Monday, 10 November 2025

My UK Jazz Journey - Peter Miller

Track List

1. St Louis Blues   Ken Colyer's Jazzmen from the album  'This is the Blues'
2. What's I'm Gotcha   Chris Barber's Jazz Band  from the album  'Barber in Berlin' (Chris Barber International Volume One)
3. Hanid  Tony Coe Quintet   from the album  'Hot Jazz, Cool Beer'
4. Night Train  Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames  from the album  'Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo'
5. All White Soft Machine   from the album  'Soft Machine 5'
6. Bedruthan Steps  John Surman   from the album  'Road to Saint Ives'
7. Silver Surfer  Courtney Pine from the album   'Underground'  
8. Camel  Zoe Rahman  from the album  'Melting Pot'
9. Brian  Polar Bear  from the album  'Polar Bear'
10. New Transylvania Fulbourn Teversham  from the album  'Count Herbert II'
11. On Broadway  Gwilym Simcock   from the album  'Blues Vignette' (Disc 1)
12. Sanctuary  John Mclaughlin & the 4th Dimension   from the album  'Live at Ronnie Scott's'
13. Living  Shabaka  from the album   'Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace'

Monday, 03 November 2025

Live Set: John Tyson Quintet

A history of the early period of Jazz from Trad to Be-bop.

   (photos by Mike Harris)

John Tyson - Drums

Ruth Applin - Piano and vocals

John Cherry - Guitar and banjo

Derek Clenshaw - Trombone

Louis Thorne - Bass

Set List

1. Exactly Like You 
2. Just a Little While to Stay Here
3. Wabash Blues
4. All Of Me
5. Moon Glow
6. Cheek to Cheek
7. Isn't this a Lovely Day
8. September in the Rain
9. So Nice
10. When I Grow Too Old To Dream

Monday, 27 October 2025

1959-1970 From Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew - Tom Cochrane

Track List

Intro Tracks: Since I Fell For You , Flip Flop & Fly by Big Joe Turner and Count Basie from the album The Bosses (1974) 

Track 1  Stella by Starlight by Miles Davis from the album Birth of the Blue [2024]

Track 2 Nardis by Bill Evans from the album Explorations [1961]

Track 3  My One and Only Love by John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman from the album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman [1963]

Track 4 Nature Boy by John Coltrane from the album Both directions At Once The Lost Album [2018]

Track 5 I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts of Town by Ray Charles from the album Genius + Soul = Jazz  [1961]

Track 6  Why Was I Born? By Jimmy Smith from the album Midnight Special [1961]

Track 7 I Want A Little Girl by Stanley Turrentine &The Three Sounds from the album Blue Hour [1961] 

Track 8 Blues For The Orient by Yusef Lateef from the album Eastern Sounds [1962] 

Track 9 Wavy Gravy by Kenny Burrell from the album Midnight Blue [1963]]  

Track 10 Listen Hear by Eddie Harris from the album High Voltage [1969]

Track 11 The Beat Goes On by Gabor Szabo from the album the Sorcerer [1967]

Track 12 Stoned Soul Picnic by Roy Ayers from the album Stoned Soul Picnic [1968]

Track 13 Backlash Blues by Nina Simone from the album Nina Simone Sings The Blues [1967]

Track 14 Walk Tall by Cannonball Adderly from the album Country Preacher [1970]

Track 15 Black Narcissus by Joe Henderson from the album Power To The People [1969]

Track 16 John McLaughlin by Miles Davis from the album Bitches Brew [1970]

Monday, 20 October 2025

1959 An Alternative Take - Maggie Balshaw

Track List

Oscar Peterson I Got Plenty O’Nuttin’

Kenny Dorham Spring Cannon

Miles Davis Blue in Green

Horace Silver Quintet The Baghdad Blues

Chet Baker How High the Moon

Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges St Louis Blues

John Coltrane Naima

Dinah Washington What a Difference a Day Makes

Thelonious Monk Quintet Straight, No Chaser

Dizzy Gillespie Be Bop

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Moanin’

Charles Mingus Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Ornette Coleman Eventually

Sun Ra and his Arkestra Hours After

Monday, 13 October 2025

The 50s Cool & Blue - Alan Murphy

Track list

Prelude - Birth of the Cool   Brubeck/Davis

1. Something Cool   June Christy 1952
2. Short Stop   Shorty Rogers Giants 1952
3. I'll Remember April   Konitz/Mulligan 1953
4. Ad Lib Blues   Lester Young 1952
5. Funky Blues   Parker/Hodges/Carter 1952
6. Memphis Blues   Armstrong All Stars 1954
7. Blues for Bird   Modern Jazz Sextet 1956
8. Red Pepper Blues  Art Pepper and the Rhythm Section 1957
9. Night & Day   Tatum/Webster 1956
10. Summertime   Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong 1957
11. The Preacher  Horace Silver 1955
12. St Thomas   Sony Rollins 1956 *
13. Blue Rondo à la Turk   Dave Brubeck 1959

* Not played at the session. 

Monday, 06 October 2025

From Trad to Bop - Alan Murphy

Track List

Prelude - Big Band Swing 1935-1945

1. The Entertainer   Ken Colyer  1955
2. Ory's Creole Trombone   Kid Ory  1927
3. Wild Cat Blues  Clarence Williams/Sidney Bechet  1923
4. Black Bottom Stomp  Jelly Roll Morton  1926
5. Trombone Cholly  Bessie Smith  1927
6. Royal Garden Blues   Bix Beiderbecke  1927
7. Sugar Foot Stomp   Fletcher Henderson  1925
8. Toby  Bennie Moten 1932
9. Jamaica Shout   Henry Allen/Coleman Hawkins  1932
10. Lady Be Good   Jones-Smith Inc.   1936
11. Liza   Art Tatum   1936
12. Walkin' and Swingin'    Andy Kirk   1937
13. This Year's Kisses    Billie Holiday  1937
14. Jeeps Blues   Johnny Hodges  1939
15. Ko Ko    Charlie Parker   1945
16. Super Session    Don Byas   1946
17. Webb City    Bebop Boys   1947
18. Wow    Lennie Tristano     1949 *

*  Not played at the session.

Monday, 17 March 2025

Members' Choice

Track List

Brownie McGhee, So Much Trouble  (1952)

Ella Fitzgerald, In a Mellow Tone (1958)

Ineza with Alex Webb & The Copasetics, Don't Waste Your Time (2024)

Branford Marsalis, The Ruby and the Pearl  (2004)

Oliver Nelson,  Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961)

Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Way of the Pilgrim (1975)

Charlie Parker, Ornithology (1946)

Chris Barber, Petite Fleur (1958)

T Bone Walker, That Evening Train (1970)

Art Pepper, Anthropology (1959)

Lionel Hampton, Flying Home (1957)

Amancio Da Silva, A Street in Bombay (1972)

Laurindo Almeida, Claire de Lune Samba (1979)

Stan Tracey, Starless and Bible Black (1965)