Another recording discovered

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" October 1998 

After a years gap in posting I found this episode

Thanks to Andy Warmsley "Radio Lives" for permission to post it here.

Recorded in October 1998 this recording celebrates the 30th year of

Humphrey's Best of Jazz radio show on the BBC Radio 2 channel.

Track listing:

1. Humph's Band - Unbooted Character (1969) (Ellington) 

2. Pee Wee Russell - The Bends Blues (1968)

3. Louis Armstrong - Lucky Guy (1938)

4. George Lewis - Burgundy Street Blues 

5. Oliver Jones - I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)

6. Archie Shepp - Naima (Coltrane)

7. Leo Watson - Inspired lunacy (title suggested by Humph)

8. Stan Tracey - HJC (1995)

9. Eddie Condon - How Come you do me like you do

Quality notes:

The source of this material is not clear, my guess is analogue cassette as

it's frequency response bears all the hallmarks of this media.

I received this by a streaming mode, that too defines the overall quality of

the final result. The missed and repeated frames leaving gaps and thumps where

the recovered audio parts are joined on, many of these imperfections have been

ironed out in the digital editing mode, some "lipsmack" in the narrated parts

also being removed in the editor, a general smoothing of the audio frequency

response had removed a lot of the "scratchyness" a little boosting of the bass

too has made for a more pleasant sound.

I hope you like this re-work, and don't forget to give Andy's blog a look for much

more "Radio Lives" news and postings.

Start (actually end) of 2004 collection

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" December 13 2004

Google Blogger has made some seriously annoying changes to the editor, needing a re-learn to present these entries, so for a while presentation will be look different.

Here we start with the latest of the 2004 collection of "Best of Jazz", working back in time as with previous entries to allow a time sequenced set for visitors

All the material presented here was recorded from the BBC Radio Two channel in the U.K.

Recordings were made from both FM radio and digital radio, initially recorded on DAT tapes

some of which have developed errors in the 16 years they have been stored, some quality issues do exist, efforts are made to repair where possible bad sections but some parts are un-recoverable and of course some programs were missed due to other activities, this is not an apology, it is fact, so what you get is what there is, if anyone has copies of the missing dates, I would be grateful to receive them for inclusion here.

 

Now on to the music :- Program title "Born in New Orleans"

Abraham Wilson, Monk  (2004)

Bessie Smith-Louis Armstrong, Reckless blues (1925)

Witchcraft, Sister Sadie 

Fats Waller, When somebody thinks you're Wonderful

Archie Shepp, Damn if I know (Blues)

Keith Jarrett Trio, Five Brothers (2004)

Herb Geller Sextet, Marable Eyes (1957)

Sarah Vaughan, Round Midnight (1964)

Ladd Mcintosh Big Band, September Song

Almost complete session with shortened fadeout Here