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Recently listeners have been sending in requests for long-lost albums, and in this week's selection of music in all styles of jazz from the postbag and emails, Alyn Shipton includes a long-lost track by tenor saxophonist Ben Webster recorded in London.

e-mail: jazz.record.requests@bbc.co.uk.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 6 May 2017 16:00

Music Played

  • Louie Bellson

    Skin Deep

    • Skin Deep.
    • Verve.
    • 1.
  • Carmen McRae

    The Ballad of Thelonious Monk

    • The Great American Songbook Live.
    • Atlantic.
    • 12.
  • Ben Webster

    My One and Only Love

    • Big Ben Time.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • Fats Waller

    Spring Cleaning

    • Handful of Keys.
    • Proper.
    • 18.
  • Duke Ellington

    Creole Love Call

    • Histoire des Big Bands.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 19.
  • Ian Menzies & The Clyde Valley Stompers

    Scotland The Brave

    • Lonnie Donegan Presents Traditional Jazz.
    • PYE.
    • 6.
  • Joe Sullivan

    Onyx Bringdown

    • Joe Sullivan 1933-1941.
    • Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jack Montrose

    True Blue

    • The Horn's Full.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Michael Garrick

    I've Got Just About Everything I Need

    • Down on Your Knees.
    • Jazz Academy.
    • 4.
  • Indo Jazz Fusions & John Mayer'S Indo-Jazz Fusions

    Gana And Acka Raga

    • Indo Jazz Fusions.
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Arthur Blythe

    Bush Baby

    • Illusions.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • Sonny Rollins

    East Broadway Rundown

    • East Broadway Rundown.
    • Impulse.
    • 1.
  • Bill Charlap & Charlap, Bill, With Tony Bennett

    The Nearness of You

    • STARDUST.
    • BLUE NOTE.
    • 6.
  • Allan Holdsworth, Anders Johanssen & Jens Johanssen, Allan Holdsworth, Anders Johanssen & Jens Johansson

    Mission Possible

    • Heavy Machinery.
    • Canyon International.
    • 4.
  • Scottish National Jazz Orchestra & Tommy Smith (Director), Brian Kellock (Piano)

    The Single Petal of A Rose

    • IN THE SPIRIT OF DUKE.
    • SPARTACUS.
    • 13.
  • Don Weller

    High Force

    • Live.
    • 33 Jazz.
    • 7.

Performers:

Artist  Louis Bellson
Title  Skin Deep
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Album  Skin Deep
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Number  MG N 1046 Side A Track 1
Duration  7.53
Performers Conrad Gozzo, Harry Edison, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Linn, t; Herbert Harper, Hoyt Bohannon, Tommy Peterson, tb; Benny Carter, Willie Smith, Bumps Myers, Wardell Gray, Bob Lawson, reeds; Jimmy Rowles, p; Barney Kessel, g; John Simmons, b; Louis Bellson, d, 1955.


Artist  Carmen McRae
Title  The Ballad of Thelonious Monk
Composer Rowles / McHugh
Album  The Great American Songbook (Live)
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Number  SD2 902 Track 12
Duration  3.29
Performers Carmen McRae, v; Jimmy Rowles, p; Joe Pass, g; Chuck Domanico b; Chuck Flores, d.  Nov 71.


Artist  Ben Webster
Title  My One and Only Love
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Album  Big Ben Time
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Number  840-820-2 Side a Track 2
Duration  4.39
Performers: Ben Webster, ts; Dick Katz, p; Alan Haven, org; Spike Heatley, b; Tony Crombie, d. Jan 1967.


Artist  Fats Waller
Title  Spring Cleaning
Composer Samuels / Whitcup / Powell
Album  Handful of Keys
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Number  Properbox 71 CD 3 Track 18
Duration  2.28
Performers:  Herman Autrey, t; Gene Sedric, ts, cl; Al Casey, g; Fats Waller, p, v; Charlie Turner, b; Slick Jones, d. 1937


Artist  Duke Ellington
Title  Creole Love Call
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Album  Histoire des big bands
Label  Chante du Monde
Number  574 1481.90  CD 1 Track 19
Duration  3.13
Performers: Louis Metcalf, Bubber Miley, t; Tricky Sam Nanton, tb; Rudy Jackson, Otto Hardwick, Harry Carney, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, bj; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d; Adelaide Hall, v. 26 Oct 1927.


Artist  Ian Menzies and His Clyde Valley Stompers
Title  Scotland The Brave
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Album  Lonnie Donegan Presents Traditional Jazz
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Number  NJL 26 Side b Track 6
Duration  2.52
Performers: include: Forrie Cairns, cl; Ian Menzies, tb; John Cairns, p; Norrie Brown, bj; Bill Bain b; 1960


Artist  Joe Sullivan
Title  Onyx Bringdown
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Album  Joe Sullivan 1933-1941
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Number  821 Track 4
Duration  2.58
Performers: Joe Sullivan, p. 1934


Artist  Jack Montrose
Title  True Blue
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Album  The Horn’s Full
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Number  45956 Side B track 3
Duration  3.30
Performers: Jack Montrose, ts; Red Norvo, vib; Jim Hall, g; Max Bennett, b; Bill Dolney, d. 1958


Artist  Michael Garrick
Title  I’ve Got Just About Everything I need
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Album  Down on Your Knees
Label  Jazz Academy
Number  JAZA 5 Track 4
Duration  2.42
Performers Mark Armstrong, Gabriel Garrick, Paul Jayasinha, Ollie Preece, Martin Shaw, Steve Waterman, t; Brian Archer, Mark Nightingale., Dave Holt, Malcolm Earle Smith, Matt Coleman, Bill Mee, tb; Martin Hathaway, Matt Wates, Paul Booth, Ben Castle, Mike Hall, Jim Tomlinson, Bob McKay, reeds; Mike Garrick p; Dominic Ashworth, g; Paul Moylan, b; Alan Jackson, d; Anita Wardell, v. 1998.


Artist  Indo Jazz Fusions
Title  Gana and Acka Raga
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Album  Indo Jazz Fusions
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Number  SCX 6122 Track 3 and 4
Duration  2.07 and 2.43 - total 4.50
Performers: Joe Harriott, as; Shake Keane, t; Chris Taylor, fl; Pat Smythe, p; Coleridge Goode, b; Alan Ganley, d; Diwan Motihar, Sitar, John Mayer, vn; Keshav Sathe, tabla, Chandrahas Paigankar, tambura. 1967.


Artist  Arthur Blythe
Title  Bush Baby
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Number  84475 Track 1
Duration  6.28
Performers: Arthur Blythe, as; Abdul Wadud, vc; Blood Ulmer, g; Bob Stewart, tu; Bobby Battle, d; 1980.


Artist  Sonny Rollins
Title  East Broadway Rundown
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Album  East Broadway Rundown
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Number  Track 1
Duration  first 8.43 or so into Elvin’s drum solo [or shorter to fit…]
Performers: Sonny Rollins, ts; Freddie Hubbard, t; Jimmy Garrison, b; Elvin Jones, d. 9 May 1966


Artist  Bill Charlap
Title  The Nearness of You
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Label  Blue Note
Number 7 243 5 41746 2 9 Track 6
Duration  7.27
Performers: Bill Charlap, p; Peter Washington, b; Kenny Washington, d. 2002


Artist  Allan Holdsworth, Anders Johanssen, Jens Johanssen
Title  Mission Possible
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Album  Heavy Machinery
Label  Canyon International
Number  PCCY 0119 Track 4
Duration  5.15
Performers: Allan Holdsworth, g; Jens Johanssen kb; Anders Johanssen, d. 1996


Artist  Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
Title  The Single Petal of a Rose
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Album  In The Spirit of Duke
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Number  STS017 Track 13
Duration  4.51
Performers: Tommy Smith, ts; Brian Kellock, p, 2012.


Artist  Don Weller
Title  High Force
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Label  33 Jazz
Number 032 Track 7
Duration  12.24
Performers: Don Weller, Art Themen, Mornington Lockett, Peter King, Nigel Hitchcock, Alan Barnes – reeds; Gerard Presencer, Steve Waterman, Henry Lowther, Patrick White – trumpet; Mark Nightingale, Malcolm Griffiths, Pete Beachill, Andy Fawbert – trombone; David Newton – piano; Andrew Cleyndert – bass; Bryan Spring – drums.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 May 2017 16:00

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