That's Always the Way

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz December 11th 2000

1. Bob Bird & Co, Friday Night at the Cadillac club

2. Stacey Kent, When your Lover has Gone

3. Jelly Roll Morton, Dead Man Blues (1926)

4. Don Bennett, I Love You

5. Humph's Band, Coal Black Shine (1954)

6. Marian Williams, It is Well

7. Dave Green Trio, Bertie Woo

8. Louis Armstrong, On the Sunny Side of the Street

9. Alan Barnes Octet, Emerline

10.Dick Morrissey Quartet, Startrek theme

11.Stuff Smith, Back Home in Indiana (Humph's Choice)

 

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"Not an obituary, a celebration"

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 28th June 2004 

"A Celebration"

Ray Charles, Let the Good Times Roll  (1959)

Ray Charles, I'm Busted

Ray Charles-Betty Carter, Baby It's Cold Outside

The Jazz Couriers, Day in Day out (1958)

Humph's Band-Lennie Bush w Helen Shapiro  (Mercer) (1987)

Teazer, Recording Date? Claude Hopkins

Jellyroll Morton, Jellyroll Blues

Teazer 2 Who plays the Alto, How Long Blues

Ray Charles-Betty Carter, Such a Sweet Romance

Ray Charles-Milt Jackson, Deed I Do

Curious Paradise w Pete Oxley, Nocturnal Navigation (2003)

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Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz instruments 2 of 6

These recordings are taken from the BBC Radio 2 long running series

"the Best of Jazz" compiled & produced by Humph himself.

In this series, Humph breaks the Jazz band/Orchestra's instruments

down one by one, with style examples of each in recordings from

1928 up to the 2000's.

Part 2 of 6: The Piano

Intro: Jaki Byard - ATFW

Art Tatum - Talk of the Town

Earl Hines - untitled

Count Basie - Cherry Point

Stan Greig - Honkytonk train Blues

Jessica Williams - Easter Parade

Thelonious Monk - Thelonious

Oscar Peterson - Tenderly

Milt Buckner - Time after Time

Jelly Roll Morton - King Porter Stomp

Errol Garner - Sunny side of the Street

Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood - Who

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