Monday, 10th December

Live Set by Marcia Willis with Yasho Daka (Piano) Jeremy Kahn (Bass) Bert Schilperoot (Drums) Martin Kemp (Sax and clarinet) and Andrew Bowie (Sax)



Set List

1. What Is This Thing called Love? (Cole Porter, 1929)
2. Sophisticated Lady (Duke Ellington and Irving Mills, 1932)
3. Our Love Is Here To Stay (George and Ira Gershwin, 1938)
4. God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr, 1939)
5. Comes Love (Sam Sept, Lew Brown and Charles Tobias, 1939)
6. I Thought About You (Johnny Mercer, 1939)
7. You Don’t Know What Love Is (Gene de Paul and Don Ray, 1941)
8. Lullaby of Birdland (George Shearing and George Davis Weiss, 1952)
9. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk, 1952. Lyrics Abbey Lincoln)
10. Tenor Madness (Sonny Rollins, 1956)*
11. Naima (John Coltrane, 1959)*
12. Footprints (Wayne Shorter, 1966)*

*Lyrics by Marcia Willis

Monday, 3rd December

KEYBOARD JAZZ - A selection of Organ, Electric Piano and Synth players, from 1929 to the present day.


Track List

Intro - Jimmy Smith - The Sermon -1958
1. Fats Waller – Sippi' - 1929
2. The Milt Hearth Trio - Peach Tree St – 1939
3. Slim Gaillard Quartet - Novachord Boogie – 1947
5. Milt Buckner - The Beast - 1955
6. Sun Ra and his Arkestra - India - 1956
7. Coleman Hawkins with Les Strand - On my Way - 1958
8. Lou Bennett Quartet - Brother Daniel - 1960
9. Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis - Knuckles - 1962
10. Don Patterson & Sonny Stitt - Airegin - 1968
11. The Kühn Brothers & the Mad Rockers - Misty Purple - 1968
      Joachim Kühn on Hammond Organ and Rolf Kühn electric clarinet
12. Joe Zawinul - In a Silent Way - 1971
      2 Electric pianos, the second played by Herbie Hancock
13. Return to Forever - Cristal Silence 1972
14. Billy Cobham feat. Brian Auger - Electric Man - 2010
15. Brad Mehdau & Mark Guiliana - Hungry Ghost - 2014
16. Yusseff Kamaal - Yo Chavez - 2014
17. Binkbeats feat. Niels Broos - Little Nerves - 2017
      Niels Broos. Rhodes piano and Moog Synth, Binkbeats Samplers and everything else.
18. Ezra Collective - The Philosopher - 2017
      Joe Armon-Jones on Electric Piano

Further Reading

The Jazz Organ - A Brief History 
The Hammond Organ & Leslie Speakers
Novachord
The Wurlitzer Electric Piano
The Rhodes Piano

Monday, 26th November

Big Bands Then & Now

Track List 

1.  Paul Whiteman - Whispering – 1920
2.  Woody Herman & His Thundering Herd – The Indigenous Artefact 1970
3.  Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments – 1961
4.  Henry Mancini – The Blues – 1960
5.  The Brecker Brothers – Some Shunk Funk – 2007
6.  Louis Armstrong – Swinging On Nothing – 1942
7.  Stan Kenton – MacArthur Park – 1972
8.  Bix Beiderbecke – I’m Coming Virginia – 1927
9.  Maria Schneider – Walking By Flashlight - 2015
10. Glenn Miller – Chattanooga Choo Choo – 1941
11. Fletcher Henderson – My Pretty Girl – 1925
12. Miles Davis – Blue– 1989
13. Count Basie – Airmail Special – 1941
14. Duke Ellington – Satin Doll – 1953
15. Charlie Barnett – Cherokee – 1939
16. Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine – 1938
17. Quincy Jones – Dead End – 1969
18. CUJO – I’ve Got A Crush On You – 2018

Monday, 19th November

Ragtime – The Blues – Boogie Woogie – Dixieland – Swing – Bebop – Cool Jazz – Rock’n’Roll – Latin – Jazz-Rock

Originals or Revivals


1. Joshua Rifkin: New Rag (Scott Joplin, 1912) Piano Solo New York, 1970 
2. Original Dixieland Jazzband (ODJB): Clarinet Marmelade,  1918 
3. Louis Armstrong Hot Five: Savoy Blues,  Chicago, 1927 
4. Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang: At the Jazz Band Ball,  NYC, 1927
5. Fletcher Henderson: Rocky Mountain Blues, NYC, 1927
6. Neville Dickie: Boogie Woogie Blues (Albert Ammons,  ?1939) – piano solo  London, 1989
7. Lew Stone and His Band: The Bouncing Ball (Trumbauer) London, 1935 
8. Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France:  Swing 39, Paris, 1935 
9. Donald Lambert: Pilgrim’s Chorus (piano solo),  New York, 1941 
10. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra: Flying Home,  1942 
11. Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts, 1945 
12. Humphrey Lyttelton: Doin’ the Rounds, 1956 
13. George Melly & Mick Milligan’s Jazz Band: You’ve got the right key but the wrong keyhole, 1956 
14. Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo a la Turk, 1958 
15. Freddy King: Swooshy, 1961 
16. Joe Bonsall and The Orange Playboys: French Fiddle Boogie, Louisiana? 1966  
17. Weather Report: Birdland, Hollywood, 1977
18. E.S.T. (Esbjorn Svensson Trio): Spam-Boo-Limbo, Stockholm, 2000 
19. David Arthur Skinner: Sweet Bogdana Georgieva, Oslo, 2012 
20. Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man, 1962 
21. Eric Clapton: How long blues,  London, 1994 


Monday, 12th November

JAZZ INTERPRETATIONS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC

1. Beethoven ‘A Fifth of Beethoven’  - Henri – Pierre Noel

2. Grieg Peer Gynt Suite ‘Morning Mood’ ‘Solvejgs Song’ - Duke Ellington

3. Dvorak ‘Humouresqe' - Art Tatum

4. Mahler 5th Symphony – Adagietto - Uri Caine

5. Satie/Brubeck 'Gymnopedie v Take Five' - Jools Scott

6. Bach Jesu, joy of man’s desiring - Classical Jazz Quartet

7. Vivaldi ‘Winter’  - Jacques Loussier

8. Rodrigo 'Concerto de Aranjuez'  - Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, Chet Baker

9. Holst 'Mars' - Peter Long, Echoes of Ellington

Monday, 5th November

LIVE SET from the ANDY BOWIE QUARTET




Set List

1. Back Home Again in Indiana (Hanley / MacDonald 1917)
2. Honeysuckle Rose (Waller 1929)
3. Body & Soul (Hawkins 1939)
4. I Got Rhythm, Anthropology, Oleo
5. Lonnies Lament (Coltrane 1964)
6. Giant Steps (Coltrane 1960)
7. Recorda-Me (Henderson 1963)
8. So What (Davis 1959)
9. Well, You Needn't (Monk 1944)

Monday, 29th October

History of Jazz Part 4,  29th October 2018

1959 and Beyond

1 Ellington/Hodges "St Louis Blues" from the LP "Back to Back" 1959

2 Dave Brubeck "Take Five" from the LP "Time Out" 1959

Modal Jazz
3 Miles Davis “Flamenco Sketches” from the LP “Kind of Blue” 1959

Hard Bop and Onwards
4 John Coltrane "Mr PC" from the LP “Giant Steps” 1959

Post Bop Small Big Band
5 Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus” from the LP “Ah-Hum” 1959

“Free” Jazz
6 Ornette Coleman “Lonely Woman” from the LP “The Shape of Jazz to Come” 1959

Early Jazz Funk
7 Cannonball Adderly "Sticks" from the LP "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" 1967

8 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “ETA” from "Live at Bubba's" 1980

9 Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers “Round About Midnight” from “Live at Bubba's” 1980

10 Charlie Haden/Paul Motion featuring Geri Allen, "Sandio" from the LP "Etudes" 1987

Monday, 22 October

SOME LIKE IT HOT - JAZZ FROM WW2 TO 1959

Big band swing was the pop music of WW2 but was replaced by R&B followed by rock.

1.  Caldonia - Louis Jordan 1942
2.  Evil gal blues - Dinah Washington 1946
3.  Shake rattle & roll - Big Joe Turner 1954
4.  Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry 1956.

Jazz developed along parallel paths bop,cool & mainstream.

5. Woody 'n you - Coleman Hawkins 1944
6. Ornithology - Charlie Parker septet 1946
7. Good bait - Dizzy Gillespie BB 1947
8. Jay - JJ Johnson 1952

Cool jazz was a response to the fast & furious boppers.

9.   Boplicity [Birth of the cool] - Miles Davis nonet 1949
10. Bernie's tune - Gerry Mulligan quartet 1952
11. Coop de Graas [Cool & crazy] - Shorty Rogers giants 1953

The birth of the LP gave mainstream musicians the chance to put live jazz on record.

12. Ad lib blues [Norgran MGN5] - Lester Young 1952
13. Funky blues [Verve] - Parker,Hodges,Carter 1952
14. Memphis Blues [LA plays WCHandy] - Louis Armstrong AS 1954
15. Eager beaver [Kenton in HiFi] - Stan Kenton 1956
16. Blues for Bird [Verve] - Modern jazz sextet 1956

Monday, 15th October

The First Forty Years - some of the complexities

Track List 

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

2 Jesse Stone and his Serenaders, “Starvation Blues”, 1927
George E Lee & his Orchestra "Ruff Scuffin'", 1929
4 Slim Lamar & his Southerners, “Misissipppi Stomp”, 1929
5 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “K.C. Shuffle”, 1926
6 Walter Page’s Blue Devils, “Squabblin’”, 1929
7 Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, “Milenburg Joys”, 1932
8 The Count Basie Orchestra, “One O'clock Jump”, 1937
9 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Rockin' in Rhythm”, 1930
10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Chatterbox”, 1937
11 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra at Fargo, “Jack the Bear”, 1940
12 Luis Armstrong & his Savoy Ballroom 5  “Mahogany Hall Stomp”, 1929
13 Fats Waller and his Rhythm, “Lulu's Back in Town”, 1935
14 Quintet du Hot Club de France, “Stompin' at Decca”, 1938
15 Ella Fitzgerald with sextet, “In a Mellow Tone’”, 1956
16 Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, “Strange Fruit, 1939
17a Tommy Ladnier and Orchestra, “Weary Blues”, 1938
17b Jelly Roll Morton's NO Jazzmen, “Oh Didn't he Ramble”, 1939
17c Mercury All Stars, “High Society”, 1944
18 Humphrey LIttleton and his Band, “Ole Miss Rag”, 1944
19 Jay McShann and his Orchestra, “The Jumpin' Blues”, 1942
20 Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra, “Body and Soul”, 1939

Monday, 8th 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, “Snake Rag”, 1923
3 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “Heebie Jeebies, 1926
4 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven, “Wild Man Blues”, 1927
5 Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, “West End Blues”, 1928
6 Bessie Smith acc Louis Armstrong, “Careless Love Blues”, 1925
7 Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers, “Original Jelly Roll Blues”, 1926
8 Frankie Trambauer and his Orchestra, “I'm Coming Virginia”, 1927
9 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “TNT”, 1925
10 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, “Creole Love Call”, 1928
11 Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra, “Mood Indigo”, 1934
12 Chick Webb’s Orchestra, “I'm Just a Jitterbug”, 1938
13 Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “Jangled Nerves”, 1936
14 Jones-Smith Inc, “Shoe Shine Boy”, 1936
15 The Count Basie Orchestra, "Shorty George”, 1937
16 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, “Blue Room”, 1938
17 Glen Miller and his Orchestra, “American Patrol”, 1941
18 Bunk Johnson & Sidney Bechet Orchestra , “Milenberg Joys”, 1945
19 Kansas City Seven, “After Theatre Jump”, 1944
20 Benny Carter and his Orchestra, “Cotton Tail”, 1962 #

# From the CD Further Additions

Monday, 19th March

Live Set from the Derek Scurll / Kate Williams Quintet



Kate Williams
Derek Scurll
Oscar Reynolds
Joel Humann

Ivan Garford


Monday, 12th March

POST WAR BRITISH JAZZ

1.  Intermission riff - 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

A 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. Surrey with the fringe on top - Tubby Hayes Quartet 1959
11. The serpent - Jazz Couriers 1959
12. Opus de funk - Anglo American Herd 1959
13. How long blues/Goin' away baby  - Eric Clapton 1994
14. Beyond the Hatfield tunnel NYJO 1990
15. It had to be you Alan Barnes 1997
16.Teach me tonight Clare Teal 2003
17. So to Speake Nikki Iles 2003

Monday, 5th March

Personal Encounters and a Sense of Place


Presented by Margaret Waring

Track List

Bad Penny Blues      Humphrey Lytellton -Trumpet
The Golden Striker      Milt Jackson -Vibes, John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (bass), Connie Kay (drums)
Didn’t it Rain              Sister Rosetta -Voice & Guitar
Kansas City Blues       Terry Brunt -Trombone, Allan Dent (trumpet)
2 Goldberg variations  Andre Arpino- Drums, Jacques Lousier (piano), Benoit Dunoyer de  Segonzac (bass)
Walkin’ Shoes              John Hallam -Saxophones, Steve Moore (piano)
Beautiful Friendship     L Fowles- Voice & Saxophone
Vienna                          Gilad Atzmon - Saxophones, Asaf Sirkis(drums)
Hackensack                  Alan Barnes & John Hallam - Saxophones, Dave Newton (piano)
Hallelujah I love Him  Alexandra Lorence - Voice, Vinny Parker (keyboard)
Blackbird                      Alice Coulam - Voice, Lee Hallam (Trombone)
Lady be Good               Amy Roberts - Flute&Saxophone, Tom Kincaid (piano)
I’m Old-fashioned      Martin Taylor - Guitar
Blue Moon                    Jacqui Dankworth - Voice
Fools fall in Love         Claire Martin - Voice, Richard Rodney Bennet (piano)
Autumn Leaves            Tom Kincaid - Piano


Monday, 26th February

Jazz!!  They just play what they like.

Presented by Colin Saunders

Track List

1.   Meade Lux Lewis:   Honky Tonk Train Blues (1927)
2.   Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra:   12th Street Rag (1948)
3.   Bob Haggart & Ray Baudic:  Big Noise from Winnetka (1938)
4.   Ray Charles:  Danger Zone (1962) 
5.   Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee:  Rockin’ an’ Whoopin’ (1960) 
6.   Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra:  Moanin’ (1961) 
7.   Dudley Moore:  Baubles Bangles & Beads (1965)
8.   Andre Previn:  Whip-Poor-Will (1959) 
9.   Dutch Swing College Band:  Wilhelm Tell (1961)    7” 45 single
10. Dave Brubeck Quartet:  Kathy’s Waltz (1959) 
11. Erroll Garner:  They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1956)                                                     
12. Modern Jazz Quartet: The Cylinder (1982)
13. Gil Evans Orchestra: Angkor Wat (1961) 
14. Stan Getz: Girl From Ipanema (1963) 
15. Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan:  Straight, No Chaser (1957) 
16. Diana Krall:  Peel Me A Grape (1997) 
17. Duke Ellington:  Take The ‘A’ Train (1941) 
                                                                             

Monday, 19th February

A Selection of Members Favourites 


Coleman Hawkins & Django Reinhard  - Stardust

Milt Jackson & Ray Charles - Deed I Do

John Pierre Noel - Cognaxa

Ella Fitzgerald - Desafinado

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

Benny Carter & Oscar Petterson - I Get a Kick out of You

Carmell Jones - That's Good

Martin Taylor - I'm Old Fashioned

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - The Lady is a Tramp

Tony Bennett & Sheryl Crow - The Girl I Love

Ben Crosland Quintet - Sunny Afternoon

Ibrahim Maalouf - Beirut

Oscar Peterson Trio - Sweet Georgia Brown

Miles Davis - Portia

Monday, 12th February

An eclectic mix – my kinds of jazz by John Procter 

(a) ‘ The Last Concert’             The Modern Jazz Quartet                 1988

(b)      ‘Impressions of Japan’       The Dave Brubeck Quartet              2009

(c) ‘Cirkla’                                   Tingvall Trio    2017

(d)   ‘Trio’                 Wasilewski Trio   2005
Free- Bop
Sister’s Song

(e)   ‘Turn Up The Quiet’          Diana Krall   2017

(f)   ‘Tu Tu’     Miles Davis 1986

(g)   ‘Modern Art’                     Art Farmer & Bill Evans                   2009
The Touch of Your Lips

(h)   ‘Concierto’                         Jim Hall                                             1975

Monday, 5th February

David Ellingham (Saxophones) & Giulio Lampronti (Double Bass & Electric Bass) provide us with the low down on their instruments of choice.



Monday, 29 January

JAZZ FROM MAINLAND EUROPE


Track list

1. Guess who, when and where! Beethoven 1822, last piano sonata No 32 Op111

2. The real Mack the Knife. From Brecht and Weill Threepenny Opera. 1958 recording

3. Jutta Hipp, “Diagram” recorded 1954 in Frankfurt am Main with bass and drummer

France
4. Gregor et ses Gregoriens, “Whispering”, recorded in 1933

5 Martial Solal “All God’s Children got Rhythm” solo piano recorded in 1956

Hungary/France
6. Elek Bacsik (Guitar) “Angel Eyes”, with bass and drums recorded in Paris 1962

Czech Republic
7. Gustav Brom Orchestra, “Pilatus” recorded in Prague, copyright date is 1970

8. Impuls, “Horni Konec” Five piece band, recorded in Prague 1977 (You tube link is to full album)

Poland
9. Vistula River Brass Band, “Nie do przyjecia rag” (The Unacceptable Rag), nine piece band. Recorded in Warsaw in 1982

10. Tomasz Stanko in a band led by the drummer Manu Katche with Stanko’s young Polish pianist and bass player and also the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek. “Rose”, 2005 from the CD “Neighbourhood”, ECM,

Soviet Union (USSR)
11. A. Tsfasman “Sounds of Jazz”, 1938

12.Ganelin Trio, First encore, Live in Moscow, 1983, Vyacheslav Ganelin, Piano, Vladimir Tarasov Drums, Vladimir Chekasin Saxophones
Finland
13. Esa Pethman, 1964, “Blues for Duke” from the LP “The Modern Sound of Finland”, Esa Pethman Tenor Saxophone, Pekka Poyry Alto Saxophone, Heikki Rosendahl Trumpet, Heikki Sarmanto Piano, Anssi Pethman Drums

Sweden
14. Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST) “Dodge the Dodo” from the CD “From Gagarin’s Point of View” 1998, Esbjorn Svensson Piano, Dan Berglund Double Bass, Magnus Ostrom Percussion.

15. EST “From Gagarin’s Point of View” 1998 (You Tube links to both EST tracks are from later live versions)

Denmark
16. Caecilie Norby, “Snow”, 1996, Dave Kikoski Piano, Lars Danielsson Bass, Terri Lyne Carrington Drums, Michael Brecker Tenor Saxophone

Norway
17. Tord Gustavesen Trio, “At Home” from the disc “Being There” 2007, Tord Gustavsen piano, Harald Johnson bass, Jarle Vespestad drums.

Monday, 22nd January

An improvised rainbow of jazz


1. Ellington and Hodges - Weary Blues

2. Modern Jazz Quartet - Over the Rainbow

3. John Coltrane - Violets for your Furs

4. Art Blakey, Thelonius Monk - Purple Shades

5. Sidney Bechet - Rose of the Rio Grande

6. Count Basie - Kid from Red Bank

7. Charles Mingus - Self Portrait in Three Colours

8. Miles Davis - Blue in Green

9. Paul Desmond - Greensleeves

10. Wayne Shorter - House of Jade


12. Sidney Bechet - Sweet Georgia Brown

13. Jan Garbarek - The White Clown

14. Horace Silver, Art Blakey - Quicksilver

15. Miles Davis - Bye Bye Blackbird

Monday, 15th January

1951 WAS A GOOD YEAR FOR JAZZ ??


ARTISTS BORN IN 1951

Jaco Pastorius         Continuum
Rebecca Parris        Weaver of Dreams
Sting                        Consider Me Gone
Barry Finnerty          Shout (Guitar with Miles Davis)
Bill Frisell                 Strange Meeting
Kenny Werner          Interloper (Piano with The Mel Lewis Orchestra)
Sue Evans               Something you got (with Art Farmer)
Warren Vache          Purple Gazelle


ARTISTS THAT DIED IN 1951
Cyril Blake             Cyril’s Blues
Mildred Bailey        It’s a Womans Perogative
Charlie Creath        Tulsa Blues

RELEASED 1951

Stan Kenton            Incident in Jazz
Shorty Rogers         Popo
LesterYoung           I Cover the Waterfront
Miles Davis             Ladybird