Monday 14th October

 Sounds of the 50s - Alan Murphy

Track List 

Prelude                                    Anglo-American Herd     1959

April in Paris  Charlie Parker     1950

Oscalypso                               Oscar Pettiford                    1951

But Not For Me Modern Jazz Quartet     1952

Wee         The Quintet     1953

Bernie's Tune Gerry Mulligan Quartet     1953

Daahoud         Brown-Roach Quintet     1954

The Preacher Horace Silver     1955

St. Thomas Sonny Rollins     1956

Moanin'                 Art Blakey     1956

Blue Train John Coltrane     1957

Love for Sale Adderly-Davis                     1958

The Blessing Ornette Coleman     1958

St Louis Blues                         Ellington-Hodges               1959

'S Wonderful Ella Fitzgerald                    1959

Monday 7th October

From Trad to Bop - Alan Murphy

Track List

Prelude - Louis Armstrong plays W. C. Handy 1954.

Tiger Rag                                         Original Dixieland Jazz Band               1917

Ory's Creole Trombone                    Kid Ory                                       1922

Dippermouth Blues                           King Oliver                               1923

Black Bottom Stomp                        Jelly Roll Morton                              1926

Backwater Blues                               Bessie Smith                               1927

Weather Bird                                     Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines       1928

Old Man Blues                   Duke Ellington                              1930

Singing the Blues                  Frank Trambauer                               1927

I've Found a New Baby                  Chicago Rhythm Kings                       1928

Toby                   Bennie Moten                       1932

Jumping at the Woodside                  Count Basie                               1938

Way Down Yonder In New Orleans  Kansas city six                               1938

After You've Gone    Benny Goodman Trio                       1935

What a Little Moonlight Can Do    Billie Holiday                       1935

Ko Ko    Charlie Parker                       1945

Good Bait     Dizzy Gillespie                               1945

Jay-bird     J J Johnson                               1946

Nostalgia             Fats Navarro                       1947

Misterioso     Thelonious Monk                              1948

Conception     George Shearing                               1949


Monday, 18th March

Live Set from Derek Scurll (vibraphone), with Louis Thorne (guitar) and Joel Humann (Bass).





Monday, 11th March

Spiritual Jazz -Tom Cochrane

Intro Track

Love Supreme Part I by John Coltrane from the album Love Supreme (1965)

Track List

Search For Peace by McCoy Tyner from the album The Real McCoy (1967)

The Creator Has a Master Plan by Pharoah Sanders from the album Live In Paris 1975 (2020)

Stopover Bombay by Alice Coltrane from the album Journey In Satchidananda (1971)

Astral Traveling by Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes from the album Astral Traveling (1973)

Where Pathways Meet by Sun Ra and His Arkestra from the album Lanquidity (1978)

Love Theme From Spartacus by Yusef Lateef from the album Eastern Sounds (1961)

Celestial Blues by Gary Bartz Ntu Troop from the album Harlem Bush Music -Uhuru (1971)

Cloud 10 by Chip Wickham from the album Cloud 10 (2022)

Salute To The Sun by Matthew Halsall from the album Salute To The Sun (2020)

Unconditional Love by The Greg Foat Group from the album Blue Lotus (2022)

Raisons Under The Sun by Yussef Dayes from the album Black Classical Music (2023)

Invocation by Phi-Psonics from the album Octava (2023)

Desire by Kamasi Washington from the album Harmony of Difference (2017)

Monday, 4th March

Members Choice

Request List

Eddie Harris - Listen Here

Stan Kenton - Peanut Vendor

Nat King Cole - Let There Be Love

David Crosby - Tamalpais High (at About 3)

Dresch Quartet - Túl a Vizen

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Brazil

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared to What?

Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton - Katanga

Beth Hart & Joe Bonamasa - Sunday Kind of Love

Soil and Pimp Sessions - Planet Caravan

Brad Mehldau - Blackbird

Buddy Rich - Norwegian Wood

Sid Philips - South Rampart Street Parade

Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn - Take the 'A' Train

Pharoah Sanders - Greetings to Idris

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Riviera Paradise

Charlie Parker - A Night in Tunisia 


Monday, 26th February

Big Band Bash - Robert Turvey

Track List

Buddy Rich - Pieces of Dreams from the album The Big Band Machine  (1975)

Maria Schneider Orchestra – A Potters Song from the album The Thompson Fields (2015) 

Count Basie - Straight Ahead from the album of the same name (1968) 

Jacob Mann Big Band - Flight Screen Solitaire from the album Greatest Hits Vol 3 (2022)

Duke Ellington - The Queen’s Suite from (The Ellington Suites) (1959 – 1976) 

  “The Queen's Suite: Sunset and the Mocking Bird" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Lightning Bugs and Frogs" (Strayhorn)[6] 

  "The Queen's Suite: Le Sucrier Velours" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Northern Lights" (Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: The Single Petal of a Rose" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

  "The Queen's Suite: Apes and Peacocks" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) 

Bob Curnow’s LA Big Band - The First Circle from Music of Pat Methany & Lyle Mays (1994)

Tommy Dorsey - Song of India 78rpm with ‘Marie’ side 2 (1937)

Don Ellis - Image of Maria from the album Soaring (1973) 

Miles Davis - Will o’ the Wisp from the album Sketches of Spain (1960)

Diva Jazz Orchestra - Pennies from Heaven from the album A Swinging Life (2014)

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band - A Game of Inches from the album XXL (2003) 


Monday, 19th February

Mercury Prize Nominated Jazz Albums – Paul Rule 


Introductory Tracks

Bheki Mseleku - Celebration from the album Celebration 1992

Coutney Pine - Don't 'Xplain from the album Modern Day Jazz Stories 1996

Album & Track List

John Surman - The Kings from the album Proverbs and Songs 1998

Denys Baptiste - Nama from the album Be Where You Are 1999

Guy Barker -  Queen of the Night from the album Soundtrack 2002

Amy Winehouse - What Is It About Men from the album Frank 2004

Polar Bear - To Touch The Red Brick from the album Held on the Tips of Fingers 2005

Portico QuartetKnee-Deep in the North Sea from the album Knee-Deep in the North Sea 2008

Kit Downes Trio - Golden from the album Golden 2010

Gwilym Simcock - Wake up Call from the album Good Days At Schloss Elmau 2011

Roller Trio - The Interrupters from the album Roller Trio 2012

GoGo Penguin - Kamaloka from the album V2.0 2014

Dinosaur - Steadily Sinking from the album Together, As One 2017

Moses Boyd - Stranger Than Fiction from the album Dark Matter 2020

Nubya Garcia - Stand with Each Other from the album Source 2021

Fergus McCreadie - Landslide  from the album The Unfurrowed Field 2022

Ezra CollectiveEgo Killah from the album Where I'm Meant To Be 2023 (Winner)

A full list of Mercury Prize nominated artists and winners can be found here.

Monday, 12th February

Live Set from Jon Harding (Guitar) - Django Reinhardt 



Jon's Suggested Play List

Gus Viseur - Swing 39 

Andre Kostelanetz - Dark Eyes

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Stompin' At the Savoy

Joe Venuti - Hey! Young Fella!

Django Reinhardt - Nuages 

Django Reinhardt - All of Me

Django Reinhardt - I can't give you anything but Love

Django Reinhardt - Coquette

Django Reinhardt & Duke Ellington - Honeysuckle Rose

Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - Minor Swing

Hot Club of Cowtown - She's Killing Me

Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown

Monday, 5th February

Jazz Trombonists - Maggie Balshaw

Intro Track

Curtis Fuller, trombone on John Coltrane's Blue Train 1957

Track List

1 Kid Ory ‘Ory’s Creole Trombone’ 1922

2 Jack Teagarden ‘Lover’ Jack Teagarden and his Allstar Group  1951

3 Trummy Young ‘Hesitating Blues’  Louis plays WC Handy 1952

4 Kai Winding ‘Jeru’  Miles Davies Vol 2 1949

5 JJ Johnson and Kai Winding ‘A Piece for Two Tromboniums’  Jay and Kai 1955

6 JJ Johnson ‘Get Happy’ The Eminent JJ Johnson Vol 1 1953

7 Frank Rosolino ‘Ragamuffin’  Stan Kenton presents... 1954

8 Melba Liston ‘Insomnia’ Melba and her Bones 1958

9 Bill Harris ‘Crazy Rhythm’ Bill Harris and Friends 1957

10 Laurence Brown ‘Wanderlust’ Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins 1962

11 Bob Brookmeyer ‘Straight No Chaser’ Clark Terry Quintet with Bob Brookmeyer 1965

12 Slide Hampton/Curtis Fuller ‘Slide’s Ride’  1958 

13 Jiggs Wigham ‘Lulu's Back in Town’ Jiggs Whigham & Wolfgang Köhler 2006

14 Harry Allen ‘New York, New York’  Harry Allen and Friends 2009 

15 VJ and the Brass Funkeys ‘Rather Be’ 2015

Monday, 29th January

Three Important Decades of Jazz: - Robert Porrer

Play-in track 

Johnnie Johnson/Chuck Berry: Long Fast Jam 1958  Chess Records (unissued)

Track List

1930's

Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra: My Man is on the Make (3.05) London, 1930

Ted Lewis & His Orchestra: Royal Garden Blues New York, 1931

Leslie Thompson with Spike Hughes’ Orchestra: Tap Your Feet London, 1931

Weintraub Syncopators: Ich kauf’ mir ne Rakete Berlin, 1932

Spike Hughes and His Negro (later renamed All American) Orchestra: Pastoral  New York, 1933

Oscar’s Chicago Swingers: I Wonder Who’s Boogiein’ My Woogie  Chicago, 1936 

Nat Gonella and His Georgians: Just a Crazy Song London, 1936

Leon McAuliffe (Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys): Steel Guitar Rag Dallas, 1936

Ken “Snakehips” Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band: Snakehips Swing London, 1938

Pete Johnson & Joe Turner: Roll ‘Em Pete New York, 1938

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra: Jump ‘n Jive New York, 1939

Jimmie Lunceford and His Dance Orchestra: T’Aint What You Do New York, 1939

Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtime Band: I wish I could shimmy like my Sister Kate Chicago, 1939

Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtime Band: Relaxin’ at the Touro Chicago, 1939

1940's

Will Bradley and His Orchestra: Jimtown Blues 1941

Sarane Ferret et Le Quintette de Paris: Studio 28 Paris, 1942

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

1950's

Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends: Mama Don’t Allow 1951

Gerry Mulligan: Bernie’s Tune Los Angeles,1952

Henri Crolla: Yardbird Suite Paris, 1955

Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band: Saturday Jump London, 1958

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Hackensack, New Jersey, 1958 


Monday, 22nd January

Jazz Weather Forecast - Michael Morrish

Play in music: Steve Nelson - Night Mist Blues from 'Sound Effects', 2007 

Track List

1. King Oliver - Weather Bird Rag from 'King Oliver's Jazz Band Ultimate Collection' 1926 

2. Billie Holiday - Where is the Sun? from 'The Legacy' box set, 1937 

3. Charlie Parker - Autumn in New York from 'Charlie Parker with Strings - The Master Takes', 1952 

4. Charlie Mingus - A Foggy Day from 'Pithecanthropus Erectus', 1956 

5. Art Farmer - Cold Breeze from 'Modern Art', 1958 

6. Duke Ellington - Warm Valley from 'Money Jungle', 1962 

7. Herbie Hancock - The Eye of the Hurricane from 'Maiden Voyage', 1965 

8. Gil Evans - Summertime from 'Svengali', 1973 

9. Kenny Burrell - Come Rain or Come Shine from 'Live in New York/ At the Village Vanguard', 1978 

10. Terence Blanchard - The Water from 'A Tale of God's Will', 2007 

11. Manu Katche - Shine and Blue from 'Live in Concert', 2014 

12. The Impossible Gentlemen - Hold Out for the Sun from 'Let's Get Deluxe', 2016 

13. Colin Steele - Snow on the Pines from 'Diving for Pearls', 2017 

14. Dave O'Higgins and Rob Luft - Spring Is Here from 'Play Monk and Trane', 2019 

15. Xhosa Cole - On a Misty Night from 'Know Them, Know Us', 2021 

Monday, 15th January

The Gershwins in Jazz - Alan Murphy

Prelude   

Rhapsody in Blue - Andre Previn

Track List

Rialto Ripples                 George Gershwin 1917

Somebody Loves Me                 Alan Barnes 1997

Lady be Good                 Jazz at the Philharmonic 1946

The Man I Love                         Benny Goodman Quartet 1938

Fascinating Rhythm                         Tony Bennet, Diana Krall 2019

S'wonderful                          Diana Krall 2001

But Not For Me                Ahmad Jamal 1958

I got Rhythm                                Hampton Hawes 1956

Embraceable You                Frank Rosolino Sextet 1954

Summertime                                Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong 1956

It Ain't Necessarily So       Oscar Peterson 1961 

I loves you Porgy                Nina Simone 1965

Love is Here to Stay                Ben Edison & Harry Webster 1956

Nice Work If You Can Get It        Sarah Vaughan 1950

They Can't Take That Away From Me  Errol Garner 1955

I Was Doing All Right        Stan Getz 1958

I Can't Get Started                Bunny Berigan 1937.