Monday 14th October

 Sounds of the 50s - Alan Murphy

Track List 

Prelude                                    Anglo-American Herd     1959

April in Paris  Charlie Parker     1950

Oscalypso                               Oscar Pettiford                    1951

But Not For Me Modern Jazz Quartet     1952

Wee         The Quintet     1953

Bernie's Tune Gerry Mulligan Quartet     1953

Daahoud         Brown-Roach Quintet     1954

The Preacher Horace Silver     1955

St. Thomas Sonny Rollins     1956

Moanin'                 Art Blakey     1956

Blue Train John Coltrane     1957

Love for Sale Adderly-Davis                     1958

The Blessing Ornette Coleman     1958

St Louis Blues                         Ellington-Hodges               1959

'S Wonderful Ella Fitzgerald                    1959

Monday 7th October

From Trad to Bop - Alan Murphy

Track List

Prelude - Louis Armstrong plays W. C. Handy 1954.

Tiger Rag                                         Original Dixieland Jazz Band               1917

Ory's Creole Trombone                    Kid Ory                                       1922

Dippermouth Blues                           King Oliver                               1923

Black Bottom Stomp                        Jelly Roll Morton                              1926

Backwater Blues                               Bessie Smith                               1927

Weather Bird                                     Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines       1928

Old Man Blues                   Duke Ellington                              1930

Singing the Blues                  Frank Trambauer                               1927

I've Found a New Baby                  Chicago Rhythm Kings                       1928

Toby                   Bennie Moten                       1932

Jumping at the Woodside                  Count Basie                               1938

Way Down Yonder In New Orleans  Kansas city six                               1938

After You've Gone    Benny Goodman Trio                       1935

What a Little Moonlight Can Do    Billie Holiday                       1935

Ko Ko    Charlie Parker                       1945

Good Bait     Dizzy Gillespie                               1945

Jay-bird     J J Johnson                               1946

Nostalgia             Fats Navarro                       1947

Misterioso     Thelonious Monk                              1948

Conception     George Shearing                               1949


Monday, 18th March

Live Set from Derek Scurll (vibraphone), with Louis Thorne (guitar) and Joel Humann (Bass).





Monday, 11th March

Spiritual Jazz -Tom Cochrane

Intro Track

Love Supreme Part I by John Coltrane from the album Love Supreme (1965)

Track List

Search For Peace by McCoy Tyner from the album The Real McCoy (1967)

The Creator Has a Master Plan by Pharoah Sanders from the album Live In Paris 1975 (2020)

Stopover Bombay by Alice Coltrane from the album Journey In Satchidananda (1971)

Astral Traveling by Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes from the album Astral Traveling (1973)

Where Pathways Meet by Sun Ra and His Arkestra from the album Lanquidity (1978)

Love Theme From Spartacus by Yusef Lateef from the album Eastern Sounds (1961)

Celestial Blues by Gary Bartz Ntu Troop from the album Harlem Bush Music -Uhuru (1971)

Cloud 10 by Chip Wickham from the album Cloud 10 (2022)

Salute To The Sun by Matthew Halsall from the album Salute To The Sun (2020)

Unconditional Love by The Greg Foat Group from the album Blue Lotus (2022)

Raisons Under The Sun by Yussef Dayes from the album Black Classical Music (2023)

Invocation by Phi-Psonics from the album Octava (2023)

Desire by Kamasi Washington from the album Harmony of Difference (2017)

Monday, 4th March

Members Choice

Request List

Eddie Harris - Listen Here

Stan Kenton - Peanut Vendor

Nat King Cole - Let There Be Love

David Crosby - Tamalpais High (at About 3)

Dresch Quartet - TĂșl a Vizen

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Brazil

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared to What?

Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton - Katanga

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamasa - Sunday Kind of Love

Soil and Pimp Sessions - Planet Caravan

Brad Mehldau - Blackbird

Buddy Rich - Norwegian Wood

Sid Philips - South Rampart Street Parade

Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn - Take the 'A' Train

Pharoah Sanders - Greetings to Idris

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Riviera Paradise

Charlie Parker - A Night in Tunisia 


Monday, 26th February

Big Band Bash - Robert Turvey

Track List

Buddy Rich - Pieces of Dreams from the album The Big Band Machine  (1975)

Maria Schneider Orchestra – A Potters Song from the album The Thompson Fields (2015) 

Count Basie - Straight Ahead from the album of the same name (1968) 

Jacob Mann Big Band - Flight Screen Solitaire from the album Greatest Hits Vol 3 (2022)

Duke Ellington - The Queen’s Suite from (The Ellington Suites) (1959 – 1976) 

  “The Queen's Suite: Sunset and the Mocking Bird" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Lightning Bugs and Frogs" (Strayhorn)[6] 

  "The Queen's Suite: Le Sucrier Velours" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Northern Lights" (Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: The Single Petal of a Rose" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Apes and Peacocks" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

Bob Curnow’s LA Big Band - The First Circle from Music of Pat Methany & Lyle Mays (1994)

Tommy Dorsey - Song of India 78rpm with ‘Marie’ side 2 (1937)

Don Ellis - Image of Maria from the album Soaring (1973) 

Miles Davis - Will o’ the Wisp from the album Sketches of Spain (1960)

Diva Jazz Orchestra - Pennies from Heaven from the album A Swinging Life (2014)

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band - A Game of Inches from the album XXL (2003) 


Monday, 19th February

Mercury Prize Nominated Jazz Albums – Paul Rule 


Introductory Tracks

Bheki Mseleku - Celebration from the album Celebration 1992

Coutney Pine - Don't 'Xplain from the album Modern Day Jazz Stories 1996

Album & Track List

John Surman - The Kings from the album Proverbs and Songs 1998

Denys Baptiste - Nama from the album Be Where You Are 1999

Guy Barker -  Queen of the Night from the album Soundtrack 2002

Amy Winehouse - What Is It About Men from the album Frank 2004

Polar Bear - To Touch The Red Brick from the album Held on the Tips of Fingers 2005

Portico QuartetKnee-Deep in the North Sea from the album Knee-Deep in the North Sea 2008

Kit Downes Trio - Golden from the album Golden 2010

Gwilym Simcock - Wake up Call from the album Good Days At Schloss Elmau 2011

Roller Trio - The Interrupters from the album Roller Trio 2012

GoGo Penguin - Kamaloka from the album V2.0 2014

Dinosaur - Steadily Sinking from the album Together, As One 2017

Moses Boyd - Stranger Than Fiction from the album Dark Matter 2020

Nubya Garcia - Stand with Each Other from the album Source 2021

Fergus McCreadie - Landslide  from the album The Unfurrowed Field 2022

Ezra CollectiveEgo Killah from the album Where I'm Meant To Be 2023 (Winner)

A full list of Mercury Prize nominated artists and winners can be found here.