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From Wagner to Stravinsky in jazz

A march from Acker Bilk and Gerald Wilson leads a big band with a Stravinsky theme.

Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis play a well-worn, but well loved classic from Tadd Dameron. Acker Bilk features from one of his EPs which contained nothing but marches, played in a traditional style.

Toots Thielmans and Joe Pass are together at the Northsea Jazz Festival in the Hague in the 1980s and Charlie Parker from the 1950s in a big band put together by local Washington disc jockey (as he was then), Willis Conover.

There’s an authentic New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra who played for dancing and we visit Titley, a village near the Welsh border, to hear all about the second Titley Jazz Festival and a dog named Charlie Parker.

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Wed 20 Jul 201119:00
BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke

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Music Played

  • Johnny Griffin

    Good Bait

  • Mary Stallings

    Until I Met You

  • Acker Bilk

    Under The Double Eagle

  • Gerald Wilson

    Variations On A Theme By Igor Stravinsky

  • Jackie McLean

    Theme For Sister Salvation

  • Toots Thielemans

    Someday My Prince Will Come

  • Charlie Parker

    Fine And Dandy

  • Louise Rogers

    Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

  • Dizzy Gillespie

    Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

  • Tal Farlow

    I Remember You

  • Cab Calloway

    Everybody Eats When They Come To My House

  • Humphrey Lyttelton

    Buddy's Habit

  • Anita Wardell

    Wonderful, Wonderful

  • Lynne Arriale

    Here Comes The Sun

  • The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra

    Hindustan

  • Stan Tracey

    Triple Celebration

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Jul 201119:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Radio Stoke