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