Monday, 7th December

Live Session from the Grace Williams

Set List

1  Summer Time

2  But Not For Me

3  The Man I Love

4  Blue Moon

5  Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

6  I’ve Got You Under My Skin

7  What Is This Thing Called Love

8  Every Time We Say Goodbye

9  At Last

10 Why Don’t You Do Right

11 The Way You Look Tonight

12 The Nearness Of You

13 Fly Me To The Moon

14 Moon River

15 Autumn Leaves

16 Don’t Cry Baby

17 What A Wonderful World

18 The Christmas Song

Monday, 30th November

Jazz Tributes: John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Don Rendell

John Taylor

JohnTaylor and Charlie Haden, “Chairman Mao” recorded in 2003. From the 2004 LP/CD “Nightfall” on the Naim label.

John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler, “Dance” from the Camjazz 2004 CD “Where do we go from here”.

Kenny Wheeler

Graham Collier Septet “El Mikos” from the 1967 LP “Deep Dark Blue Centre”.

Kenny Wheeler and the John Dankworth Orchestra, “Preamble” and “Don the Dreamer” from the 1968 LP “Windmill Tilter”.

Stan Sulzmann, “Everybody’s  song but my own?” the title track of an 1987 LP on the Loose Tubes label.

Kenny Wheeler Quartet, “Nicolette” from the 1996 ECM CD “Angel Song”.

Don Rendell

The new Don Rendell Quartet, “Manumission” from the 1961LP “Roarin”.

The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, “Shades of Blue” title track from the LP of 1964.

Monday, 23rd November

POST WAR BRITISH JAZZ

1.  Take the A train - Ted Heath 1948

2.  Georgia on my mind - Humphrey Littleton 1949

3.  September in the rain - George Shearing 1949

4.  Stormy weather- Cleo Laine  1957

5.  Somebody loves me - John Dankworth 1957

Trad montage from 1955:

6.  St Louis blues - Barber-Patterson

7.  Organ grinder blues - Mulligan-Melly

8.  Emperor Norton's hunch - Merseysippi Jazz band

9.  Creole love call - Crane river jazz band

10. King porter stomp - Sandy Brown jazz band

11. Royal garden blues - Cy Laurie jazz band

12. King Kong - Terry Lightfoot NO jazzmen

13. Blue Hayes - Tubby Hayes quartet 1959

14. Apple honey - BBC big band 1994

15. Dotty blues - Alan Barnes 1997

16. Teach me tonight - Clare Teal 2003

17. Wee small hours - Jamie Cullum 2004

18. Good morning blues - Jools Holland with Tom Jones  2004

Monday, 16th November

Scandinavian Jazz

Track List

Denmark

Marguerite Viby - Hot Hot
Leo Mathisen - Jive at Volga
Eclipse, Thad Jones - To You
Kenny Drew & Niels H O Pedersen  - My Shining Hour

Sweden 

Arne Domnerus & Rune Gustafsson - Blowing in the Wind
Alice Babs - I Don’t Mind
Lars Gullin - Danny’s Dream 
Monica Zetterlund & Bill Evans - Some Other Time
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Serenade for the Renegade
EST – Goldwrap

Norway

Marius Neset – Sane
Jan Garbarek - Where the Rivers Meet
Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble – Svjete Tihij
Arve Henriksen - Migration
Miles Davis – Electric Red

Monday, 9th November

Jazz in Cambridge - A look back at who has played here over the last 12 months

Track List

1. Marcus Miller -  What is Hip
2. Allison Neil - Quartet I wished on the Moon
3. Alan Barnes -   Sultry Sunset
4. Churchill Big Band -  Higher Ground
5. Alison Rayner Quintet - Album August
6. Arun Ghosh - Nocturne
7. Ian Shaw - You’veGot a Friend
8. Robert Mitchell 3io - The Blessing
9. Emilia Martensson - Harvest Moon
10. Brass Funkys - High Grade
11. Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock - The Summer Knows
12. Maciek Pysz Trio -  Lost in London
13. Kevin Flanagan Quartet - The More I See You
14. Claire Teal Chasing - Chasing Cars (The original Snow Patrol version can be heard here)
15 Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra - Caribe  

Monday, 2nd November

Live Session from the VK Quartet

Vij Prakash - Trombone

David Ingamells - Drums

Flo Moore - Double Bass

Alex Veitch - Keyboards

Monday, 26th October

“Modern to Contemporary” Part 1 up to 1959

Track List

1&2 Thelonious Monk, “Round About Midnight” and “Misterioso” from the Blue Note LP “Genius of Modern Music Volume 1”, recorded 1947-1948.

3 Bud Powell, “Un Poco Loco”, from the Blue Note LP “The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 1”, recorded 1949-1951.

4 Sonny Rollins, “St Thomas” from the Prestige LP “Saxophone Colossus”, recorded 1956.

5 Sonny Clark, “Cool Struttin” title track of the Blue Note LP, recorded 1958.

6 Bill Evans, “Peace Piece” from the Riverside LP “Everybody Digs” recorded 1958.

7 Cannonball Adderley “Autumn Leaves” from the Blue Note LP “Somethin’ Else” recorded 1958. Miles Davis on trumpet.

8 Miles Davis, “Blue in Green” from the Columbia LP “Kind of Blue”, 1959.

9&10 John Coltrane, “Mr PC” and “Naima” from the Atlantic LP “Giant Steps” recorded 1959.

11 Charles Mingus, “Boogie Stop Shuffle” from the Columbia LP “Mingus  Ah Hum”, recorded  1959.

Monday, 19th October

PARTING OF THE WAYS -  The swing era begat rhythm & blues,bop,cool & modern mainstream jazz. In parallel there was a trad revival.

Track List

1.  Caldonia Louis Jordan 1943
2.  All or nothing blues Dinah Washington 1947
3.  Shake rattle & roll Big Joe Turner 1954
4.  Good bait Dizzy Gillespie BB 1946
5.  KC blues Charlie Parker quintet 1947
6.  Night in Tunisia The Quintet 1953
7.  Moanin Art Blakey JM 1958/80
8.  Intermission riff Stan Kenton 1945/56
9.  Boplicity Miles Davis nonet 1949
10.Walking shoes Gerry Mulligan quartet 1952
11.Infinity promenade         Shorty Rogers giants 1953
12.Blue rondo a la turk Dave Brubeck quartet 1959
13.Aunt Hagars blues Louis Armstrong AS 1954
14.The kid from Redbank Count Basie 1957
15.Wabash blues Ellington Hodges 1959
16.Fine & mellow Billie Holiday 1957.

Monday, 12th October

The first 40 years - Looking at some major influencers

Track List 

1a The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Clarinet Marmalade” 1918
1b Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, “Rhapsody in Blue” (Gershwin), 1924
1c Paul Whiteman (small group), “San”, 1928

2 Jesse Stone and his Serenaders, “Boot to Boot”, 1927
3 Alphonso Trent and his Orchestra, “Nightmare”, 1928
4 George Lee and his Orchestra, “Paseo Strut”, 1929
5 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “Thick Lip Stomp”, 1926
6 Walter Page’s Blue Devils, “Squabblin’”, 1929
7 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “Moten Swing”, 1932
8 The Count Basie Orchestra, “Doggin’ Around”, 1938
9 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Old Man Blues”, 1930
10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Daybreak Express”, 1933
11 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra at Fargo, “On the Air”, 1940
12 Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom 5, (aka Luis Russell Orchestra) “Mahogany Hall Stomp”, 1929
13 Fats Waller and his Rhythm, “The Joint is Jumpin’”, 1935
14 Quintet du Hot Club de France, “Djangology”, 1935
15 Ella Fitzgerald with sextet, “Just a-sittin’ and a-rockin’”, 1956
16 Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, “Strange Fruit”, 1939
17 Muggsy Spanier’s Ragtime Band, “Livery Stable Blues”, 1939
18a Tommy Ladnier and Orchestra, “Really the Blues”, 1938
18b Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen, “Oh Didn’t he Ramble”, 1939
18c Mercury All Stars, “High Society”, 1944
19 Jay McShann and his Orchestra, “Swingmatism”, 1941
20 Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra, “Body and Soul”, 1939

Monday, 5th October

The first 40 years - From its roots in New Orleans,the great migration north to the age of swing

Track list 

1a Shine-Hambone, “A Shoeshine Boy”, 1957
1b Baby Dodds, “Spooky Drums”, 1946
1c Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Easy Rider Blues”, 1927
1d Eureka Brass Band, “Just a Little While to Stay Here”, 1958
1e Scott Joplin, “Elite Sincopations (sic), written 1902
1f Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals, “Salty Dog”, 1926 

2 King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, “Sweet Lovin' Man”, 1923
3 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “Muskrat Ramble, 1926
4 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven, “Alligator Crawl”, 1927
5 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “West End Blues”, 1928
6 Bessie Smith acc Louis Armstrong, “I Ain't Going To Play Second Fiddle”, 1925
7 Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, “Deadman Blues”, 1926
8 Frankie Trambauer and his Orchestra, "I'm Coming Virginia”, 1927
9 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “What-Cha'-Call-'Em-Blues”, 1925
10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Hot and Bothered”, 1928
11 Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra, “Organ Ginders Swing”, 1934
12 Chick Webb’s Orchestra, “Liza”, 1938
13 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “Jangled Nerves”, 1936
14 Jones-Smith Inc, “Shoe Shine Boy”, 1936
15 The Count Basie Orchestra, Texas Shuffle”, 1938
16 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, “Life Goes to a Party”, 1938
17 Glen Miller and his Orchestra, “LIttle Brown Jug”, 1941
18 Humphrey Littleton & his Band, “Cake Walking Babies”, 1948
19 Kansas City Seven, “Destination KC”, 1944
20 Johnny Hodges & Ben Webster, “Big Smack”, 1962

Monday, 16th March

Live session from Robin Phillips

Monday, 9th March

Four Seasons - Jazz interpretations of seasonal compositions

Track List

1.  Indiana Winter                           Coleman Hawkins                                   1946

2.  Winter wonderland                   Peggy Lee                                                  1965

3.  Winter                                          Al Cohn                                                      1956

4.  My funny valentine                   Ella Fitzgerald                                           1956

5.  Some other Spring                     Billie Holiday                                            1939

6.  April in Paris                               Count Basie                                               1956

7.  I'll remember April                    Lee Konitz                                                  1953

8.  April age                                      Cleo Laine                                                  1956

9.  Summertime                               Ella Fitzgerald  & Louis Armstrong      1957

10.Midnight sun                               June Christie                                            1952/60

11.June Bug                                       Lester Young                                             1950

12.Sonnymoon for two                    Sonny Rollins                                            1957

13.Early Autumn                              Stan Getz                                                    1948

14.Autumn Leaves                           Errol Garner                                              1956

15.Autumn in New York                 Harry Allen                                                2009

16.September in the rain                Andre Previn                                             1950.

17.September Song                          Sarah Vaughan                                         1954

Monday, 2nd March

Tributes - Musical tributes to recently departed jazz musicians

Track Listing

Acker Bilk

1. Stranger on the Shore, May 1968.18 piece band, including Acker Bilk (clarinet), Kenny Wheeler, Ian Hamer (trumpet), Ian Carr (flugelhorn), Keith Christie, Don Lusher, Chris Pyne (trombone), Tony Coe (tenor sax), Stan Tracey (piano and arranger), Dave Green (bass). From the LP “Blue Acker”, CD reissue on Lake.

Horace Silver

2. Blowingthe Blues Away. Title track. Horace Silver (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Gene Taylor (bass), Louis Haynes (drums). Blue Note, Aug 1959.

3. Song formy Father. Title track. Horace Silver (piano), Carmel Jones (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Teddy Smith (bass), Roger Humphries (drums), Blue Note, Oct 1964.

4. LonelyWoman. Horace Silver (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Teddy Smith (bass), Gene Taylor (bass), Roy Brooks (drums). From the Blue Note LP “Song for my Father”, Oct 1963.

Clark Terry

5. Swahili. Clark Terry (trumpet), Cecil Payne (baritone sax), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Horace Silver (piano), Oscar Pettiford (cello and bass), Wendell Marshall (bass), Art Blakey (drums). From the LP “Introducing Clark Terry” (also issued as “Ellington Sideman”), Jan 1955, reissued on Avid Four Classic Albums.

6. Brotherhood of Man. Clark Terry (trumpet), Oscar Peterson (piano), Ed Thigpen (drums), Ray Brown (bass). From the Mercury LP “Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clark Terry” Feb 1964.

7. I Want aLittle Girl. Clark Terry (trumpet), Oscar Peterson (piano), Ed Thigpen (drums), Ray Brown (bass). From the Mercury LP “Oscar Peterson Trio + One Clark Terry” Feb 1964.

Charlie Haden

8. Eventually. Charlie Haden (bass), Ornette Coleman (alto sax), Donald Cherry (cornet), Billy Higgins (drums). From the 1959 Atlantic LP “The Shape of Jazz to Come”.

9. TheIntroduction, Song Of The United Front, The Ending To The First Side. A 13 piece orchestra including Charlie Haden (bass), Gato Barbieri (tenor sax, clarinet), Dewey Redman (alto and tenor sax), Don Cherry (cornet), Mike Mantler (trumpet), Rosewell Rudd (trombone), Carla Bley (piano), Paul motion (drums). From the Impulse LP “Liberation Music Orchestra” April 1969.

10. Spiritual. Charlie Haden (bass), Pat Metheny (acoustic guitar and all other instruments). From the Verve CD “Beyond the Missouri Sky” April 1996.

11. For AllWe Know. Charlie Haden (double- bass), Keith Jarrett (piano). From the ECM CD “Jasmine”, March 2007.

12. ChairmanMao. Charlie Haden (bass), John Taylor (piano). From the Naim LP “Nightfall” Oct 2003.

Monday, 23rd February

Great Jazz Trumpeters

Monday, 16th February

Bring your own - Lets hear your favorite number on CD or Cassette

Track List

Jimmy Noon - New Orleans
John Hallam - Hymn to Freedom
Errol Gardner - They cant take that away from me 
The Modern Jazz Quartet - God rest you merry Gentlemen
Roy Eldridge Group - Rocking Chair
Nigel Kennedy - Autumn Leaves
Joni Mitchell - Harry's House / Centerpoint
Horace Silver - Peace
Paul Desmond - That old Feeling
Benny Goodman - Pagianini XXIV Caprice
Tinguall Trio - Cowboy
Mulligan meets Monk - Round Midnight
Harry Allen Trio -  Broadway Melody
Blossom Dearie - Thou Swell
Jimmy Giuffre - The Train & the River
J J Johnson - Jay

Monday, 9th February

Lesser known big bands - Swing era bands little heard today

Monday, 2nd February

JAZZ FROM MAINLAND EUROPE - Alan Bird

Track List

FRANCE

1. The Quintet of the Hot Club of France – “Nuages”- Recorded in London Feb 1946

Django Reinhart Guitar, Stephan Grappelli violin plus Jack Llewellyn and Alan Hodgkiss guitars and Coleridge Goode on bass. 

2. “Lullaby of Birdland” Blossom Dearie and the Blue Stars - Paris 1954 

3. Michel Petrucciani  “Besame Mucho” Live in Frankfurt 1997

ITALY

4. Enrico Rava, trumpet “Improvisation 1” from the LP/CD “New York Days” 2008, Stefano Bollani (piano), Mark Turner (tenor sax), Larry Grenadier (bass) Paul Motian (drums).

GERMANY

5. Lotte Lenya and cast of Kirt Weil's Treepenny Opera “Mack the Knife” 1930

6. Jutta Hipp “These Foolish Things” June 1953 with Franz “Shorty” Roeder (bass), Karl Sanner (drums), Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone), Hans Killer (tenor sax). 

POLAND

Very strong jazz tradition. Polanski film soundtracks, Komeda, Tomas Stanko and his young band played Cambridge Corn Exchange 2004.

7. “Austin” Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass), Michal Miskiewicz (drums), Joakim Milder (tenor sax). from the CD Spark of Life

Nigel Kennedy the violinist based in Krakow

SOVIET UNION (USSR)

8. “Encore 1”, Ganelin Trio- Vyacheslav Ganelin (piano), Vladimir Tarasov (drums), Vladimir Chekasin (saxophones).  From the 1983 Live in Moscow CD “Con Affetto”,

FINLAND

9. “Finnish Schnapps”,Esa Pethman (sax), Pekka Poyry (alto sax) Helkki Rosendahl (trumpet), Heikki Sarmanto (piano) Anssi Pethman (drums) . From the 1964 LP “The Modern Sound of Finland – The music of Esa Pethman”.

SWEDEN

10. “Lover come back to me”, Lars Gullin Big Band 1956 from the disc “Lars Gullin Swings”

NORWAY

11. “Lines” Arild Anderson (bass),Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano), John Marshall (drums) from the 2003 ECM CD “Triangle” 

BACK TO SWEDEN

12. “Tuesday Wonderland” Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST), Esbjorn Svensson (piano),Dan Berglund (bass), Magnus Ostrom (drums) – from “Live in Hamburg” 

BACK TO NORWAY

13. “Karin’s Mode”, Jan Garbarek (sax), Terje Rypdal (guitar), Arild Anderson (bass), Jon Christensen (drums)  from the 1969 Japanese CD “Esoteric Circle”.

14. “Prelude” Tord Gustavsen Quartet, Tord Gustavsen (piano), Tore Brunborg (tenor sax), Mats Eilertsen (bass), Jarle Vespestad (drums)

Monday, 26th January

Mel Cooper presents the Best of Blues

From the Mississippi Delta to South London

Monday, 19th January

Alan Murphy presents Post War British Jazz.

From trad to the present day

Track List

1.  Opus 1 - Ted Heath 1947

2.  Panama rag    - Humphrey Littleton   1950

3.  Bourbon St parade - Chris Barber  1954

4.  Deep purple -  MM All stars  1954

5.  The world is waiting - Ken Colyer  1956

6.  Echoing the blues  - Humphrey Littleton  1956

7.  Stormy weather  - Cleo Laine    1957

8.  Just a sittin & a rockin   - John Dankworth Big Band   1957

9.  Riverboat shuffle  - Kenny Ball    1958

10.My funny valentine -  Jazz couriers   1959

11.Like some blues man - Vic Feldman  1959

12.Ramblin on my mind  - John Mayall     1966

13.How long blues  -  Eric Clapton    1994

14.Roll em Pete -  Neville Dickie    1996

15.Somebody loves me - Alan Barnes     1997

16.Road less travelled  -  Clare Teal    2003

17.St James infirmary   -   Jools Holland    2004 

Monday, 12th January

Spring Term kicks off with live session from pianist Bob Holloway