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