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Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests, including tracks from Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. With the Brubeck Quartet's version of Ellington's Take the A Train.

This week's dip into the emails and letters from listeners takes us to the mutual admiration between Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Alyn Shipton plays the Brubeck Quartet's famous version of Duke's theme tune, "Take the A Train" written by Strayhorn, amid other requests in all styles of jazz.

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Sat 6 Aug 2016 17:00
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Music Played

  • Johnny Hodges

    Used To Be Duke

    • THREE CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS.
    • AVID.
    • 16.

  • Dave Brubeck & The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    Take The A Train

    • TIME WAS.
    • PROPER.
    • 4.

  • Blind Willie Johnson

    God Moves On The Water

    • News and the Blues.
    • CBS.
    • 5.

  • J.C. Higginbotham & J.C. Higginbotham and His Six Hicks

    Higginbotham Blues

    • New Orleans Playing Away Jazz.
    • ABM.
    • 14.

  • Buddy de Franco & Art Tatum & Art Tatum

    Deep Night

    • Group Masterpieces Volume 1.
    • Pablo.
    • 1.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    You're The Top

    • Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.
    • Verve.
    • 8.

  • Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck

    There'll Never Be Another You

    • The White House Sessions.
    • Columbia Legacy.
    • 17.

  • Miles Davis & Miles Davis Sextet

    Old Folks

    • Some Day My Prince Will Come.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Monty Alexander

    Nite Mist Blues

    • Live! At The Montreux Festival.
    • MPS.
    • 1.

  • Fats Waller

    Minor Drag

    • Handful of Keys.
    • Proper.
    • 11.

  • Cootie Williams, Lou McGarity, Les Robinson, Skippy Martin, Johnny Guarnieri, Artie Bernstein & Jo Jones

    Blues In My Condition

    • Swing St Vol 3.
    • TAX.
    • 3.

Performers:

Artist听听Johnny Hodges
Title听听Used to Be Duke
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听贬辞诲驳别蝉
Album听听Three Classic Albums Plus (2nd Set)
尝补产别濒听听础惫颈诲
Number听听1040 CD 1 Track 16
Duration 听7.23
Performers: 听Johnny Hodges, as, ldr; Harold Baker, t; Lawrence Brown, tb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl; Harry Carney, bars; Call Cobbs, p; John B Williams, b; Louie Bellson, d. 5 Aug 1954.

Artist听听Dave Brubeck
Title听听Take the A Train
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听厂迟谤补测丑辞谤苍
Album听听Time Was
尝补产别濒听听笔谤辞辫别谤
Number听听Properbox 90 CD 4听 Track 7
Duration 听6.10
Performers听Paul Desmond, as; Dave Brubeck, p; Bob Bates, b; Joe Dodge, d. March 1954.

Artist听听Blind Willie Johnson
Title听听God Moves on the Water
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听闯辞丑苍蝉辞苍
Album听听News and the Blues
尝补产别濒听听颁叠厂
Number听听4672492 Track 5
Duration 听3.01
Performers: 听Blind Willie Johnson, g, v. 11 Dec 1929

Artist听听J C Higginbotham
Title听听Higginbotham Blues
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听贬颈驳驳颈苍产辞迟丑补尘
Album听听New Orleans Playing Away Jazz
尝补产别濒听听础叠惭
Number听听1163 Track 14
Duration 听3.28
Performers: 听Henry Allen, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Charlie Holmes, as; Luis Russell, p; Will Johnson, g; Pops Foster, b; Paul Barbarin, d.

Artist听听Buddy de Franco / Art Tatum
Title听听Deep Night
Composer听Vallee / Henderson
Album听听Group Masterpieces Vol 1
尝补产别濒听听笔补产濒辞
Number听听2405 430 2 Track 1
Duration 听5.47

Performers听Buddy De Franco, cl; Art Tatum, p; Red Callendar, b; Bill Douglass, d. 6 Feb 1956
Artist听听Ella Fitzgerald
Title听听You鈥檙e the top
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听笔辞谤迟别谤
Album听听Sings the Cole Porter Songbook听听
尝补产别濒听听痴别谤惫别
Number听听CD 2 Track 8
Duration 听3.35
Performers: 听Ella Fitzgerald and the Buddy Bregman Orchestra;

Artist听听Tony Bennett / Dave Brubeck
Title听听There鈥檒l Never Be Another You
Composer听Warren, Gordon
Album听听The White House sessions
Label听听Columbia Legacy
Number听听88883718042 Track 17
Duration 听3.29
Performers听Tony Bennett, v; Dave Brubeck, p; Gene Wright, b; Joe Morello, d. 1962

Artist听听Miles Davis
Title听听Old Folks
Composer听Hill / Robison
Album听听Some Day My Prince Will Come
尝补产别濒听听颁叠厂
Number听听466312 Track 2
Duration 听5.14
Performers: 听Miles Davis, t; Hank Mobley., ts; Wynton Kelly, p; Paul Chambers, b; Jimmy Cobb, d March 1961

Artist听听Monty Alexander
Title听听Nite Mist Blues
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听闯补尘补濒
Album听听Live! At The Montreux Festival
尝补产别濒听听惭笔厂
Number听听817 487-2 Track 1
Duration 听10.11
Performers: 听Monty Alexander, p; John Clayton, b; Jeff Hamilton, d. 1976

Artist听听Fats Waller
Title听听Minor Drag
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听奥补濒濒别谤
Album听听Handful of Keys
尝补产别濒听听笔谤辞辫别谤
Number听听Properbox 71 CD 1 Track 11
Duration 听2,47
Performers听Charlie Gaines, t; Charlie Irvis, tb; Arville Harris, reeds; Fats Waller, p; Eddie Condon, bj. 1 March 1929

Artist听听Cootie Williams
Title听听Blues in My Condition
颁辞尘辫辞蝉别谤听奥颈濒濒颈补尘蝉
Album听听Swing St Vol 3
尝补产别濒听听罢补虫
Number听听8034 Track 3
Duration 听3.01
Performers: 听Cootie Williams t; Lou McGarity tb; Les Robinson, as; Skippy Martin, bars; Johnny Guarnieri, p; Artie Bernstien, b; Jo Jones, d. May 7, 1941.

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  • Sat 6 Aug 2016 17:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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