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Alyn Shipton selects listeners' requests for all styles and periods of jazz by letter and email. This week's sequence includes music by the American clarinettist and bandleader Artie Shaw.

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Sat 7 Jul 201816:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Count Basie

    Whirlybird

    • Live in Paris 1957-62.
    • Fremeaux.
    • 1.

  • Artie Shaw

    Lover Come Back To Me

    • The Artie Shaw Story.
    • Proper.
    • 16.

  • Stan Getz

    Body And Soul

    • Stan Getz Plays.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 6.

  • Ramsey Lewis

    Wade In The Water

    • The Greatest Hits Of Ramsey Lewis.
    • Chess.
    • 21.

  • John Etheridge

    When You're Smiling

    • Small Hotel.
    • DYAD Records.
    • 3.

  • Django Reinhardt

    All Of Me

    • Retrospective.
    • Saga.
    • 2.

  • Sidney Bechet With Art Hodes Blue Note Jazzmen

    St James Infirmary

    • SIDNEY BECHET - SHAKE 'EM UP!.
    • AVID.
    • 12.

  • Hal Smith

    My Honey's Loving Arms

    • Windy City Swing.
    • Tuxedo Cat.
    • 11.

  • Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra

    Finesse

    • Blue Light.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.

  • Dave Brubeck

    Tangerine

    • Brubeck in Europe.
    • Pheonix.
    • 3.

  • Beverley Beirne

    Cruel Summer

    • Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun.
    • BBR.
    • 7.

  • Johnny Hunter

    While You Still Can

    • While You Still Can.
    • efpi.
    • 1.

Jazz Record Requests

Artist Count Basie

Title Whirlybird

Composer Hefti

Album Live in Paris 1957-62

Label Fremeaux

Performers: Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Joe Newman, Wendell Culley, t; Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Al Grey, tb; Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Eddie Davis, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Eddie Jones, b; Sonny Payne, d. Paris 9 Nov 1957.

Artist Artie Shaw

Title Lover Come Back To Me

Composer Romberg, Hammerstein

Album The Artie Shaw Story

Label Proper

Performers: Chuck Peterson, John Best, Bernie Privin, t; George Arus, Les Jenkins, Harry Rogers, tb; Artie Shaw, cl; Les Robinson, Tony Pastor, Hank Freeman, Georgie Auld, reeds; Bob Kitsis, p; Al Avola, g; Sid Weiss, b, Buddy Rich, d. 17 Jan 1939

Artist Stan Getz

Title Body and Soul

Composer Green,

Album Stan Getz and Jimmy Raney Complete Studio Sessions

Label Definitive

Performers: Stan Getz, ts; Jimmy Raney, g; Duke Jordan, p; Bill Crow, b; Frank Isola, d. 1952

Artist Ramsey Lewis

Title Wade in the Water

Composer Trad arr Lewis

Album The Greatest Hits

Label Chess

Performers: Ramsey Lewis, p; Cleveland Eaton, b; Maurice White, d. Brass section directed by Richard Evans. May 1966.

Artist John Etheridge

Title When You're Smiling

Composer Shay / Fisher / Goodwin

Album Small Hotel

Label Dyad

Performers: John Etheridge, Dave Kelbie, g; Christian Garrick, vn; Andy Crowdy b, 2009.

Artist Django Reinhardt

Title All of Me

Composer Marks / Simons

Album Retrospective

Label Saga

Performers: Hubert Rostaing, cl; Alix Combelle, ts; Django Reinhardt, Joseph Reinhardt, g; Tony Rovira, b; Pierre Faoud, d. 17 Dec 1940.

Artist Sidney Bechet (with Art Hodes Blue Note Jazzmen)

Title St James Infirmary

Composer Trad

Album Shake Em Up

Label Avid

Performers: Wild Bill Davison, c; Sidney Bechet, ss; Art Hodes, p; Pops Fostwr, b; Freddie Moore, d, v. 12 Oct 1945

Artist Hal Smith

Title My Honey’s Loving Arms

Composer Ruby, Meyer

Album Windy City Swing

Label Tuxedo Cat

Performers; Jonathan Doyle (clarinet), Dan Walton (piano), Jamey Cummins (guitar), Steve Pikal (bass), Hal Smith (drums, leader) 2017

Artist Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra

Title Finesse

Composer Taylor

Album Blue Light

Label Columbia

Performers: Johnny Hodges, as; Duke Ellington, p; Billy Taylor, b. 21 March 1939.

Artist Dave Brubeck

Title Tangerine

Composer Mercer / Schertzinger

Album Brubeck in Europe

Label Phoenix

Performers: Paul Desmond, as; Dave Brubeck, p; Gene Wright, b; Joe Morello, d. 5 March 1958.

Artist Beverley Beirne

Title Cruel Summer

Composer Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, Jolley

Album Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun

Label BBR

Performers: Beverley Beirne (vocals); Sam Watts (piano); Flo Moore (bass); Ben Brown (drums, percussion); Rob Hughes (saxophones, flute) 2018

Artist Johnny Hunter

Title While You Still Can

Composer Hunter

Album While You Still Can

Label efpi

Performers: Graham South, t; Ben Watte, ts; Stewart Wilson, b, Johnny Hunter, d. 2016

Broadcast

  • Sat 7 Jul 201816:00
    BBC Radio 3

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