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Alyn Shipton's weekly dip into listeners' letters and emails requesting favourite jazz tracks from all periods and styles includes music by two contrasting pianists - Peter Nero and Jessica Williams.

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Sat 4 Aug 201816:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Herbie Hancock

    Maiden Voyage

    • Complete Blue Note 60s Sessions.
    • Blue Note.
    • 4.

  • Bill Watrous & Carl Fontana

    Memories Of You

    • Bill Watrous and Carl Fontana.
    • Atlas.
    • 2.

  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet

    Lands End

    • Complete Emarcy Recordings.
    • Emarcy.
    • 4.

  • Ben Webster

    Londonderry Air

    • Soho Nights Vol. 1.
    • ReSteamed.
    • 5.

  • Adrian Rollini & The Goofus Five

    Ain'T That A Grand And Glorious Feeling

    • The Goofus Five 1926-7.
    • Timeless.
    • 21.

  • Louis Armstrong

    Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans

    • New Orleans - Soundtrack.
    • Upbeat.
    • 23.

  • Django Reinhardt

    D R Blues

    • Keep Cool - guitar solos 1950-53.
    • El / Five Four.
    • 12.

  • Duke Ellington

    The Jeep Is Jumping

    • Duke Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane.
    • Impulse.
    • 7.

  • Count Basie

    Easin' It

    • 1957-62 Live in Paris.
    • Fremeaux.
    • 7.

  • Freddie Green

    Up In The Blues

    • Mr Rhythm.
    • Fresh Sound.
    • 1.

  • Camilla George

    Isang

    • ISANG.
    • UBUNTU MUSIC.
    • 4.

  • Will Todd

    Benedictus

    • MASS IN BLUE.
    • SIGNUM RECORDS.
    • 5.

Jazz Record Requests

Artist Herbie Hancock

Title Maiden Voyage

Composer Hancock

Album Complete Blue Note 60s Sessions

Label Blue Note

Performers:Freddie Hubbard, t; George Coleman, ts; Herbie Hancock, p; Ron Carter, b; Tony Williams, d. 17 March 1965.

Artist Bill Watrous and Carl Fontana

Title Memories of You

Composer Blake, Razaf

Album Bill Watrous and Carl Fontana

Label Atlas

Performers: Bill Watrous tb; Ross Tomkins, p; Bob Maize, b; Jake Hanna, d. May 1984.

Artist Clifford Brown / Max Roach quintet

Title Land’s End

Composer Land

Album Complete Emarcy Recordings

Label Mosaic

Performers: Clifford Brown, t; Harold Land, ts; Richie Powell, p; George Morrow, b; Max Roach, d.

Artist Ben Webster

Title Londonderry Air (1st set)

Composer trad. Arr Webster

Album Soho Nights Vol. 1

Label Re-Steamed

Performers: Ben Webster, ts; Stan Tracey, p; Dave Green, b; Tony Crombie, d.

Artist Adrian Rollini and Goofus Five

Title Ain't That a Grand and Glorious Feeling

Album The Goofus Five 1926-7

Label Timeless

Performers: Chelsea Quealey, t; Al Philburn, tb; Bobby Davis, cl, as, ss; Sam Ruby, ts; Jack Russin, p; Tommy Felline, bj; Adrian Rollini, bassx; goofus, Herb Weil, d; Ted Wallace, v. 15 June 1927

Artist Louis Armstrong + Billie Holiday

Title Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans

Composer DeLange / Alter

Album New Orleans - Soundtrack

Label Upbeat

Performers: Louis Armstrong, t, v; Billie Holiday, v; Barney Bigard, cl; Kid Ory, tb; Charlie Beal, p; Red Callendar, b; Zutty Singleton, d. 1946

Artist Django Reinhardt

Title D R Blues

Composer Reinhardt

Album Keep Cool - guitar solos 1950-53

Label El / Five Four

Performers: Django Reinhardt, g; Maurice Vander, p; Pierre Michelot, b; Pierre Lamarchand, d. Jan 1953

Artist Duke Ellington

Title The Jeep Is Jumpin’

Composer Hodges

Album Meets Coleman Hawkins

Label Impulse

Performers:Ray Nance, t; Johnny Hodges, as; Coleman Hawkins, ts; Lawrence Brown, tb; Duke Ellington p; Aaron Ball, b; Sam Woodyard, d. 1962

Artist Count Basie

Title Easin’ It

Composer Foster

Album 1957-62 Live in Paris

Label Fremeaux

Performers: Sonny Cohn, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, Al Aarons, t; Henry Coker, Benny Powell, Quentin Jackson, tb; Marshall Royal Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Eric Dixon, Charlie Fowlkes, reeds; Count Basie, p; Freddie Green, g; Eddie Jones, b; Sonny Payne, d. 5 May 1962

Artist Freddie Green

Title Up In the Blues

Composer Green arr Cohn

Album Mr Rhythm

Label Fresh Sound

Performers: Joe Newman, t; Henry Coker, tb; Al Cohn, ts; Nat Pierce, p; Freddie Green g; Milt Hinton, b; Osie Johnson, d. 18 Dec 1955

Artist Camilla George

Title Isang

Composer George

Album Isang

Label Ubuntu

Performers: Camilla George, as; Sarah Tandy, p; Daniel Casimir, b; Femi Koleoso, d. 2017

Artist Will Todd

Title Benedictus

Composer Todd

Album Mass in Blue

Label Signum

Performers: Will Todd band, Vasari Singers, Bethany Halliday soprano.

Broadcast

  • Sat 4 Aug 201816:30
    BBC Radio 3

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