Sandy Brown
Friday 21 October 2005 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
The revivalist movement during the late 1940s and '50s was a great flowering of British jazz talent worthy of celebration despite the fact that it is rather unfashionable today.
To many musicians Sandy Brown was Britain's most original jazz voice. He died in 1975 at the age of 46, and was named as the finest living clarinet player by several of the American musicians he encountered.
Alyn Shipton illuminates the life of this most individual musician with readings from Brown's collected writings The Mcjazz Manuscripts.
Playlist
1.
Title: PORTRAIT OF MILES
Artist: SANDY BROWN BIG FOUR
Composer: Brown
Album: Mc Jazz and Friends
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 58
2.
Title: GO GHANA
Artist: SANDY BROWN'S JAZZBAND
Composer: Brown/Greig
Publisher: Box and Cox
Album: Mc Jazz and Friends
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 58
3.
Title: GRAVIER ST. BLUES
Artist: JOHNNY DODDS
Composer: Clarence Williams
Publisher :Feldman
Label: Brunswick (Single /EP Release)
Number: OE9342
4.
Title: WILD MAN BLUES
Artist: SANDY BROWN'S JAZZ BAND
Composer: Morton/Armstrong
Publisher: Darewski
Album: The Great Revival Vol. 3 (Esquire)
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 136
5.
Title: EVERYBODY LOVES SATURDAY NIGHT
Artist: SANDY BROWN
Composer: Brown
Publisher: Burlington
Album: Sandy's Sidemen
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 133
6.
Title: AFRICAN QUEEN
Artist: SANDY BROWN
Composer: Brown
Album: Sandy's Sideman
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 133
7.
Title: GROOVER WAILING
Artist: SANDY BROWN/AL FAIRWEATHER ALL STARS
Composer: Johnny Mandel
Album: Swing at the BBC
Label: Upbeat
Number: URCD 182
8.
Title: HARLEM FATS
Artist: FAIRWEATHER- BROWN ALL STARS
Composer: Brown
Publisher: Allegro
Album: Doctor McJazz
Label: Lake
Number: LACD 211
9.
Title: JUST SQUEEZE ME
Artist: PHIL SEAMEN
Composer: Ellington/Lee Gaines
Publisher: Big Three
Album: Phil On Drums
Label: 77
Number: SEU 12/53
10.
Title: AQUARIUS
Artist: SANDY BROWN AND HIS GENTLEMEN OF JAZZ
Composer: Rani/Rado/MacDermott
Publisher: EMI United Partnership
Album: Hair At Its Hairiest
Label: Fontana
Number: SFJL92
11.
Title: SANDY'S BLUE'S
Artist: BRIAN LEMON
Composer: Brown
Album: Our Kind Of Music
Label: 77
Number: LEU 12/38
