Midsummer Jazz
Alyn Shipton with a selection of listener's requests featuring music inspired by summer featuring recordings by Anita O'Day, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Astrid Gilberto and more.
Alyn Shipton with a selection of listener's requests featuring music inspired by Summer. Including a performance by singer Anita O'Day from the film Jazz On a Summer's Day, Duke Ellington's Some Summer Fun, Once Upon a Summertime by Miles Davis, a classic from Astrid Gilberto and Stan Getz and plenty more sounds to evoke those warm summer days as part of our Midsummer Jazz special. Get in touch: [email protected] or use #jazzrecordrequests on social.
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Music Played
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Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia
Summer Madness
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Duke Ellington
Some Summer Fun
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Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto
The Girl From Ipanema
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Sidney Bechet
Summertime
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Jim Robinson
In The Good Old Summertime
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Louis Armstrong & Dave Brubeck
Summer Song
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Anita O’Day
Sweet Georgia Brown
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Tina May
Lazy Afternoon
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Dizzy Gillespie
One Note Samba
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Ella Fitzgerald
Here's that Rainy Day
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Humphrey Lyttelton's Band
Wally Plays The Blues
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Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra
Once Upon a Summertime
Broadcast
- Sun 23 Jun 202416:00BBC Radio 3
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