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Amy Harman and Peter Long cue the bass

Trumpeter, saxophonist and bandleader Peter Long and bassoonist Amy Harman join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add five more tracks.

Bassoonist Amy Harman and bandleader, jazz man and multi-instrumentalist Peter Long join Anna Phoebe and Jeffrey Boakye to add five more tracks, a journey which starts with a virtual cartoon band and ends up in Colombia, stopping off at Gotham City, Knebworth and the New York jazz scene in 1946.

Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz
Main Title Theme from Batman by Danny Elfman
Another One Bites the Dust (live) by Queen
One Bass Hit by Dizzy Gillespie
Posee un Corazón by Leonor Dely

Other music in this episode

Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson
Animal Crackers by Melanie
The Laughing Policeman by Charles Penrose
Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
Main Title Theme from Superman by John Williams
Main Title Theme from Beetlejuice by Danny Elfman
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Bernard Herrmann
Main Title Theme from The Simpsons by Danny Elfman
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

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Tue 25 Nov 202511:00
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