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Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests, including recordings by Andy Kirk’s Clouds of Joy and maverick singer Blossom Dearie.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 25 Aug 201816:00

Music Played

  • Wynton Kelly

    The Surrey With The Fringe On Top

    • Complete Vee Jay Studio Recordings.
    • Lonehill.
    • 10.
  • Buck Clayton Orchestra

    Don't You Miss Your Baby?

    • Complete Jam Sessions.
    • Lonehill.
    • 9.
  • Paul Gonsalves

    I Cover The Waterfront

    • Getting' Together.
    • Fantasy.
    • 6.
  • Artie Shaw

    Bird Calls

    • Count Basie and His Orchestra - the Uncollected 1944.
    • Hindsight.
    • 11.
  • Andy Kirk

    Lover Come Back To Me

    • n/a.
    • Brunswick.
    • 1.
  • Glen Gray & Hal David

    Woodland Symphony

    • N/A.
    • Brunswick.
    • 1.
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    You Did It!

    • We Free Kings.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.
  • Gallery

    Pale Sun

    • Gallery.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • David Grisman

    Ricochet

    • Great American Music Hall, 1977.
    • Acoustic Oasis.
    • 9.
  • Emily Remler

    Pocket Wes

    • Take Two.
    • Concord.
    • 5.
  • Barney Wilen

    Zombizar

    • Moshi.
    • Saravah.
    • 1.
  • Blossom Dearie

    The Surrey With the Fringe On Top

    • Jazz In Paris: Blossom Dearie.
    • 5.

Jazz Record Requests

Artist Wynton Kelly

Title Surrey with the Fringe on Top

Composer Rodgers / Hammerstein

Album Complete Vee Jay Studio Recordings

Label Lonehill Jazz

Performers: Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 1961

Artist Buck Clayton

Title Don’t You Miss Your baby

Composer Basie, Durham, Rushing,

Album Complete Legendary Jam Sessions Master Takes.

Label Lonehill Jazz

Performers: Buck Clayton, Billy Butterfield, Ruby Braff, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Coleman Hawkins, Julian Dash, ts; Kenny Kersey, p; Steve Jordan, g; Walter Page, b; Bobby Donaldson, d. Jimmy Rushing, v.

Artist Paul Gonsalves

Title I Cover The Waterfront

Composer Green / Heyman

Album Getting’ Together

Label Fantasy

Performers: Paul Gonsalves, ts; Wynton Kelly, p; Sam Jones, b; Jimmy Cobb, d. 1960

Artist Artie Shaw

Title Bird Calls

Composer Shaw / Basie

Album Count Basie and His Orchestra – the Uncollected 1944

Label Hindsight

Performers: Artie Shaw, cl; Count Basie, p; Freddie Green g; Rodney Richardson, b; Buddy Rich, d. 1944

Artist Andy Kirk

Title Lover Come Back to Me

Composer Romberg, Hammerstein

Album n/a

Label Brunswick

Performers: Clarence Trice, Earl Thompson, Harry Lawson, t; Ted Donelly, Henry Wells, tb; John Harrington, Dick Wilson, John Williams, Earl Miller, reeds; Mary Lou Williams, p; Ted Robinson, g; Booker Collins, b; Ben Thigpen, d; Pha Terrell, v;13 Dec 1937.

Artist Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra

Title Woodland Symphony

Composer Bert Stevens / Hal David

Album n/a

Label Brunswick

Performers: Glen Gray, cl, as, fl, dir; Cy Baker, Grady Watts, Frank Ryerson, Corky Cornelius, t; Pee Wee Hunt, Murray McEachern, tb; Clarence Hutchenrider, Kenny Sargent, Art Ralston, Danny Andrea, Pat Davis, reeds; Joe Hall, p; Jack Blanchette, g; Stanley Dennis, b; Tony Briglia, d. 27 May 1941

Artist Roland Kirk

Title You Did It

Composer Kirk

Album We Free Kings

Label Mercury

Performers: Roland Kirk, fl; Hank Jones, p; Wendell Marshall, b; Charlie Persip, d. Aug 1961.

Artist Gallery

Title Pale Sun

Composer McCandless

Album Gallery

Label ECM

Performers: Paul McCandless, ss, ob, cor anglais; David Samuels, vib; David Darling, cello; Ratzo Harris, b; Michael DiPasquia, d. 1981.

Artist David Grisman

Title Ricochet

Album Great American Music Hall, 1977

Label Acoustic Oasis

Performers: David Grisman, mand; Darol Anger, vn; Mike Marshall, mand; Todd Phillips, b; Tony Rice, g.

Artist Emily Remler

Title Pocket Wes

Composer Remler

Album Take Two

Label Concord

Performers: Emily Remler, g; James Williams, p; Don Thompson, b; Terry Clarke, d. 1982

Artist Barney Wilen

Title Zombizar

Composer Wilen, de Bendern

Album Moshi

Label Saravah

Performers: Barney Wilen, ts; Pierre Chaze, g; Michel Grailler, elp; Didier Leon, lute; Christian Tritsch b; Micheline Pelzer, d; Caroline de Bendern, Babeth Lamy, Laurence Apithi, Marva Broome, v. 1972

Artist Blossom Dearie

Title Surrey with the fringe on top

Composer Rodgers / Hammerstein

Album Jazz In Paris: Blossom Dearie

Label Emarcy

Performers: Blossom Dearie, p, v; Herman Gant, b; Bernard Planchenault, d. Paris, 1955.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Aug 201816:00

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