly

Performers: Artie Whetsol, Cootie Williams, Freddie Jenkins, t; Joe Nanton, tb; Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, bj, Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 7 March 1929.

Artist Lester Young + Kansas City Six

Title I Want A Little Girl

Composer Moll / Macher

Album Lester Young Story

Label Proper

Performers: Buck Clayton, t; Lester Young cl; Eddie Durham, elg; Freddie Green, f; Walter Page, b; Jo Jones, d. 27 Sep 1938

Artist John Horler and Jimmy Hastings

Title Child’s Play

Composer Horler/Hastings

Album Childrens hour

Label Main Stem

Performers John Horler, p; Jimmy Hastings, cl. 2002

Artist The London Jazz PLayers

Title The News Where You Are

Composer Doll-Steinberg / Wilson

Album The News Where You Are

Label London Jazz PLayers

Performers: Steve Lodder, p; Davide Mantovani, b; Marc Parnell, d. 2018

Artist Horace Silver

Title Psychedelic Sally

Composer Silver

Album Retrospective

Label Blue Note

Performers Charles Tolliver, t; Stanley Turrentine, ts; Horace Silver, p; Bob Cranshaw, b; Mickey Roker, d. 23 Feb 1968

Artist Miles Davis

Title Petits Machins

Composer Davis / Evans

Album Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, sampler

Label Columbia

Performers Miles Davis, t; Wayne Shorter, ts; Herbie Hancock elp; Ron Carter, elb; Tony Williams, d. 19 June 1968

Artist Dave Brubeck / Gerry Mulligan

Title Blessed are the Poor (Sermon on the Mount)

Composer Brubeck

Album Live at the Berlin Philharmonic

Label Columbia

Performers: Gerry Mulligan, bars; Dave Brubeck, p; Jack Six, b; Alan Dawson, d. Nov 1970.

Artist Donald Byrd

Title Wind Parade

Composer Mizell

Album Places and Spaces

Label Blue Note

Performers: Donald Byrd, Raymond Brown t; George Bohanon, tb; Tyree Glenn, Jr, ts; Craig McMullan, John Rowan, g; Larry Mizell, p, v; Skip Scarborough, elp; Fonce Mizell, clavinet, v; Chguck Rainey, b; Harvey Mason, d, Mayuto Correa, King Ericson, perc; Kay Haith, v. Aug 1975.

Artist Wendy Kirkland Quartet

Title It’s Not Unusual

Composer Reed Mills

Album Piano Divas

Label Wendy Kirkland

Performers Wendy Kirkland, p. v; Pat Sprakes, g; Paul Jefferies, b; Steve Smith, d. 2018.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 Jun 201816:00

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