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Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes records by saxophonist Hank Mobley, trumpeter Shorty Rogers and guitarist Django Reinhardt. Plus he marks significant anniversaries of reed players Jackie McLean and John Barnes, and features new music from the Scottish singer Lorna Reid.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 17 May 2014 17:00

Music Played

  • Hank Mobley

    Dig Dis

    Performer: Wynton Kelly. Performer: Paul Chambers. Performer: Art Blakey.
    • Soul Station.
    • Blue Note.
    • 3.
  • Shorty Rogers

    Short Stop

    Performer: Conrad Gozzo. Performer: Maynard Ferguson. Performer: Pete Candoli. Performer: John Howell. Performer: Milt Bernhart. Performer: John Haliburton. Performer: John Graas. Performer: Gene Englund. Performer: Art Pepper. Performer: Bud Shank. Performer: Jimmy Giuffre. Performer: Bob Cooper. Performer: Marty Paich. Performer: Curtis Counce. Performer: Shelly Manne.
    • Short Stops.
    • Bluebird.
  • O'Brien's State Street Seven

    Carolina In The Morning

    Performer: Chuck Mackey. Performer: Matty Matlock. Performer: Floyd O'Brien. Performer: George van Eps. Performer: Charlie LaVere. Performer: Joe Rushton. Performer: Arthur "Artie" Shapiro. Performer: Nick Fatool.
    • Matty Matlock's Dixielanders.
    • Tempo.
    • 3.
  • Quintette du Hot Club de France

    Black and White

    Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Roger Chaput. Performer: Eugène Vées. Performer: Louis Vola.
    • Retrospective.
    • Saga.
    • 13.
  • Guildhall Jazz Band and Singers

    Ballad of the Flying Saucers

    Performer: James Pritchard.
    • A Drum Is A Woman.
    • Duke Ellington Society UK.
  • Alex Welsh

    One Two Button Your Shoe

    Performer: John Barnes. Performer: Roy Williams. Performer: Jim Douglas. Performer: Harvey Weston. Performer: Lennie Hastings.
    • Alex Welsh and His Band '69.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Lorna Reid

    Doggone Good

    Performer: Colin Steele. Performer: Seonaid Aitken. Performer: Graeme Stephen. Performer: Euan Stevenson. Performer: Ed Kelly. Performer: Dave Swanson.
    • Falling Like Dew.
    • Lorna Reid.
    • 3.
  • Hatfield and the North

    Underdub

    Performer: Jimmy Hastings. Performer: Phil Miller. Performer: Dave Stewart. Performer: Richard Sinclair. Performer: Pip Pyle.
    • Rotters Club.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.
  • Gil Evans

    Sunken Treasure

    Performer: Johnny Coles.
    • Out of the Cool.
    • Impulse.
    • 5.
  • Jackie McLean

    Bluesnik

    Performer: Freddie Hubbard. Performer: Kenny Drew. Performer: Doug Watkins. Performer: Pete La Roca.
    • Bluesnik.
    • Blue Note.
    • 1.
  • Nina Simone

    Sinnerman

    • Definitive Nina Simone.
    • Maximize.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 May 2014 17:00

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