Post by Administrator on Feb 21, 2017 22:57:16 GMT
U3A Member | Track Played | Artist | Album Title - where applicable |
Terry J | Bar Italia | Ray Gelato | You Tube Video |
Livery Stable Blues | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | The Essential Collection | |
Eight Ball Rag | Kansas Smitty's House Band | Kansas Smitty's | |
Cynthia K | Moon Faced Starry Eyed | Benny Goodman | Mack the Knife: Songs of Kurt Weill |
Speak Low | Kurt Weill | "" | |
Speak Low | Mary Martin & Kenny Baker | "" | |
David W | Where We Used to Live | EST | Live in Hamburg |
Our Love is Here to Stay | George Wallington | Four Classic Albums | |
John B | Doctor Jazz | Max Collies Rhythm Aces | Stomp Off. Let's Go |
How High the Moon | Mantecka | (Radio broadcast) | |
Eddy N | A Man with a Million Dollars | Warren Vache Alan Barnes | The Cobblers Waltz |
Beale Street Blues | Louis Armstrong | Louis Armstrong Plays W C Handy | |
Roger F | Contagio | Gonzalo Rubalcada | Afro Cuban Jazz Now |
Dance of Denial | Ray Baretto | "" | |
Marilyn P | Swing 42 | Django Reinhardt | Music for Pleasure Compilation |
Richard I | Wild Honey | Hugh Laurie | Didn't it Rain |
Richard D | Profoundly Blue | Jay McShann Duke Robillard | Hootie's Jumpin Blues |
Grand Boubousse | Omer Simeon | Jazz a la Creole |
Items in blue above may be clicked to bring up You Tube performances of a title or Amazon listings of an album.
Notes
'Livery Stable Blues' is the first Jazz recording. It achieves its centenary this month. Further details are given elsewhere on the website.
Kansas Smitty's is a London bar at 65 Broadway Market, E8 4QJ which specialises in Jazz and juleps.
Bar Italia is a 24/7 coffee house situated across the road from Ronnie Scott's. It is recommended to anyone who misses the last train home.
EST is an acronym for the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Sadly, Svensson died in a scuba diving accident in Stockholm on 14 June 2008.
A 28 minute podcast on Svensson can be found here. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011txxp