Monday, 25 November 2024

Big Band Jazz –  Rob Turvey

Prelude  Quincy Jones – Live in Paris Vol 2 April 1960

Track List

1. Jacob Mann Big Band – Baby Carrots from (Greatest Hits Vol 3) 2022

2. The Maria Schneider Orchestra – The Thomson Fields from (The Thomson Fields) 2015

3. Count Basie Orchestra – Duet (1994 Remaster from The Complete Atomic Basie) 1957

4. Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra – Quietude (Live/Remix) from (At The Village Vanguard) 1967 

5. Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band – Long Yellow Road (Long Yellow Road) 1976

6. Don Ellis – Invincible from (Soaring) 1973

7. Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Hunting Wabbits from (XXL) 2007

8. Benny Goodman – Life Goes To A Party (Live Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert) 1938

9. Tom Kubis Big Band – Bill Bailey from (At Last) 2009

10. Blue Note Tokyo All Star Jazz Orchestra – Trains from (Remote Session in Covid) 2020

11. Alan Baylock – Torque from (Prime Time) 2016 

12. Bob Curnow’s L. A. Big Band – Minuano Six Eight from (The Music of Pat Methany & Lyle Mays) 1994

Monday, 18 November 2024

The Best of British - Alan Murphy

Prelude - From the Cradle Eric Clapton 1994.

Track List

1. Opus 1 Ted Heath 1949

2. Georgia on my Mind Humphrey Lyttleton/Sydney Bechet 1949

3. September in the Rain George Shearing Quintet 1949

4. The Entertainer Ken Colyer 1953

5. St Louis Blues Patterson/Barber 1955

6. Bad Penny Blues Humphrey Lyttleton 1956

7. Petite Fleur Monty Sunshine/Chris Barber 1959

8. Up the Poll Melody Maker All Stars 1952

9. April in Paris Cleo Laine 1956

10. Take the A Train Johnny Dankworth Big Band 1956

11. Some of my Best Friends are Blues Jazz Couriers 1956

12. Blue Hayes Tubby Hayes 1957

13. Easy to Love Vic Feldman Quartet 1955 *

14. Somebody Loves Me Alan Barnes 1997 *

15. In a Mellow Tone Clare Teal 2004 *

16. Something's Coming Claire Martin 2002 *

17. Get Me to the Church on Time Dave Newton 2015

*  As a result of technical issues, some tracks had to be dropped from the play list.

Additional Tracks

Intermission Riff Stan Kenton 1952
(after track 1)

The Preacher Woody Herman 1958
(after track 12)

Monday, 11th November

Jazz Covers  -Tom Cochrane

Intro Tracks:  Footprints by Ezra Collective / Montara by Blue Lab Beats (2020) / Take Five by Oladepo Ogomodede (2014) / As Time Goes By Dexter Gordon (1986)

Track List

Round Midnight by Chet Baker  (1979)

Contemplation by Nubya Garcia (2017)

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Joni Mitchell(1980)

White Rabbit by George Benson (1971)  

Somewhere by Tom Waits (1978)  

Run The Voodoo Down by Cassandra Wilson (1999)

Everybody Loves The Sunshine by Takuya Kuroda (2014)  

Spirits Up Above by Jose James (2018) 

Tumbao No. 5 by Orlando Cachaito Lopez  (2001)

My Funny Valentine by Bill Evans and Jim Hall (1961)

Summertime by The Kahil El’Zabar Quartet (2022)

Naima by Pharoah Sanders (2023)

Wade In The Water by Billy Valentine and The Universal Truth(2023)

Monday, 5th November

 Live Set from John Tyson 

John Tyson - Drums

Ruth Applin - Piano and vocals

Josh Kemp - Tenor Saxophone and Clarinet

Louis Thorne - Double Bass

Set List

Jazz songs inspired by famous female jazz vocalists
1. Exactly like you (Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields), as inspired by Nina Simone
2. Fine and Mellow (Billie Holiday)
3. They Can't Take That Away from Me (George and Ira Gershwin), as inspired by Ella Fitzgerald from the album of duets with Louis Armstrong
4. Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin), as inspired by Ella Fitzgerald from the same album
5. Black Coffee (Sonny Burke and Paul Francis Webster), as inspired by Sarah Vaughan
6. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) (Antonio Carlos Jobim), as inspired by Astrud Gilberto
7. My Baby Just Cares For Me (Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn), as inspired by Nina Simone
8. At Last (Mack Gordon and Harry Warren), as inspired by Etta James
9. I Love Being Here With You (Peggy Lee and Bill Schluger)
10. Feel Like Makin' Love (Eugene McDaniels), as inspired by Roberta Flack
11. Get Here (Brenda Russell), as inspired by Oleta Adams