Monday, 26 January 2026

Jazz Singers Through The Ages  – Tom Cochrane

Intro tracks Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) by Ray Charles, The Good Life by Betty Carter       

Track List

Track 1  Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday from the album Lady Sings The Blues [1956]  

Track 2  Driftin’ Blues by Charles Brown from the album Legend [1969 0riginally 1947 on 78rpm]  

Track 3 Mood Indigo by Nina Simone from the album Little Girl Blue [1957] 

Track 4 The Honeydripper by Count Basie and Big Joe Turner from the album The Bosses [1974]  

Track 5  Take Love Easy by Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass from the album Take Love Easy [1973] 

Track 6 Every Day by Jimmy Witherspoon from the album Gerry Mulligan and Jimmy Witherspoon [1959]  

Track 7 Woman of the Ghetto by Marlena Shaw from the album The Spice of Life [1969]  

Track 8 Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott Heron from the album Pieces of a Man [1971]  

Track 9 Spirit by Al Jarreau from the album We Got By [1975]  

Track 10 Wrong Side of the Road by Tom Waits from the album Blue Valentine (1977) 

Track 11. Tracks of My Tears by Carmel from the album Carmel [1982]  

Track 12 Almost Blue by Chet Baker from the album Swimming By Moonlight [2025]  

Track 13 On and On by Erykah Badu from the album Baduizm [1997] 

Track 14 Moody’s Mood For Love by Amy Winehouse from the album Frank [2003] 

Track 15 Nola by José James from the album The Dreamer [2008]  

Track 16 I Can’t Stand The Rain by Cassandra Wilson from the album Blue Light ‘Til Dawn [2014] 

Track 17 One Way Traffic by Joe Armon Jones featuring Yazmin Lacey from the album All The Quiet Part II (2025) 

Monday, 19 January 2026

Live at the Village Vanguard - John Hopkins

Track List

1 Sonny Rollins
A Night at the Village Vanguard (3 November 1957)

OLD DEVIL MOON: CD 1, track 8 (intro): 0’36; track 9: Sonny Rollins (ts), Wilbur Ware (b), Elvin Jones 8’19 [rec. Rudy Van Gelder]


2 Kenny Burrell
A Night at the Village Vanguard (16 – 17 September 1959)

I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU: track 3: Kenny Burrell (gtr), Richard Davis (b), Roy Haynes (d) 4’40 [rec. Phil Macy]


3 Bill Evans
Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 (25 June 1961)

WALTZ FOR DEBBY: CD 2, track 6: Bill Evans (pno), Scott LaFaro (b), Paul Motian (d)  6’47 [rec. David Jones, prod. Orrin Keepnews]


4 John Coltrane
Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 (1 – 5 November 1961)

NAIMA 1 November 1961: CD1 track 3: John Coltrane (ts), Eric Dolphy (b.cl), McCoy Tyner (pno), Reggie Workman (b), Elvin Jones (d): 7’33 [rec: Rudy Van Gelder]


5 Wynton Marsalis
Live at the Village Vanguard (1990 – 1994)

SWING DOWN SWING TOWN: CD 5, track 9: Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Wessell Anderson (as), Victor Goynes (ts), Wycliffe Gordon (tbn), Eric Reed (pno), Ben Wolfe (b), Herlin Riley (d) 9’35 [rec. Mark Wilder]


6 Joe Lovano 
Quartets (12 March 1994, 20 – 22 January 1995)

DUKE ELLINGTON’S SOUND OF LOVE: CD 2, track 6: Joe Lovano (ts), Mulgrew Miller (pno), Christian McBride (b), Lewis Nash (d) 6’15 [rec. David Baker]


7 Joshua Redman
Live at the Village Vanguard (21 – 26 March 1995)

SLAPSTICK: CD 2, track 6: Joshua Redman (ts), Peter Martin (pno), Christopher Martin (b), Brian Blade (d) 5’51 [rec. James Farber]


8 Uri Caine
Village Vanguard (23 – 25 May 2003)

MOST WANTED: track 9: Uri Caine (pno), Drew Gress (b), Ben Perowsky (d) 6’34 [rec. Adrian Von Ripka]


9 Tom Harrell
Live at the Village Vanguard (15 – 18 November 2001)

ASIA MINOR: track 1: Tom Harrell (tpt), Jimmy Greene (ts), Xavier Davis (pno), Ugonna Okegwo (b), Quincy Davis (d) 8’41 [rec. David Baker and Katsuhiko Naito]


10 Brad Mehldau
Live (11 – 15 October 2006)

WONDERWALL: CD 1, track 1 (intro) 0’15; track 2: Brad Mehldau (pno), Larry Grenadier (b), Jeff Ballard (d) 8’45 [rec. James Farber, Tim Martyn and Rick Jacobson]

Monday, 12 January 2026

The First Fifty Years of Jazz in Britain - Robert Porrer

Play-in music: Humphrey Lyttelton: St Louis Blues (1991)

Track List

1918 Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB): Clarinet Marmalade
1927  Ray Starita and the Piccadilly Revels Band: Go Joe, Go 
1930 Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra with Jimmy Dorsey and Muggsy Spanier:
             I like to do things for you (London test pressing)
1930 Duke Ellington: Old Man Blues
1931 Leslie Thompson with Spike Hughes Orchestra: Tap Your Feet
(1932) Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five:  Ory’s Creole Trombone (1927 version)
1935 Jack Hylton & Orchestra with Coleman Hawkins: My Melancholy Baby
1935 Lew Stone & His Band: Bouncing Ball
1936 Benny Carter & His Orchestra: Swingin’ at Maida Vale
1936 Nat Gonella & His Georgians: Just a Crazy Song
1940 Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson & His West Indian Dance Band: Tuxedo Junction
1940 Sidney Bechet: Blues with Bechet
1944 Frank Deniz & His Spirits of Rhythm: Soft Winds
1946 Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli Hot Club de France: H.C.Q. Strut
1954 Cy Laurie Jazz Band: Forty & Tight
1958 Tony Coe Quintet: Sans Humph
1958 Diz Disley Quintet: Minor Swing
1959 Kenny Baker: Too Cool for the Blues
1959 Dave Brubeck: Three to Get Ready
1962 Chris Barber Band: Give Me Your Telephone Number

Bonus Track 
1953  Sid Phillips & His Band: Honeypot