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Goodman and Grappelli Shine

Comparisons of a teenage Benny and later with Red Norvo and Grappelli really does shine.

Stephane Grappelli joins with a country mandolin player while Benny Goodman is compared as a 19-year-old and then as a 40-year-old with Red Norvo. Ella sings with the Count and they are billed as a 'classy pair'. Classical violinist Itzhak Perlman joins with Andre Previn to play the conductor's composition.

2 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Nov 2010 19:00

Music Played

  • St茅phane Grappelli

    Shine

  • Bud Freeman

    There'll Be Some Changes Made

  • Janis Siegel

    How Time Goes By

  • Harry Beckett

    What's The Secret?

  • Stan Kenton

    Begin The Beguine

  • Jimmy Forrest

    Night Train

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Just A-Sitting And A-Rockin'

  • Charlie Byrd

    Limehouse Blues

  • Phil Woods

    Airegin

  • Charlie Parker's Reboppers

    Willie The Wailer

  • Erroll Garner

    Everything Happens To Me

  • Stuff Smith

    Onyx Club Spree

  • Itzhak Perlman & Andr茅 Previn - Who Reads Reviews?

  • Benny Goodman

    That's A Plenty

  • Benny Goodman, Red Norvo

    When You're Smiling

  • Richard Leach

    Monmartre

  • George Melly

    Lying To Myself

  • Bob Brookmeyer

    Gone With The Wind

  • Billie Holiday

    Too Marvellous For Words

  • Abbey Jazz

    Time On My Hands

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Nov 2010 19:00