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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.

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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
Label  Naxos
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
Composer Morton
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
Label  Lake
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
Composer Wood
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
Label  Vanguard
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
Label  ABM
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)
Composer Ellington
Album  Carnegie Hall Concert December 1944
Label  Prestige
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
Composer Russell
Album  Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club
Label  Jazzwurx
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
Title  Yesterdays
Composer Kern
Album  The Prodigious Piano of Bobby Enriquez
Label  Crescendo
Number  Track 10
Duration  3.58
Performers Bobby Enriquez, piano. 1983.


Artist  Carla Bley
Title  Misterioso
Composer Monk
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
Title  Summertime
Composer Gershwin
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

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Jun 2017 16:00
    BBC Radio 3

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