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Two Tunes by Strayhorn and One About Him

A selection of the best in jazz music.

We have two tunes written by Billy Strayhorn with one of the bands named after him. Then there鈥檚 a Gerry Mulligan composition and performance which is dedicated to the composer. We鈥檒l continue our comparisons, this time between tunes. Sweet Man was written in the twenties and we have one version from 1925 then a further performance from 1944. So it鈥檚 from the California Ramblers of the twenties to Miss Rhapsody and Slam Stewart in the forties. We hear from Ruby Braff in 1972 with a female drummer, wife of a very eminent saxophonist. Eddie Jefferson comes up with a bit of history in vocalese recounting the story of the New York jazz haunt named after Charlie Parker, Birdland

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Wed 5 Sep 2012 19:00
蜜芽传媒 Hereford & Worcester, 蜜芽传媒 Radio Shropshire & 蜜芽传媒 Radio Stoke

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Music Played

  • Count Basie

    Amoroso

  • Fay Claassen

    A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing

  • Norman Williams

    Blixed

  • Ruby Braff

    Bugle Call Rag

  • Ellis Marsalis

    Teo

  • California Ramblers

    Sweet Man

  • Miss Rhapsody

    Sweet Man

  • The Strayhorn Prject

    Lotus Blossom

  • Maynard Ferguson

    Whisper Not

  • Eddie Jefferson

    The Birdland Story

  • Dizzy Gillespie

    In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town

  • Chet Baker

    Let's Get Lost

  • Paul Sawtell

    Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

  • Gerry Mulligan

    Song For Strayhorn

  • Karrin Allyson

    I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

  • Warren Vach茅

    My One And Only Love

  • Mike Hobart

    Fathead

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Sep 2012 19:00
    蜜芽传媒 Hereford & Worcester, 蜜芽传媒 Radio Shropshire & 蜜芽传媒 Radio Stoke