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This week there's another selection of listeners' nominations for the ten essential jazz records, plus Alyn Shipton's selection from the postbag includes music by the contrasting tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Branford Marsalis.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 17 Oct 2015 16:00

Music Played

  • Leroy Jones

    The Sea Horse

    Performer: Craig Klein. Performer: Paul Longstreth. Performer: Mitchell Player. Performer: Gerald French. Performer: Leroy Jones.
    • New Orleans Jazz Ascona 2003.
    • KHE Productions.
    • 1.
  • Dexter Gordon

    I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

    Performer: Sonny Clark. Performer: Butch Warren. Performer: Billy Higgins. Performer: Dexter Gordon. Performer: Sonny Clark. Performer: Billy Higgins.
    • Go!.
    • Blue Note.
    • 2.
  • Charles Mingus

    E's Flat Ah's Flat Too

    Performer: Mal Waldron. Performer: Booker Ervin. Performer: Jackie McLean. Performer: John Handy. Performer: Pepper Adams. Performer: Jimmy Knepper. Performer: Dannie Richmond. Performer: Charles Mingus.
    • Blues and Roots.
    • Atlantic Masters.
    • 6.
  • Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian & Bill Evans

    Gloria's Step (Take 2)

    • Sunday at the Village Vanguard.
    • Riverside.
    • 1.
  • Michel Legrand

    La Pasionara

    Performer: Phil Woods. Performer: Gerry Mulligan. Performer: Jon Faddis. Performer: Gloria Agostini. Performer: Errol Crusher Bennett. Performer: John Clark. Performer: Burt Collins. Performer: John Gatchell. Performer: Don Elliott. Performer: Harry Leahey. Performer: Bernie Leighton. Performer: James Madison. Performer: Tom Pierson. Performer: Portinho. Performer: Tony Price. Performer: Albert Richmond. Performer: Joe Shepley. Performer: Grady Tate. Performer: Brooks Tillotson. Performer: Michel Legrand.
    • Le Grand Jazz.
    • Gryphon.
    • 1.
  • Phil Woods & Gordon Beck & Phil Woods & Gordon Beck

    How Deep Is The Ocean

    • Live at the Wigmore Hall.
    • Disques JMS.
    • 6.
  • Phil Woods

    High Clouds

    Performer: Harry Leahey. Performer: Mike Melillo. Performer: Steve Gilmore. Performer: Bill Goodwin. Performer: Phil Woods.
    • Live at the Showboat.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Phil Woods with the Oliver Nelson Big Band, Oliver Nelson & Phil Woods

    I Remember Bird

    • Leonard Feather Encylopedia of Jazz in the Sixties Volume One.
    • VERVE.
    • 2.
  • Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake & Ran Blake

    Summertime

    • Newest Sound Around.
    • RCA.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 Oct 2015 16:00

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