Live from the LJF: Opening Gala Concert – Voices
Guy Barker conducts the London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Barbican.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Barbican in London. Guy Barker conducts the London Jazz Festival Orchestra in Jazz Voice 2015 - a celebration of some of the great songs of the past ten decades, sung by some of the great voices of today.
Among this year's line-up are Illinois-born R&B singer Liv Warfield; emerging Californian singer-songwriter Jarrod Lawson; New York-based singer and guitarist Becca Stevens; UK veteran Elaine Delmar, who made her broadcast debut in 1952; and younger Brits Joe Stilgoe and Rebecca Ferguson.
The programme of songs, all specially arranged by Guy Barker, draws on major anniversaries, birthdays and milestones that link the decades stretching back from 2015. During the interval, Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Guy Barker and meets some of the soloists.
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:02Orchestra conducted by Guy Barker
Jazz Voice 2015 Overture (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:05Joe Stilgoe
Straighten Up and Fly Right/Hit That Jive Jack (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:11Jarrod Lawson
Knocks Me Off My Feet (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:29Rebecca Ferguson
Why Don't You Do Right? (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:33Nicki Wells & Nitin Sawhney
God Bless The Child (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:39Big Band conducted by Guy Barker
Well Git It (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:43Foxes
If You Leave Me Now (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:49Liv Warfield
River Deep, Mountain High (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz 2015)
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00:54Jason Moran
Twelve
- Blue Note.
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00:55Ornette Coleman
Chronology
- Not Music.
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00:59Charles LLoyd
Sombrero Sam
- Charles Lloyd: Soundtrack.
- Rhino.
- 001.
Broadcast
Fri 13 Nov 2015 19:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Jazz
