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A jazz blues special with Gary Crosby!

Radio 2 celebrates jazz this week, so Cerys looks at the blues crossover with Gary Crosby and artists appearing at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival like Cherise and P.P. Arnold!

Radio 2 celebrates jazz this week, so Cerys looks at the blues crossover with Gary Crosby and artists appearing at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival like Cherise and P.P. Arnold!

Dr Tom Attah is here to talk about the 1960s folk blues revival and we have great new music from Joanne Shaw Taylor and Elles Bailey alongside The Artwoods, Errol Linton and Clyde McPhatter.

57 minutes

Music Played

  • Errol Linton

    Break 'Em Down

    • Packing My Bags.
    • Brassdog Records.
    • 1.
  • P.P. Arnold

    Medicated Goo

    • The Turning Tide.
    • Kundalini Music.
  • Clyde McPhatter

    Blues Stay Away From Me

  • Cherise

    Violet Nights

    • Paradise EP.
    • Self Released.
    • 1.
  • Charles Mingus

    II B.S. (edit)

    • Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus.
    • Impulse.
    • 1.
  • Miles Davis

    Freddie Freeloader (edit)

    • Kind of Blue.
    • Columbia Records.
    • 2.
  • Oliver Nelson

    Stolen Moments

    • The Blues and The Abstract Truth.
    • Impulse!.
    • 1.
  • Joanne Shaw Taylor

    My Heart's Got A Mind Of Its Own

    • Wild.
    • Silvertone/Sony Music.
    • 9.
  • Elles Bailey

    The Game

    • Shining In The Half Light.
    • Outlaw Music.
  • Mississippi John Hurt

    Spike Driver Blues

    • Anthology of Amewrican Folk Music.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 10.
  • Muddy Waters

    Got My Mojo Working, Part Two

    • Muddy Waters At Newport 1960.
    • Chess.
    • 8.
  • Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated

    I Wanna Put a Tiger in Your Tank

    • R&B From The Marquee.
    • Ace of Clubs.
    • 6.
  • The Artwoods

    Big City

    • Single.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Apr 2022 21:00