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In this week's selection from listeners' requests by letter and email, Alyn Shipton includes a vintage track by clarinettist Omer Simeon and piano virtuoso Earl Hines. Plus a range of requests for jazz from many other styles and periods.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 24 Jun 2017 16:00

Music Played

  • Lionel Hampton & Lionel Hampton And His Sextet

    Chasin With Chase

    • Air Mail Special.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Omer Simeon

    Smokehouse Blues

    • Reuben Reeves and Omer Simeon Complete Recorded Works 1929 - 33.
    • Jazz Perspectives.
    • 11.
  • Wally Fawkes

    Six Bells Stampede

    • FLOOK DIGS JAZZ.
    • LAKE.
    • 18.
  • François Rilhac

    Somebody Stole My Gal

    • It's Only A Paper Moon.
    • Black and Blue.
    • 2.
  • Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins

    Love For Sale

    • Pocket Full of Miracles.
    • Vanguard.
    • 5.
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Taft Jordan, Sandy Williams, Louis Jordan & Chick Webb

    This Time It's Real

    • The Legendary Vol 2.
    • ABM.
    • 15.
  • Duke Ellington & Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

    Work Song (from Black, Brown And Beige)

    • Carnegie Hall Concert December 1944.
    • Prestige.
    • 1.
  • Kevin Fitzsimmons & Kevin Fitszimmons

    This Masquerade

    • Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club.
    • Jazzwurx.
    • 4.
  • Bobby Enriquez

    Yesterdays

    • The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez.
    • Crescendo.
    • 10.
  • Carla Bley

    Misterioso

    • That's The Way I Feel Now.
    • A and M.
    • 5.
  • Shotgun Jazz Band

    Girl, You'd Better Use Your Head

    • Don't Give Up The Ship.
    • Shotgun Jazz Band.
    • 3.
  • Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong & Fitzgerald, Ella & Louis Armstrong

    Summertime

    • Complete Normal Granz sessions.
    • One Records.
    • 2.

Performers

Artist  Lionel Hampton
Title  Chasin’ With Chase
Composer Shivers / Neale
Album  Airmail Special
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Number  8.120651 Track 16
Duration  2.56
Performers:  Karl George, trumpet; Marshall Royal, clarinet, alto sax.; Ray Perry, violin; "Sir Charles" Thompson, piano; Irving Ashby, guitar;
Vernon Alley, string bass; Shadow Wilson, Lionel Hampton, drums, 8 April 1941


Artist  Omer Simeon
Title  Smokehouse Blues
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Album  Reuben Reeves and Omer Simeon Complete Recorded Works 1929-33
Label  Jazz Perspectives
Number  JPCD 1516-2 Track 11
Duration  2.37
Performers Omer Simeon, cl; Earl Hines, cl; Hayes Alvis, bb; Wallace Bishop, d. 21 Aug 1929


Artist  Wally Fawkes
Title  Six Bells Stampede
Composer Hughes / Munn
Album  Flook Digs Jazz
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Number  143 Track 18
Duration  2.44
Performers Spike Mackintosh, t; Wally Fawkes, cl; John Mumford, tb; Collin Bates, p; Russ Allen, b; John Armitage, d. April 1959.


Artist  François Rilhac
Title  Somebody Stole My Gal
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Album  It’s Only a Paper Moon
Label  Black and Blue
Number  Track 2
Duration  3.27
Performers:  François Rilhac, p. 1986


Artist   Ruby Braff / Ellis Larkins
Title  Love For Sale
Composer Cole Porter
Album  Pocket Full of Miracles
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Number  8516 Track 5
Duration  5.43
Performers:  Ellis Larkins, p; Ruby Braff, c. released 1957


Artist  Ella Fitzgerald
Title  This Time It’s Real
Composer Shivers/ Bernich / Emmerich
Album  The Legendary Vol 2
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Number  1068 Track 15
Duration  3.10
Performers Taft Jordan, t; Sandy Williams, tb; Louis Jordan, as; Teddy McRae, ts; Tommy Fulford, p; Bobby Johnson, g; Beverly Peer, b; Chick Webb, d; Ella Fitzgerald, voc. 3 May 1938


Artist  Duke Ellington
Title  Work Song (from Black Brown and Beige)
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Album  Carnegie Hall Concert December 1944
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Number  2PCD 24073-2  CD 2 Track 1
Duration  7.00 [applause at 6.46]
Performers Rex Stewart, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance, Shelton Hemphill, t; Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, tb; Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Al Sears, Otto Hardwicke, Jimmy Hamilton, reeds; Duke Ellington, p; Frad Guy, g; Junior Raglin, b; Hillard Brown, d. 19 Dec 1944.


Artist  Kevin Fitzsimmons
Title  This Masquerade
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Album  Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club
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Number  JWR012 Track 4
Duration  3.22 (EOM 3.16)
Performers Kevin Fitzsimmons, v; Frank Griffiths, ts; Leon Greening, p; Adam King, b; Matt Fishwick, d. 2017.


Artist  Bobby Enriquez
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Album  The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez
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Number  Track 10
Duration  3.58
Performers Bobby Enriquez, piano. 1983.


Artist  Carla Bley
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Album  That’s The Way I Feel Now
Label  A and M
Number  66600 LP1 Side A Track 5
Duration  8.43
Performers:  Mike Mantler, t; Gary Valente, tb; Vincent Chancey, frh; Bob Stewart, tu;  Steve Slagle, as; Johnny Griffin, ts; Carla Bley, kb; Hiram Bullock, g; Steve Swallow, b; Victor Lewis, d; Hal Wilner, v. 1984


Artist  Shotgun Jazz Band
Title  Girl, You’d Better use your head
Album  Don’t Give Up The Ship
Label  Shotgun Jazz Band
Number  888174078496Track 3
Duration  4.00
Performers:  Marla Dixon - Trumpet & Vocals; Christopher Johnson - Tenor Saxophone; Michael Magro – Clarinet; Peter Loggins – Trombone; Tyler Thomson – Bass; Justin Peake – Drums; John Dixon – Banjo; 2013.


Artist  Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
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Album  Complete Normal Granz sessions
Label  One Records
Number  59805 CD 3 Track 2
Duration  5.01
Performers:  Ella Fitzgerald, v; Louis Armstrong t, v; Russ Garcia Orchestra. 1957

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  • Sat 24 Jun 2017 16:00

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