Monday, 26 January 2026

 Jazz Singers Through The Ages  – Tom Cochrane

Intro tracks Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) by Ray Charles, The Good Life by Betty Carter       

Track List

Track 1  Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday from the album Lady Sings The Blues [1956]  

Track 2  Driftin’ Blues by Charles Brown from the album Legend [1969 0riginally 1947 on 78rpm]  

Track 3 Mood Indigo by Nina Simone from the album Little Girl Blue [1957] 

Track 4 The Honeydripper by Count Basie and Big Joe Turner from the album The Bosses [1974]  

Track 5  Take Love Easy by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass from the album Take Love Easy [1973] 

Track 6 Every Day by Jimmy Witherspoon from the album Gerry Mulligan and Jimmy Witherspoon [1959]  

Track 7 Woman of the Ghetto by Marlena Shaw from the album The Spice of Life [1969]  

Track 8 Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott Heron from the album Pieces of a Man [1971]  

Track 9 Spirit by Al Jarreau from the album We Got By [1975]  

Track 10 Wrong Side of the Road by Tom Waits from the album Blue Valentine (1977) 

Track 11. Tracks of My Tears by Carmel from the album Carmel [1982]  

Track 12 Almost Blue by Chet Baker from the album Swimming By Moonlight [2025]  

Track 13 On and On by Erykah Badu from the album Baduizm [1997] 

Track 14 Moody’s Mood For Love by Amy Winehouse from the album Frank [2003] 

Track 15 Nola by José James from the album The Dreamer [2008]  

Track 16 I Can’t Stand The Rain by Cassandra Wilson from the album Blue Light ‘Til Dawn [2014] 

Track 17 One Way Traffic by Joe Armon Jones featuring Yazmin Lacey from the album All The Quiet Part II (2025) 

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Monday, 19 January 2026

Live at the Village Vanguard - John Hopkins

Track List

1 Sonny Rollins
A Night at the Village Vanguard (3 November 1957)

OLD DEVIL MOON: CD 1, track 8 (intro): 0’36; track 9: Sonny Rollins (ts), Wilbur Ware (b), Elvin Jones 8’19 [rec. Rudy Van Gelder]


2 Kenny Burrell
A Night at the Village Vanguard (16 – 17 September 1959)

I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU: track 3: Kenny Burrell (gtr), Richard Davis (b), Roy Haynes (d) 4’40 [rec. Phil Macy]


3 Bill Evans
Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 (25 June 1961)

WALTZ FOR DEBBY: CD 2, track 6: Bill Evans (pno), Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)  6’47 [rec. David Jones, prod. Orrin Keepnews]


4 John Coltrane
Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 (1 – 5 November 1961)

NAIMA 1 November 1961: CD1 track 3: John Coltrane (ts), Eric Dolphy (b.cl), McCoy Tyner (pno), Reggie Workman (b), Elvin Jones (d): 7’33 [rec: Rudy Van Gelder]


5 Wynton Marsalis
Live at the Village Vanguard (1990 – 1994)

SWING DOWN SWING TOWN: CD 5, track 9: Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Wessell Anderson (as), Victor Goynes (ts), Wycliffe Gordon (tbn), Eric Reed (pno), Ben Wolfe (b), Herlin Riley (d) 9’35 [rec. Mark Wilder]


6 Joe Lovano 
Quartets (12 March 1994, 20 – 22 January 1995)

DUKE ELLINGTON’S SOUND OF LOVE: CD 2, track 6: Joe Lovano (ts), Mulgrew Miller (pno), Christian McBride (b), Lewis Nash (d) 6’15 [rec. David Baker]


7 Joshua Redman
Live at the Village Vanguard (21 – 26 March 1995)

SLAPSTICK: CD 2, track 6: Joshua Redman (ts), Peter Martin (pno), Christopher Martin (b), Brian Blade (d) 5’51 [rec. James Farber]


8 Uri Caine
Village Vanguard (23 – 25 May 2003)

MOST WANTED: track 9: Uri Caine (pno), Drew Gress (b), Ben Perowsky (d) 6’34 [rec. Adrian Von Ripka]


9 Tom Harrell
Live at the Village Vanguard (15 – 18 November 2001)

ASIA MINOR: track 1: Tom Harrell (tpt), Jimmy Greene (ts), Xavier Davis (pno), Ugonna Okegwo (b), Quincy Davis (d) 8’41 [rec. David Baker and Katsuhiko Naito]


10 Brad Mehldau
Live (11 – 15 October 2006)

WONDERWALL: CD 1, track 1 (intro) 0’15; track 2: Brad Mehldau (pno), Larry Grenadier (b), Jeff Ballard (d) 8’45 [rec. James Farber, Tim Martyn and Rick Jacobson]

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Monday, 12 January 2026

The First Fifty Years of Jazz in Britain - Robert Porrer

Play-in music: Humphrey Lyttelton: St Louis Blues (1991)

Track List

1918 Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB): Clarinet Marmalade
1927  Ray Starita and the Piccadilly Revels Band: Go Joe, Go 
1930 Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra with Jimmy Dorsey and Muggsy Spanier:
             I like to do things for you (London test pressing)
1930 Duke Ellington: Old Man Blues
1931 Leslie Thompson with Spike Hughes Orchestra: Tap Your Feet
(1932) Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five:  Ory’s Creole Trombone (1927 version)
1935 Jack Hylton & Orchestra with Coleman Hawkins: My Melancholy Baby
1935 Lew Stone & His Band: Bouncing Ball
1936 Benny Carter & His Orchestra: Swingin’ at Maida Vale
1936 Nat Gonella & His Georgians: Just a Crazy Song
1940 Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band: Tuxedo Junction
1940 Sidney Bechet: Blues with Bechet
1944 Frank Deniz & His Spirits of Rhythm: Soft Winds
1946 Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli Hot Club de France: H.C.Q. Strut
1954 Cy Laurie Jazz Band: Forty & Tight
1958 Tony Coe Quintet: Sans Humph
1958 Diz Disley Quintet: Minor Swing
1959 Kenny Baker: Too Cool for the Blues
1959 Dave Brubeck: Three to Get Ready
1962 Chris Barber Band: Give Me Your Telephone Number

Bonus Track 
1953  Sid Phillips & His Band: Honeypot

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Monday, 08 December 2025

Live Set: Django's Tiger

Jazz Manouche inspired by the great Django Reinhardt
 
Damian Glasfurd-Brown

Louis Thorne

Joel Humann

Pete Newman

 
 

(photos by Mike Harris)

 
Damian Glasfurd-Brown  - Rhythm Guitar
Louis Thorne - Lead Guitar
Pete Newman  - Clarinet
Joel Humann  - Bass

Set List 
  1. Duke and Dukie/Swing 42 medley
  2. Gypsy Swing
  3. Anniversary Song
  4. Caravan (Ellington)
  5. Bei Mir Bistu Shein (Jacobs/Secunda)
  6. Daphne
  7. For Sephora (Rosenberg)
  8. Manoir de Mes Rêves/Django's Castle 
  9. Django's Tiger
  10. Troublante Bolero
  11. Viper's Dream
  12. Minor Swing
  13. Nuages
  14. Joseph, Joseph

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Monday, 01 December 2025

A Few of My Favourite Things - Alan Paterson


Track List

Prelude:  Humphrey Littleton and Chris Barber 
  1. Art Pepper  Anthropology  
  2. Chet Baker  My Funny Valentine  
  3. John Coltrane  Giant Steps  
  4. Horace Silver  Horace-Scope  
  5. Milt Jackson  The Cylinder  
  6. Yusef Lateef  Titora  
  7. Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson  Blues For Herky  
  8. Kenny Burrell  I'll Close My Eyes  
  9. Wayne Shorter  Second Genesis  
  10. Ornette Colman  The Sphinx  
  11. Ahmad Jamal  Ahmad's Blues  
  12. Charlie Parker  Air Conditioning  
  13. Coleman Hawkins  While We're Young  
  14. Charlie Mingus  Body and Soul  
  15. George Shearing  Have You Met Miss Jones  
  16. Sonny Rollins  The Last time I Saw Paris  
  17. Lester Young  She's Funny That Way  
  18. Johnny Hodges  Night Wind  
  19. Benny Goodman  Sing, Sing, Sing   (Carnegie Hall concert January 1938)

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Monday, 24 November 2025

65 Years of Jazz - Ron Plascow


Track List
Intro: "Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House” - live session from the JATP (Jazz at the Philharmonic) tour of 1957
  1. Subsonic Glow from CD "EFFRA"  by Misha Mullov-Abbado 2025.
  2. Bunny from CD "Gerry Mulligan meets Johnny Hodges"  1959.
  3. Blue Moon from CD "Solitude Songs" by Billie Holiday 1952.
  4. The Tokyo Blues from CD "The Tokyo Blues" by Horace Silver 1962.
  5. Big Dipper from CD "All My Yesterdays" The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra debut 1966 recordings at the Village Vanguard 1968 (live version).
  6. Joshua from CD "Seven Steps to Heaven" by Miles Davis 1962.
  7. There is No Greater Love from CD "Way out West" by Sonny Rollins 1957.
  8. The Good Life from CD "The Good Life" by the Oscar Peterson Trio 1973.
  9. Summertime  from CD "Porgy and Bess" by Joe Henderson 1997.
  10. River from CD "River the Joni Letters" by Herbie Hancock 2007. This version has Corinne Bailey Rae singing alongside Herbie Hancock.
  11. Labyrinth from CD "Voice" by Hiromi (Hiromi Uehera) 2011.
  12. O Que Sera from CD "Brad Mehldau Trio Live" by Brad Mehldau 2006.

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Monday, 17 November 2025

Acid Jazz - Andrew Nightingale


Track List
  1. Mystic Voyage by Roy Ayers from the album Mystic Voyage (1975) 
  2. Always There by Ronnie Laws from the album Pressure Sensitive (1975) 
  3. Parisienne Girl by Incognito from the album Jazz Funk (1981) 
  4. L’arc en ciel de miles by Incognito from the album Tribes, Vibes + Scribes (1991) 
  5. Never Stop by The Brand New Heavies from the album The Brand New Heavies (1991) 
  6. Release Yourself by Incognito from the album Inside Life (1991) 
  7. Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) by US3 from the album Hand on the Torch (1992) 
  8. Loud Minority by United Future Organization from the album UFOs For Real Scene 2 (1992) 
  9. So What by Ronny Jordan from the album The Antidote (1992)
  10. Space Cowboy by Jamiroquai from the album The Return of the Space Cowboy (1994) 
  11. Have a Good Time by The Brand New Heavies from the album Brother Sister (1994) 
  12. Crazy Race by The RH Factor from the album Jazz Divas (2006) 
  13. Kog by Groove Collective from the album People People Music Music (2006) 
  14. Parkside Shuffle by Down To The Bone from the album Supercharged (2007) 
  15. Theme From Belle Et Fou by Jazzanova from the album Belle et Fou (2007) 
  16. Butterfly by Mama Terra from the album Chameleons (Live Interpretations Of Herbie Hancock) (2025) 
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