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2021 A Year In Jazz - Looking Back & Moving Forward

Seonaid Aitken looks back at some of the jazz highlights from 2021 including music from DJ Rebecca Vasmant, Norman Willmore, Georgia Cecile, Nimbus Sextet and Corto Alto.

Seonaid Aitken looks back at some of the jazz highlights from 2021. Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, the Scottish jazz community has continued to make a steady recovery , with many heart-warming stories emerging along the way. We hear from some of the artists who have had their most successful year to date, by signing their biggest deals, playing the largest venues and some who have starting out new ventures during this time including DJ Rebecca Vasmant, Norman Willmore, Georgia Cecile and Corto Alto. 2021 has also been a big year for centenary celebrations including those of trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton and pianists Erroll Garner & Billy Taylor. We pay tribute to these great artists in tonight’s Song Book with Richard Michael, including a reflective duet featuring Seonaid and Richard performing Taylor’s β€˜I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free’. Plus we’ll be spinning the best of the new releases along with plenty of classics, as we enter December and look forward to the new jazz adventures which 2022 may have in store.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Music Played

  • Nimbus Sextet

    Trap Door

  • kitti

    Wonderful World

  • Louis Armstrong

    Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo

    • The Very Best Of Disney 2.
    • Pickwick.
  • Fergus McCreadie Trio

    Across Flatlands

  • Billy Taylor

    I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

    • Round Midnight.
    • Decca.
  • Nina Simone

    I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

    • Silk and Soul.
    • Sony.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama & BΓ©la Fleck

    I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

    • The Blind Boys of Alabama.
  • Planck Walker

    Time For Motion

  • Nubya Garcia

    Pace (Moses Boyd Remix)

  • Matt Carmichael

    Sognsvann

  • Jon Batiste & Celeste

    It's All Right

  • Corto Alto

    No Pt III (feat. James Copus)

  • Etta James

    At Last

    • Etta James- The Genuine Article.
    • Mca/Chess.
  • Kurt Elling

    Not While I'm Around

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Love For Sale

  • Chick Corea

    Children's Songs (no.6)

    Performer: Chick Corea.
    • Chick Corea: Children's Songs.
    • ECM.
    • 6.
  • Norman Willmore

    Hell Amongst The Yearlings / Goaway Bird

  • Hiatus Kaiyote

    Get Sun (feat. Arthur Verocai)

  • Jacob Collier

    He Won't Hold You (feat. Rapsody)

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Dec 2021 21:00

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