03/10/2009
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. Email jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.
Jazz Record Requests
Presented by Geoffrey Smith
Saturday 3 October 2009 5pm–6pm
JRR Signature Tune:
Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Wynton Marsalis)
Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tp), Marcus Roberts (p), Todd Williams (ts), Dr Michael White (cl), Danny Barker (bj), Teddy Riley (tp), Freddie Lonzo (tb), Reginald Veal (b), Herlin Riley (d)
Recorded 28 October 1988
Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues
1989 CD (CBS 465129 2)
Camp Meeting Blues (King Oliver) (2:55)
Performed by King Oliver’s Jazz Band: King Oliver, Louis Armstrong (c) Ed Atkins (tb) Buster Bailey or Jimmy Noone (cl) Lil Hardin (p) Johnny St Cyr (bj) Baby Dodds (d)
Recorded 19 October 1923, Chicago
Taken from the album King Oliver and his Creole Jazz band 1923
1992 CD (Classics 650 (1) Track 23)
St. Philip Street Breakdown (George Lewis) (4:25)
Performed by Ian Wheeler (cl) John Bastable (bj) Ron Ward (b) Colin Bowden (d) George Lewis (cl)
Recorded 27 April 1957, Manchester
Taken from the album George Lewis with Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen 1957
1994 CD (Five O Four 504CD51 (1) Track 7)
The Chase (Gordon) (6:46)
Performed by Dexter Gordon (ts) Wardell Gray (ts) Jimmy Bunn (p) Red Callender (bs) Chuck Thompson (d)
Recorded 12 June 1947
Taken from the album the Chase!
1995 CD (Stash STB2513 (1) Track 3)
Moten Swing (B & B Moten) (6:08)
Performed by Charlie Shavers Sextet: Charlie Shavers (tp) Benny Morton (tb) Hank D’Amico (cl) Kenny Kersey (p) Aaron Bell (b) Panama Francis (d)
Recorded 25 – 27 October 1954, New York
Taken from the album Horn O’ Plenty
2005 CD (Lonehill Jazz LHJ10140(1) Track 3)
Song for My Father (Horace Silver) (4:47)
Performed by George Benson (g, v) Paul Griffin (p) Bob Cranshaw (b) Jimmy Johnson (d) Clark Terry (tp) Garnett Brown (tb) Arthur Clark, George Marge (ts, fl) Buddy Lucas (hca) Jack Jennings (conga, vb) The Winston Collymore Strings, Horace Ott (arr, cond)
Recorded 18 November 1968
Taken from the album Talkin’ Verve
1997 CD (Verve 537802(1) Track 2)
Stack It Up! (The Apples) (3:32)
Performed by The Apples: Arthur Krasnobaev (tp) Yaron Ouzana (tb) Oleg Nayman (ts, ss) Yuval Tabachnik (bs) Yonadav Halevy (d) Shai Ran (b) Erez Todres (turntables) Ofer ‘Schoolmaster’ Tal (turntables) Uri ‘MixMonster’ Wertheim (Sound Console & Live Effects)
Recorded 10 – 15 January 2008
Taken from the album Buzzin’ About
2008 CD (Freestyle FSRCD041(1) Track 1)
Poem: Tonight I Write Sadly Tune: Blue Lament (Tony Kinsey) (3:10)
Performed by Christopher Logue (v) The Tony Kinsey Quintet: Les Cordon (tp) Ken Wray (tb) Bill Le Sage (p, vb) Kenny Napper (b) Tony Kinsey (d)
Recorded 29 May 1959, London
Taken from the album Audio Logue
CD (Audiologue UPL701 Disc 7 Track7)
Ain’t Nobody’s Business (Witherspoon) (6:05)
Performed by Jimmy Witherspoon (v) Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge (tp) Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster (ts) Vernon Alley (b) Mel Lewis (d) Urbie Green
Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2 October 1959
Taken from the album 1959 Monterey Jazz festival
LP (Ember CJS834 S1/1)
Seven Leaves (Gareth Williams) (5:41)
Performed by Gareth Williams (p) Laurence Cottle (b) Ian Thomas (d)
Recorded 14 December 2007
Taken from the album Shock!
2009 CD (Linn AKCD326 Track 5)
Down by the Riverside (Oliver Nelson) (8:45)
Performed by Oliver Nelson (arr, cond, ss) buddy Childers, Bobby Bryant, Freddy Hill, Conte Candoli (tp) Billy Byers, Pete Myers, Lou Blackburn, Ernie Tack (tb) Gabe Baltazar, Tom Scott, Bill Perkins, Jack Nimitz, Frank Strozier (reeds) Frank Strazzori (p) Monte Budwig (b) Mel Brown (g) Ed Thigpen (d)
Recorded 2 – 4 June 1967
Taken from the album Oliver Nelson’s Big Band Live from Los Angeles
LP (Impulse SIPL510 S1/3)
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