Monday, 10th December

US WEST COAST JAZZ 1945-60

Track List

1.  Somebody loves me Young/ Cole 1944
2.  Route 66 Nat Cole trio 1945
3.  Artistry Jumps Stan Kenton 1945
4.  Lady be good Charlie Parker   1946
5.  Igor Woodys woodchoppers 1946
6.  Early Autumn Woody Herman 1948
7.  September in the rain Dave Brubeck octet 1948
8.  Jive at five Lighthouse all stars 1951
9.  Midnight Sun June Christy 1953
10. Lover Man Mulligan/Konitz 1953
11. Boar Jibu Shorty Rogers Giants 1953
12. Ragamuffin Rosalino/Mariano 1954
13. Hamps Blues Hampton Hawes trio 1955
14. Get me to the church on time Previn/Manne/Vinegar 1956
15. The Train & the River Jimmy Giuffre Trio 1957
16. All the things you are Gerry Mulligan BB 1957
17. Blue Rondo a la Turk Dave Brubeck quartet 1959

Monday, 3rd December

Alan Porrer's Favorite Jazz and Blues

Track list

1. Joshua Rifkin: Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag (1899),  Piano Solo, New York, 1970

2. Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band: Maple Leaf Rag, London, 1949

3. Fletcher Henderson: Christopher Columbus, Chicago, 1936

4. Dave Brubeck: Three to get ready, New York, 1959

5. The Modern Jazz Quartet: It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing),  New York, 1959

6. Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France:

It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing), Paris, 1935

7. B.B. King: Caldonia, Ole Miss (University of Mississippi), 1980

8. Louis Armstrong Hot Five: Muskrat Ramble, Chicago, 1926

9. Benny Goodman Sextet: Good Enough to Keep (Air Mail Special), Los Angeles, 1940

10. Bix Beiderbecke with the Wolverines: Tiger Rag, Richmond, Indiana, 1924

11. Chris Barber’s Jazz Band: Tiger Rag, Copenhagen, 1954

12 Baby Face Willette: Something Strange, New Jersey, 1961

13. Woody Herman & His Orchestra: Four Brothers, 1947

14. Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan: St Louis Blues, Berlin, 1970 

15. Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France: 

St Louis Blues,Paris, 1935

16. Duke Ellington: Take the A Train, Hollywood, 1941 

17. David Arthur Skinner: On the sunny side of the street, Oslo, 2012 

18. Neville Dickie: St Louis Blues,  London, 1989

Monday 27th November

Part 1 - British Female Jazz Singers

Adelaïde Hall - Creole Love Call

Beryl Bryden - Kansas City Blues

Cleo Lane - Oh Lady be Good

Annie Ross - Give me the Simple Life

Tina May - I Never Told You 

Liane Carrol - Skylark

Jacqui Dankworth - Windmills of your Mind

Amy Winehouse - I Heard Love is Blind, I'm No Good

Part 2 Jazz Piano

Art Tatum - Night and Day

Duke Ellington - Things Ain't What They Used To Be,  In a Sentimental Mood

Ray Bryant - Little Susie

Thelonious Monk - Misterioso

Oscar Peterson - On Green Dolphin Street

Michel Petrucciani - Besame Mucho

Monday, 20th November

Live Session from the Vij Prakash Quartet

Vij Prakash - Trombone
Sam Miles - Tenor Saxophone
Sandy Suchodolsky - Double Bass
David Ingamells – Drums

Set List

1 Out of nowhere - Johnny Green - 1931
2 All the things you are – Jerome Kern - 1939
3 How High the Moon – Morgan Lewis - 1940
4 Charlie Parker – Ornithology - 1946
5 Lennie Tristano – All the things you are - 1956
6 Lennie Tristano - 327 East 32nd Street
7 Satellite - John Coltrane – 1960 - on the LP Coltrane’s Sound
8 A Grammy Winner - Jerry Bergonzi -2012 – on the CD By any other means
9 All the things you aint - Jerry Bergonzi
10 Ethan Iveson – Neon – Live version on the CD The Minor Passions
11 Lennie Tristano – Apellation - 1947

Monday, 13th November

Alan Paterson's self-indulgent selection of jazz and blues!

1. Cornet Chop Suey  -  Louis Armstrong Hot Five 1926

2. Cross Road  Blues  -  Robert Johnson 1936

3. Stomping at the Savoy - Chick Webb and his Orchestra 1934

4. Salt Peanuts  -  Dizzy Gillespie  1945

5. Blue Moon  -  Billie Holiday 1952

6. So What  -  Miles Davis 1959

7. Autumn in NewYork  -  Modern Jazz Quartet 1953

8. A Night inTunisia  -  Art Blakey Jazz Messengers 1960

9. The House of theRising Sun  -  Nina Simone 1967

10. Caravan  -  Duke Ellington & Orchestra 1962

11. Satisfaction  -  Danish National Radio Band 2011

12. All the thingsyou are  -  Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan 1962

13. My FavoriteThings  -  John Coltrane 1961

14. Take the ‘A’Train  -  Duke Ellington & Orchestra 1943

15. Sing Sing Sing(With a Swing)  -  Benny Goodman & Orchestra 1938

Monday, 6th November

History of Jazz Part 4, Alan Bird 6th November 2017
1959 and Beyond

Modal Jazz

Miles Davis “All Blues” from the LP “Kind of Blue”, 1959

Hard Bop and Onwards

John Coltrane, “Countdown” and “Naima” from the LP “Giant Steps” 1959

Charles Mingus “Boogie Shop Shuffle” from the LP “Ah-Hum” 1959

“Free” Jazz

Ornette Coleman “Congeniality” from the LP “The Shape of Jazz to Come” 1959

Third Stream

John Lewis “Variants on a theme of John Lewis, Variant 1” from the LP/CD Abstractions, 1960

Jazz /Rock Fusion

Miles Davis “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” from the double LP set “Bitches Brew”1969

Jazz Funk

Miles Davis “Human Nature” from the LP “You’re Under Arrest” 1985

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “In Walked Bud” from the LP “Keystone 3”, 1982

Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, “Angel Eyes” from “Live at Bubbas” 1980

Wynton Marsalis “Sister Cheryl", from the LP “Wynton Marsalis”, 1982

Monday, 30th October

PARTING OF THE WAYS

WW2 elongated the big band era but change was on its way

Caldonia Louis Jordan 1942

Northwest passage Woody Herman 1944

Yesterdays  Coleman Hawkins 1944

As the war came to a conclusion

A night in Tunisia Charlie Parker septet 1946

Manteca Dizzy Gillespie BB 1947

Blow top blues  Dinah Washington 1946

Jeru Miles Davis nonet 1949

Bird & Dizzy had created East Coast bop

Perdido   The Quintet 1953

Epistrophy  Thelonius Monk 1957

Baghdad blues Horace Silver Quintet 1959

Birth of the cool was a reaction to the fast & furious boppers

Walkin shoes Gerry Mulligan Quartet 1952

You'd be so nice Art Pepper 1957

Basin St blues Dave Brubeck quartet 1959

Jump & jive had morphed into rhythm & blues which evolved into rock & roll

Roll'em Pete Big Joe Turner 1954

Every day Joe Williams 1955

Sweet home Chicago The Blues Brothers 1980

But middle of the road jazz from the swing period kept on going

St Louis blues Ellington/Hodges 1959

Monday, 23rd October

THE FIRST 40 YEARS-SOME OF THE COMPLEXITIES - Looking at some of the less famous but influential bands & players

Track List

Clarinet Marmalade                            Original Dixieland Jazz Band              1918

Rhapsody In Blue                               Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra 1924

San                                                    Paul Whiteman Small Group              1928

Boot-to-Boot                                      Jesse Stone & His Serenaders              1927

Black and Blue Rhapsody                    Alphonso Trent & His Orchestra         1928

Mess-A-Stomp                                   Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joy     1929

Moten Stomp                                      Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch.      1927

Squabblin’                                         Walter Page’s Blue Devils                   1929

Blue Room                                         Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch.      1932

Swingin’ The Blues                            The Count Basie Orchestra                   1938

Double Check Stomp                          Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1930

In A Jam                                            Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1936

Harlem Air Shaft                                 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1940

Feelin’ The Spirit                                 Luis Russell Orchestra                       1929

The Minor Drag                                  Fats Waller & His Buddies                 1929

Minor Swing                                       Quintet du Hot Club de France            1937

I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart       Ella Fitzgerald with a sextet                1956

Strange Fruit                                       Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra           1939

Really The Blues                               Tommy Ladnier & Orchestra                1938

West End Blues                                  Jelly Roll Morton’s NO Jazzmen         1939

High Society                                      Mercury All Stars                               1944

The Thin Red Line                              Humphrey Lyttelton and His Band 1948

Sepian Bounce                                    Jay McShann & His Orchestra             1942

Body and Soul                                    Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra      1939

Monday, 16th October

The First Forty Years – The Orthodox Story

Track List

Shine-Hambone                       -   A Shoeshine Boy                                    1957

Spooky Drums                         -   Baby Dodds                                             1946

Easy Rider Blues                   -   Blind Lemon Jefferson                          1927

Just a Little While                    -   Eureka Brass Band                                 1958

Elite Sincopations                  -   Scott Joplin                                            1902

Salty Dog                               -   Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals         1926

Dippermouth Blues                -   King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band              1923

Cornet Chop Suey                  -   Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five                    1926

Willie the Weeper                   -   Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven                1927

West End Blues                     -   Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five                    1928

St. Louis Blues                      -   Bessie Smith acc Louis Armstrong        1925

Grandpa’s Spells                   -   Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers     1926

Singin’ the Blues                   -   Frankie Trambauer & his Orchestra       1927

Copenhagen                           -   Fletcher Henderson Orchestra               1924

Black Beauty                           -   Duke Ellington & his Orchestra              1928

Swingin’Up Town                    -   Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra        1934

That Rhythm Man                    -   Chick Webb’s Orchestra                        1938

Jangled Nerves                      -   Fletcher Henderson Orchestra               1936

Oh Lady be Good                    -   Jones-Smith Inc                                    1936

Jumpin’ at the Woodside        -   The Count Basie Orchestra                    1938

Big John’s Special                  -   Benny Goodman & his Orchestra          1938

Tuxedo Junction                     -   Glenn Miller & his Orchestra                  1938

Lord, Let me in the Lifeboat   -   Bunk Johnson and Sidney Bechet         1945

Six Cats and a Prince             -   Kansas City Seven                                1944

Jeep Bounced Back               -   Johnny Hodges et al                               1958

Monday, 9th October

 Live Set from the Andy Bowie Quartet

Andy Bowie

Derek Scurll 

Joel Humann 

Louis Thorne 

Set List

1 “Indiana”

2 “Honeysuckle Rose” (Fats Waller) to “Scrabble for the Apple” (Charlie Parker)

3 “I Got Rhythm” (Gershwin) to Ellington’s “Cottontail”, to Charlie Parker’s “Anthropology” to Sonny Rollins “Oleo”

4 “In a Sentimental Mood” (Ellington)

5 “Giant Steps” (John Coltrane)

6 “Lonnies’s Lament”

7 “So What” from Miles Davis 1959 “Kind of Blue”

Autumn Term Program 2017

The program has now been finalized and kicks off on the 9th Oct with a live set from the Andy Bowie Quartet.

The full program can be found on the tab above.

Monday, 13th March

Live set from Kevin Flanagan with Phil Stevenson and José Canha

Kevin Flanagan

 

Phil Stevenson

José Canha

Monday, 6th March

Jazz From Mainland Europe

Track List

FRANCE (and Belgium!):
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France	Billets Doux	1938
Kenny Clark/Francy Boland Big Band	Volcano	1969
Michel Petrucciani	In a Sentimental Mood	1993
Michel Petrucciani	Caravan	1993
ITALY:
Rossano Sportiello	Who’s Sorry Now	2006
Enrico Rava	Un Bel Di, Vedremo	1996
GERMANY:
Jutta Hipp	Lover Man	1954
The United Jazz and Rock Orchestra	Sidewalk	1969
The United Jazz and Rock Orchestra	Some Time in Silence	1984
Eberhard Weber	Bird Out of Cage	1993
NETHERLANDS:
Dutch Swing College Band	Doctor Jazz	1953
Misja Mengelberg and Han Bennink	Hypochristmutreefuzz	1964
RUSSIA/SOVIET UNION:
Alexander Tsfasman	Sounds of Jazz	1938
HUNGARY/FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Akos Laki	Kalajdzijsko Kolo / Camac na Tisi	2004

Monday, 27th February

Black, Brown & Beige

A Glance at Duke Ellington's Longer Creations

Track List 

Black

Diminuendo and Cresendo in Blue

Brown

Liberian Suite

I like the Sunrise

Dance 1

Dance 2

Dance 3

Dance 4

Dance 5

The Telcasters

Second Line  (From New Orleans Suite)

Come Sunday / David Danced Before the Lord

Harlem

Monday, 20th February

I wouldn’t be without this: a journey from 1959 -1959!

Track List

Miles Davis	Blue in Green	1959
Bessie Smith	Down in the Dumps	1930
Art Blakey and His All Stars	Quicksilver	1954
Horace Silver Quintet	Blowing the Blues Away	1959
Bud Powell	Un Poco Loco	1949
Coleman Hawkins	Think Deep	1957
J J Johnson	Jay	1954
Sonny Rollins	St Thomas	1956
John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957
Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis	Autumn Leaves	1958
Dexter Gordon	Scrapple for the Apple	1963
Miles Davis	Walkin'	1965
McCoy Tyner	Four by Five	1967
Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	1967
Keith Jarrett	The Koln Concert	1975
Miles Davis	Tutu	1986
Jan Garbarek	Her Wild Ways	1998
Ornette Coleman	Lonely Woman	1959
Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges	Loveless Love	1959

Monday, 13th February

Part 1 - Discoveries

Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang	At the Jazz Band Ball
Fletcher Henderson	The Henderson Stomp
Louis Armstrong	West End Blues
Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli	Twelfth Year
Neville Dickie and His Rhythm Kings	Boogie-Woogie Blues
Humphrey Lyttelton	The Onions
Mongo Santamaria	Watermelon Man
Eric Silk & His Southern Jazz Band	Gatemouth
Manu Dibango	Big Blow

Part 2 - A journey through Jazz

Duke Ellington	Jungle nights in Harlem
Terry Lightfoot	Mahogany Hall Stomp
Cleo Laine & John Dankworth	If music be the food of love
MJQ	Festival Sketch
Paul Desmond	Theme from Black Orpheus
NYJO	Dizzy
Airto Moreira and Flora Purim	Xibaba
Martin Taylor	Laverne Walk
Gradualia and Stephen Main	Lagan Love

Monday, 6th February

Bring Your Own

Track List

Cy Laurie	St. James Infirmary
Wynton Marsarlis & Eric Clapton	Layla
Tinvall Trio	Tveklöst
Louis Armstrong	Mahogany Hall Stomp
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader	Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
Tina May	Do nothing until you hear from me
Oscar Peterson	Summertime
Barry Martyn and the Young Bloods	Caledonia
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli	I Got Rhythm
Preservation Hall Jazz Band	Just a  Closer Walk With Thee
Billy Holiday	Autumn in New York
Bing Crosby	Someday Sweetheart
Elaine Elias	Este Seu Olhar / Promessas
Art Blakey	Moaning
Bloosom Dearie	I Won't Dance
J J Johnson	Too Marvellous For Words