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