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From Quincy Jones to Gerald Wilson

Cleo Laine sings a Bessie Smith song and we hear from Quincy Jones with a jazz big band full of some of the best musicians of the time. We also remember Gerald Wilson who has died

Elvin Jones with lyrical trumpet from Wynton Marsalis and Karrin Allyson from the Montreux Jazz Festival plus Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan from a Newport Jazz Festival of the early 1960's. There's Humphrey Lyttelton with 'his European Friends' in 1985 featuring Jean Francois Bonnell. David benoit plays a John Lewis tune and Oscar Peterson packs in plenty of notes for a 1968 recording with an invited audience.We remember Gerald Wilson who died this week and also Roy Crimmins who died at the end of August.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 14 Sep 2014 20:00

Music Played

  • Elvin Jones

    Happy Birthday For Yuka

  • Shorty Rogers

    Taps Miller

  • Karrin Allyson

    Little Boat

  • Wild Bill Davison

    Love Is Just Around The Corner

  • George Williams

    Margie

  • JB Jazz & Blues Band

    Flat Foot Floodgie

  • Quincy Jones

    Sermonette

  • Humphrey Lyttelton

    East Coast Trot

  • Louis Hayes

    What Is This Thing Called Love

  • Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan

    Deedle-Lee, Deedle-Lum

  • David Benoit

    Django

  • Cleo Laine

    Gimme A Pig's Foot And A Bottle Of Beer

  • Walsall Jazz Orchestra

    Funktional

  • Oscar Peterson

    Noreen's Nocturne

  • Benny Goodman

    Dinah

  • Alex Welsh

    Sweeping The Blues Away

  • Fret & Fiddle

    Django's Castle

  • Gerald Wilson

    Josefina

  • Roger Cairns

    They Say It's Wonderful

  • Henrique Meurkins

    Spaceburger

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Sep 2014 20:00