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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
Composer Bellson
Album  Skin Deep
Label  Verve
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)
Label  Atlantic
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
Composer Wood
Album  Big Ben Time
Label  Philips
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
Label  Proper
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
Composer Ellington / Mills
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
Composer trad
Album  Lonnie Donegan Presents Traditional Jazz
Label  Pye
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
Composer Sullivan
Album  Joe Sullivan 1933-1941
Label  Classics
Number  821 Track 4
Duration  2.58
Performers: Joe Sullivan, p. 1934


Artist  Jack Montrose
Title  True Blue
Composer Montrose
Album  The Horn’s Full
Label  RCA
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
Composer Dorough
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
Composer Mayer
Album  Indo Jazz Fusions
Label  Columbia
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
Composer Blythe
Album  Illusions
Label  CBS
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
Composer Rollins
Album  East Broadway Rundown
Label  Impulse
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
Composer Carmichael
Album  Stardust
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
Composer Johanssen
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
Composer Ellington
Album  In The Spirit of Duke
Label  Spartacus
Number  STS017 Track 13
Duration  4.51
Performers: Tommy Smith, ts; Brian Kellock, p, 2012.


Artist  Don Weller
Title  High Force
Composer Weller
Album  Live
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.

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  • Sat 6 May 2017 16:00

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